Huawei Honor S1 smartwatch
A lot has been written about the upcoming Huawei
Mate 9 but the company may have something up its sleeve. An e-paper
based smartwatch has leaked with a circular display with marginally smaller
bezels than the Pebble Time Round.
Ee-paper is a type of low-power
display that has amazing sunlight legibility and can run for days on the tiny
batteries found in smartwatches. It should not be confused with e-ink like
Kindle e-readers, which uses less power but has very slow refresh rate and
still doesn’t do color.
There will be a heart rate sensor and yes, the watch will be waterproof.
In fact, it can track your laps around the pool. No hardware buttons are
visible, pointing to touchscreen only operation. It’s not clear what OS this is
running, though - it may be neither Android Wear nor Tizen but instead a custom
solution.