Huawei simply ushered in a brand new web page in its historical past with the official launch of HarmonyOS Subsequent. This marks Huawei’s first working system constructed independently of Android and the Linux kernel because it goals to transition its units to a completely in-house OS.
HarmonyOS Subsequent is about to energy the present and future generations of Huawei units in China for now, although a world launch was confirmed beforehand. It can work throughout a broad vary of units starting from smartphones to wearables, good dwelling units and automobile cockpits.
HarmonyOS Subsequent makes use of a self-developed microkernel based mostly on the OpenHarmony open-source core. It helps apps by way of the Huawei Ark compiler with Huawei Cell Companies (HMS) and guarantees a seamless unified structure between HarmonyOS Subsequent units, the cloud in addition to interconnectivity throughout varied gadget kind components.
Huawei Client Enterprise Group Chairman, Richard Yu introduced that 15,000 apps and providers at the moment are a part of the HarmonyOS Subsequent ecosystem with extra on the way in which. We additionally realized that the earlier variations of HarmonyOS are at the moment operating on over 1 billion units globally. This determine consists of smartphones, tablets, good wearables, good dwelling and automobile infotainment techniques.
HarmonyOS Subsequent comes with a refreshed visible id with new lockscreen and residential display customization choices, redesigned management heart, quicker animations, and app launch speeds. There are spectacular AI options on deck that are powered by system-level AI based mostly on the Pangu giant language mannequin.
Huawei additionally managed to realize a 30% improve in gadget fluency and 20% decrease energy consumption in communication between software program modules. Huawei Share 2.0 guarantees seamless connection and file sharing between units – Huawei says you possibly can switch a 1.2GB file between two HarmonyOS Subsequent units in simply 8 seconds.
For safety, HarmonyOS Subsequent brings a self-developed Star Defend structure with system-level safety.
Huawei is seeding a public beta model of HarmonyOS Subsequent to customers in China. The supported gadget checklist consists of the Pura 70 collection, Huawei Pocket 2 and MatePad Professional 11 (2024).
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