Huawei show-offs Harmony OS running on Huawei Watch

Huawei announced the second iteration of its own operating system, the Harmony OS 2.0 which is basically Huawei’s replacement for Android, and a video of a Huawei Watch using the company’s stock OS has surfaced online which shows us how the OS works in the watch.

According to a Weibo user named Changan Digital, the Huwaei is currently working on a smartwatch that runs the Harmony OS 2.0 which is expected to debut by the end of this year. Apart from this piece of information, Changan Digital has also shared a video showing the circular watch dial where we can that the dial is stuck to a printed circuit board and we can also have a look at the software interaction. Also, he tells us that there might be some more features but they couldn’t be filmed due to confidentiality issues.

The watch face reveals that we might get to see features such as heart rate monitor, sleep tracker, battery level, activity tracker, and SpO2 monitor. The video is said to recorded on the second day of the conference and it is a somewhat final product which will be coming out later this year with some tweaks since its a pre-production hardware.

A report from Huawei Central, suggests that the new software will be very similar to the LiteOS found in the Huawei Watch GT 2 series.

Richard Yu, Huawei’s Consumer Business Chief took the platform in HDC 2020 to announce that the HarmonyOS will compatible with devices with 128Kb of RAM to 128MB RAM which means it will support a variety of IoT products ranging from smart TVs to wearables.

The Harmony OS 2.0 is expected to debut for smartphones and tablets in April 2021 as Huawei as said that the Harmony OS will be available for devices having 128 MB RAM to 4 GB RAM.

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