Huawei TalkBand bracelet combines a fitness tracker and Bluetooth headset

Latest announcements from Mobile World Congress also featured two new seven-inch tablets and a quad-core smartphone

Huawei CEO Richard Yu talks about the TalkBand B1 during a Huawei presentation before the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 23, 2014. (REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino )

Huawei has entered the market for wearable technology with a device it’s calling the "world's first hybrid smart band".

The Chinese electronics giant unveiled the TalkBand B1 at the Mobile World Congress. Costing €99 (£82), the TalkBand is a combined fitness tracker and Bluetooth headset. The headset pops out of the band itself and has 7 hours of talk time and 2 weeks of standby.

A curved 1.4-inch black and white OLED screen is managed with an app connected to a smartphone with Bluetooth 4.0. Built-in accelerometers track various metrics including steps taken and calories burned by the wearer. A USB connector built into the strap is used to charge the device.

Huawei are advertising the TalkBand as a companion device for the MediaPad X1, its newly launched seven-inch tablet. The device has the same screen resolution as Google’s Nexus 7 (1,280 x920) and comes with a 1.6Ghz quad-core processor and 16Gb of on-board memory.

The X1 runs an older version of Android (4.2 Jelly Bean) but does support 4G technology for the fastest network speeds. Alongside the X1 Huawei also announced the M1 – a cheaper device without 4G capabilities and a lower screen resolution (1,280 x 800 pixels).

The Huawei X1 has the slim design and screen quality to rival the iPad Mini.

With these devices Huawei will be hoping to challenge Apple’s iPad Mini, although as the X1 can also use a SIM card to make phone calls, the device is perhaps nearer to a large phablet, than a small tablet.

Huawei also launched a new smartphone at Mobile World Congress, the Ascend G6. This 4G-capable device runs on Android 4.3 and uses a 1.2Ghz quad-core processor. Its 4.5-inch screen uses a 960 x 540 resolution and comes with 5-megapixel front-facing camera and an 8-megapixel camera on the back. Analysts are expecting the smartphone to cost less than £120 when it goes on sale.