BARCELONA: Huawei released a stylish round faced smart watch that’s getting plenty of attention at the Mobile World Congress.
At a packed media event in Barcelona, Huawei said it had “dared to dream” since entering the consumer electronic market. “We are a company of dreamers of young energetic people who keep trying until our vision is real,” said Huawei’s global brand director Any Lou.
Richard Yu, head of Huawei consumer business group introduced the products.
Huawei’s Watch is cast in the vein of LG’s successful circular G Watch R, which was released last year. The Huawei Watch includes a traditional crown, as well as a choice of more than 40 customisable watch faces.
The display on the Huawei Watch is sapphire glass; Huawei said it was the first sapphire crystal watch using Google’s Android Wear operating system. The watch has a 1.4 inch AMOLED 400×400 pixel display with 286 pixels per inch resolution, and a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. The diameter of the watch is 42mm and there’s a range of interchangeable leather and metal straps for it. Huawei says it has made sure that people with smaller wrists find the watch comfortable.
Like other Android Wear watches, the Huawei Watch displays call notifications and users can answer calls on the watch. It has a 6-axis motion sensor, a barometer sensor, and measures steps, calories, and hours of sleep including deep sleep.
The Watch can create single activity records for walking, running and cycling, and has a heart rate monitor. It connects to Huawei’s health platform and to other well known fitness systems such as Google Fit and Jawbone. The key will be battery life and price. Huawei is yet to reveal pricing. The Watch will be available by midyear.
