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The Watch GT 4 is here to prove Huawei is serious about smartwatches
This is the most accomplished smartwatch from Huawei so far
Huawei has a new gadget to reveal, and it isn’t a smartphone. This time, it’s the culmination of a few generations of smartwatches from the brand and what Huawei says is over eight years of research. The next big product from Huawei is the Watch GT 4, and it’s the company’s most accomplished smartwatch yet with a fashion-focused design ethos, and an impressive feature set to rival the best Android smartwatches.
Huawei Watch GT Cyber changes its frame as easily as most smartwatches change bands
Presto, change-o
Smartwatches are easily some of the most fashion-forward mobile devices, inviting us to make them our own by swapping out bands or trying out some new watch faces. But you've had a lot less choice when it comes to the watch's body itself, usually just choosing between two or three (if you're lucky) options that you end up stuck with. This year at MWC 2023, Huawei is rethinking that approach as it shows off its Watch GT Cyber, a smartwatch with a quick-change case.
Huawei introduces the Watch GT 3 with some impressive battery life claims
Complete with an SpO2 reader, water resistance, and HarmonyOS
Despite all of Huawei's woes, the Chinese electronics giant isn't actually having the worst go of things this year. The Huawei P50 series showed the company can still make good phones, complete with a weird turn of events that saw Huawei use a Snapdragon 888 for those phones (it's still using its own Kirin 9000 CPU in the Pro, though). And in the wearables department, the Huawei Watch 3 and 3 Pro were recently introduced as the company's new premium smartwatch offerings, as well as its first smartwatches running HarmonyOS. That lineup is now being joined by the Huawei Watch GT 3, a new model with some pretty wild battery life claims.
Huawei has been selling its GT line of smartwatches in the United States for a while. Instead of Google's Wear OS, the watches use Huawei's own 'Lite OS.' Now you can get the GT and GT Classic for $30 off, bringing the prices to $170 and $200, respectively.Both watches have identical specifications: a 1.39-inch 454x454 AMOLED screen, built-in GPS, a heart rate monitor, water resistance (up to 164 feet), and "up to two weeks" of battery life. The main difference is in the design — the GT is a sports watch, and the GT Classic looks more like a traditional timepiece.
While there's been plenty of talk about the consequences of Google, ARM, Qualcomm, the SD Association, the Wi-Fi Alliance, carriers, and the USB-IF no longer working with Huawei, one company has been kept out of the discussion to date: the Bluetooth SIG.
Huawei announces Watch GT Active and Elegant editions, plus new earbuds, neckbuds, and smart glasses
Alongside the announcement of its new flagship smartphones — the P30 and P30 Pro, for those who missed it — Huawei also unveiled some new wearable gadgets. These include variants of the Watch GT aimed at slightly different audiences and some new audio products.
Huawei's latest smartwatches, the Watch GT Classic and Watch GT Sport, don't run Wear OS anymore. Instead, they use the company's own Lite OS, which some people love and others aren't as happy with. If you're not tied to Google's platform and you're looking for a new smartwatch, the Watch GT Classic has dropped to 9.72 (a little over off), and the Watch GT Sport is now 9.99 ( off) on Amazon.Both the Watch GT Classic and GT Sport share the same hardware: a 1.39" 454x454 AMOLED display, just 16MB of RAM and 128MB of storage, and a sizable 420mAh battery. Wear OS would never be able to run with such low-end specs, but Lite OS is much lighter and can last for two weeks without a charge. Of course, that means that it isn't as capable as Wear OS, so there's definitely a trade-off there.
Huawei's latest smartwatch, the Watch GT, has been out in overseas markets for quite some time now. However, it's only just made its way to US shores. Amazon pre-orders for the $199.99 Watch GT Sport and $229.99 Watch GT Classic are up now, with the release date marked as February 19th.