Compared with the radical Google, HUAWEI is obviously more pragmatic. At this year's launch event in Berlin, Germany, Yu Chengdong wore Huawei's smart glasses at the end of the session, which were a sight to behold. These glasses are Huawei and the famous fashion brand GENTLE MONSTER to create, play the advantages of both sides in their own fields of expertise, is a real "trend + technology" product, priced from 1999 yuan, for the pursuit of fashion young users to bring a new experience. Mr. Yu with the same glasses is still quite interesting, this site is also the first time to receive the glasses, to share with you my experience.
It is first of all a trendy glasses
For manufacturers, reasonable cross-border cooperation is a marketing way to enhance their brand awareness and reputation, both sides collide with the new products often have a unique charm, can enhance the two sides of the fans on their own personality expression. Huawei's first foray into the field of smart glasses, choosing to cooperate with the world-famous fashion eyewear brand GENTLE MONSTER is also a sound approach.
The original design of GENTLE MONSTER X HUAWEI Eyewear is not to "subvert", but to incorporate technological elements into the original eyewear, and the smart features are only as an added value to make the user's access to information or interaction simpler.
Thus from the design point of view, this smart glasses and GENTLE MONSTER's classic model is not far from each other, retaining the original design aesthetics and trendy attributes, Huawei is as much as possible on this basis to add functional modules, so as to make it become a support voice and touch interaction of the smart device.
Eyewear a **** provides five styles to choose from, including two sunglasses and three optical glasses, in addition to the SMART SOUTHSIDE-01 style priced at 1,999 yuan, the rest of the four models are 2,499 yuan. From a tech enthusiast's point of view, it seems a bit pricey, but the pricing is basically in line with the average level of GENTLE MONSTER eyewear, which is, after all, a fashionable brand sought after by many celebrities.
No interface design, charging is also stylish
The eyeglasses case provided in the package is not small, basically similar to the size of a long version of the wallet, but quite a bit thicker, so for a girl, you may need a bigger satchel to fit it. The glasses case serves more of a purpose than just organizing, but also charging the glasses. The glasses themselves support 2.5 hours of continuous talk or music playback, while the case gives them an additional 5.5 hours of battery life.
Eyewear doesn't have any charging ports on its body, and uses NFC contactless wireless charging technology, which is different from the Qi wireless charging that we commonly see, and is much less demanding and more flexible in terms of placement, as you can simply place the glasses in the case to charge them. The interface-less design also makes it IP67 rated for dust and water resistance, so it's easy to wear even on rainy days.
Of course, the most surprising thing is that it accommodates a lot of sophisticated electronic components and still keeps the legs slim. The legs have a built-in sensing area that allows users to touch the legs to answer a call, pause/play music, and call out a voice assistant. The glasses transmit sound through speakers on both sides, rather than through bone conduction, which inevitably results in some sound leakage, but users can maintain normal audible volume, and people an arm's length away will barely notice the sound.
A smart enough experience
Since I was using the Eyewear sunglasses version, I didn't have much use for it on a regular basis for commuting, but the fact that it coincided with the Fourth of July holiday made it just right for me when I was out and about.
In most people's minds, this kind of smart glasses with sound is a novelty, and it's definitely a must for everyone to get a feel for it when they go out with their friends. From the feedback I've gotten, the sound quality of Eyewear is generally favorable, at least a little better than AirPods, and the ear doesn't have to bear the burden of wearing headphones, so you can walk around with more feeling.
Eyewear's eyeglasses leg support touch is extremely convenient design, although it can provide a relatively limited function, such as adjusting the call volume you will still pull out the phone to operate, but if you encountered driving and other inconvenience to take the phone, suddenly came to the phone, touch the mirror leg of the operation of the two can answer the phone is not too convenient, do not have to be because of the inconvenience of answering or looking for the phone's situation. The case is so busy that you will not be able to find your cell phone.
Double-tap to wake up Huawei voice assistant function, but also to bring a lot of convenience to our travel, flight reminders, alarms, navigation are completed with the help of small art, the experience is not bad. At the same time, Eyewear's voice assistant is not limited to Huawei phones, but supports Android phones with voice assistants as well as the iPhone's own Siri, which means that the glasses have a wider scope of application. In addition, Eyewear also has a feature that is not easy to find - it supports a wear detection mechanism: if you take off the glasses, the music playing will be paused automatically, and if you put them back on within 15 seconds, the music will play automatically, which is a very humanized consideration, and the overall experience is still surprising enough.
Summary
It's easy to see that Eyewear is Huawei's attempt to enter the field of smart glasses. Wearable devices are an important part of Huawei's full-scene intelligent layout, and along with the evolution of artificial intelligence technology, smart glasses will have a wider range of application scenarios. In the future, smart glasses may support a full-time AI assistant that can provide help according to time, user location and habits. For example, users walking to a tourist attraction will play the tour guide information, provide real-time road condition information when driving, and so on. So Huawei Eyewear brings us not only a surprise, but also points out the next direction of development in the field of AI.