Huawei’s post-Android working system, HarmonyOS, has reached its third main model. The unique was unveiled in mid-2019, then model 2 got here and went to to succeed in 90 million customers by September of final 12 months. It’s now powering over 300 million gadgets with an additional 170+ million gadgets utilizing the HarmonyOS Join platform (a approach for third-party firms to construct suitable gadgets). And now model 3 arrives.
HarmonyOS 3.0 already made its debut with the reveal of the Huawei MatePad Professional 11, which is predicted to succeed in worldwide markets quickly. The brand new OS has a brand new look, improved widgets and multitasking too.
First off, let’s have a look at the Common Card widget format. They’re simply adaptable with a number of shapes, sizes and kinds. This permits them to be grouped collectively when it is sensible, the widget will routinely modify its measurement to suit. And when there are too many to suit, you may stack them on high of one another and simply flip between them.
The brand new OS additionally has the flexibility to attach with two pairs of sure headphones (e.g. the FreeBuds Professional 2). This lets you take heed to music along with a buddy. Connectivity is a serious a part of the system, however earlier than we get to that, let’s have a look at the brand new privateness options.
The brand new OS model retains a log of how typically every app accesses your location, digicam, microphone, information or contacts. It should present you a graph so you may resolve to take away permissions manually, however the system can do it routinely too. It should additionally maintain a watch out for malicious conduct from apps, suspicious community exercise and different threats. Untrusted apps might be given bogus permissions, which can enable them to open e.g. a seemingly empty picture gallery or an SMS inbox with nothing in it.
Checking which apps have accessed your location • Giving apps bogus permissions
The system additionally has straightforward instruments to take away probably delicate information when sharing photographs – the embedded time and site, for instance. It might probably additionally scan by screenshots and blur out telephone numbers, addresses and so forth.
Huawei additionally labored on optimizations. HarmonyOS 3.0 improves app launch time and responsiveness and reduces energy utilization throughout gaming (in comparison with HarmonyOS 2.0).
HarmonyOS 3.0 expands on the core thought of the system – creating “tremendous gadgets”, that are the mixture of two or extra sensible gadgets working in unison. The UI is fairly easy, you get a view of linked gadgets as bubbles and also you simply drag one bubble over to a different to hitch them into an excellent gadget.
Creating an excellent gadget is so simple as drag and drop
Right here is an easy instance – you’re modifying video in your Huawei MateBook, however wish to use a bigger display. If in case you have, say, a MateStation X you may simply drag the monitor icon to the laptop computer icon and also you immediately get wi-fi display sharing energetic.
Simple display casting
HarmonyOS gadgets don’t have to be on a shared Wi-Fi community for the tremendous gadget magic to work. They are going to sense one another, e.g. a Huawei pill subsequent to a Huawei telephone will allow you to reply calls and can show SMS messages as in the event that they have been the identical gadget. You may also do the above trick and play video games and movies out of your telephone on the bigger pill display.
A HarmonyOS telephone can connect with a pill, giving it entry to 4G, calls and messages
This seamless multimedia interconnectivity extends to HarmonyOS sensible TVs too. For instance, you may take two sensible audio system (e.g. Huawei Sound X) and use them as stereo audio system for the TV. Or if you could maintain it down, you should use a pair of TWS buds as a substitute, all linked with the easy drag-and-drop interface.
Take heed to your TV by a pair of linked sensible speaker or utilizing TWS buds
The ecosystem extends past Huawei’s merchandise. You possibly can have a suitable treadmill and pair it with a Huawei watch to trace your train and likewise play some music when you add a headset to the tremendous gadget.
HarmonyOS Join permits third-party firms to make gadgets too
HarmonyOS is now in vehicles too (take a look at our evaluation), this lets you forged smartphone apps on the automotive’s dashboard, much like Android Auto. All of this extends to sensible house devices as properly.
HarmonyOS now has a substitute for Android Auto
Huawei plans to start out a mass replace of current gadgets to HarmonyOS 3.0 in September. The checklist of supported gadgets remains to be to be introduced.
