Huawei announced its flagship Mate 10 series in its Home country of China last week, but without much frenzy, the company seized the opportunity to announce its latest smartwatches to the Chinese market. Dubbed Huawei Watch 2 Pro and Huawei Watch 2 Pro Porsche designs are the successor to the watch 2 classics.
With a designs reminiscence of Huawei Watch 2 Classic, both devices are two similar devices, but with few differences. Both devices are made entirely of a stainless steel body with a ceramic bezel around the display, the watch 2 pro, however, has an Italian leather strap, while the Watch 2 variant features a Porche design logo on its bezel and a leather strap with red Porsche design stitching.
Both devices come with IP68 certification for dust and water resistance.They feature circular 1.2-inch AMOLED displays with corning gorilla glass protection resolution of 390 x 390 pixels. They both boot Android Wear 2.0 out of the box and powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC with 768MB of RAM and 4GB of storage.
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The biggest highlights of other devices include supports for an eSIM for 4G LTE connectivity independently from a smartphone.
Other specs of the mate 2 pro include 420mAh batteries that can with a standby time of up to 1.5 days on a single charge.Also on board is a dedicated heart rate sensors, sport GPS and Beidou for tracking, and Huawei Pay NFC payments with support for various bank cards, as well as AliPay and WeChat Pay.
Both devices are now available are now available in China with a price tag of $400. Huawei hasn’t confirmed if or not the device will be available in other countries outside of China.
