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Huawei’s Watch GT wearable is coming to the US
This smartwatch can reportedly last for two weeks on a single charge
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Huawei has long has trouble finding a foothold for its smartphones in the US. But the company’s past struggles isn’t stopping it from releasing a new smartwatch in the country.
The Huawei Watch GT is now available in the US as a pre-order on Amazon and Newegg, starting at US$200 for the Sport model and US$230 for the higher-end “Classic”.
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Unlike some of Huawei’s past smartwatches, this one doesn’t run Google’s Wear OS -- it uses Huawei’s own LiteOS. Reviews suggest LiteOS isn’t nearly as capable as Wear OS, with Android Central dubbing it a “fitness band in disguise”.
But it does come with one huge upside: Battery life. Fewer features mean fewer things to drain the battery, meaning the Huawei Watch GT can last much longer than other smartwatches -- up to two weeks on a single charge.
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It’s not Huawei’s first smartwatch to come to the US. But it’s also Huawei’s first truly new smartwatch in a while, as last year’s Huawei Watch 2 was a refresh of a model first introduced in 2017.
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