Huawei is prepping a new wearable, which it is said
to launch alongside the Mate 20 family at the event taking place on October 16.
The new device is called Huawei Watch GT, and there will be two versions - GT
Sport and GT Classic.
The Huawei Watch GT will focus on battery life and
affordability. It is built around a 1.39-inch round OLED display with
yet-unknown resolution, according to the source. The Watch GT Classic uses a
black bezel on a silver design, and will ship with a brown band as you can see.
On the other hand, the GT Sport will be all black.
GPS and NFC are built in as you'd expect, alongside
Bluetooth, a compass, a pressure sensor, and an accelerometer. A heart rate
monitor is likely to be in but its presence hasn't been confirmed by the source
of this leak.
The smartwatch will be swim proof. It's going to
have 4GB of internal storage and a 420mAh battery, which should somehow allow
for up to 14 days of use - we assume that's in a low-power mode that renders
the smartwatch essentially dumb, but we're happy to be proven wrong. In normal
operation you can expect half of that if you're lucky, but even that would be
groundbreaking for the smartwatch space. In GPS mode it could last for 20 hours
apparently.
Given all of that, there's a very high likelihood
that the Huawei Watch GT is powered by Qualcomm's newly unveiled Snapdragon
Wear 3100 chipset, which advertised a lot of battery life related features. The smartwatch is expected to
cost €199 in the Sport version, and € 229 for the Classic model.
