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Huawei unveils its first premium smartwatch running HarmonyOS
Huawei has launched two new HormanyOS-powered smartwatches: the Huawei Watch 3 and Watch 3 Pro. Here's what you need to know.
At its HarmonyOS launch event yesterday, Huawei showcased a range of new hardware running its brand new OS, including two premium MatePad tablets. Alongside these tablets, the company also unveiled two new smartwatches, dubbed Huawei Watch 3 and Watch 3 Pro. It’s been a while since we saw a smartwatch from Huawei — in fact, the last time the company released a smartwatch, the Huawei GT series, was like three years ago.
Huawei Watch GT is finally getting support for custom watch faces
One of the downsides of the Huawei Watch GT not using Wear OS is a lack of good watch face options. That's finally being fixed.
The Huawei Watch GT launched early this year in the US. This wouldn't be a terribly interesting watch except for one thing: it doesn't run Wear OS. Before any of Huawei's troubles in the US began, the company was already dabbling with their own OS. One of the downsides of not using Wear OS is a lack of good watch face options. That's finally being fixed.
Huawei Watch GT launches in the US without Google's Wear OS, which seems to be struggling
The latest smartwatch from Huawei is here, bringing an unique series of features as well as Huawei's new, in-house operating system.
Despite Google's Wear OS (formerly Android Wear) being a widely known operating system for smartwatches, it's still struggling to find its place even after several updates. And while Google may be fully committed to releasing constant updates to the platform and bringing Wear OS to everyone's wrists sooner or later, it seems like most of these efforts are in vain as smartwatch manufacturers keep losing hope in the platform. Samsung, for one, uses their in-house Tizen OS for their Samsung Galaxy Watch as well as their Gear line of smartwatches instead of using Wear OS.
Android Wear 2.0 on the Huawei Watch
Check out the latest Android Wear 2.0 running on the Huawei Watch.
In this new video from XDA TV, Eric takes a look at the Android Wear 2.0 update on his Huawei Watch. Android Wear 2.0 brought a lot of significant updates to smartwatches. With the update now being available on the Huawei Watch, this device might find its way back on to your wrist.
If you're a proud owner of the original Huawei Watch, then we have some good news for you: the Android Wear 2.0 update is now finally rolling out for your device. Android Wear 2.0 is a big step forward for the Wear platform as it brings in many much-needed improvements as well many new exciting features. Wear 2.0 was available for the Huawei Watch in the form of a Developer Preview for a while now, but it's only now that the device is getting the official stable update.