As is the case with other Android Wear watches, the Huawei Watch can display customized Google Now cards and notifications such as text messages, emails and calls from your smartphone right on your wrist. Huawei has include over 40 customizable watch faces, such as a dial that shows lunar phases, the weather and notifications in a conventional watch design.
Along with the heart-rate monitor, the watch uses a 6-axis motion sensor and barometer to track your steps, range and calories burned. It can also instantly detect and track when a user is walking, running, biking, hiking or sleeping. Huawei has partnered with Jawbone to let users sync their data with the company's Up health app. This is along with being able to sync with the Google Fit app.
We didn't hear anything about battery life, although the company noted that the watch will use a "magnetic charging station" for handy charging. Huawei has made a great feeling watch, and a new level of premium Android Wear watch. But we're judging on style, not function.
Questions remain, however. Who knows how much this will cost, and that could element into our opinion. Also, since Android Wear has hit a wall on new hardware features being permitted, this doesn't do anything different than other Wear watches. But the 40 customizable watch faces, which look beautiful in the mockups Huawei showed, could be a difference maker. For now, this might be king of the hill. It feels like a Moto 360 meets LG Watch Urbane, but maybe even better.
The Huawei Watch will be accessible in more than 20 countries such as the US, UK and Australia. Pricing and launch details wasn't announced, even though we expect a high price tag to match the premium functions and design.