Huawei Watch


The Huawei Watch is an Android Wear-based smartwatch developed by Huawei. It was announced at 2015 Mobile World Congress on March 1, 2015, and was released at Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin on September 2, 2015. It is the first smartwatch produced by Huawei.

Hardware

The Huawei Watch's form factor is based on the circular design of traditional watches, supporting a 42 mm AMOLED screen. The screen's resolution is 400 x 400 pixels and 285.7 ppi. The case is 316L stainless steel, covered with sapphire crystal glass on front and available in six finishes: Black Leather, Steel Link Bracelet, Stainless Steel Mesh, Black-plated Link Bracelet, Alligator-pressed Brown Leather and Rose Gold-plated Link Bracelet.
The watch uses a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor. All versions of the Huawei Watch have 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage, along with a gyroscope, accelerometer, vibration motor, and heart rate sensor. It supports WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1 LE, and no support for GPS locating. The watch uses a magnetic charging cradle, with a day and a half battery life.

Software

The watch pre-installed Android Wear operating system and it works with iOS and Android devices. It currently supports Google Now voice commands and is compatible with Wear OS. The watch can process calls and receive messages and emails.

Reception

In TechAdvisor 's review, Chris Martin wrote "this is a great looking smartwatch, although it is quite large. Specs match other Android Wear smartwatches but we're worried about the small battery." The President of Huawei U.S. Xu Zhiqiang said "It embodies Huawei's technology innovation heritage, pursuit of premium design and integration of useful functionality that we strive to develop in each product." The Phandroid said "it is the classiest Android Wear smartwatch available right now".

Huawei Watch GT 2e

In March of 2020, Huawei announced a new smartwatch — the Huawei Watch GT 2e which was launched in India in May, 2020. The smartwatch features the same 1.39-inch AMOLED touch display with a 454x454p resolution. It is powered by Huawei’s in-house Kirin A1 chipset along with GPS and Bluetooth audio that has 4GB of onboard storage. The onboard software can track over 100 different sports and exercises. The watch also features oxygen saturation monitoring with an SpO2 sensor that will help you calculate your maximum rate of oxygen consumption, VO2Max.