Huawei Watch Fit aims to dazzle lifestyle fitness junkies using its 1.64-inch rectangular display (Updated)

I would say that Huawei's Watch GT series have already been fairly successful in its classic wristwatch design, but evidently, there exists a demand for square watches. Rather than fully imitating the Apple Watch though, Huawei went with a 'bigger-is-better' philosophy. Their new Watch Fit is a mainstream lifestyle fitness device, but that isn't the very first thing you'll notice because it's made with an elongated 1.64-inch curved, rectangular AMOLED (280 x 456 pixels, 326ppi) screen that basically appears like a shrunk-down smartphone on your wrist.

As big as the screen is, the watch is incredibly light at only 21g. That is achieved with a complete plastic body. For comparison, the 46mm Watch GT 2 weighs 41g. Even a small 42mm variant weighs 29g.

What does Huawei do with this bigger screen? Stuff in a bunch of customizable widgets of course. Also, that is in a position to provide up to 44 different movement demonstrations in a series of workout animations.

Besides this, the Watch Fit looks like it has yet sensors as the Watch GT 2 series, with TrueSeen 4.0 24-hour heart rate monitoring, Sp02 calculation, TrueSleep 2.0 sleep tracking, and TrueRelax stress tracking. In addition, it has built-in GPS, 5ATM water resistance, and 4GB storage, so I expect it to execute much like the Watch GT 2 in all respects of day-to-day tracking activities. Much like most smartwatches these days, female-specific features like menstrual period tracking can be available.

The only thing to observe is that the Watch Fit is rated for 10-days of battery life. I take advantage of the word 'only' within regards to the Watch GT 2, which has a 2-week battery. Compared to every other smartwatch, 10-days is a lot of juice. The Watch Fit will set you back €129 with a September availability. We will update with local pricing when we obtain it, but as a comparison, the Watch GT 2e was launched at €200 back in April and that was considered one of the cheapest fitness smartwatches around.

Huawei has just announced that the Watch Fit will go on sale in Singapore on 24 Oct 2020 and you will be priced at S$148.

Pre-orders will get started on 17 Oct 2020 and run until 23 Oct 2020. During this time period, customers who pre-order the Watch Fit are certain to get Huawei SURPLUS FAT Scale and Huawei Mini Speaker worth a combined S$116 for free.

The Huawei Watch Fit will be accessible for pre-order and on the market at all major retailers like Best Denki, Challenger, Hachi. tech, Courts, Harvey & Norman, and Huawei's official stores on Lazada and Shopee.