Huawei Does not Share its Plans to Launch LTE Smartwatch Series 4, though It is ready to introduce its P60 Series Smartphone in the First Quarter of the year.
Syed Imran Haider 
Huawei is all set to unveil its next flagship handset for the P60 series sometime in the first quarter of 2023. The Chinese tech maker could also use this opportunity to introduce Huawei Smartwatch IV Series, though it hasn’t officially announced the launch. Although Huawei hasn’t disclosed any plans on the release date of the P60 smartphone and the Watch IV series, users could expect them to hit the market as they move to the tech launch season. Meanwhile, the company has prepared to make new designs and features, including the HarmonyOS Operating system for the smartwatch.
Huawei Smartwatch 3 & 4 series
Huawei first unveiled the smartwatch III series, consisting of Pro and standard model, two years back in 2021. These watches were the first devices to have a pre-installed Harmony OS-2, shifting from lite OS. Huawei smartwatch III series also featured native LTE connectivity and numerous other features to meet the requirements of doing simple chores.
Huawei launched Watch GT-IV at the end of 2021, promoting sports and activity tools. The company initially introduced the smartwatch with the standard version, though it revealed a standard along with a Pro version of the smartwatch for Chinese users.
In 2022, Huawei worked on new designs and versions for its Watch GT 3 Pro, both the ceramic and premium versions. The Chinese tech company still distances itself from launching a new LTE smartwatch. It produced two of the most advanced smart wears. First was Watch GT Cyber, which supports clip-on watch faces. The second was Huawei Watch Buds – a flip-to-open watch face that comprises wireless earphones.
Huawei did not launch the new LTE smartwatch last year, though it has mentioned no specific reasons. The company thinks it would be a good idea to release the LTE-powered smartwatch 4 in the first six months of 2023.
Huawei’s Response to its Smartwatch Showing Heart Rates of non-living Objects
Huawei has also responded to media reports claiming its smartwatch’s capacity to measure a sausage’s heart rate. According to a post by a Chinese web user, they put Huawei smartwatch on a ham sausage, and it displayed oxygen saturation data. The post let many web users mock the company for the accuracy of the product.
As the post about the Huawei smartwatch became one of the most raving topics online, some Chinese online users used their Huawei smart wears to test blood oxygen levels and heart rates of numerous objects and found different readings.
Responding to these reports, Huawei’s staff member at Consumer Service said the company’s smart wears adopt optic sensors for blood oxygen measurements according to optical signal fluctuations. If a user places the watch on a fruit, towel, or container, it may misjudge the object as a human body and show meaningless blood oxygen levels. Huawei will keep optimizing its algorithms to improve accuracy so that this problem can be rectified.
Jiemian News, the owner of the T-mall digital device store, says he found an increase of up to 400% in the sales of smartwatches and bracelets since the last month. It is significant with those products with reasonable prices and blood oxygen detection capabilities. However, smartwatches cannot monitor data as rigorous medical evidence because several interfering factors can distract the product.
According to Huawei, using smartwatches to detect blood oxygen often brings a gap between the measurement results and an intended medical oximeter. If your blood oxygen value is 92%, whereas the smartwatch shows it is 95%, you will need to go to the hospital because of the 2% error. Relying on this measurement data may cause you to miss significant diagnoses and treatment options.
Therefore, Huawei and other tech devices have clarified on their product introduction page that their smartwatches and other devices are not medical gadgets; and users can use the generated data for reference only, not for medical purposes.
