The filing confirms the name and model number

The Indonesian entry lists PT Huawei Tech Investment as the applicant and Huawei Device Co., Ltd. as the manufacturer. More importantly, it classifies KTA-B19 as a smartwatch and attaches the Huawei Watch Air marketing name directly to it.

The Watch Air name had actually already started circulating earlier this month. There was talk Huawei was preparing a watch under that name for a possible 2026 release. But there was very little behind the claim beyond the name itself.

Now we have something much more concrete. Regulatory certification that confirms this is a real smartwatch rather than just a name sitting in the rumor mill.

We’ve seen this pattern with Huawei before. The Watch D3 first appeared in Indonesian certification records under two model numbers on August 11, 2026. Huawei officially launched the watch on September 2, 2026. So there were 22 days between the first certification and launch.

That doesn’t mean the Watch Air will follow exactly the same timetable. But a regulatory appearance generally puts it much further along than an early leak.

So what is Huawei Watch Air?

As far as what Huawei Watch Air actually is – that is the interesting part. We don’t really know.

The “Air” name naturally makes you think of something thinner or lighter, but I’d be careful about taking that too literally. The regulatory filing has not revealed anything beyond the name.

It would make some sense for Huawei to carve out another design-focused model. The company’s smartwatch range has become pretty crowded, with the Watch GT 7 series covering the mainstream sports-watch segment, the Watch series sitting further up the range and the Watch Fit 5 series offering a slimmer rectangular alternative.

That leaves plenty of room for Huawei to experiment. A Watch Air could potentially sit somewhere between those categories, perhaps with a stronger emphasis on weight and everyday wear.

There is also no indication yet whether this will be a single model or the beginning of another Huawei smartwatch family. KTA-B19 is the only model number tied to the Watch Air name that has surfaced so far.

As for a possible launch date, there is an outside chance Huawei could introduce the Watch Air before the end of this year. But with Indonesia still the only regulator where the device has appeared, an early 2027 launch currently looks more likely.

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The Galaxy Fit 4 looks very familiar

There really isn’t much visual detective work required here. The Galaxy Fit 4 keeps the same stretched rectangular display, rounded corners, single physical button on the side and conventional silicone strap that Samsung used on its predecessor.

The rear looks familiar as well, with the optical sensor sitting in the middle and the charging contacts alongside it. We already had a good idea Samsung was sticking with this design from our earlier Galaxy Fit 4 FCC investigation, but these renders give us a much better look at the finished device.

That earlier regulatory filing identified the tracker as model SM-R391 and repeatedly referred to it as “FIT4”. Samsung was already testing REV2.0 hardware back in July, so this isn’t something that appears to be sitting at the very early prototype stage.

The leaked renders don’t tell us whether Samsung has changed the display size, materials or overall dimensions. Visually, though, this looks much more like a tidy update to the Fit 3 than a redesign.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. The Galaxy Fit 3 already has a large 1.6-inch AMOLED display and an aluminium body, so Samsung doesn’t have an obvious design problem that desperately needs fixing.

Most of the interesting stuff is still hidden

We actually know more about the Fit 4’s internals from regulatory documents than we do from today’s renders. Bluetooth 5.4 is confirmed, up from Bluetooth 5.3 on the Fit 3, and Samsung has already been testing production components including the battery and several charging bases.

What remains unclear is far more important for anyone deciding whether this is worth upgrading to. The battery capacity, detailed health sensor changes or whether the Fit 4 will finally get its own GPS all currently remain unknown.

For now, the biggest new information is simply that we can finally see the Galaxy Fit 4 properly. And unless Samsung has some much more interesting changes hidden inside, anyone expecting a dramatic visual upgrade from the Fit 3 probably isn’t going to get one.

Sources: Android Authority, NotebookCheck

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That immediately brings back a possibility we raised previously, when we looked at whether Suunto could eventually move into Whoop-style tracking. About a year ago, the company ran a survey where they explored something described as a “heart rate band worn on the upper arm or bicep”. At the time, Suunto was evaluating whether it could double as a wrist-based device for sleep and recovery tracking.

HR264 is the first piece of hardware we have seen that makes that idea look genuinely plausible. A Whoop-style gadget.

What the filings actually tell us

HR264 has actually been showing up in regulatory databases since late September. A Suunto heart-rate monitor first appeared at Singapore’s IMDA on September 30, followed by HR264 itself at South Korea’s RRA on October 2. The Korean entry identified it simply as a heart-rate monitor.

The UAE followed on October 12, where the TDRA approved HR264 under reference ER66304/26. We have also added that filing to our wearable regulatory tracker.

Until the photos surfaced, that was about as far as we could go. “Heart-rate monitor” seems like a fairly standard description.

This does not look like a normal heart-rate monitor

The new regulatory images show a small rectangular Suunto module with rounded corners and no display. From the ruler alongside it, the body looks to be roughly 4 cm by 3 cm, so we are talking about a genuinely compact piece of hardware.

Flip it over and there is what appears to be an optical heart-rate sensor in the centre, together with four metal contacts. Other certification material also shows a dedicated charging attachment, so this is a rechargeable device rather than the type of coin-cell heart-rate strap Suunto already sells. 

Then there are the straps. The photos show separate black and grey fabric sections in different lengths, with adjustable hardware rather than a conventional watch buckle.

Multiple fabric strap lengths would make plenty of sense for something designed around different wearing positions. That is only an interpretation of the photos, but it fits the earlier information surprisingly well.

The Whoop comparison is getting difficult to avoid

None of this proves that HR264 will be a Whoop competitor. There is still a simpler possibility. HR264 could be an optical workout sensor intended for the upper arm, giving runners and cyclists an alternative to wearing a chest strap.

But the hardware leaves the door open to quite a bit more than that. A small rechargeable optical module, comfortable fabric straps and no screen are exactly the ingredients you would use for a wearable designed to stay on for long periods.

The timing is also worth watching. Suunto has just launched the Race 3S alongside Suunto AI Coach, which draws on training, sleep, HRV, recovery and activity data when giving users guidance. Suunto says the service will expand to compatible watches from early 2027.

A lightweight device that keeps feeding that system when someone does not want to wear a sports watch would make obvious sense. That is speculation for now, but it shows why HR264 could potentially be more useful to Suunto than simply launching another exercise heart-rate sensor.

The screenless category has also changed quickly. Whoop now sits alongside products such as Garmin CIRQA, Fitbit Air and other display-free trackers, so Suunto would not be entering some strange niche by going down this road.

In fact, it could fit Suunto particularly well. Someone could wear a proper Suunto watch for training, maps and outdoor use, then switch to something much smaller for sleep, recovery and the rest of the day.

via: Wearable Fans

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We compared the new release with version 7.36.2, and both device names are new. More importantly, they sit inside Polar’s device-recognition code rather than a stray promotional file.

A new version of the screenless tracker

The one that is more interesting is Polar Loop Gen 3. The name appears in a new device profile tied to the hardware identifiers INW6R and Polar_INW6R, while Polar’s wider device registry has also gained a matching “loop gen 3” entry.

There is a slightly odd detail in the same profile. Its marketing-name field still says “Polar Loop Gen 2”, but the code used to recognise connected models explicitly accepts “Polar Loop Gen 3”. That could mean that Polar is still tidying up internal labels before anything becomes public.

Either way, this is more than a casual mention. Device-recognition logic exists so the app can identify hardware and apply the correct behaviour, which makes the reference harder to dismiss as unused copy left in a translation file.

The timing is what gives this some bite. Polar launched the current screen-free Loop in September 2025, positioning it as a subscription-free alternative to products such as Whoop. The current model is barely a year old, so a third-generation name appearing now points to a quicker hardware cycle than many buyers might expect.

Polar 360 Gen 2 gets a cleaner profile

Polar 360 Gen 2 is the second new name, and its implementation is less muddled. A new device profile recognises “Polar 360 Gen 2”, “360 Gen 2” and the lower-case equivalent, all connected with a new INW6S hardware identifier.

The original Polar 360 appeared in the Flow app before its wider business rollout, so this is a familiar route for the product family. Polar currently describes the Polar 360 as a screen-free platform for companies that want to build health and fitness services around Polar’s sensors, software tools and data.

The H12 is starting to reveal its purpose

The same app update also moves the H12 story forward. Our earlier Polar H12 discovery found a dedicated device profile in version 7.36.2, but there was no useful information about its connectivity, battery life or sensing hardware at the time.

Version 7.37.0 adds user-facing setup text linked to that H12 profile. It says the sensor can broadcast heart rate to as many as four Bluetooth devices simultaneously, while new open and secure modes let the wearer choose whether nearby devices can pick up the signal easily.

Secure mode is described as keeping heart-rate data from being picked up by anyone, while open mode is intended to make connections easier. That sounds aimed at people who move between watches, gym equipment, training apps and cycling computers.

What the app still does not tell us

There are no Loop Gen 3 or Polar 360 Gen 2 product images in the updated onboarding package. The onboarding file itself is unchanged from version 7.36.2, with the new models appearing only in the app’s underlying device definitions and registry.

It’s important to note here – app code can arrive months before a product, survive after plans change or cover hardware that never receives a normal retail launch. So this is evidence of development rather than confirmation of upcoming availability.

It is also worth noting that the INW6R model number has not yet appeared in any of the regulatory databases we monitor. That makes a 2026 launch look less likely, with early 2027 perhaps the more realistic window.

APK teardown note

This article is based on an APK teardown. Code found inside an app can reveal features or devices that are under development, but there is no guarantee they will appear in a future public release.

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We spotted the Galaxy Watch9 Classic in a Russian regulatory declaration last week. At first glance, the obvious explanation was that Samsung had planned the watch, changed its mind and left the name sitting in some old paperwork.

The timing makes that explanation less tidy. The document was not registered before Samsung unveiled its 2026 watches, it appeared afterwards.

The filing came after the Watch9 launch

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Watch9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra2 on July 22. There was no Galaxy Watch9 Classic, despite the Classic name having already appeared in the wider regulatory trail around Samsung’s smartwatch lineup.

Then, on August 14, a new Russian Declaration of Conformity was registered. The document explicitly lists Galaxy Watch9, Galaxy Watch9 Classic and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 together as smartwatches.

That puts the registration roughly three weeks after Samsung had already shown us its 2026 smartwatch lineup. The timing is what makes this more interesting than a forgotten pre-launch reference.

If the declaration had been registered months before Unpacked, it would be easy enough to dismiss the Watch9 Classic as a product Samsung considered and later cancelled. But someone was still filing paperwork containing that exact name after the Watch9 and Ultra2 were already official.

It could still be a cancelled watch

This does not definitely prove Samsung is preparing a Galaxy Watch9 Classic for release. Regulatory documents can include products that never make it to shops, so the filing alone is not enough to treat the watch as confirmed.

But there is the other possibility is that Samsung never intended the Watch9 Classic to arrive alongside the standard Watch9. A later release would explain why the name remained active in regulatory paperwork without appearing at the July event.

That is why the Galaxy Watch9 Classic remains a product to watch rather than something we can say is definitely coming. The filing gives us the name, but it does not give us a release date or tell us what Samsung intends to do with it.

Samsung’s current lineup does leave an obvious gap, though. The Galaxy Watch9 covers the mainstream end and Ultra2 sits above it, while anyone wanting Samsung’s physical rotating bezel still has to look at the previous-generation Classic.

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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is back with a fresh report, and this time the language is different. Apple isn’t just exploring an idea anymore, it has actual prototypes sitting somewhere in Cupertino. They’re described as a thin fabric band paired with a sensor equipped computing module.

From a maybe to an actual thing

The project is currently in what Bloomberg calls the technology investigation phase. In English, this means the stage where Apple works out whether the sensors, the battery and the software can actually come together into something worth shipping.

Which is why the timeline attached to this is so far out. Bloomberg says a launch, if it happens at all, wouldn’t come before 2028.

That lines up with something we said back in May when first floated the idea of an Apple Watch Air, a lightweight health tracker that sits alongside the main Apple Watch rather than replacing it. Apple clearly likes that framing, wear the Watch for maps, workouts and notifications, then switch to the band for sleep or for days you just don’t want a screen on your wrist.

The people behind it matter here

What’s new and genuinely worth paying attention to is who’s backing this internally. Gurman names Eddy Cue and Tim Cook as supporters of the project. Cue took over Apple’s health division last October after Jeff Williams left, and this might be a hint of the direction he wants to take it.

It also fits a pattern we have been tracking for a while. Garmin has already proven a screenless band can complement rather than replace a full watch with CIRQA, and Google did the same thing at a lower price point with Fitbit Air. Apple watching two competitors validate the category before committing real engineering resources isn’t surprising, it’s just how Apple tends to operate.

Don’t expect this soon

Just yesterday, we looked at how how Garmin, Oura, Whoop and Apple’s own readiness scores all share the same evidence gap. It’s a good reminder that even if Apple ships this thing in 2028, the software side of health wearables still has real questions to answer. That’s on top of everything else Apple has going on with its current Watch lineup rebooting issues.

For now this stays a prototype, and prototypes get killed inside Apple all the time. But the fact that Tim Cook is reportedly involved, that there’s a defined design direction, and that the timing lines up with everything else happening in this category, makes this feel less like a rumour and more like a project with real momentum behind it.

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The document in question is an EAEU Declaration of Conformity registered in Russia. It covers a long list of Garmin smartwatches, including existing products as well as several devices that had not been announced.

Tactix 9 is right there in the model list

Among them are Garmin tactix 9, Garmin tactix 9 Ballistics Edition and Garmin Enduro 4. There is no decoding of cryptic hardware numbers required here, those are the actual product names written into the declaration.

That July 23 declaration first mentioned these. It was later replaced, but the names did not disappear. Enduro 4, tactix 9 and tactix 9 Ballistics Edition remain in the newer August 31 paperwork as well, which makes a stray typo or temporary entry less likely.

Enduro 4 had already surfaced before. Our Garmin Connect 5.27 teardown found a connection between that device, Garmin internal product ID 5179 and the codename GOBI.

The tactix 9 is the fresher find. Garmin is still on the tactix 8 generation, which launched in early 2025, and we have not previously found a mention anywhere of tactix 9.

Seeing a Ballistics Edition listed separately also fits Garmin’s existing tactix setup. It does not tell us what the next watch will look like or what hardware will change, but it does suggest Garmin is already using both names in formal compliance paperwork.

The fēnix 9 gives this filing some credibility

The most useful part of the document may actually be a watch that has already launched. The July 23 declaration listed the fēnix 9 family, including several AMOLED, Solar and Pro variants, more than a month before Garmin officially unveiled the range on August 25.

In hindsight, those were real future products sitting in the same model list. That does not mean tactix 9 or Enduro 4 is about to launch next week, but it makes the unreleased names harder to dismiss as generic placeholders.

There is also an important limitation here. This is not a device-specific FCC-style filing, so there are no photos, radio details, dimensions or useful Garmin hardware IDs attached to tactix 9 or Enduro 4.

It is better viewed as confirmation that Garmin has these product names in its compliance system. It is the first time we see these devices mentioned by name by a regulator. As for the timing and hardware, those are still question marks.

Source: RosAccreditation

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The device was first spotted in an FCC filing, where the paperwork pointed to a gadget with straps, a screen, GNSS and Bluetooth LE. The FCC never actually named Google, though. The new IMDA entry does, which makes the whole thing a lot less speculative.

IMDA actually names Google

The Singapore listing is pretty straightforward. G8BL6 appears under the Google brand, with “Wireless Device” as the equipment description and Bluetooth as the equipment type. Wideminds Pte. Ltd. is listed as the local supplier, while the marketing-name field is still blank.

That last bit means we still do not know what Google plans to call this thing. But having Google sitting there in the Brand/Trade Name column is a big step forward because the FCC filing itself only names Weifang Goertek Electronics as the applicant.

When we first looked through the FCC paperwork, there were already plenty of reasons to suspect Google. Goertek also handled the FCC filing for Fitbit Air, and G8BL6 follows the sort of model naming Google uses for its hardware.

The IMDA entry now removes that part of the detective work. Whatever G8BL6 eventually turns out to be, it is a Google device.

The FCC clues now make a lot more sense

That makes everything buried in the FCC reports a bit more important.

The paperwork mentions different straps being tested, while the RF exposure testing treats G8BL6 as an extremity device with zero separation. In other words, this looks very much like something intended to sit directly on the wrist.

There also appears to be a display. The device’s regulatory information can be opened from its Home screen by going through Settings > System > Regulatory Information, where the FCC ID appears electronically.

Then there is GNSS. The FCC testing lists both Bluetooth LE and GNSS, which points to onboard satellite positioning rather than a tracker that depends entirely on a connected phone for location.

The test setup also mentions a charging base. And Sporton used ADB, Google’s Android debugging toolkit, to put G8BL6 into engineering modes during testing. None of that proves it runs Wear OS, but it is another clue that fits much better now that IMDA has directly tied the hardware to Google.

So far, there is no Wi-Fi or cellular radio authorization attached to G8BL6. That makes another conventional Pixel Watch look less likely and pushes us back towards some kind of fitness tracker or lighter wrist wearable.

That mystery Google band is back in the conversation

There is an obvious device sitting in the background here.

Google has already shown an unidentified screen-equipped fitness tracker in its own Pixel advertising. We covered the mystery band in August because it does not match Fitbit Air, Fitbit Charge 6 or Pixel Watch 5.

A Fitbit Charge 7 was the obvious possibility, although there was nothing solid connecting that name to the device. Google could just as easily be preparing something new under the Fitbit or Google branding.

Source: IMDA via thetechoutlook

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The CIRQA Smart Band Pro name is right there

The clearest bit is a Garmin Connect resource called device_tutorial_alarms_message_1. Its text reads: “You can set alarms on your CIRQA Smart Band Pro in the Garmin Connect app.”

That would be interesting enough on its own, but it gets better. The exact same CIRQA Smart Band Pro reference is present in both Garmin Connect 5.28.1 and 5.29, so this is not something that briefly appeared in one release before disappearing.

The next few resources also appear to belong to the same alarm tutorial. They explain that the alarm vibrates the device, that pressing “either button” snoozes it, and that holding “either button” stops it.

Then comes another rather important line. A separate resource in that same group says: “You can set alarms on your CIRQA Smart Band in the Garmin Connect app.”

In other words, Garmin Connect separately names the CIRQA Smart Band Pro and CIRQA Smart Band. That makes the Pro reference harder to write off as Garmin simply attaching the wrong suffix to the existing product.

The standard CIRQA Smart Band launched in July as Garmin’s first screen-free smart band. It has a single side button, and Garmin specifically describes activities as being started by tapping that one button.

The wording inside Garmin Connect therefore does not match the current hardware. “Either button” only really makes sense if Garmin is referring to a device with at least two physical controls.

Audio feedback

Things get more interesting when you look at the surrounding tutorial resources. Garmin Connect contains instructions referring specifically to an “activity button” and a separate “controls button”.

The activity button can apparently start, pause and stop an activity. The controls button provides access to another menu and can be used to hear daily stats.

There is also tutorial text describing volume adjustment. According to the app, the activity button turns the volume up while the controls button turns it down, and another instruction says the user can wait for the volume level to be confirmed.

A separate assistance tutorial says holding the controls button can trigger assistance. Another line says an assistance request can be cancelled by holding either button until the user hears “Canceled”.

The references to volume, hearing daily stats and hearing confirmation messages are particularly interesting. They suggest some form of audio feedback may be involved, although the APK does not tell us whether that means an integrated speaker, another type of audio hardware or something handled through a connected device.

There is an important caveat here. The surrounding tutorial text is not explicitly labelled Pro, but its placement and wording strongly suggest it belongs to the same device flow.

A Pro version of a screenless wearable would need some way of offering more interaction without simply adding a display. Extra buttons plus spoken feedback would be one way Garmin could do it. It all fits.

So what is CIRQA Smart Band Pro?

For now, all we can say with confidence is that Garmin Connect explicitly contains the name “CIRQA Smart Band Pro”. The reference has survived across at least two releases of the app, and Garmin has separately included the normal CIRQA Smart Band name in the same tutorial resource group.

The surrounding code gives us a possible first look at what could make the Pro version different. Two physical buttons look like the strongest clue, while volume controls and spoken status information raise the possibility of some kind of audio feedback.

The latest Garmin Connect 5.29 build also adds new CIRQA-specific device identification code, another sign that Garmin is actively developing the CIRQA side of the app. Makes sense if you are planning to release a Pro version of the band, along with a smart ring.

APK teardown note

This article is based on an APK teardown. Code found inside an app can reveal features or devices that are under development, but there is no guarantee they will appear in a future public release.

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Ten Garmin models under one certification

The new ANATEL certification covers A05124, B05124, C05124, D05124, E05124, F05124, G05124, H05124, I05124 and AA5124. All ten sit under the same Brazilian homologation, which is exactly the sort of pattern you would expect if Garmin were certifying multiple physical versions of the same underlying device. And all were registered on the same day.

Ten variants would be rather strange for a normal Garmin watch. For a smart ring, though, it immediately makes sense.

Ring makers have to offer far more hardware sizes than watch manufacturers because there is no adjustable strap to make up the difference. For example, the current Oura Ring 5 comes in 8 sizes, from size 6 through 13. Interestingly, Oura Ring 4 had a wider range, 12 sizes, from 4 through 15. 

And Brazil is not the only place where these model numbers have started appearing.

China certified four members of the same family on September 1. C05124, E05124, G05124 and H05124 were all registered by Garmin’s Taiwanese entity. Each is simply described as a Bluetooth device.

That is a pretty useful extra clue. We now have four individual 05124 models turning up together in China, followed by a Brazilian certification covering ten variants from the same family.

AA5124 was already sitting next to the smart ring

The really interesting part is that 5124 did not appear out of nowhere.

Back in August, we reported on a Garmin device called the CIRQA SMART RING that briefly popped up in Indonesia’s telecommunications certification database. The listing appeared on August 12 and explicitly named the product as a smart ring before disappearing from the public database shortly afterwards.

Sitting right beside that certification was another Garmin fitness product carrying the model number AA5124. At the time, there was not enough information to connect the two with confidence. Now there is.

Garmin still has not announced the CIRQA Smart Ring, so there is a limit to how far we can take this. But if AA5124 belongs to the ring, as the growing regulatory trail now strongly suggests, the other 05124 variants are likely part of the same product family.

When could the Garmin CIRQA Smart Ring launch?

That is a lot of activity across several markets in a fairly short period. Regulatory approvals do not guarantee an immediate launch, but this is starting to look like a product moving through the final stages needed for commercial release.

Our guess would be a launch sometime in the final months of 2026, with October or early November looking like a reasonable window. Any later than that, and we are into the holiday shopping period.

Another option might be CES 2027 in Las Vegas. Garmin does not always save product launches for major trade shows, but CES would give it a very obvious stage for entering a new category. If nothing appears before the end of 2026, January starts to look like the next sensible window.

Either way, the recent filings suggest the CIRQA Smart Ring is getting closer. The main question now is whether Garmin wants it on sale before Christmas or prefers to make a bigger splash at the start of 2027.

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