Earlier this month, Huawei announced that it will reveal the Huawei Watch GT 5 on September 19 (Thursday this week) and even offered a glimpse at the design. Not that there is much to see, as there are no radical changes from the Watch GT 4. This was confirmed when renders of the new model leaked out and now there is even a short unboxing video.
Huawei Watch GT 5 (stills from the hands-on video)
The watch follows the now established design with an octagonal body and a circular graduated bezel. According to the note, however, this generation will come in 46mm and 42mm sizes, meaning that the smaller option will be a millimeter wider (the GT 4 versions were 46mm and 41mm). The GT 5 is expected to keep the OLED display dimensions the same – 1.43” and 1.32”.
Really, the biggest difference in this generation will be the new TruSense health monitoring system. The tech incorporates heart rate tracking, SpO2 and respiratory rate measurements, blood pressure and body temperature, all of which we have seen on other Huawei watches. However, the sensor suite has been improved, as were the algorithms that combine the data.
A note about the Huawei Watch GT 5 (in Chinese) • Machine translation
The Huawei Watch GT 5 and, perhaps, the recently leaked Huawei Watch D2 will be the first watches to feature the TruSense system. A note in the hands-on video talks of Huawei’s first 12-channel sensor and a new glass for the back that better blocks ambient light (which can interfere with the optical sensors).
You can watch the hands-on video on Bilibili, a Chinese video sharing site similar to YouTube.
By the way, the event on September 19 will also feature a Huawei MatePad with a Tandem OLED PaperMatte display, which should be the MatePad Pro 12.2 that launched in China this August.