Chinese smartwatch manufacturer and New York Stock Exchange-listed company Huami has officially unveiled its first children n health smartwatch in China. The product is dubbed Amazfit Happya Children’s Health Watch and is specifically designed for kids. The company has shared a few details of the product but the pricing and availability are yet to be disclosed.

Huami’s Founder and CEO  Huang Wang released an essay on Weibo explaining why the company decided to launch a children’s smartwatch at this point. The CEO hinted that the firm first got the offer to design a children’s watch at the same period six years ago when it was working on its first smartwatch. However, the team rejected the offer, instead opting to release adult smartwatches. Moreso, children’s watches at that time were basically GPS devices with calling functions of which it thought Xiaotiancai and 360 were doing a good job already. Also, it doesn’t align with Huami’s goal of helping more people live healthier through human body data monitoring and analysis.

Presently, the industry is filled with several smartwatch models designed for children and the competition is stiffer than it was odd six years ago. Thus, the company felt this was a better time to join the train in order to grab a slice of the pie.

The watches are now fitted with games and several learning resources which the CEO opined may lead to eye defects and impair the child’s learning ability considering the small size. Thus, the brand’s focus will be on children’s health so as to help prevent shortsightedness and it will be 100% harmless to children.

Further, the Amazfit Happya Children’s Health Watch will come with built-in sports/fitness modes bringing on features such as rope skipping, sit-ups, running, in order to help the kids improve their sports ability. The watch also comes with 24-hour heart rate monitoring, child-specific sleep monitoring, and child-specific activity tracking that is more scientific than step counting.

Huami also disclosed that it is cooperating with the Huyan Research Institute of the First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College and the team of renowned Academician Zhong Nanshan to actively promote the children’s asthma attack prevention. The research results are expected to be of great help to the future iteration of children’s watches.

In addition to the above innovative functions, the Amazfit Happya Children’s Health Watch will also retain the basic functions of children’s watches such as 4G full Netcom, AI multi-positioning, high-definition video calls, taking pictures, watch friends, XiaoAI voice support, Alipay piggy bank, etc. The watch comes with an IP68 waterproof and dustproof rating and features a food-grade silicone wristband.

On a side note, Huami also unveiled a Mascot called Happya (Happy Duck).

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