IFA 2024: The Honor Watch 5 is official and gets a familiar-looking digital crown.
Honor has unveiled the Watch 5 at IFA 2024 – and given an refresh to its smartwatch line-up.
We gave the Honor Watch 4 a four-star review in our testing, and the new version has a decent design overhaul.
It continues a theme this year of brands ape-ing Apple’s design cues, and the Honor Watch 5 certainly looks derivative, with its all-new digital crown occupying the same space found on the Watch Series and SE.
It weighs 35g and comes in at 11mm in thickness. The Watch 5 boasts a 1.85-inch AMOLED color display with a resolution of 450×390 pixels and 322 PPI.
Equipped with a silicon-carbon battery, Honor claims that the Watch 5 will offer an impressive 15-days away from the charger, thanks to its 480mAh battery. Real-world use will obviously be far less, but it could offer a week with always-on display enabled. And the company has added the Turbo X Smart Power Management, the device ensures efficient energy use.
In terms of health tracking, the Watch 5 packs in heart rate and SpO2 tracking.
Additionally, it has the company’s new AccuTrack positioning system for supposedly improved GPS accuracy.
Frustratingly there’s no pricing info as yet (seriously, what’s the point) so it’s hard to really put the Watch 5 in context. The Watch 4 was £129, so if the price remains the same, it’s a decent option.
However, since the Honor Watch 4 we’ve had the Huawei Watch Fit 3 and Amazfit Active offer a really strong performance in this price bracket.
