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The Cool Huawei Watch 2 Smartwatch + Apple iPhone - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
Huawei revamps its smartwatch with the Watch 2 and they've done a nice job of making a comfortable, attractive and functional watch with GPS, biometrics, workouts, notifications and much more. But if you try to use it with an Apple iPhone, will it work? Does Wear OS [formerly Android Wear] work on iOS? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Huawei Watch 2 with his iPhone X and finds there's much to like, though it's not feature-for-feature competitive with an Apple Watch, nor does Wear OS on an iPhone offer all the features of the app on an Android phone... Learn more at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/wearables/watch2/
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a round SmartWatch for your iPhone let's
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check this Android wear unit out Dave
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Taylor here and I'm looking at
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smartwatches again specifically this
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this is the Huawei watch 2 so this is
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their second generation Android wear
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SmartWatch and this one's pretty nice it
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features built-in GPS and it's designed
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for sports so it is lots of sensors and
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it can do real-time mapping all sorts of
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cool things and it's a SmartWatch now
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I've been comparing it to my Apple watch
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because I work off of my iPhone and
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here's what's really great is that
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Google has upgraded and updated Android
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wear 2.0 for iOS so it really has a lot
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more functionality and it's really
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pretty much a full player so it's just
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about the same functionality as I would
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have on the Apple watch
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welcome back to that though let's talk
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about the watch itself so this features
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a 1.2 inch circular amo LED display with
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a 390 by 390 pixel screen running at 326
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pixels per inch it's bright it's
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colorful looks really cool actually
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and it also is using the Corning Gorilla
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Glass so it's pretty tough it's gonna
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actually last pretty well now inside
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this fairly masculine looking watch if I
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may say so is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100
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CPU with 4 gigabytes of flash and a
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modest 768 megabytes of RAM so you know
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the apps that you can run on this are
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gonna need to be written for the watch
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but they would be anyway so that's ok
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yeah
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battery is very nice this is really
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where this rocks compared to the Apple
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watch it's a 420 milliamp hour battery
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which means in just watch mode this will
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run you ready for this three weeks three
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weeks without charging it if you're just
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using it in watch mode that is really
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nice if you're using it on saving mode
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and you're still getting all the
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notifications and everything you'll get
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about two days if you're live GPS
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mapping your run you're gonna get less
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battery life for that that's gonna eat
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up a lot of battery but
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that's how it goes androidwear 2.0 it's
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supporting bluetooth 4.1 obviously ble
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Bluetooth Low Energy and it supports its
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own Wi-Fi connection crazy this thing
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actually connects on Wi-Fi in 802 11 B
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and G and n so if you have AC
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exclusively you shouldn't because your
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router shouldn't work that way but if
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that's how it works then the watch ain't
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gonna work honestly you're never gonna
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see that issue that has a ceramic bezel
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and it's water-resistant it's funny
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actually because the company says it's
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water-resistant and then they warn you
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don't use this in the shower don't get
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it wet if you get it wet dry it off
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immediately so I feel like they're being
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a little coy with their water-resistant
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phrasing so I don't know what the IPX
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rating is I would just be cautious and I
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wouldn't wear it in the shower I
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definitely not where it's swimming or
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surfing although it really looks like
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the kind of watch a surfer would wear if
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you ask me oh well and let's see let's
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talk about some functionality now so
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here I'm going to switch to a couple of
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screenshots that are literally photos I
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took because unfortunately one of the
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few downsides of the Android wear app
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for iOS is it doesn't let you take
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screenshots on the Android version it's
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as simple as tapping and then it'll
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capture whatever is on the actual screen
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super nice not so much for us iPhone
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users so it goes so you're gonna have to
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suffer with my photos so here's the
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first one above call coming in you can
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actually answer a phone call on the
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watch
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you can also use okay Google which is
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nice because that's something that a lot
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of people like and in fact I said that
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and can you see it's actually listening
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to me now cancel my watch is listening
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my phone is listening my Amazon devices
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are listening I am surrounded by things
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that are listening to me except my
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children they're not listening to me
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every parent knows what I'm talking
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about now from a workout perspective
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there's a lot of stuff you can do you
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can do live GPS mapping it has a heart
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rate monitor let's do a quick check and
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see what my heart rate is okay still
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alive that's reassuring
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you can actually download some music and
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listen to it offline if you don't want
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to take your phone with you on a run and
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you get a workout data report unless
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you're on an iPhone in which case that
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version of Android wear doesn't yet
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support downloading data from the watch
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kind of a drag the Android version also
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gives you NFC mobile payments which is
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really nice iOS doesn't let you set that
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up so if you're really desperate for
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that then honestly just like an Apple
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watch really is gonna work better with
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an iPhone then this Huawei watch 2 and
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other Android wear watch is probably
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gonna work better if you have an Android
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phone that's the reality
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I however found it to be really cool I
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really like that it's round and it gives
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me tons of notifications from all the
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different apps I have set up on my
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iPhone and you can see even in the app
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it's easy to switch different watch
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faces here's a list of all the watch
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faces there's even more than this and
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that's one of the things that I really
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feel Apple is falling down on I want
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hundreds of watch faces I want watch
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faces from artists that Apple doesn't
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even like because I like them and Apple
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just doesn't do that that's not part of
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how they look at things with Android
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wear there's much more openness I'd
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still like to see more faces than they
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have here but you know I like that I can
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switch it and make it look different
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because why not I mean it's a screen
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it's not a physical device that's been
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printed and colored and actually built
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to look like just one specific thing so
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there's much I like about this and this
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particular design
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go ahead and put it on my wrist it's
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quite comfortable it's a silicon band
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and you can see the buttons are yellow
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they're strap is yellow so this is the
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sport grey with yellow buttons is the
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particular design and you can get the
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Huawei watch too and a couple of other
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different combinations and designs
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confusingly they're priced differently
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based on your color choices but I'll let
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you look that up however before we get
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to the price go ahead and click on that
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just got a notification from Facebook so
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something's happening but focus I'm
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focused on this video don't panic okay
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now only thing left to talk about is the
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price so in sport great this will set
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you back two hundred and forty one
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dollars and ninety nine cents this is
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the Huawei watch 2 and I really like it
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I think it's a really good player with
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the Apple ecosystem not as good as the
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Apple watch but honestly plenty good
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enough and if you have any possibility
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that you're gonna someday migrate over
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to an Android well this is obviously
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gonna be a very smooth transition for
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this particular SmartWatch so I'm gonna
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go and see if I can get my heart rate
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going with a workout and I'll catch you
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in my next video
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