HarmonyOS 2 Hongmeng officially released
At 20:00 on the evening of June 2, Huawei HarmonyOS 2 and Huawei's full-scene new product conference was held as scheduled. At the conference, the official version of the much-anticipated HarmonyOS 2 was heavily released, which means that HarmonyOS, which has been dormant for many years and studied intensely, has officially arrived!
In addition, Huawei also released a number of new products equipped with HarmonyOS 2, such as the new version of the HUAWEI Mate40 series, Huawei's annual flagship smartwatch HUAWEI WATCH
and Huawei's new generation of tablets, MatePad Pro, and at the same time, a new generation of semi-open active noise-canceling wireless bluetooth headset HUAWEI FreeBuds 4, high-end displays HUAWEI MateView and HUAWEI MateView GT are also officially launched.
The mystery of HarmonyOS was first unveiled at the Huawei Developer Conference in 2019, and in the year that followed, HarmonyOS didn't make a big deal of itself, but instead kept an unusually low profile, constantly improving its ecology, and diving into research in the days when it faded out of people's sight. In the Huawei Developer Conference 2020, a year later, HarmonyOS 2.0 was unveiled, from the ability to open source, to the implementation of Huawei's "1+8+N" strategy, there is a new upgrade.
According to Huawei's Managing Director and CEO of Consumer Business, Mr. Richard Yu, and President of Huawei's Consumer Business Software Department, Mr. Wang Chenglu, in the future, HarmonyOS 2.0 will be opened up to different devices including cell phones, watches, smart screens, and locomotives, and Huawei's strategy of 1+8+N will be implemented in the future. The "+" in Huawei's "1+8+N" strategy finally has the best cross-platform system support.
On May 25th, Huawei's official EMUI microblog posted a tweet announcing the official name change to HarmonyOS. subsequently, Huawei's official EMUI WeChat and microblog were officially changed to a new HarmonyOS-related avatar to announce the arrival of HarmonyOS.
Tonight, HarmonyOS 2 is officially launched, what amazing capabilities does it bring? Come along and find out.
HarmonyOS 2 is officially out, a lifetime of everything, everything comes back to one
The launch began with the first appearance of Huawei's Managing Director and CEO of Consumer Business, Yu Chengdong. He said that a long-term strategy for Huawei's consumer business in the next decade is the full-scene smart life strategy, which focuses on creating a user experience around five scenarios: smart home, smart office, smart travel, sports and health, and audio-visual entertainment.
Today, we have entered an era where everything is connected and everything is smart. But in this era, the "sense of experience" is very problematic: the connection is very complex, the control is very complex, the experience is very divided. In the IoT era, excellent connectivity has become a necessity, and this capability requires a much more demanding operating system, which is very fragmented to realize.
HarmonyOS is an OS that can support multi-device and multi-hardware, and can be carried on Huawei's products and a wide range of IoT devices, even if it's a camera, a home appliance, a socket, a desk lamp, and so on. In the era of everything intelligent, HarmonyOS 2 provides the most widely supported operating system, a lifetime of everything, everything is one, All as one, One as all.
Dr. Chenglu Wang, President of Huawei's Consumer Business Software Division, followed with an introduction of HarmonyOS 2. He said that HarmonyOS was designed from the beginning 5 years ago to adopt a full-site, decoupled architecture. He said HarmonyOS has been designed five years ago with a full-site, decoupled architecture, aiming to "satisfy large and small requirements with a single set of code". In the era of Internet of Everything, device connectivity is very important, otherwise there is no way to talk about the Internet of Everything, HarmonyOS creatively proposed distributed technology, using a soft bus to connect a variety of independent devices. The soft bus is like a highway that connects all the devices, so consumers can assemble their own devices according to their needs. Regardless of how many devices are connected, HarmonyOS 2 must be as easy for consumers to use as a single device.
Wang Chenglu then formally introduced several of the functional and technical changes that HarmonyOS 2 on Huawei smartphones will bring.
1, three centers: control center, service center, notification center
Control Center : contains the broadcast center, quick switch, super terminal three modules. It allows consumers to control the local module and other devices connected to it very easily, and easily form a super terminal. It shows the status and switches of all third-party devices linked to the cell phone in the form of cards in the unified control center, so that consumers can complete the real-time viewing and control of the status of all third-party devices connected to the cell phone in a unified portal, and complete the connection between devices with a simple "drag and drop" method.
Data Ready
At the heart of this exciting 3D BIOS technology is a new generation of GIGABYTE 3D BIOS ROMs, featuring the latest BIOS ROMs from leading Japanese manufacturers. In HarmonyOS 2, more fast apps form an atomic component, allowing you to more quickly access functions without having to download an app.
The service center is the negative screen of the original EMUI system, and now in the HarmonyOS system, more fast apps make up the atomic components, which can realize the operation of the corresponding functions more quickly without downloading the app.
Notification Center: The Notification Center and Control Center actually split the downward sloping status bar in Android's original system into two. The notification center displays messages such as apps and cell phone calls.
2. Distributed soft bus technology allows users to assemble their own hardware
The biggest difference between HarmonyOS and Android is that HarmonyOS has a distributed bus, which is the core of the "HyperTerminal" concept that HarmonyOS realizes. The core of HarmonyOS is the realization of the concept of "Super Terminal". Devices equipped with HarmonyOS can be combined with each other to complement each other's strengths and realize a new operating experience in the era of the Internet of Everything.
For example, if a cell phone wants to do multi-camera shooting, by linking a drone, sports camera, or other device's camera to the phone through a soft bus, the phone can control other cameras according to its own needs like scheduling the local camera, forming a super terminal for multi-camera shooting. A super terminal can also be formed between a cell phone and a computer or tablet. Although the PC terminal is running Windows operating system, the phone is HarmonyOS, but as long as the PC terminal installed HarmonyOS distributed plug-ins, the two file manager will be interoperable, the two call each other's content and materials will become very easy; for example, found a good recipe, through the ingredients of the ingredients to the ingredients into the HarmonyOS equipped with the system after the oven For example, if you find a good recipe and put the ingredients into the oven equipped with HarmonyOS, you will be able to make a delicious meal with just one click. Let the device is no longer a cold device, more can have the temperature of the intimate service. Based on the distributed capability of HarmonyOS, consumers can assemble scenario-based operation terminals according to their needs, with endless imagination.
This is the concept of the super terminal. Users can utilize the SuperTerminal to make a converged connection to all HarmonyOS-equipped devices. While this is easy to do, the technology behind these features is actually very powerful.
3. Short clock reference and anti-jamming algorithms
When connectivity becomes easy, seamless flow between end devices is also one of the secret weapons of HarmonyOS 2. For example, when listening to a song on your phone, you can gently pull it to push the song from your phone to your living room stereo and play it, and you won't feel any interference from the channel. and a sense of latency. The seamless flow between devices is made possible by the HarmonyOS 2 core's soft clock reference and anti-interference algorithms, which mainly address audio and video synchronization and switching smoothness.
Soft-clock synchronization allows three devices connected together to form a super terminal, **** the same adherence to a clock reference; and anti-jamming algorithms can ensure that the common interference caused by wireless transmission, interference, once more, will bring jitter, latency, and packet loss, anti-jamming algorithms must ensure that the interference of the wireless channel in the scenario to reduce to tolerable range. Using these two technologies, it is possible to ensure the synchronization of picture and sound when switching terminals, which is the technological breakthrough behind bringing convenience to users.
4. Atomized services
Wang Chenglu said he hoped to use the card as a unified carrier of atomized services, as a unified language of communication between all HarmonyOS devices. The card is the carrier of atomized services, which can be easily accessed and shared in the service center without the need to download and install, and access to various services in one step. The card serves as the carrier and language of unified interaction between HarmonyOS ecological devices, and the service will be transferred to wherever the card goes.
Behind the atomized services lies the "one-time development, multi-end deployment, cross-end flow of the service form", for developers, the development of the application only needs to be based on HarmonyOS 2 to write a logic code, can be deployed in a variety of HarmonyOS terminals, which greatly reduces the cost of development.
Comprehensively improving performance and ensuring privacy and security
According to Wang Chenglu, performance is an area that Huawei has been very focused on. The new HarmonyOS 2 system is dramatically smoother than the previous generation of EMUI. The phone still has read and write speeds close to those of a new phone with very little space left after 36 months of use.
HarmonyOS 2 optimizes the ability to protect background apps, so that tasks are persistently online, even if you use more apps, you can achieve state restoration, and the information you see when you leave comes back to be able to continue to see. For example, if you're temporarily replying to a WeChat message while shopping online, or opening a search app to look up information, you can go directly back to the interface you were browsing last time when you return to the shopping app. Additionally, HarmonyOS 2 makes gaming last longer: Playing Peaceful Elite on the Mate 40 Pro with HarmonyOS 2 lasts up to 5.1 hours.
There are two important technical upgrades behind this:
1. Technical optimization of the kernel layer, hardware abstraction layer, ROM layer, and framework
From Huawei's stats, roughly 20% of the users have almost reached the limit of the local ROM storage space after 36 months of phone usage, at which point the The system will become very slow. Users in the operation of the phone every step will produce a large amount of data, these data are randomly read into the local storage space, read the speed of the memory once affected, the phone's experience will become very bad. After testing, with HarmonyOS 2 almost fully occupied, the aging of both sequential reads, sequential writes, random reads, and random writes was drastically reduced, meaning that users with HarmonyOS 2 can still use it very smoothly even when the phone is nearly full.
2. Huawei's self-developed graphics stack
HarmonyOS 2 uses Huawei's self-developed graphics stack, which has several technical innovations:
(1) Putting technical computing scheduling into the system, the entire graphics rendering is no longer solely dependent on the GPU, and can be done by a combination of the GPU and CPU.
(2) Separate the two threads of rendering logic and business processing logic, and separate the rendering logic from the business logic;
(3) No longer do repetitive drawing, so that the load of video processing is greatly reduced.
These technologies add up, in exchange for the user operation, moving more smoothly, longer life. Here, Wang Chengyu gave an example: using the latest Apple phones to compare, playing a heavy game on an Apple phone lasts 3.9 hours, on a Huawei phone can play 5.1 hours.
On the other hand, there are new moves in the consumer privacy and security section. In order to ensure the security of every access to every device in the full scene, and the security of every data storage, transmission and use, it opens the multi-device collaborative identity authentication, which requires the double insurance of the face recognition of the phone and the watch connection in order to complete the unlocking. At the same time, HarmonyOS manages the user's data categorization and device grading protection, and sets the security threshold for the super terminal: only devices that meet the requirements of the security level can access the data of the corresponding security level, so that the user can rest assured of the use of multi-device interconnection. Take cell phone unlocking as an example, when the user opens the multi-device collaborative authentication, if the watch and the user's face information at the same time to do the authentication, bring the reliable level will be much higher than today's single-dimensional level.
Wang Chenglu said, the new HarmonyOS is the first based on the first distribution made by the Open Atom Open Foundation, OpenHarmony is an open community open source project, only based on the open way to do the HarmonyOS ecosystem to have the possibility of open, and to encourage everyone to do based on the OpenHarmony this open community! We also encourage you to build on OpenHarmony's open community to make distributions and products in various fields.
Ecological forerunners in the lineup, the whole scene of new products are equipped with HarmonyOS 2
After the introduction of HarmonyOS 2, followed by a series of new products equipped with HarmonyOS.
He Gang, COO of Huawei's consumer business, brought the first HarmonyOS product - Huawei WATCH 3.
1. Huawei WATCH 3 series
After four years, Huawei relaunched the WATCH series. The Huawei WATCH 3, which took four years to build, is the flagship smartwatch of the year created by Huawei. The Huawei WATCH?3 series adopts a dual-core architecture, which saves power to a greater extent according to the user's actual use. Relying on the advantages of Huawei's long-lasting gene, it continues and upgrades the professional health management, adds the wrist skin temperature and body temperature detection function, and will launch a joint respiratory health research with Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and other professional medical institutions, to realize the preliminary screening of respiratory infections, and guard the user's health around the clock. In addition, the Huawei WATCH?3 series is equipped with HarmonyOS, which successfully creates an interaction center, intelligence center, and health center around the wrist.
To summarize, Huawei WATCH 3 with HarmonyOS 2 has the following highlights:
1, eSIM independent communication
2, remote control of the car
3, gesture control
4, temperature detection
5, respiratory health research
6, 100 + sports mode, 6 kinds of sports automatic identification, between the device can be linked
7, battery life of 3 ~ 5 days, the ultra-long battery life mode support 14 days ~ 21 days respectively
8, support for wireless charging and reverse charging
Huawei WATCH 3 has a sports model, a fashion model (leather strap and nylon strap), the Premium model of the four styles, priced at Starting from 2599 yuan; Huawei WATCH 3 Pro has two styles: fashion model and premium model, priced from 3299 yuan, and will be opened for pre-sale at 21:08 on June 2, 2021, and officially on sale at 0:00 on June 11th.
2, Huawei MatePad Pro
Huawei MatePad Pro is the world's first tablet with HarmonyOS 2. It comes with a new desktop that is more dynamic. It makes the most of this big screen by having a more regular and organized layout. From the different sizes of universal cards, you can directly view key information in frequently used apps, such as checking flight itineraries, making direct calls to smooth calls, and customize the universal cards according to your needs.
Huawei's pioneering Parallel Vision has received a new upgrade on the new generation Huawei MatePad Pro. In the left-right split screen state, users can have two window tasks applied simultaneously on the left and right screens operate in parallel. As of June 2021, around 4,000 apps worldwide have supported Parallel Vision, further breaking through the bottleneck of tablet usage and turning the tablet into a usable, easy-to-use, and useful device.
The highlights of the new MatePad Pro pre-installed with HarmonyOS 2 are as follows:
1. Equipped with the 5nm Kirin 9000 series flagship chip for powerful performance;
2. 12.6-inch OLED full screen with 90% screen-to-body ratio;
3. Contrast ratio up to 1,000,000:1, supporting DCI- P3 cinema-grade color gamut while the color calibration reaches E