Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro tested: Reliable sports watch with long battery life
18/7/2025
Translation: machine translated
Pictures: Jan Johannsen
The robust Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is a sports watch with smartwatch functions, but focusses on your fitness.
The Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is slightly more robust, brighter, has a better sensor system and supports more sports than the standard version. The manufacturer confidently praises it as a better alternative to the Apple Watch. Even if the Watch Fit is not quite as smart as Apple's watch, it can still track many types of sport and provides an overview of my health status. I am particularly impressed by the reliable GPS and the long battery life.
Comfortable companion
The 9.3 millimetre thin Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is comfortable to wear and doesn't bother me during various sports. I can adjust it finely enough with the strap so that it sits firmly but not constrictively on my wrist.
Huawei offers the Watch Fit 4 Pro in different colours and with different straps. I received the variant with a strap made of black plastic - fluoroelastomer, to be precise - for testing. The sports wristband with holes is also available in white or a magnetic version made of fabric in green.
If you are no longer happy with your wristband, you can quickly change it. You don't need any tools. Simply press the small button on the back of the sports watch and the strap comes off. All you then need to do is slide the new wristband into the opening and the proprietary Huawei connector snaps into place.
The titanium frame and the aluminium case ensure a low weight and are robust at the same time. After several weeks, I can't see any scratches. I haven't scraped it along a rock while climbing, but the watch has had the odd contact with other people or the ground during flag football. The sapphire crystal above the display also looks flawless so far.
The 1.82-inch AMOLED display shines at up to 3000 nits. I can see everything on it even in direct sunlight. The pixel density of 347 PPI ensures that content is displayed sharply and even very small elements are clearly recognisable. However, depending on the watch face or selected training view, some content is too small to recognise at a glance.
Operation: I don't need the crown
The Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is operated via the touchscreen, two buttons and the rotating crown on the right-hand side. The crown is used to scroll vertically. However, if I already have my finger on the touchscreen, it is quicker to scroll with it than to move it to the crown. It is therefore superfluous for me.
I use the second button frequently. I use the top button to open the app overview or return to the watch face. If tracking is active, I use it to pause it. I then stop it using a button on the touchscreen. The bottom button takes me directly to the selection of sports that I can track. The list is very long with over 100 sports. It's useful that my most recently selected sports appear first.
I can also assign a different function to the lower button in the settings. Pretty much all health functions and apps on the watch are available for this. However, there is only one function for pressing twice: Huawei's Wallet - and this is not yet as widespread as the Google or Apple Wallet.
The user interface has a logical overall structure and is easy to understand. From the home screen, I swipe left and right for widgets for the various applications. From the top, I pull down the quick settings including the menu item for the detailed settings. From the bottom, I pull up the notifications if I want to see them again. I can view the apps as a collection of icons, with and without names, and as a list. In both cases, however, it takes a bit of scrolling to find the app you're looking for.
I can only install additional apps via Huawei's AppGallery. The selection there is much smaller than with WearOS from Google or watchOS from Apple, for example.
Sports and health at a glance
Huawei has equipped the watch with a barometer for the first time in the series. It measures the air pressure and is used to measure altitude. I strongly recommend regular outdoor calibration for this. The weather warnings, which are issued in the event of a sharp drop in pressure - and which I never experienced during testing - do not require calibration.
Huawei describes the built-in «Sunflower GPS» as «our best GPS». Its antennas are aligned with the nearest satellite. From my recorded activities by bike or on foot, I can confirm an accurate measurement of the routes. For navigation, the Watch Fit 4 Pro has full-colour maps for the first time. These can be downloaded for offline use and I can import routes - for example from Komoot or in GPX, TCX or KML format. In addition, the 4 Pro can now also track and display the route for water sports. This was previously only possible for land-based activities.
The Watch Fit 4 Pro can track more than 100 sports. The barometer, for example, has added activities where altitude information is of interest. According to Huawei, it is on a par with the Watch GT5 series. When running, it also offers a running style analysis and training recommendations based on this for better leg balance. That seems reasonable to me, but the effectiveness can only be proven in scientific studies.
The Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro counts my steps and calories burned. It also knows whether I have stood up and moved once an hour. It also records training minutes automatically, but I can't understand the logic behind this. I sometimes clock up more training minutes when I go shopping than when I cycle to training. Other watches record more comprehensible activity periods for me. However, if I consciously record an activity on the Huawei sports watch, I get the entire time credited as training minutes - regardless of how much effort I have really put in. The watch also uses the smartphone to count steps and calculates an average value from discrepancies that occur when cycling, for example.
The Watch Fit 4 Pro uses the TruSense sensor from Huawei to record numerous physical values. Among other things, it monitors my pulse and blood oxygen. It also records movements and can create a medically certified ECG with the sports watch. The «health overviews» indicate trends or changes in certain values. The Watch Fit 4 Pro uses the heart rate and skin temperature to attempt a cycle prediction.
The sports watch from Huawei also offers sleep analysis. It can also measure heart rate variability overnight. This is an indicator of the body's ability to cope with stress. I often read a reproachful undertone in the reports on sleep evaluation. For example, I slept long enough, but REM sleep accounted for too much of it. I also like the addition: «This has happened more often recently.» There's a fine line between useful advice and annoying paternalism.
Excitingly long battery life
I'm very happy with the battery life of the Watch Fit 4 Pro. I can go on holiday for a week and it doesn't matter if I forget the charging cable. At least if I don't want to track any activities with GPS. Huawei claims a battery life of seven to a maximum of ten days.
I activated all sensors and protocols - but did not set the display to Always-On. The Watch Fit 4 Pro then consumes seven to eight per cent of its battery capacity in 24 hours. In purely mathematical terms, it lasts even longer than the ten days specified by Huawei. If I activate GPS, the energy consumption increases significantly. The sports watch then loses around ten per cent of its battery capacity in two hours.
The Watch Fit 4 Pro is charged wirelessly. I place it on the charging puck with USB-A plug. A mains adapter is not included. The sports watch is fully charged in around 60 minutes.
Good app with potential for improvement
In order to use the Watch Fit 4 Pro, I need the «Huawei Health» app. It provides me with a clear overview of the data from the sports watch and offers additional content such as training videos, coaching programmes or music - sometimes only if I pay for the Health+ programme. Although the app is available in the Apple App Store for iOS, I have to download it for Android via App-Gallery from Huawei or as an APK file and install it myself.
I can see the most important data on the start page of the app. I can decide which tiles are displayed at all and in which order. This puts the most important ones at the top. My recorded training sessions appear in the second tab. However, I find the layout confusing. I prefer to tap on the training data tile on the start page and ignore the tab «Training».
The «Discover» tab contains various courses and programmes, most of which can only be activated with a paid plan. In the fourth tab «Devices» I manage my sports watch. From the watch face to offline maps or the temperature unit for the weather forecast, I can select many things. In the last tab, I manage my user account.
The adverts for «Huawei Health+» are annoying. They are only topped by adverts for Huawei smartwatches - even though I use a current model.
In a nutshell
A sports watch on the verge of perfection
I love wearing the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro. It logs all the data that is important to me and even more. Apart from the training minutes, they seem to be consistent to me. I can comprehensively record both my sporting activities and my state of health. If desired, it can also act as a trainer.
The sports watch is comfortable to wear, easy to use and impresses me with its very long battery life. The GPS works precisely and the Watch Fit 4 Pro now even tracks routes on the water. The app could be more clearly organised and some smartwatch functions, such as voice control, are only available in combination with a Huawei smartphone.
If you are satisfied with less health data, the Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Pro with integrated GPS is a cheaper alternative.
Pro
- Long battery life
- Precise GPS
- Robust sports watch
- collects a lot of health data
Contra
- Measurement of training minutes not comprehensible
- App could be clearer
- Full smartwatch potential only with Huawei smartphones
Header image: Jan Johannsen
Jan Johannsen
Senior Editor
Jan.Johannsen@galaxus.deAs a primary school pupil, I used to sit in a friend's living room with many of my classmates to play the Super NES. Now I get my hands on the latest technology and test it for you. In recent years at Curved, Computer Bild and Netzwelt, now at Digitec and Galaxus.
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