TESTED HUAWEI WATCH 3
Where Huawei now?
The Chinese tech giant has decided to reset its wearables business with its first ‘proper’ modern smartwatch – sporting a completely refreshed UI
[ Words Andrew Williams ]
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Huawei has made wearables for years, but the Watch 3 is the first one since 2017 that we can really call a proper smartwatch – that is, without following up with a bunch of apologies about how you can’t make calls with it or install third-party apps.
Take a Huawei Watch 2, crash it into an Apple Watch Series 6 and you get something resembling the Watch 3. (Well, that or a couple of broken wrists.)
We’re not enamoured with the drop in battery life from two weeks to two days, or with the waiting game to see if Huawei’s ever-expanding HarmonyOS platform is really worth investing in; but for a first crack at this tricky old game, the Huawei Watch 3 is something of a success.