
Once a big name in the UK smartphone space, Huawei has been severely hampered by a Trump-era trade embargo that limits the company’s ability to do business with US brands, including Google. Huawei’s smartphones have suffered, as it has to use the open-source version of Android stripped of useful apps such as Gmail, YouTube, Chrome and the Google Play Store.
But the restrictions are less of an issue for wearables, where operating systems aren’t a deal breaker, and Huawei is back with the most unusual wearable we’ve seen in a while: the Huawei Watch Buds.