Huawei Watch earns early accolades at MWC

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Huawei was expected to make an impact at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with some forward thinking smartphones and phablets. The emerging giant has instead impressed both press and analysts with a duo of wearable devices. 

The premium-looking Huawei Watch is undoubtedly the most luxurious Android Wear device on the market and is currently the sexiest looking smartwatch in the market right now. Huawei has settled on a 42mm round face featuring a 286 ppi 1.4-inch AMOLED touchscreen. Available in over 20 countries, including Canada when it ships in mid-June, Huawei Watch will be sold in gold, silver and black with an assortment of straps and 40 custom watchfaces. Pricing was not revealed.

Onpoard are a heart rate monitor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, a 6-axis motion sensor and a a Qualcomm 1.2GHz processor.

Health tracking is front and centre for Huawei since they also released  the B2 activity tracker as well as activity tracking earbuds.

The mobile industry is learning not to sleep on Huawei who has proven that it can compete and even surpass more established players in any segment it wishes to pursue.

Source: TheNextWeb