Huawei’s first true smart glasses come with a separable frame design
Huawei has released the Huawei Smart Glasses with replaceable lenses earlier today. The tech is powered by an embedded version of HarmonyOS. The Chinese tech giant already had two smart glass products under its belt. But this latest one is the first fully featured product.
Huawei Smart Glasses
The company has high hopes for the new specs and says they will be “your next smart personal assistant”. Unlike their predecessors, the glasses run on Huawei’s proprietary operating system. The earlier versions were audio-only smart specs.
As shown in the video below, Huawei Smart Glass come with swappable lenses. These can be replaced as a single unit as the front panel is detachable. Everything is held onto the frame with magnets. That’s very clever and it means you can easily change them around. The separable frame design also makes the glasses a fashion accessory.
The frame choice includes:
- Three retro classic frames
- Boston frame
- Wellington frame
- Aviator frame
Additionally, left and right bone 128mm ultra-thin large-amplitude speakers can be found, one on each arm of the glasses. This has an open auditory design with an inverse sound field acoustic system to reduce sound leakage. This is coupled with a dual MIC with anti-wind noise design so the glasses can pick up on your voice clearly, even outdoors.
There is some health functionality on-board, namely the ability to let you know if you are slouching. To this end, the accelerometer and gyroscope in the glasses is used to analyze cervical spine bearing and monitor changes in your head posture.
The sensors can also figure out when you are wearing the glasses and automatically play weather forecasts and the day’s schedule. Additional functionality includes the ability to broadcast short messages, travel information, reminders and more. Finally, users are able to control audio playback from a connected smartphone, and accept or reject calls.
Huawei smart glasses can run for up to 16 hours after being fully charged, they support wired magnetic charging, and can be charged both front and back. Around 10 minutes on the charger is enough for 80 minutes of music playback. In addition, the glasses support IPX4 life waterproof and can be used normally in rainy weather or sports sweating.
Price, availability, release date
Previous versions of Huawei’s smart glasses were conjured up in collaboration with designer Gentle Monster. These, however, seem to be solely made by Huawei.
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The Smart Glasses were announced alongside Huawei Watch D earlier today, along with a few other products. They will be available for purchase in China priced at 1,699 yuan (around $270) for the optical lens version, and 1,899 yuan (around $300) for sunglasses.
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