Having built up a consumer-facing business over recent years with smartphones and tablets, Huawei made its first move into wearables this year with a fitness tracker-cum-smartwatch (pictured above). The company is far from finished in this burgeoning product category, though, as Huawei's CEO Richard Yu has told us the company's prepping another wearable that'll launch next year -- this time running Android Wear. He wouldn't reveal too much more during an interview at IFA, but said it'll be both "innovative and beautiful."
Yu's tight-lipped about what form factor the watch will take, but did say it'll be "more beautiful" than Samsung's latest effort, the Gear S. Huawei'll have plenty of competition, of course -- although perhaps none from HTC, which's allegedly ditched its wearable plans for now. The likes of LG, Motorola, ASUS and Sony already have smartwatches running Google's wearable platform, and there'll likely be several more players and products by the time Huawei comes to market. Given the firm's current smartband doubles as a Bluetooth headset, however, we wouldn't be surprised if its smartwatch also had some kooky features to make it stand out from the crowd.
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