Huawei Watch 2 splits into two personalities, one sporty and one
dressy. Huawei's cooperation with Porsche Design is back with an exclusive look
too.
The Huawei Watch 2 classic has a 316L stainless
steel body available in Titanium Grey with 22mm watch bands. The watch itself
measures 45mm in diameter. Note the minute divisions on the bezel, those are
new as is the two button design.
Both watches are IP68 waterproof and have extensive
exercise-tracking features, it’s just that the non-classic model is built out
of plastic (which will take abuse better) and its watch bands feature some
high-visibility colors (those are 20mm bands, by the way).
GPS and a heart rate sensor will track your runs and
produce a VO2Max measurement at the end. There’s around 2.3GB of storage
available to download songs. If you go for the LTE-enabled model, you can
easily stream the music.
Huawei was serious about making the Watch 2 a full
replacement for a phone. The LTE model features VoLTE, noise cancellation with
2 mics and dual antennas. In some countries, the watch will have a regular SIM
slot, though in others it will use eSIM instead.
Both LTE and and non-LTE versions of the smartwatch
have NFC with Android Pay support (in countries Pay is available, of course). Bluetooth
4.1 and Wi-Fi (2.4GHz, b/g/n) are supported as well. The 420 mAH battery should
last you 10 hours in Training mode (with GPS tracking and real-time heart rate
monitoring), otherwise the watch should last about 2 days.
The Huawei Watch 2
will start at € 330 and it is powered by a Snapdragon 2100 chipset (with 768MB
RAM, 4GB storage). The AMOLED screen measures 1.2” big with 390 x 390px
resolution (326ppi). It’s guarded by Gorilla Glass. Below are the launch
targets for the different regions.
- · March – Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Germany, China.
- · April – US, UK, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, The Nordics, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, India, South Africa, Poland, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Japan, UAE
- · May – Malaysia
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