{"id":502107,"date":"2021-06-30T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=502107"},"modified":"2021-06-30T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:59:18","slug":"live-a-healthier-life-with-the-huawei-band-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/502107\/live-a-healthier-life-with-the-huawei-band-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Live a healthier life with the Huawei Band 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei has taken the smartband market by storm with its latest entry \u2013 the Huawei Band 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Huawei Band 6 packs many smartwatch features into the smaller and more convenient form factor of a smartband, while offering a drastically-reduced price.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.huawei.com\/za\/wearables\/band6\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=June%202021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to get your Huawei Band 6.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also boasts an improved design, including a display that is 148% the size of its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>This is thanks to a low-bezel design, and makes it easy to view important data and notifications.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Safe to wear<\/h3>\n<p>A common question from those who are interested in buying a smartband is whether there are long-term effects to wearing a digital device.<\/p>\n<p>This follows concerns that have been raised in public about the long-term effect of smartphone radiation on our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>John Sweetenham, a medical doctor and a hematologist at University of Utah\u2019s Huntsman Cancer Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/healthcare.utah.edu\/healthfeed\/postings\/2015\/03\/033015_cvarticle-fitness-tracker.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>says<\/strong><\/a> these worries are unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think right now there\u2019s really no evidence that would support that there\u2019s a problem there,\u201d said Sweetenham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if there was a very slight risk, maintaining a healthy lifestyle actually reduces your cancer risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Health benefits<\/h3>\n<p>The Huawei Band 6 is a powerhouse when it comes to driving a healthy lifestyle, offering 96 sports modes that include running, walking, swimming, and rowing machine workouts.<\/p>\n<p>It has smart sensors that will track all the important metrics, too, including your heart rate, the calories you have burned, and your exercise duration.<\/p>\n<p>It also boasts an exercise detection algorithm which recognizes the types of exercises you are doing based on how you are moving and what your heart rate is.<\/p>\n<p>If the Band 6 detects that you are maintaining a medium-to-high-intensity level of activity, it will ask if you are running, walking, or using an exercise machine.<\/p>\n<p>You then simply tap on the correct exercise to begin tracking it.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Huawei Band 6 offers all-day SpO2 monitoring to ensure your blood oxygen levels stay within a safe range &#8211; while TruSleep 2.0 identifies the duration and quality of your sleep, and provides sleep quality advice based on this feedback.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Get the Huawei Band 6<\/h3>\n<p>The Huawei Band 6 is now available in South Africa for just R1,699.<\/p>\n<p>If you buy your Huawei Band 6 now from Huawei\u2019s online store, you will also receive a free gift worth R199.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.huawei.com\/za\/wearables\/band6\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=June%202021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to get your Huawei Band 6.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huawei Band 6 is a powerhouse when it comes to driving a healthy lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":502109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[1635],"class_list":["post-502107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-huawei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502111,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502107\/revisions\/502111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}