Huawei Watch GT 2 gets on-wrist calling

Huawei has unveiled its second generation smartwatches, the Watch GT 2 46mm and 42mm series, powered by the proprietary Kirin A1 chip. It is Huawei’s first smartwatch with an all-in-one 3D glass screen, creating a wider, borderless display. The new smartwatch delivers more sports modes with richer programmes, as well as adding Bluetooth calling and music playback functionalities, enhancing comprehensive health and fitness monitoring capabilities.

The previous generation Watch GT was loved by users because of its impressive battery life. Watch GT 2 goes in further, being equipped with Huawei’s proprietary Kirin A1 chipset to further improve on battery life. The Kirin A1 chipset integrates an advanced Bluetooth processing unit, a new audio processing unit, a low power consumption application processor and a separate power management unit. 

The application processor uses the Cortex-M7 processor to achieve ultra-low power consumption of 10uA/MHz, which is far below the industry average of 30uA/MHZ.

In daily use, the Watch GT 2 46mm series can operate continuously for up to two weeks, with both the intelligent heart rate monitor and call notification functions on and weekly usage of up to 30 minutes of Bluetooth calls; up to 30 minutes of music playback; up to 90 minutes of exercise and using the scientific sleep mode at night. 

In the classic mode, the smaller Watch GT 2 42mm series can operate continuously for up to one week. According to Huawei, the 46mm series achieves battery life of 30 hours under the GPS tracked sports mode, while the 42mm series reaches 15 hours.

The 46mm series is equipped with a 1.39-inch AMOLED HD precision touch screen with display resolution of 454 x 454 pixels, wider colour gamut, and ultra-thin design that is superior to LCD screens, achieving fuller screen colour and higher contrast. 

The 46mm series connects with Huawei mobile phones via Bluetooth and supports Bluetooth calls at up to 150 meters. The watch also supports phonebook functionality so users can save friends’ contact information on the watch to look them up. At the same time, the watch comes with large storage capacity, housing up to 500 MP3 songs. 

In the sports mode, it is compatible with 15 sports, including eight outdoor sports (running, walking, climbing, hiking, trail running, cycling, open water, triathlon) and seven indoor sports (walking, running, cycling, swimming pool, free training, elliptical machine, rowing machine). 

For these 15 sports modes, the watch provides full-scale monitoring of approximately 190 types of data. The watch provides targeted pre-exercise data analysis for different sports, and data recording analysis during the exercise. Huawei says the watch can also offer professional advice after a workout.

The watch can help monitor bradycardia, a type of very slow heart rhythm. Unless in the sports mode, the user will be notified if heart rate is above 100 bpm or below 50 bpm for more than 10 minutes. Users can also view the data in the Huawei Sports and Health App to keep an eye on their health in real time.

In addition to heart rate monitoring, TruSleep 2.0 monitors sleep quality, real-time heart rate, sleep breathing quality, and uses big data analysis to rate sleep quality. It combines Huawei AI technology to accurately analyze sleep problems and provides sleep improvement suggestions, as well as personalised sleep services and reports to help users improve sleep quality. 

The Watch GT 2 will be available later this year.