Huawei’s smartwatches are simply known as ‘Huawei Watch’. But earlier in May, the company filed a trademark for ‘Mate Watch’. Now, according to a new tip from the same person (@RODENT950) who spotted the trademark, the so-called Huawei Mate Watch might run HarmonyOS and could launch alongside the Mate 40 series.

If Huawei’s schedule has kept up then the Mate Watch is the first HongMengOS powered smartwatch, will be released with the Mate 40 series.
rumors say it would happen during Chinese National Day. #HuaweiMate40Series #HuaweiMateWatch

— Teme (特米) (@RODENT950) June 23, 2020

Last year, Huawei officially introduced its homegrown operating system called HarmonyOS. It is a distributed OS based on Linux micro-kernel architecture.

As per the roadmap shared by the company at Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2019, HarmonyOS 2.0 will be released this year with support for PC, cars, and smart wearables. Hence, it is possible for the upcoming Huawei Mate Watch to run HarmonyOS instead of Huawei Lite OS found on its current smartwatches.

In addition to the software, the tipster also says that according to rumors, the wearable might launch alongside Mate 40 series on Chinese National Day, which will be celebrated on October 1st. This goes in line with a  previous leak, which suggested the launch of Huawei Mate 40 series to take place in October as scheduled despite tensions from the US government.

As of now, nothing else is known about this forthcoming ‘Mate Watch’ but the HarmonyOS 2.0 will be also found on Hauwei PCs powered by Kunpeng processors.

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Huawei’s Mate line has evolved from being limited to just phones to include other products such as computers (MateBook) and tablets (MatePad). Now Huawei is ready to add smartwatches too.

The Chinese tech giant filed a trademark application early this month for the brand name “Huawei Mate Watch”. Huawei’s smartwatch line is currently called Watch GT with models such as the Watch GT 2 and Watch GT 2e. The trademark application may hint at Huawei’s plan to switch to “Mate Watch” in place of the “Watch GT moniker”.

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Mate X
Mate Pad
Mate Book
Mate Pod
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Huawei Mate family is growing. pic.twitter.com/8zvd4vRGMp

— Teme (特米) (@RODENT950) May 22, 2020

The Huawei Mate Watch will most likely be unveiled this year, probably at the launch of the Mate 40 series. There is still a lot of waiting to do before then and more details should surface soon.

At the beginning of the year, Huawei also filed a trademark application for “MatePod”. There are speculations that it may be the new name for its headphones but it is also possible it may be the new name of its smart speaker series.

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