Huawei's heavy release of HarmonyOS, its significance is not only an operating system...

At 20:00 on the evening of June 2, Huawei HarmonyOS 2 and Huawei's full-scene new product launch conference was held as scheduled. At the conference, Huawei released the new HarmonyOS 2 and a variety of new products equipped with HarmonyOS 2, including new versions of HUAWEI Mate 40 series, new versions of Mate X2, HUAWEI WATCH 3 series, HUAWEI MatePad Pro and other mobile phones, smart watches, and tablet products . At the same time, it brings a new generation of semi-open active noise reduction wireless Bluetooth headset HUAWEI FreeBuds 4 and two high-end displays HUAWEI MateView and MateView GT.

What exactly is HarmonyOS?

HarmonyOS is a new generation of terminal intelligent operating system, which provides a unified language for the intelligence, interconnection and collaboration of different devices.

In fact, as early as 2012, Huawei had an idea for a smart operating system. The project was initiated in 2016, and version 1.0 (not called HarmonyOS at the time) was launched in May 2017; but it was not used on mobile phones. The original intention of Huawei's design was The Internet of Things (IoT) operating system for smart homes, autonomous driving, and industrial automation.

However, in May 2019, Huawei was told that GMS (Google Mobile Services Suite) could no longer be used. Although Android was not disabled as an open source system, GWS was banned, which is equivalent to preventing the simultaneous existence of multiple devices.

That being the case, Huawei decided to launch its own operating system-HarmonyOS. It can be said that the ban on GMS has accelerated the development of Harmony OS.

With the rapid development of modern technology, the smart devices in our hands are no longer just mobile phones. Everything is becoming more and more intelligent. Computers, tablets, and watches are not shown for the time being. Even home products are moving closer to intelligence, but What multiple devices bring is not the "1+1=2" type of intelligence. On the contrary, because of the barriers between multiple devices and multiple systems, we often spend a lot of time on transmission, connection and switching. The fact that multiple devices bring us Yes "1+1<2".

The emergence of HarmonyOS solves this problem. It uses distributed technology to allow a system to meet the needs of various devices, large and small, and realize flexible deployment; it combines N devices into a "super terminal", hardware mutual assistance, resource sharing, It can be called freely according to personal needs. For developers, HarmonyOS can realize one-time development and multi-terminal deployment, making multi-device application development easier.

Just like the sentence said at the press conference:

All as one , one as all .

HarmonyOS optimization

performance improvement

The fluency of the new HarmonyOS 2 system is greatly improved over the previous generation EMUI. After 36 months of use, the mobile phone still has a reading and writing speed close to that of a new mobile phone when the remaining space is extremely small.

HarmonyOS 2 optimizes the keep-alive capabilities of background applications, allowing tasks to be online for a long time. Even if you use more applications, the status can be restored, and the information you saw when you left can continue to be viewed when you come back. For example, you can temporarily reply to WeChat messages during online shopping, open the search app to check information, and return to the shopping app to directly return to the interface you browsed last time. In addition, HarmonyOS 2 can also make the game play longer: use the Mate 40 Pro equipped with HarmonyOS 2 to play "Peace Elite", the battery life can reach 5.1 hours.

Privacy Guarantee

In order to ensure the security of each access of each device in the whole scene, and the security of each data storage, transmission and use, the multi-device collaborative identity authentication is enabled, and the dual insurance of the face recognition of the mobile phone and the connection of the watch is required to complete it. Unlock. At the same time, HarmonyOS sets a security threshold for the user's data classification management and device classification protection: only devices that meet the security level requirements can access the data of the corresponding security level, allowing users to use multi-device interconnection with confidence. Take mobile phone unlocking as an example. When a user turns on multi-device collaborative authentication, if the watch and the user’s facial information are authenticated at the same time, the reliability level it brings will be much higher than today’s single-dimensional level.

new products are equipped with HarmonyOS

The conference also released other new products, from watches to headphones to displays, all equipped with HarmonyOS.

Huawei WATCH 3 series

Huawei WATCH 3 is the flagship smart watch of the year built by Huawei. Huawei WATCH 3 series adopts a dual-core architecture, which saves power consumption to a greater extent according to the actual use of users, with a battery life of 3 to 5 days, and a long battery life of 14 to 21 days. Relying on the advantages of Huawei's long battery life gene, it has continued and upgraded professional health management, added wrist skin temperature and body temperature detection functions, and will jointly initiate respiratory health research with Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Preliminary screening for respiratory infections, to protect the health of users around the clock. At the same time, Huawei WATCH 3 series is equipped with HarmonyOS, successfully creating an interaction center, smart center and health center around the wrist.

Huawei MatePad Pro

Huawei MatePad Pro is the world's first tablet equipped with HarmonyOS 2. It is equipped with a new desktop, which is more agile. It makes full use of this large screen through a more regular and orderly layout. From universal cards of different sizes, you can directly view key information in commonly used APPs, such as querying flight itineraries, directly dialing smooth connections, and customizing universal cards according to your needs.

Huawei's first parallel vision has ushered in a new upgrade on the new generation of Huawei MatePad Pro. In the left and right split screen state, the user can make the left and right screens operate in parallel with the two window tasks of the application. As of June 2021, there are about 4000 applications worldwide that support Parallel Vision, which has further broken through the bottleneck of tablet usage and turned tablets into usable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-use devices.

Huawei FreeBuds 4 wireless headset

The headset adopts a semi-in-ear design with a maximum noise reduction depth of 25dB and game delay as low as 90ms.

Based on the "audio streaming" function of HarmonyOS 2, Huawei FreeBuds 4 wireless headsets can use audio streaming to freely choose to place video and audio on different devices to achieve cross-device audio-visual collaboration.

In order to make the semi-in-ear headphones have excellent noise reduction effects, Huawei uses two advanced technologies: adaptive noise reduction (AEM) technology and dual-microphone hybrid noise reduction. The former can be adjusted according to the wearer’s ears. The channel profile and wearing conditions provide the best noise reduction scheme from more than 10 noise reduction parameters. The latter can effectively reduce the interference of wind noise, improve the sensitivity of picking up residual noise, and achieve a more precise noise reduction experience.

MateView monitor

The display is made of aluminum alloy, with a 28.2-inch four-sided narrow frame design, and a 4K+ full screen. In terms of appearance, Huawei's MateView display uses aluminum alloy material, a 28.2-inch four-sided narrow frame design, and a screen ratio of 94%.

In terms of screen, Huawei MateView display adopts 4K+ full screen, brightness of 500nit, support 1.07 billion colors, DCI-P3 color gamut of 98%, color accuracy ΔE<2, and passed HDR400 certification. It also pioneered the HUAWEI Smart Bar hidden touch OSD.

Huawei MateView, which uses a minimalist body design, has a Huawei sharing sensing area at the bottom of the bracket. Huawei mobile phones equipped with HarmonyOS 2 only need to touch, and Huawei MateView can turn on Desktop Mode.

Desktop Mode is a brand-new interactive desktop, which realizes the operation that the mobile phone becomes the host in seconds, and the display becomes "computer" in seconds. After entering the Desktop Mode, the user can use the mouse and keyboard wirelessly connected to Huawei MateView to view the documents on the mobile phone. , Pictures and videos are edited, and Desktop Mode supports multi-tasking and multi-window running at the same time. When opening the PPT working interface, you can directly drag the text in the memo and the pictures in the gallery to the PPT editing interface, which is like a desktop computer-like operating experience , And get the job done more easily. Finally, the mobile phone becomes the "host" of Huawei MateView. All data is only stored in the mobile phone, and the data flows with people, which is convenient and safe.

Huawei P50 series appearance and four 4G version phones

At the end of the press conference, Huawei also announced the appearance of the P50 series and released four 4G mobile phones, namely Mate40 Pro, Huawei Mate40 E, Huawei Mate X2 and Huawei nova8 Pro, all of which are equipped with HarmonyOS.