The smartwatch offers two weeks worth of battery life, 100 workout modes, and upgraded health tracking features

The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e is the newest installment in the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 Series, targeting urban consumers and youngsters in the region. Unlike its predecessor, the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e features an integrated strap for a more streamlined, modern look. As a smart watch designed for outdoor use, comfort is essential, particularly when the user is wearing it during exercise.

Integrated Design
The integrated design not only makes for better comfort and durability, but also helps with getting more accurate data when the watch is being swung. The concealed crown is also made into a flat square for better blending in with the case and mistouch prevention, further highlighting its sports-oriented design. The WATCH GT 2e is designed to inspire an active lifestyle while UAE consumers are still encouraged to stay home and practice social distancing.

The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e brings improvements in design over the previous generation, including a concealed crown that goes with the watch body to add an extra flourish. The latest smartwatch has a 46mm case with a unibody design that integrates the dial. The body is made with 316L grade stainless steel, manufactured under 1400 degree Celsius.

New and refreshing colour variants have also been introduced, with Mint Green and Lava Red colourways giving consumers a minimal yet stylish look. HUAWEI WATCH 2e is equipped with a 1.39-inch AMOLED high precision touch display supporting a Retina-grade high resolution. With this vibrant display, users are always just one tap away from information, even if they are outside on a bright summer’s day.

Tracking Workouts
The WATCH GT 2e features 100 workout tracking modes ranging from traditional sports to more trendy forms of home workouts. You also get 15 professional sport modes, with eight of them being outdoor sports (running, walking, climbing, hiking, cross-country running, cycling, open water swimming and triathlon), while the other seven are indoor sports (walking, running, cycling, swimming in a pool, free training, elliptical machine and rowing machine).

The WATCH GT 2e has been certified to 5ATM standards. This means that the smartwatch is water resistant to up to 50 metres in depth for 10 minutes. Hence, the WATCH GT 2e is suitable for low-velocity and shallow-water activities, including swimming.

In addition to 15 default sport modes, it can track another 85 sports including hip-hop, rock climbing, parkour, skateboarding, surfing, tennis, baseball and other extreme, leisure, fitness, aquatics, ball games and winter sports. What’s more, HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e can automatically detect six different workouts. These are outdoor running, outdoor walking, indoor walking, indoor running, elliptical and rower. In this way, users can explore around and have more inspirations to try new sports.

The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e is equipped with a positioning chip for lower power consumption. With GPS and GLONASS dual-satellite system, the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e is able to search more satellites to provide not only more location information, but also more accurate and reliable route tracking. By using route optimisation algorithms, the tracking system provides customised optimisation for every route based on the surroundings and scenarios to make sure all workout data is tracked accurately meanwhile recording authentic workout experience. After each workout, the user can share the route to social network platforms with just one click.

SpO2 Level Monitoring
For the first time, Huawei has also introduced a blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) monitoring feature to the WATCH GT 2e, whereby consumers in the UAE can set their fitness and sporting goals even when indoors during Ramadan. The smartwatch is supported by a two-week long battery life and it has been engineered to bring a scientific, yet sporty concept to UAE consumers’ everyday life.

Based on a high-performance heart rate sensor, Huawei’s self-developed Truseen 3.5 heart rate monitoring technology, TruRelex stress management technology, and Trusleep 2.0 technology, HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e allows users to monitor heart rate, stress level and sleep quality in real time, so they can have a full understanding of their health status. When a user’s heart rate is too high or too low, the watch will send a prompt reminder.

The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e is equipped with Huawei’s proprietary Kirin A1 chip to provide a two-week battery life, assisting users to perform fitness and health management actively and comprehensively. As such, the new smartwatch also supports precise heart rate monitoring, abnormal heart rate reminders, pressure level and sleep monitoring features that allow users to understand their health status in real time. A trait that will help consumers observing Ramadan to reach their fitness goals before and after Iftar.

Play for Two Weeks
HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e is powered by Huawei’s first self-developed wearable chipset, the Kirin A1. The chip adopts a highly integrated heterogeneous architecture with multiple cores collaborating to provide low-power computing and long-lasting battery life for workout tracking, heart rate detection, sleep monitoring and other features. It supports high-speed data transmission with Bluetooth 5.1.

With stronger anti-interference capability and Huawei smartphone’s increased bandwidth, Kirin A1 enables longer-range device connection. In terms of software, HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e supports Smart Power Saving 2.0, striking a perfect balance between performance and power consumption. New power saving feature, Smart Power Saving 2.0, can intelligently detect wearing situation and user scenarios so as to allocate battery power reasonably whether it is wearing during workouts or in idle status.

The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e strikes a perfect balance of performance and power consumption. For everyday use, it will intelligently switch to low-power mode for the dual-mode Bluetooth connection, to increase battery life by about 20 percent. For heart rate monitoring in typical scenarios, battery life is increased by about 15 percent.

Your Music and Trendy Partner
The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e also comes packed with a large storage capacity, which can store around 500 mp3 songs. With Huawei Music and Bluetooth headphones, users can enjoy their custom exercise playlist during their training. On the music playback screen of your watch, you can switch between songs, adjust the volume, and select a playback mode, such as Play in order, Shuffle, Repeat the current song, and Repeat list.

HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e can also connect to the Bluetooth earphones and use the earphones to control the music playback on both your watch and your phone. Together with HUAWEI FreeBuds 3, which offers outstanding sound quality and Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), you can enjoy a better music experience at anytime and anywhere.

HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e comes with remote shutter and shutter timer support. When paired with the smartphone, the HUAWEI WATCH 2e will have a camera icon on the watch UI which the user can tap on to remotely take pictures through the phone. From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you see Find My Phone, or swipe down on the home screen and touch Find Phone. An animation will be displayed on the screen.

If your phone is within Bluetooth range, it will play a ringtone to alert you, even in Silent mode. remotely take pictures through the phone. HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e supports notifications for SMS, email, calendar and social media. It also allows users to decline calls directly on the watch.

The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e will be available for pre-orders from May 7 to May 13, 2020, in Graphite Black, Lava Red, and Mint Green for a price of AED 599. Your pre-order packages include a Free HUAWEI FreeBuds Lite. The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e will be available on the shelves, starting 14th May 2020.