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Apple Watch OS9

  Apple announced a host of new features for watchOS 9 during its WWDC 2022 event, including improved running tracking, heart-rate zone tracking, and custom workout creation.   Runners will be especially pleased with this update. The Apple Watch will be able to track running metrics like stride length or ground-contact time. It will also automatically track your most common routes and let you race against yourself, alerting you as to how you can beat your best time. It will also let you set a goal for your run, so your watch will keep on pace with alerts and metrics as you go. For those of you who do not love to run, Apple announced a bunch of other updates for all kinds of workouts. For triathletes, for instance, the Apple Watch will use motion sensors to automatically change how it tracks each kind of activity running, swimming, or cycling then give you a detailed, specific readout at the end of the workout.   Or if you are a big swimmer, Apple Watch will be ab...

Huawei Watch GT 3 Pro

  People have been reviewing Huawei consumer products for half a decade and there’s a clear leitmotif that runs through all my reviews: impeccable hardware that is usually the best looking and well-built in its product category, but the software experience doesn’t quite keep up if compared to top rivals. And even though Huawei’s new smartwatch series, the Watch GT 3 Pro, makes strides towards improving the software end, it’s still not all the way there. Whether it’s the titanium or ceramic model, the Huawei Watch GT 3 Pro looks absolutely gorgeous and makes Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 feel cheap by comparison. But there are just things the Galaxy Watch 4 or the Apple Watch 7 can do that Huawei’s smartwatches still cannot, like the ability to access an English voice assistant or respond to notifications in a dynamic manner. But perhaps that’s just me being a nitpicky reviewer because Huawei’s smartwatches are selling well, moving 42.7 million units globally in 2021, according to rese...