Huawei’s smartphone empire has fallen due to the US ban. But the company is not giving up on other categories, especially wearables. Just recently, the firm debuted HUAWEI FreeBuds 4i and HUAWEI Band 6 in global markets. In its home market, the company is set to introduce new smart TVs tomorrow (April 8). Now, according to a new leak, the Chinese telecom giant will be also launching the HUAWEI Watch3 series before the end of H1 2021.

Huawei has been selling smartwatches since 2015. The company’s first smartwatches came with HUAWEI Watch branding, These models featured Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear SoC and Android Wear. Hence, they offered poor battery life and performance.

In late 2018, the company debuted the HUAWEI GT series with HiSilicon Kirin SoC and HUAWEI LiteOS. This new breed of smartwatches from the company offers much better battery life and performance. However, they have limited third-party app support.

To fix these shortcomings, Huawei will be re-introducing the HUAWEI Watch lineup with the launch of the HUAWEI Watch3 series as early as May 2021, as per a blogger on Weibo (@鹏鹏君驾).

According to this person, the upcoming HUAWEI Watch3 series will run HarmonyOS. The new watches from the company will feature a new UI (pictured above). They are also said to have support for mobile payments and more third-party applications.

Further, Huawei will be also releasing a cellular variant with eSIM compatibility. As for battery life, the HUAWEI Watch3 series may have lower endurance when compared to the HUAWEI GT series because of the new operating system and additional features.

Last but not least, according to the blogger, the HUAWEI Watch3 series will be expensive than the HUAWEI GT series smartwatches.

Having said that, we would recommend you to consider this piece of information with a pinch of salt. Anyway, ff these wearables indeed exist, then we expect to learn more about them in the coming days.

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