Honor Band 5 Updated with SpO2 Monitoring, Remote Music Controls in India

An incoming update to the Honor Band 5 brings a couple of cool new features that were much advertised past Huawei when the device was unveiled earlier this year, simply were MIA at its launch. Now, finally, the company is rolling out the remote Music Playback Control function along with SpO2 monitoring to its latest inexpensive smart band, possibly making it ane of the best available devices in its segment.

Honor Band 5 Updated with SpO2 Monitoring, Remote Music Controls in India — Screenshots Courtesy: Huawei

In an official blog post announcing the rollout of the new software, Huawei said once the Band 5 is updated and Music Control is switched on via the Huawei Health app, users will be able to use the device to instantly view and command their favorite music apps right from their wrist. Supported apps include Google Play Music, Spotify, YouTube, Shazam, Huawei music and many more, said the visitor.

Practise annotation, all the same, that the remote music control functionality is uniform only with smartphones running Android five.0 and above. You can actuate it on compatible devices past toggling the 'Music Playback Control' selection from the Honor Band v Settings within the Huawei Health App. Later on the update, the Huawei Health App volition exist running version 10.0.1.011 and Ring 5 will be on firmware version 1.1.0.93.

As a refresher, the Honor Band 5 was originally unveiled past Huawei in July before being launched in Republic of india last month. The device features a 0.95-inch AMOLED screen (240 x 120 pixel resolution) with 2.5D curved glass, and comes with a blood oxygen monitor that enables information technology to observe hypoxemia dizziness – a condition that stems from the body not getting the amount of oxygen information technology needs for normal functioning.