Huawei’s latest watch has a snazzy new fingertip sensor

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. You can’t buy the Huawei Watch 5 in the US, but it has an interesting twist on health tracking. Most smartwatches and fitness trackers measure your metrics from a sensor array that presses into your wrist. The Watch 5 has that, but it also adds a new sensor on the watch’s side that measures EKGs, blood oxygen, and arterial stiffness from the fingertip. The Watch 5 adds multiple sensors to the watch’s side to enable fingertip measurements. Image: Huawei Huawei calls this its “multi-sensing X-TAP technology,” which is a fancy way of saying it’s stuffed a bunch of sensors into the side of the device. That includes a pressure sensor to detect how hard you’re pushing on it, an EKG electrode, and an optical heart rate sensor. Huawei claims that this leads to a 10 to 50 times improvement in signal quality, which may not be comple ... Read full article.