Huami smartwatches will soon get a ton of new features (at least for China users) thanks to a new partnership it signed with Tencent.
An official statement put out by the China-based company on its Weibo page says its smart wearables will gain support for QQ (Tencent’s instant messaging service), QQ Music (Tencent’s music streaming service), and Tencent’s translation services in the future. They will also get an AI voice assistant alongside some other unnamed functions.
It wasn’t revealed when these features will roll out to its already existing line of smart wearables sold under the Amazfit brand or even which models will get which feature.
The Chinese company has a launch event scheduled for June 11, the same day Xiaomi will announce the Mi Band 4 (which Huami also manufactures). It has been reported that the launch is for a new Amazfit smartwatch which has an eSIM and will be powered by the Snapdragon Wear 3100. We won’t be surprised if some of these new features arrive first on the new watch.
For international users who may feel they are missing out on these new features; we believe the company is also working on bringing similar features to the international variants. The Amazfit Verge already supports Amazon’s Alexa Assistant and may gain new features as time goes on.
