Replace: A brand new Huawei patent exhibits a watch that may acknowledge gestures made on the again of your hand, so you may work together with the watch as an alternative of touching it. Might this be headed for the Huawei Watch three?
Huawei is likely one of the largest names in Android Wear, due to its spectacular Huawei Watch and feature-packed however flawed Huawei Watch 2.
We don’t but know when or even when a Huawei Watch three will arrive, however there’s an opportunity it’s coming quickly, and we have now a wish-list for what we wish to see.
Earlier than that although, right here’s every little thing we’ve heard or suspect about when the Huawei Watch three may launch, and what it would characteristic.
Lower to the chase
- What’s it? The subsequent smartwatch from Huawei
- When is it out? Presumably early-mid 2018
- What’s going to it price? Doubtless upwards of £330 ($300, AU$450)
Huawei Watch three launch date and value
The Huawei Watch 2 was introduced at MWC 2017 and went on sale in April 2017, so there’s an opportunity we’ll see the Huawei Watch three at MWC 2018, which begins on February 26. But when we do it might not launch for one more month or two after that, given the hole between the Watch 2’s announcement and launch.
And we could nicely not see it at MWC 2018 in any respect, on condition that little or no has been heard about it and that there was nicely over a yr between the Huawei Watch and Huawei Watch 2.
Plus, not a lot has modified by way of Android Put on and software program because the launch of the Huawei Watch 2. We’re nonetheless on Android Wear 2, which the Watch 2 was one of many first to make use of, and the Snapdragon Put on 2100 chipset remains to be the chip of selection for wearables, so Huawei may wait till the following massive change within the house to launch a brand new wearable.
Each time the Huawei Watch three does launch it should in all probability be a high-end, costly machine. There aren’t any value rumors but, however the Huawei Watch 2 began at £329 ($299, AU$450) when it first arrived, so the Watch three may need an analogous price ticket.
Huawei Watch three information and rumors
There’s little or no in the best way of Huawei Watch three information and rumors to this point. In truth, all we’ve actually come throughout is a few Huawei patents.
The latest of those describes a watch with sensors that may acknowledge gestures made on the back of your hand, so you could possibly for instance make the form of a letter and have it seem on the display screen, permitting you to extra simply write issues utilizing your smartwatch.
Extra gestures may embrace a double faucet or an extended press, so you could possibly probably absolutely work together with the watch with out touching it.
The Huawei Watch three may allow you to write in your hand as an alternative of the display screen. Credit score: WIPO/LetsGoDigital
We have additionally seen a patent which describes a smartwatch with touch-sensitive bezels.
The patent exhibits a bezel divided into eight sections, every of which might be tapped to do one thing on the watch.
However you could possibly additionally contact a number of sections on the similar time to carry out a fair wider number of actions, and these actions may transcend simply launching apps, permitting you to additionally zoom in or out and scroll by menus for instance.
Might this be the headline characteristic of the Huawei Watch three? Credit score: WIPO
It’s a probably extra helpful – if additionally extra difficult – various to the rotating bezel the likes of the Samsung Gear S3 has.
It could be a useful addition, on condition that the Huawei Watch 2 is notably mild on management strategies, however this being a patent there’s no assure something will ever occur with it, not to mention that will probably be used for the Huawei Watch three particularly.
What we wish to see
Huawei has been quiet in regards to the Watch three to this point, however we’re not going to be quiet about what we wish from it. The next seven issues may make it a giant enchancment from the Huawei Watch 2.
1. A trendy design
The Huawei Watch seems to be way more trendy than the Huawei Watch 2
The unique Huawei Watch had a horny design, the Huawei Watch 2… not a lot. It traded a wise steel end for a sportier, chunkier one, with massive bezels and a plastic construct.
It’s not actively ugly, and the sporty design fits its sportier innards, plus there’s additionally a Huawei Watch 2 Classic with a glance that’s extra trendy, however that comes with the next price ticket and isn’t obtainable with LTE.
For the Huawei Watch three we wish the usual model of the watch to have a slim, trendy look, with out sacrificing options within the course of. We wouldn’t complain if a plastic model is obtainable too at a lower cost, however it ought to have the identical specs.
2. Highly effective efficiency
Regardless of being a top-end watch when it launched and nonetheless being up there with the extra highly effective smartwatches on paper, the Huawei Watch 2 proved slightly sluggish in follow, which isn’t what we wish after we’re dropping tons of on a wearable.
So for the Huawei Watch three we wish a efficiency enhance, whether or not by extra RAM, a quicker chipset or simply software program optimizations. Apps ought to open immediately and interacting with the watch needs to be clean.
three. A rotating crown
The Huawei Watch 2 has two buttons in addition to a touchscreen, however it doesn’t have a rotating bezel or crown. This isn’t overly shocking, as few Android Put on units do, however these are useful methods so as to add an extra enter methodology to the watch with out actually taking over any extra space.
They allow you to scroll by menus with out obscuring the tiny display screen, which is a pleasant characteristic to have, and one which some main rivals – such because the Apple Watch 3 – sport.
four. A bigger display screen
The Huawei Watch 2’s display screen feels barely extra cramped than we would like
Regardless of having a chunkier construct than the unique Huawei Watch, the Huawei Watch 2 really has a smaller display screen of simply 1.2 inches.
It’s pretty sharp and brilliant however it feels cramped, particularly when attempting to make use of an on-screen keyboard, so we’d prefer to see a bigger display screen of round 1.four inches on the Huawei Watch three.
5. A slicker charger
The Huawei Watch 2 employs a fiddly, inelegant charging answer, requiring you to line up a cradle with pogo pins on the again of the watch.
It’s not an enormous challenge however it might be a lot less complicated, and we wish it to be for the Huawei Watch three. A easy wi-fi charger that you just plop the watch straight onto would do exactly tremendous.
6. Help for normal straps
Extra strap selection would undoubtedly be factor
Whereas the Huawei Watch 2 makes use of the usual 20mm strap dimension, its design means you may nonetheless solely connect straps designed particularly for it.
This looks like an actual missed alternative to provide patrons a close to limitless number of strap choices, so for the Huawei Watch three we wish a design that enables for any and all normal straps (in no matter dimension Huawei chooses) for use with it.
7. Longer life
The Huawei Watch 2 really lasts a fairly very long time by smartwatch requirements, with as much as round two days of life in case you’re not utilizing a SIM card, however that plummets to solely simply over a day in case you do use a SIM and even at two days you’ll be charging it not less than a number of instances every week.
House for a bigger battery is understandably restricted, but when Huawei can do something to stretch the Watch three’s life additional we’d admire it.