Hands-on with the elegant Huawei

jaymillajay

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What sets the Huawei Watch apart is the “no compromise” round display. Current round devices all make some sort of sacrifice. The Moto 360 has small bezels, but the infamous “flat tire” keeps the display from being perfectly round. LG’s watches manage to have perfectly round displays, but the bezels are very large. Huawei somehow made a smartwatch with minimal bezel and a perfectly round display

The display is 1.4-inch AMOLED with 286ppi, and looks really great. It’s powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, and has 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM, 300mAh battery, and a 6-axis sensor for fitness tracking. The Huawei Watch will be sold in 20 countries (including North America), but we don’t know when it will go on sale or how much it will cost. When it does go on sale it will be available in black, silver, and gold.
 
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What sets the Huawei Watch apart is the “no compromise” round display. Current round devices all make some sort of sacrifice. The Moto 360 has small bezels, but the infamous “flat tire” keeps the display from being perfectly round. LG’s watches manage to have perfectly round displays, but the bezels are very large. Huawei somehow made a smartwatch with minimal bezel and a perfectly round display

The display is 1.4-inch AMOLED with 286ppi, and looks really great. It’s powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, and has 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM, 300mAh battery, and a 6-axis sensor for fitness tracking. The Huawei Watch will be sold in 20 countries (including North America), but we don’t know when it will go on sale or how much it will cost. When it does go on sale it will be available in black, silver, and gold.
This is a really nice smartwatch. Looks stunning too. Much prefer these watches that still maintain the look of a watch
 

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I'm debating whether to get the Moto 360 now or wait for the Huawei. I really like that the size of the Huawei is amaller at 42mm compared with 46mm for the Moto as I have a small wrist.

Two things I don't like about the Huawei. One is that is will use a cradle. That I can live with. The other is that it looks like it will not have an ambient light sensor. There is no mention anywhere on their website of it have one, even in the list of sensors in the specification. That may really put me off it.
 

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Thanks for the review. I am looking forward to using this gadget soon :)
What sets the Huawei Watch apart is the “no compromise” round display. Current round devices all make some sort of sacrifice. The Moto 360 has small bezels, but the infamous “flat tire” keeps the display from being perfectly round. LG’s watches manage to have perfectly round displays, but the bezels are very large. Huawei somehow made a smartwatch with minimal bezel and a perfectly round display

The display is 1.4-inch AMOLED with 286ppi, and looks really great. It’s powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, and has 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM, 300mAh battery, and a 6-axis sensor for fitness tracking. The Huawei Watch will be sold in 20 countries (including North America), but we don’t know when it will go on sale or how much it will cost. When it does go on sale it will be available in black, silver, and gold.
 

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The other is that it looks like it will not have an ambient light sensor. There is no mention anywhere on their website of it have one, even in the list of sensors in the specification. That may really put me off it.
If we want watches with small-to-non bezels we will have to accept that there is no ambient light sensor because there is no place for it. That's why Motorola went for the flat tire design with the first Moto 360 and I guess they will fix that by removing the ambient light sensor in the next version.

Another open question is, if the Huawei Watch will feature WLAN. It is not listed in the specs yet, but the WLAN feature was announced after the presentation of the Huawei Watch, so there's still a good chance it will feature WLAN. (Otherwise it's a killer.)