Huawei Ventures into Wearables with the TalkBand B1

Huawei‘s not good at keeping secrets. The brand came to this year’s Mobile World Congress with a line up of 5 new devices and almost all of the details of each of these new devices have been leaked prior to launch including this one, Huawei’s first attempt at a wearable device — the TalkBand B1.

The TalkBand is something of a hybrid in the world of wearables. On one hand, it has all the sports and fitness tracking capabilities you expect form a sports band like a pedometer, a calorie counter, a sleep pattern tracker that you can use with the build in smart alarm function that wakes you up at the optimal time. On the other hand, the TalkBand can do what almost no other sportsband can’t, you can use it to make phone calls. The TalkBand has a wireless earpiece that you detach from the device when you want to take a call via Bluetooth. The earpiece sits flush inside the TalkBand when not in use.

Other specs include a 1.4-inch flexible OLED display, NFC support for quick and easy pairing with Android or iOS devices, and a 90mAh battery that promises six days worth of usage but takes a whole two hours to charge fully which is odd.

Pricing details has not been announced but the TalkBand B1 is expected to be launched in China by March and then in other markets by Q2 2014.

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