Huawei delays its Android ar watch to Q3, hints at design tweaks

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Published 18 Jun 2015

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The Huawei tch may be the front-runner for best-looking Android ar timepiece , but it could look a bit different when it finally goes on sale.

Yang Yong, Huawei’s manager for wearables, told The ll Street urnal that the watch will hit the United States Europe in the third quarter, later than the summer timeframe that Huawei announced at Mobile rld Congress in h . Huawei is also apparently tweaking the watch’s design, with the urnal saying it will be “less bulky, more akin in appearance to a classical wrist watch with a round case.”

st week, Chinese media reported that Huawei would delay the watch’s launch until September or October, due to issues with using services in China. Still, it was unclear if this affected Huawei’s launch plans elsewhere, the company didn’t respond to our request for clarification at the time. The urnal’s report confirms a delay for stern markets, also says the China launch could be pushed as far back as 2016 as Huawei works around its Android ar woes.

There’s no word on whether Huawei is making any changes to the tch’s tech specs, which currently include a 1.4-inch AMOD display with 400-by-400 resolution, a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm processor, 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of storage, a 300 mAh battery a thickness of 11.3 mm. Yang told the urnal that Huawei won’t be releasing a new smartwatch every year, so the company may simply be making some minor design refinements in hopes of getting it right the first time.

y this matters: As ‘s wrote in h , the Huawei tch was the most attractive Android ar smartwatch he’d seen, with a round, stainless steel body that’s not as chunky asMotorola’s Moto 360 or ‘s tch Urbane. ile those watches have a diameter of 46 mm, the Huawei tch’s 42 mm body should be a much better fit for small- to mid-sized wrists. It’s a promising improvement for Android ar on the design front, provided Huawei doesn’t make any drastic changes.