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HUAWEI Watch 3 is confirmed, but we’ll have to wait a while
July 03, 2025
Any hopes ofHuaweiannouncing theHUAWEI Watch 2follow-up before the end ofMobile World Congress 2018are now dashed.Richard Yu, CEO of the company,informedTechRadarthat while the HUAWEI Watch 3 is in development, it won’t see a release anytime soon. The reason? The HUAWEI Watch 2 is selling well enough that a new model isn’t necessary.
“It will come later – there’s no hurry because HUAWEI Watch 2 sells well. We’re not in a hurry, so we’re launching the new watch later,” Mr. Yu said.
HUAWEI announced the Watch 2last year atMobile World Congress 2017, so it seemed logical to expect a successor this year. Instead, HUAWEI chose to announce its next flagship smartphoneat its own event in Paris next monthand used MWC 2018 to launchthe MateBook X Proand the new entries inthe MediaPad 5 series.
Since the Watch 2 is selling well and the Paris event in March seems to be all aboutthe upcoming HUAWEI P20, it’s unlikely that we’d see the HUAWEI Watch 3 until the second half of the year, possibly atIFAin September. Or, if the Watch 2 is still selling well, maybe not even until 2019.
The HUAWEI Watch 2 received favorable reviews,including fromAndroid Authority, but it was dinged on its “sporty” design and cheap-feeling watch strap. Hopefully, the Watch 3 will address these issues; although if the Watch 2 indeed is selling well over a year after launch, HUAWEI may not change the formula up at all.
Since the launch of the P20 is generating quite a lot of buzz for HUAWEI, we probably won’t hear much else about this new watch until after that event.
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