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Is HUAWEI even trying with smartwatches anymore?
August 24, 2025
From time to time, iteration gets to the point where companies only make change to the inside and leave the outside alone. Folks might get upset when that happens, and companies likeSamsungandAppleare guilty of this. At least there are still changes, however.
Huawei, meanwhile, seems more than happy to make as few changes as possible for the follow-up to its 2017Wear OS-powered smartwatch.
That is according toVentureBeatwriter Evan Blass, who alleged that HUAWEI will eventually release the Watch 2 (2018). The smartwatch reportedly features the aging Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100 processor, 768MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, and a 420mAh battery.
Elsewhere, the Watch 2 (2018) allegedly sports a 1.2-inch, 390 x 390 AMOLED display, IP68 dust and water resistance, GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
If all of that sounds familiar, that is because theWatch 2released in 2017 features the exact same internals. Blass claimed that the only difference between it and the Watch 2 (2018) is the latter’s support for eSIM.
Even then, that would make the Watch 2 (2018) the same as theWatch 2 Pro, which was announced last October. As such, we have to wonder whether HUAWEI will simply launch the Watch 2 Pro as the Watch 2 (2018) in the U.S.
If this is true, I am not sure what HUAWEI is playing at with such a strategy. It is not as ifsmartwatch market shareis at a standstill, and Qualcomm willsoon launchnew and smaller smartwatch chips. Even LG, which similarly released a Wear OS smartwatch last year, willreportedly releasean aesthetically-different smartwatch in the next month or two.
Maybe HUAWEI wants the Watch 2 (2018) to be a temporary placeholder for another smartwatch this year. Maybe that smartwatch will be radically different from HUAWEI’s previous options.
If the rumor is true, however, the Watch 2 (2018) would be indicative of a company whose interest insmartwatchesmight be almost gone.
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