Huawei has announced the Watch GT 4 series and its availability in both Europe and the UK.
This watch is the follow-up up to 2021’s Huawei Watch GT 3. In this year’s batch, design differentiation is the key focus.
Huawei has not gone off the reservation with the appearance of the Watch GT 4 series, but there are eight clear variants across the two sizes, 46mm and 41mm.
These two sizes could be completely different watches, to look at them, too. While Huawei always tends to make its larger and smaller bands appear quite separate, there’s almost a gendered divide the time around.
The 46mm watches have a diver’s watch appearance with an “octagonal” bezel, the 41mm ones what Huawei describes as a “pendant design fashioned to resemble statement jewellery pieces.”
There are four flavours of the larger Huawei Watch GT 4. The most affordable is the “black rubber” version, the sporty version with a fluoroelastomer strap.
One step up are the Brown Leather and Rainforest Green models. The latter appears to have more lettering around the watch face than the others.
The Steel is the top Huawei Watch GT 4 at £299/299 Euro, with a stainless steel link strap.
Over on the 41mm end, the Huawei GT 4 comes with a black rubber or white leather strap (£229), Milanese loop (£249) or the “Two-tone Piano Key” bracelet, which is the most expensive of all the watches at £349/349 Euro.
Huawei Watch GT 4 features
Huawei has little to show off about on the more substantive side of the hardware, but mostly because the Watch GT 3 was already highly fully-featured for a watch of this type. The Watch GT 4 has dual-band GPS, a barometric altimeter, temperature sensor, compass, a microphone array and built-in speaker.
It’s a Harmony OS watch, meaning it feels a bit more smartwatch-like than most bands of this category, with a slick menu screen and a built-in app store. But you still get up to two weeks of battery life.
There are a couple of new software features for this generation. Menstrual cycle management 3.0 uses the watch’s on-board sensors to estimate the timing of a wearer’s menstrual periods, a feature similar to that of Apple’s Watch Series 8.
The Watch GT 4 also introduces Stay Fit, the aim of which is to balance your calorie intake against your exercise and activity.
Is it a massive leap over the Watch GT 3? No, but it still sounds a compelling package.
As usual, the Huawei Watch GT 4 will not be officially available in the US, but will go on sale in the UK and Europe from October 4.
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