Muscat, Oman: Huawei’s next generation smartwatch, HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 46mm and 42mm series are now available for pre-order. Powered by the firm’s proprietary Kirin A1 chip, the new smartwatch delivers more sports modes with richer programs, as well as adding Bluetooth calling and music playback functionalities, enhancing comprehensive health and fitness monitoring and management capabilities. Starting from OMR 84.900, customers who pre-order the Watch GT 2 from HUAWEI Experience Stores located in City Centre Qurum and City Centre Muscat between the 19th – 23rd of October will also receive the HUAWEI Smart Scale as a gift.

HUAWEI WATCH GT 2’s Kirin A1 chipset integrates an advanced Bluetooth processing unit, a powerful audio processing unit, an ultra-low power consumption application processor and a separate power management unit. The perfect combination of high performance and efficient power consumption allows HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 deliver robust usage and even longer battery life.

In daily use, the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 46mm series can operate continuously for up to two weeks, with both the intelligent heart rate monitor and call notification functions on and weekly usage of up to 30 minutes of Bluetooth calls; up to 30 minutes of music playback; up to 90 minutes of exercise and using the scientific sleep mode at night. In the classic mode, the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 42mm series can operate continuously for up to one week. Both series of watches have greatly improved battery life in the GPS tracked sports mode. The 46mm series achieves battery life of 30 hours under the GPS tracked sports mode, while the 42mm series reaches 15 hours.

The all-in-one 3D glass surface allows for a wider look and feel, giving the HUAWEI Watch GT2 a full-screen and borderless design. The dial of the 46mm series adopts beveled sculpting and gemstone processing techniques to create 3D curved glass and applies individual carving to create concave spots on the dial for a more vivid look. Treated with multiple processes, the curved dial of the 42mm series is only 9.4mm thin and decorated with an extremely thin, fashionable metal frame.

The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 46mm series is also equipped with a 1.39-inch AMOLED HD precision touch screen with display resolution of 454 x 454 pixels, wider color gamut, and ultra-thin design that is superior to LCD screens, achieving fuller screen color and higher contrast. The screen design is modern and artistic, suitable for people who pursue the finer things in life and speaks to the simple, exquisite design philosophy that is in vogue nowadays.

In the sports mode, HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 is compatible with 15 sports, including eight outdoor sports (running, walking, climbing, hiking, trail running, cycling, open water, triathlon) and seven indoor sports (walking, running, cycling, swimming pool, free training, elliptical machine, rowing machine). For these 15 sports modes, the watch provides full-scale monitoring of approximately 190 types of data. The watch provides targeted pre-exercise data analysis for different sports, data recording analysis during the exercise and professional advice afterwards. It is like having a personal intelligent sports coach to make your exercise safer and better.

The smartwatch’s 46mm series connects with Huawei mobile phone Bluetooth and supports Bluetooth calls at up to 150 meters. It also supports phonebook functionality so customers can save friends’ contact information on the watch and easily look them up. At the same time, the watch comes with large storage capacity, housing up to 500 mp3 songs, allowing users to manage and enjoy listening to music while exercising.

In the field of intelligent wearables, Huawei is committed to helping consumers better manage their own health. HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 helps monitor bradycardia and heart failure. In sports mode, the user will be notified if heart rate is above 100 bpm or below 50 bpm for more than 10 minutes. Customers can also view the data in the Huawei Sports and Health App to keep an eye on your health in real time.

HUAWEI TruSleep™ 2.0 monitors sleep quality, real-time heart rate, sleep breathing quality and uses big data analysis to rate sleep quality. It combines Huawei AI technology to accurately analyze sleep problems and provides sleep improvement suggestions, as well as personalized sleep services and reports to help users improve sleep quality.

HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 also comes with self-developed HUAWEI TruRelax™ technology, which helps users relieve stress by recording HRV (heart rate variability) values and providing feedback on the user's stress index. it also has a sedentary alert, which reminds users  to stand up and move around after a certain period of time.

The smartwatch provides consumers with number of steps taken each day, calories burned, and the number of times the person stood up. In addition to all-day physical status information to help them develop healthy living habits and lifestyles.

HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 pushes the boundaries of what is expected from a wearable, ultimately offering greater care in meticulous detail to those who love sport and the pursuit of quality of life. Its innovation addresses user demands, promotes healthy living and brings together an all-round wearable experience

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About Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG)

Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) is one of Huawei's three business groups, providing a range of products including mobile phones, wearables, tablets and laptops. Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries, and are used by a third of the world’s population, ranking second in the world in mobile phone shipments in 2018.

In 2019, Huawei was named number 47 on BrandZ’s Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands and in 2018 ranked 79th in Forbes World’s Most Valuable Brands. Huawei ranked No.5 globally amongst top spending companies in R&D according to EU Industrial R&D Investment (2018).

As a leading technology company, Huawei invests a significant amount of its annual sales revenue to research and development efforts, and has established 14 research centers around the world. Among these facilities is the Huawei Aesthetics Research Center in Paris. Huawei’s newest R&D center is the Max Berek Innovation Lab in Wetzler, Germany, where Huawei and Leica are jointly researching technologies to improve mobile device camera and image quality. 

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