Huawei, but can it Google?

[Mr Justice]

I love Huawei so much I may consider buying a second hand P30 Pro. Going forward I am however lost to the brand. Google services are not negotiable for me. So when is this US ban on Huawei ending? Huawei why don't you create a second company and sell the same hardware under a new name. Call it FU.USA I don't care.

Until then news like this leaves me asking, but can it Google?

The Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro is coming to South Africa

Huawei’s Watch GT 2 Pro is a masterpiece that mixes elegance with functionality to create an incredible smartwatch.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[backstreetboy]

Wear OS suck so not sure why you'd want a Google watch.

 

[Mr Justice]

Wear OS suck so not sure why you'd want a Google watch.

I want to be able to check Gmail on it if I want too...

 

[iCuSD]

I don't know if you get them in South Africa is the P30 Pro New Edition

 

[Mr Justice]

I don't know if you get them in South Africa is the P30 Pro New Edition

No I want an old one with Google services lol

 

[backstreetboy]

No I want an old one with Google services lol

That one still comes with Google services...

 

[Lupus]

No I want an old one with Google services lol

The new edition has Google, though it's not really much different to the original.

 

[Johnatan56]

Wear OS suck so not sure why you'd want a Google watch.

Wear OS is actually okay, it's that they're all still using a garbage SoC since Qualcomm is basically recycling a 2016 chip for it (can't remember the exact year, but 4/5 Gens old smartphone wise).

If Qualcomm actually made a decent phone SoC, then Apple might finally have proper competition outside of Samsung (exynos) and Huawei.

I'm hoping once the fitbit negotiations finally go through we start seeing some movement on that front.

 

[Crumbl0x]

Wear OS is actually okay, it's that they're all still using a garbage SoC since Qualcomm is basically recycling a 2016 chip for it (can't remember the exact year, but 4/5 Gens old smartphone wise).

If Qualcomm actually made a decent phone SoC, then Apple might finally have proper competition outside of Samsung (exynos) and Huawei.

I'm hoping once the fitbit negotiations finally go through we start seeing some movement on that front.

Eh, not too sure about that one. The watches that don't use WearOS seem to perform really well, but pure WearOS watches, despite the crappy SoCs, really did drop the ball since about 2 years ago. My Asus Zenwatch 3 was amazing for the first year I used it, lasted nearly two days on average, snappy, useful, then WearOS 2.0 dropped and completely killed my watch, it's exactly the opposite of everything above now and is a paperweight. I tried an aftermarket firmware called AsteroidOS on it after some new commits to that watch's branch and immediately everything was just as good and even better than before WearOS 2.0 ruined it, but sadly I'm still on hold with it because Bluetooth and general connectivity don't work yet.

Software is extremely important in this case, and it does sadden me to see Gen 0 Apple Watches and the like still perform to this day with full feature updates while Google essentially stopped taking it seriously, as they do most ventures.

P.S. I haven't kept up with how the latest devices roll with WearOS but glancing review headlines it seems to generally still be an issue but minus the lag in some cases. Also, you're first paragraph point on the SoCs is still absolutely true and valid and is a factor on those hiccups.