There could be an exciting redesign of Huawei’s smartwatch lineup on the way, thanks to a new leak.
Huawei Central has reported a new device spotted in the app’s code, which breaks with the naming conventions of previous Huawei smartwatches.
Eagle-eyed watchers noticed the Huawei Health app showing an unnamed smartwatch using the code AOD-H1.
We’re probably due for an update to the Huawei Watch GT3 and Watch 3, but it seems unlikely that’s it. According to Huawei Central, the company has used the B19 moniker for its smartwatches.
Could this be a new range?
In short, we don’t know. But “AOD” is a well-established acronym for “always on display” – so it looks like this project might be referring to that feature.
Huawei smartwatches already offer the ability to optionally activate an always-on display, so could this watch take the idea even further?
Always-on screens are a slight misnomer, given that they usually revert to a low-power state – with time displayed to save battery.
We’ve seen Huawei experiment with plenty of smartwatches over the past six months, and the company seems determined to challenge accepted standards on the medium.
The Huawei Watch Buds, which launched in China, use a flip-out display to house a pair of active noise-canceling headphones.
And the Huawei Watch GT Cyber screen can be removed from its case, so you can completely change the case design if you want.
So we’d like to see Huawei challenge the idea of display technology, perhaps introducing a new kind of low-power display that blows transflective or even E-Ink technology out of the water.
We’ll have to file this one under fun speculation for now – but ultimately, there’s little concrete here to get excited about.
By James Stables
James is the co-founder of Storableand he has been a technology journalist for 15 years.
He began his career at Future Publishing, James became the editor of T3 Magazine and T3.com and was a regular contributor to TechRadar – before leaving Future Publishing to found Storable in 2014.
James has led Wareable since 2014 and has become one of the world’s leading experts in wearable technology. It has reviewed, tested and covered just about every portable device on the market. He is passionate about changing the industry and about wearable devices that help people lead healthier, happier lives.
