Huawei announces Fit fitness tracker, offers continuous heart rate monitoring and running programmes

Huawei has revealed details of its new fitness tracker, appropriately called Fit. Fit is a round-face fitness tracker with a 35g aluminium body. It will also send notifications, messages and calls to your smartphone, is controlled using the 1.04-inch LCD display and has a rechargeable battery that claims to be good for six days of use.

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But it’s sports that Fit has been primarily designed for and it can be used for cycling, running, swimming, walking and treadmill workouts. It can automatically detect when you’re walking or running and will record data accordingly, such as distance travelled, calories and fat burned and the time taken.

Fit can also monitor your heart rate, which Huawei claims is highly accurate thanks to an “innovative design and high-signal strength”. You can manually check your heart rate by scrolling to the heart rate screen, have it automatically track it during a workout or monitor it continuously throughout the day. At the end of each day or workout session, you’ll get a detailed view of how your heart rate has fluctuated.

To help motivate you to get up and exercise, the Fit has a number of built-in running programmes which can be tailored to your stamina and overall goals. There’s pre-installed programmes for 5k, 10k, half marathon and marathon modes. Once you’ve completed a training run, Fit will show you your recovery time and an overall training score, in addition to distance, duration, steps and calories burned.

And once you’re tired from working out, the Fit will also track your sleep pattern and whether you’re in a deep sleep or not.

The Huawei Fit is available now in the US in titanium gray and moonlight silver finishes and will be available in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal towards the end of November. There’s no word yet on UK availability.