It’s set to be a good few months for wearable tech. Honor should be unveiling its new Watch 6 Plus to the world — or at least the bit of the world that lives in China — in the next few weeks. Signs of the device have turned up on Chinese social media.
It’s definitely launching, with Honor opening pre-orders already in its home country. Hopefully, like the Watch 5, it’ll eventually make its way to South Africa. For the projected battery life, if nothing else.
Watch 6 Plus signs
The major clues as to Honor’s plans for its newest smartwatch are mostly based on the company’s visuals. The Watch 6 Plus looks to be a premium device, with a solid design for both the chassis and strap options. There’s leather (vegan, or otherwise) and what looks to be silicon or rubber in the offing. Stainless steel is probably the build material for the casing. Titanium would be nice, but it would also be quite a bit pricier.
Otherwise? There’s little to go on so far. The 6 Plus will support running functions, according to Honor, and there’s a special badminton mode coming for folks who can’t keep their hands off their shuttlecock. But it’s the claimed battery life that’s most impressive.
We’re used to claims (and follow-through) of two-week batteries from both Honor and Huawei wearables. Honor reckons this one will go a little further, with an excellent 35 days of uptime in between charges. We’ll know if there are terms and conditions attached when the watch is fully announced, but it looks, for now, as if Honor has just opted for a bigger battery this time around.
