Huawei making it easier to buy its Android Wear watch by offering an extended warranty

[Brad Ward]

Huawei is amping up its efforts to try and get you to buy its first Android Wear smartwatch, the Huawei Watch. It comes with a one-year warrant straight out of the box, but if you register it on Huawei’s website, you can get an additional year out of that warranty.


At $399, the price for the smartwatch is a hard one to swallow. However, it’s easily one of the most premium Android Wear watches available today. Huawei and Google are hoping this new incentive will help consumers make the move to purchase the watch.

There are two minor requirements to getting this extra year added to your warranty, though. Not only must you register the watch at Huawei’s registration page within 45 days of purchase, but the Huawi Watch must also have been bought from www.gethuawei.com, the company’s own online store. It’s hoped that Huawei will eventually open that up to other retailers, as Huawei probably isn’t getting a lot of orders via its own online store, but the Google Store and other avenues.

The importance of warranties




Extended warranties like this are very important. Technology can go bad quickly, which we’ve seen notoriously with smartphones. Phones historically have begun dying or showing signs of hardware failure around the time a two-year contract is up, which almost force you to jump into another two-year contract for a new phone. After all, who really has $900 to drop on a new smartphone? That’s why that two-year contract is so appealing, the upfront costs a minimal.

That said, it’d be nice to see a two-year warranty like Huawei is offering applied to smartphones in the future as well. Of course, the likelihood of that happening is slim, as sales would no doubt drop from the crowd that isn’t looking to get the next best thing.

Either way, having such a long warranty on our phones would be a nice thing to have. It would not only make the smartphone more valuable when trading in or selling it and using the funds towards a new handset, but it would also be able to have an extended life with those that aren’t interesting in running out and buying that next best phone.

But, that’s just a pipedream since it’d require companies to truly look out for consumers instead of their own pockets.

source: Huawei Community
via: Android Police


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