Huawei today announced a fully upgraded Sports Health Full-Stack Strategy at its Developer Conference (HDC) 2025. This initiative aims to redefine smart wearable technology through integrated hardware, software, and ecosystem innovations. The company stated its commitment to transforming wearables from basic tracking devices into intelligent health companions and lifestyle hubs, leveraging four key industry enablement capabilities to drive breakthroughs in digital health and user experience.
The core of this strategy involves a comprehensive stack upgrade across hardware, system, and technological layers. In hardware, Huawei introduced the X-TAP distributed super-sensing module, which integrates advanced sensor fusion technology for enhanced health monitoring and interactive experiences. At the system level, wearables running HarmonyOS feature new functionalities and show a 35% improvement in system smoothness compared to the previous version. The upgraded OpenXuanji platform emphasizes “faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive” data openness, providing developers with real-time multi-dimensional health and motion data to accelerate ecosystem innovation.
Huawei is also advancing platform enablement capabilities for user experiences and industry solutions. The upgraded Research and Health platforms aim to enhance the intelligence and personalization of health management services. Additionally, four key enablement capabilities have been strengthened, alongside the official launch of Industry Solution 1.0, which provides industry partners with an implementation roadmap.
Huawei is accelerating the evolution of wearables into active health management tools. A wearable-driven cohort study on cardiovascular health is advancing a closed-loop care model for blood pressure monitoring, reflecting the company’s approach to “zero-level prevention.” Huawei also plans to extend this research into areas such as respiratory health and sleep tracking, aiming to deliver continuous support across prevention, monitoring, and recovery.
In sports health, Huawei is enhancing the sports experience with scenario-specific innovations and intelligent features. At HDC 2025, demonstrations included an upgraded golf mode, which now covers over 15,000 courses worldwide with enhanced 3D visuals and precise green distance data. The newly added wheelchair mode to Huawei’s Activity Rings aims to promote inclusivity by supporting users with mobility challenges. These features, supported by sensor upgrades and AI, enable users to track and optimize exercise performance.
Huawei stated its efforts to empower upgrades in healthcare, fitness, and other sectors with health management capabilities, providing industry partners with digital solutions through full-chain data collection and analysis.
In convenient lifestyle scenarios, Huawei’s smart wearables have formed a five-category application matrix:
- WatchPay: Developed with a leading fintech company in the Philippines, this service covers 50,000 merchants and offers a “raise-your-wrist-to-pay” experience for 12 million smartwatch users.
- A Music app: Created with ACCESS, this app enables streaming content services on HUAWEI WATCH 5, with plans for future intelligent services like AI-driven recommendations.
- Somnio intelligent assistant: Merges GPS, weather services, and AI chat functions as a travel assistant, optimized for smartwatches to provide timely prompts related to physical activity and environmental conditions during travel.
Huawei is positioning smart wearables as a central tool in digital life through “one-watch integration” of scenario-based capabilities, aiming to make smartwatches essential for daily convenience and entertainment.
Huawei’s wearable ecosystem continues to grow through collaborations with global partners:
- ACCESS: Expanded its partnership by launching the A Music app for wearable devices, with future upgrades to include deep-link streaming search and voice assistant integration.
- Turkish Airlines: Integrated the HUAWEI WATCH 5 with the airline’s mobile app, launched in April 2025, to enhance convenience for passengers.
- Philippines Fintech Company: Collaborated to embed secure, contactless payment infrastructure into Huawei wearables, supporting digital payment adoption.
- Somnio: Introduced an intelligent assistant for HarmonyOS, combining GPS, AI voice, and context-aware services for mobile travel support.
Huawei also highlighted its services for overseas tourists, particularly from China, where outbound travel has grown. Partnerships include a service with a transportation provider in Southeast Asia that offers one-click login via Huawei ID and direct payments through Huawei Pay. Additionally, Huawei SkyTone has partnered with a retail property developer in Southeast Asia to provide exclusive data experience packages and travel discounts for overseas tourists.
Huawei’s advertising platform is also being utilized by overseas brands to reach the Chinese market. For instance, an Italian luxury fashion house leveraged Petal Ads’ data science capabilities to build a precise luxury audience segmentation model, which won the Gold Award for Intelligent Marketing/OTT at the 25th IAI International Advertising Awards in 2025.
Huawei stated that HDC 2025 reinforced its role in the global wearables space by integrating hardware, software, and a partner network. The company emphasizes a user-centric, ecosystem-driven approach to deliver intelligent health, immersive content, and seamless convenience through its wearable technology.
