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@ 2019/09/21Review: Great look, excellent battery, music and calls
We got a chance to get one of the Huawei Watch GT 2 classic edition and so far, had more than half of a day to spend with the watch. Here are some of the first impression of the design, specs, and overall features.
The watch is Huawei’s second-generation GT watch, called Huawei Watch GT 2 powered by Kirin A1 chipset promising two weeks battery and always-on screen.
As we mentioned in the watch announcement article, there are two versions, 46mm and 42mm, the larger packs a 1.39-inch always-on AMOLED display with 454 x 454 resolution while the smaller one will stick to 1.2-inch 390x390 AMOLED screen. It measures 45.9 x 45.9 x 10.7 mm (1.81 x 1.81 x 0.42 in) and weighs 41 grams. It comes with a stainless-steel frame, ceramic back and it is waterproof for up to 50-meter. It will even measure your heart rate while swimming. Let's not forget the GPS that will give you more accurate measuring.
We are testing the bigger 46 mm watch that has a larger battery and two weeks promised battery life. If you want to be realistic, this number will be lower depending on the usage, but still getting a few days out of a wearable, let alone a week or close to two, sounds almost miraculous.
Of course, the battery life comes with the sacrifice of the features as Lite OS developed by Huawei is not compatible with the Google Wear platform or its Store. Lite OS so far doesn’t have an app store, and you get to use the features that come preinstalled with the watch. You can install new watch faces, but they are available via Huawei Health app and are rather limited to around a dozen designs.
We got a chance to get one of the Huawei Watch GT 2 classic edition and so far, had more than half of a day to spend with the watch. Here are some of the first impression of the design, specs, and overall features.
The watch is Huawei’s second-generation GT watch, called Huawei Watch GT 2 powered by Kirin A1 chipset promising two weeks battery and always-on screen.
As we mentioned in the watch announcement article, there are two versions, 46mm and 42mm, the larger packs a 1.39-inch always-on AMOLED display with 454 x 454 resolution while the smaller one will stick to 1.2-inch 390x390 AMOLED screen. It measures 45.9 x 45.9 x 10.7 mm (1.81 x 1.81 x 0.42 in) and weighs 41 grams. It comes with a stainless-steel frame, ceramic back and it is waterproof for up to 50-meter. It will even measure your heart rate while swimming. Let's not forget the GPS that will give you more accurate measuring.
We are testing the bigger 46 mm watch that has a larger battery and two weeks promised battery life. If you want to be realistic, this number will be lower depending on the usage, but still getting a few days out of a wearable, let alone a week or close to two, sounds almost miraculous.
Of course, the battery life comes with the sacrifice of the features as Lite OS developed by Huawei is not compatible with the Google Wear platform or its Store. Lite OS so far doesn’t have an app store, and you get to use the features that come preinstalled with the watch. You can install new watch faces, but they are available via Huawei Health app and are rather limited to around a dozen designs.
