Huawei is continuing its march into the consumer health and fitness smartwatch market, revealing four new smartwatch models for 2022. Like many other smartwatches on the market, these products aim to help users live their best lives by automating the mundane task of keeping tabs on their body’s health signals and, at the same time, trying to look good on their wrists.
Huawei Watch GT3 Pro
Huawei’s flagship smartwatch is the updated GT3 Pro, packed with Huawei’s latest health monitoring tech to keep you ticking along. If you want an elegant-looking smartwatch that doubles up as a workout tracker and a health monitor, the GT3 Pro has a lot going for it.
Beyond the usual heart rate and sleep tracking, the device is able to perform electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis, measure your arterial stiffness, and monitor your blood oxygen level to give you a more accurate snapshot of your health. This might be the closest thing to a doctor on your wrist.
The GT3 Pro comes in Titanium or Ceramic editions, with a round watch face display that takes the form of a 1.43-inch diametrical AMOLED screen, which can show details similar to a 466 x 466 px resolution screen. It works with five satellite systems (GPS, Beidou, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS), and should be able to give accurate GPS tracking wherever you are.
Watch faces are customisable, and you have access to over 100 workout modes. The Huawei smartwatch also supports a free-diving mode, working on diving excursions down to 30 metres deep.
Edit to add: The watch also supports BlueTooth music playback, where you can start, pause or skip a song from the smartwatch. Offline playlists can be created and managed through the Huawei Health App. The GT3 Pro is also compatible with third-party apps such as Strava and Adidas in Singapore; permission can be set via the Huawei Health App.
Huawei Band 7
Upgraded from last year’s Band 6, the Band 7’s claim to fame is being the thinnest tracker of the family, at less than 10mm in thickness and weighing just 16g.
It sports a rectangular AMOLED screen at 194 x 368 px resolution and, though the size was not announced, we expect it to mirror the Band 6’s 1.47-inch display space. The watch face is customisable to suit your whim and fancies through the Huawei Watch Face Store, with over 4,000 themes to pick from, though not all are free-to-use.
Like other entry-level fitness trackers of 2022, it will be able to track your running data and heart rate in real-time.
Edit to add: The watch also supports BlueTooth music playback, where you can start, pause or skip a song from the smartwatch. Offline playlists can be created and managed through the Huawei Health App.
Huawei Watch Fit 2
The new Huawei Watch Fit 2 improves on its predecessor, with ease-of-use functions such as support for file transfer with a tap and call receiving via Bluetooth, the smartwatch also has access to 97 workout modes to inspire you to get active.
It sports a 1.74-inch AMOLED display at 336 x 480 resolution, which will be convenient to show weather info and flight details (when used with Huawei’s voice assistant). It supports offline music playback on most apps, except iOS.
Huawei Watch D
A new product line, the Watch D is marketed as a health tracker before anything else. It is Huawei’s first wrist-type blood pressure monitoring smartwatch that functions similar to a traditional blood pressure device, only much smaller and lighter.
The Watch D also has a sensor module to record your ECG data and provide a report on the fly. Other than that, it tracks a wide spectrum of other health data — sleep, SpO2, skin temperature, and stress — as well as support over 70 workout modes.
Somewhere in there, we expect that it also functions as a watch, sometimes.
Edit to add: The watch also supports BlueTooth music playback, where you can start, pause or skip a song from the smartwatch. Offline playlists can be created and managed through the Huawei Health App.
Here’s where we throw in some caveats.
Do note that unless the devices have been certified by medical authorities in your country, the data they provide are merely meant to be used as a reference and cannot replace the role of a doctor.
Also, like other smartwatches, users will need to buy into the ecosystem of the product, as many of the functions will only work well with an accompanying app, which in this case is the Huawei Health App. Some devices, such as the ceramic GT3 Pro, won’t be available for Singapore markets as well.
Local pricing has not been revealed, though we expect it to be priced very competitively similar to previous models. Availability dates for these Huawei smartwatches for 2022 will be announced later in the year.
The Huawei product launch video is available below if you are interested.
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