Back in late April, HUAWEI AI Speaker 2 was announced alongside many other products at the HUAWEI nova7 series launch event. This speaker was unveiled in two colors namely Space Black and Nebula White. Now, the latter version will be finally going on sale for the first time on November 1 while its pre-orders have opened today.

The HUAWEI AI Speaker 2 is being sold by the company since May in only Space Black color. But now, after 6 months, it will be available in Nebula White color version. That said, the smart speaker is still limited to China as it is powered by Huawei’s own Xiaoyi voice assistant. 

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It could have debuted in global markets with either Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa like the recently launched Xiaomi XiaoAI Speaker Art aka Mi Smart Speaker in India. But due to the US ban, the company did not have a chance to partner with the said American companies.

Having said that, the HUAWEI AI Speaker 2 comes in two variants – with and without battery. It features 2.25-inch 10W main speaker with two bass units powered by HUAWEI Sound technology. On the connectivity front, it includes 2.4GHz WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, and NFC.

Like most smart speakers out there, it also comes with four capacitive buttons for volume up / down, mute, and multi-function. Last but not least, the battery (3,900mAh) version is priced at 399 yuan ($59), whereas the non-battery version only costs 299 yuan ($44).

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The Chinese telecom giant launches Huawei AI Speaker 2 in China as the successor to the original debuted back in October 2018. The newer model features a revamped design and also has a portable version, thanks to an in-built battery. The best part is it costs the same 399 Yuan ($56) as the previous model.

Just like its predecessor, the Huawei AI speaker 2 is powered by the company’s own virtual assistant called Xiaoyi. This one is different than the newly introduced Celia voice assistant on EMUI 10.1.

The new speaker features Huawei Sound technology unlike the previous generation, which was developed in-partnership with Dynaudio. However, the main 10W speaker is of same 2.25-inches made of NdFeB. It also has two bass units making it a 1.2 speaker system, however, it does support 5.1 channel.

Further, it has four capacitive touch keys for volume up / down,  mute, and multi-function. The speaker uses 2.4GHz WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, and NFC for connectivity. It also has four microphones to capture voices clearly.

The Huawei AI Speaker 2 is powered by an unknown quad-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz. It measures 156mm x  110mm in size and weighs 580g for the non-battery version (AIS-BW50-01) and 650g for the built-in battery (3,900mAh) variant (AIS-BW50-00). The battery model is capable of offering 5 hours of playback at default volume.

For looks, the speaker has an LED ring at the top for various indications and comes in two color options namely Space Black and Nebula White. Lastly. as a smart speaker, it does all the essential things like playing songs, reciting recipe/rhymes/stories, controlling smart IoT products, and more.

Huawei announced the AI Speaker 2 at the Nova 7 series launch event in which the company also unveiled the following products for the Chinese market.

• Hauwei MatePad
• Huawei Smart Screen V55i
• Huawei Children Watch 3 Pro
• Huawei Watch GT 2e

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