14 DAY TRIAL // Huawei is pretty excited to make it to MWC 2014, apparently because it has a lot of things to show. The PC maker has posted a teaser for the Barcelona event, in which it was revealed the company is planning to launch two new tablets (one of them being the MediaPad X1) and a smartphone.
But Huawei is also looking to jump the increasingly popular wearable market, which has seen some interesting developments as of late.
For example, the next-gen Samsung Galaxy Gear is expected to arrive with the Tizen OS and other brand-vendors will most likely make similar debuts, including ASUS and Acer.
Now a few pictures have been leaked on Chinese social media website Weibo, showcasing a wrist-wearable of sorts, which is supposedly Huawei’s first smartwatch attempt. I certainly hope that’s not the case, because the design of this wearable is quite horrible.
Apart from being bulky and bundling a ridiculous screen, it gives off a plastic-y fake vibe that won’t really appeal to customers.
The image above seems to have been posted by a Huawei company official, so ironically enough we might end up seeing the smartwatch make an appearance in Barcelona. Next to the image, she asks the following question “My new toy, do you like this color?”
Surely, the color has nothing to do with this thing looking like something you’d stumble upon inside a cereal box.
Anyway, apparently the pictures you see have been spanned with the mysterious Glory X device, which might actually be the Media Pad X1 7.0 tablet, one of the products expected to come out of Huawei in Barcelona.
The tablet will come with a 7-inch screen bundling an HD resolution (1920 x 1200 pixels) and will be drawing power from Huawei’s own 1.6GHz quad-core HiSilicon 910 Kirin combined with 2GB of RAM.
Judging by the fact the slate should be bundling a capable 13MP back snapper (plus a 5MP front camera), the smartwatch images might as well come from the tablet.
