It seems Huawei has started speeding up HarmonyOS 4.2 rollout in the global market. The company recently served this software treatment to the MatePad Air. Now it is bringing new features and enhancements for another efficient tablet.

Global Huawei MatePad 11 2023 users can identify the HarmonyOS 4.2 update with the 4.2.0.210 version. Ensure to have sufficient storage in your device as the firmware weighs 5.55GB. We also suggest a stable Wi-Fi connection for installation.

The changelog unlocks new magazine themes that allow you to choose a portrait picture and match it with the wallpaper. Users can also keep an eye on the app’s activity via the Live View feature. SuperHub 2.0 makes file-sharing much easier.

On the other hand, Ark Engine ensures smoother animations, preventing lags on the tablet. You can check all the features and enhancements below.

Global Huawei MatePad 11 2023 tablet users getting HarmonyOS 4.2 (Image Credits: HuaweiAilesi)

Magazine Themes

• The Art Star theme lets you choose a portrait photo you like and a wallpaper to match.

Live View

• Keeps you up to date on the status of important events by displaying timely notifications on the lock screen, home screen, and more.
• Users will also see a notification window pinned to the top left of the home screen.

SuperHub

• Supports dragging and dropping content between apps and devices. You can tap and hold defined text and images, then drag and drop them to SuperHub to store them temporarily or send them in bulk.

Ark Engine

• Provides a smoother user experience with the upgraded Ark Engine.

HarmonyOS 4.2 is still missing for flagship tablets like MatePad Pro 13.2, MatePad Pro 11, and more. Although the company could soon expand the reach of the new upgrade to eligible devices in the global market.

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DigitalChatStation has shared the hands-on images of the Honor Magic 7 Pro before its official unveiling. Even though the tipster removed the leak after some time, we managed to get our hands on the pictures. Let’s check them out.

The latest pictures show a quad-curved screen on the front part for better visuals. Magic 7 Pro also has a pill-shaped cutout with two lenses. One of them will act as a selfie shooter while the other one will support 3D face recognition capability.

Magic 7 Pro shows a thin chin at the bottom and smooth edges all around. The front face will likely provide a silky touch-feel with an improved viewing experience.

Speaking of the back part, the rear side shows a huge camera bump with a circular camera ring housed in a rounded square shape. The camera has four lens openings and a flash on the top. The “MATRIX” branding is placed horizontally in the middle.

Honor Magic 7 Pro hands-on images (Image Credits: DigitalChatStation/Weibo)

The camera setup reflects the AI-powered Eagle Eye imaging integration. Honor has already confirmed the new technology with high-end features and shooting modes.

The top-right lens appears to be a periscope, while the below two lenses reflect the primary shooter and ultrawide-angle. Back panel of the device shows a matte finish at the bottom but a slight shine at the top section.

Honor showed the Magic 7 device during the Snapdragon 8 Elite launch event. Although the hands-on image gives a more clear look at the phone. To know the key parameters of the Magic 7 series, wait till tomorrow’s release conference.

Honor Magic 7 Pro live images (Image Credits: DigitalChatStation/Weibo)

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WIKO has been using Huawei device designs for a long time. Apart from smartphones, the company has launched two new “Hi MateBooks” for its customers.

UncleKanshan revealed that the company will launch both notebooks on October 29 in offline stores. Meanwhile, these products will likely go live on online sale from October 30. Consumers can visit the official website to learn more details.

Let’s check the key specs and features of WIKO Hi MateBook 14 and D 16 2024 notebooks!

Hi MateBook 14

The device is available in Space Gray shade. It shows a silver W logo at the back. Speaking of the design, the notebook uses a combo of ultra-smooth micro-arc curve and a wedge-shaped look. This makes it light, smooth, and super flexible.

WIKO Hi MateBook 14 (Image Credits: WIKO)

WIKO has imposed a 14.2-inch OLED screen with a resolution of 2880 x 1920 pixels, 243 PPI, 450 nits brightness, 100% sRGB, 100% DCI-P3, 95% Adobe RGB, 1000000:1 Contrast, 3:2 screen ratio, 91% screen-to-body ratio, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a multi-touch screen.

It measures 312.6 x 226.8 x 14.5mm and weighs 1.31 kg. For chipset, the PC equips Intel Core Ultra 5 125H paired with Intel Xeon Graphics, 16GB or 32GB dual channel RAM, and 1TB PCIe storage. It also packs a 70Wh battery and runs on Windows 11.

The device further contains a USB-C port, USB 2 Gen 1, HDMI, and a 3.5mm headphone and mic 2-in-1 interface. A full-size backlit keyboard and a large touchpad accompany the PC. There is a 1080MP HD camera, 2 mics, and 2 speakers.

WIKO Hi MateBook 14 (Image Credits: WIKO)

WIKO has also implemented some rich features in the device. For instance, AI Space, AI subtitles, multi-screen collaboration, AI smart eye, smart voice, and cloud space.

Hi MateBook D 16 2024

The new-gen notebook has a dimension of 356.7 x 248.7 x 18mm and bears a weight of 1.72 kg. It comes in two shades: Bright Moon Silver and Deep Space Gray.

D 16 2024 model has a 16-inch IPS screen with a 300 nits peak brightness, 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution, 142 PPI, 90% screen-to-body ratio, 16:10 screen ratio, 100% sRGB color gamut, and a 178-degree viewing angle.

WIKO Hi MateBook D 16 2024 (Image Credits: WIKO)

Hi MateBook D16 uses a 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13500H processor with the Intel Iris X GPU, 16GB RAM, and 1TB storage. It powers up with Windows 11 Home.

The device installs a 70Wh battery which requires a 65W power adapter. Hi MateBook D 16 comes with a full-size keyboard, independent numeric keyboard, and 5-point touch capability. It has a 1MP front camera, 2 mics, 2 speakers, and features like AI space, Super Turbo, multi-screen collaboration, and high-performance mode.

WIKO Hi MateBook D 16 2024 (Image Credits: WIKO)

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Zhou Hongyi shared his views on HarmonyOS NEXT. During an interview, he stated the new software seemingly contains prominent features and the goodness of AI.

The 360 Group Founder added that HarmonyOS NEXT is a major creation in Huawei’s ecosystem. It is not an ordinary OS but a complete package of smarter and more significant features. HarmonyOS will likely be a tough opponent to other operating systems.

“…It is more likely to become a dark horse in the field of mobile operating systems and create a school of its own.” – said Zhou Hongyi.

The executive further stressed how AI is becoming an important part of users and phone makers. He said that AI can easily reshape the overall user experience.

Hence, the success of HarmonyOS is connected to AI progress. Huawei will likely introduce more advanced AI features with its new software rollouts for its devices.

HarmonyOS NEXT to be tough competitor in phone OS field: 360 Group Founder (Image Credits: MyDrivers)

Zhou Hongyi mentioned that AI has the power to redefine smartphones and bring all phone makers back to the same starting line. Big AI models give opportunities to all industries to reshuffle, reshape, and overtake rivals in the technology race.

HarmonyOS NEXT claims to be better in several aspects. Whether it is UI smoothness or advanced functions, the company has upgraded the new OS at all levels.

Huawei ensures that HarmonyOS NEXT offers a much better experience than the previous versions. It has improved the fluency part of the software by 30%. Meanwhile, the upgraded version brings 1 hour of extra battery life for its devices.

Changes are also visible while sharing files and downloading applications to the device. HarmonyOS NEXT promises to deliver faster sharing speed and protect your device from anonymous apps that could be a threat to your data and privacy.

Huawei reveals HarmonyOS NEXT 5 UI and Performance

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Yang Zhiyan, Chief UX Designer at Huawei Consumer BG has brought this new design for smartphones, tablets, and smart wearables labeled as “native and exquisite”.

HarmonyOS NEXT 5 has a “harmonious aesthetics” philosophy starting with the HarmonyOS ring and conceptualized with the theme “light constructs everything in the world”.

These changes can be seen throughout the UI including the control center. The controls are rounder and bigger compared to HarmonyOS making them more touch-friendly.

The company has introduced refreshed sliders for volume and brightness, which change dynamically as you change their values.

HarmonyOS NEXT 5 User Interface (UI) (Source – Huawei)

The lock screen and personalization options have been improved in HarmonyOS NEXT 5. That includes on-screen widgets and dynamic wallpapers. These widgets can adopt a lock screen and adapt better on-screen appearance.

Furthermore, the lock screen’s dynamic wallpaper and themes now support the gravity sensor to show the graphical movement in real-time.

The live view feature received major upgrades with deeper integration with the system and third-party native apps to show their real-time progress.

HarmonyOS NEXT 5 Lock Screen Personalization (Source – Huawei)

Upgrades

Aside from UI, HarmonyOS NEXT 5 equips a new distributed soft bus, cross-end collaboration, and natural and seamless performance with up to 3 times improvement in device connectivity.

Huawei has rebranded the intelligent AI solution with a new Celia voice assistant with in-device large language models for natural language processing.

The whole system performance has improved software and hardware compatibility including a 30 percent increase in fluency and up to an hour of boost in battery life.

These new changes in UI and features will be available for previous and new devices.

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The company is recruiting several devices under the Honor MagicOS 9.0 closed beta program. The list counts, the Magic 6 series, Magic 5 series, Magic V2, and V3 phones. If you have these devices, you can jump into the software testing pool.

MagicOS 9.0 beta test is open for selected smartphones at present. But the tech giant may announce the complete upgrade plan on October 23. Hence, wait patiently.

Speaking of the beta program, the company is recruiting 2000 users for each model (1000 for log and 1000 for no log version). One must have the baseline version 8.0.1.173 or 8.0.1.172 to participate effectively in this beta testing activity.

The recruitment will run live till October 22. Hence, you have only one day left to register for this activity. Hereafter, the company will start pushing the beta version.

How to sign up?

Interested users who want to participate in the MagicOS 9.0 internal beta campaign need to ensure sufficient storage and a backup. If done, follow these steps:

• Open the My Honor app on your eligible device
• Visit the Club page
• Select the MagicOS 9.0 tab
• Click on “Upgrade to try”
• Chose the Beta Program project

Once done, follow the on-screen instructions and fill in your correct details. Apply and wait for the review results. If selected, you will receive the new MagicOS 9.0 software version. Or else, wait for the second round of the beta program.

MagicOS 9.0 is full of interesting AI features. The software brings an anti-fraud feature that can smartly recognize deepfake videos and help users remain safe from bad use of technology. Another useful tool is “one sentence” which performs various operations in your one command.

We may find more significant features in the MagicOS 9.0 launch event on October 23.

Honor begins MagicOS 9.0 (Android 15) closed beta program (Image Credits: HuaweiCentral)

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SenseTime Group is an AI company in Hong Kong, China. It develops techs like facial recognition, object detection, optical character recognition, image, as well as video analysis, autonomous driving, remote sensing, and large AI models.

U.S. sanctions hit many Chinese companies years back and SenseTime is one of them. The OEM can not access advanced technologies for its next-gen AI LLMs. The same case is with Huawei which is facing difficulties but aims for self-reliance.

SenseTime is seemingly helping Huawei expand its AI chip ecosystem in the country. In a recent interrogation, the Vice President of SenseTime – Alvin Zou revealed that their new AI Data Center uses a “lot of” Huawei Ascend 910C AI chips.

Apart from Huawei, Biren Technology and some other Chinese chipmakers have provided AI processors for the new data center. Alvin pointed out that Huawei’s Ascend 910C delivers significant performance improvement over other AI chipsets.

He further notes that China-made AI chips lag at some points compared to foreign processors. Yet, they are inching closer to better performance day by day.

“There are still some gaps between domestic chips and foreign ones in terms of training but in the field of inference chips, the performance of Chinese products is getting closer to that of foreign ones.” – said Alvin Zou.

Huawei is establishing itself as a major alternative to its foreign rivals for its Chinese customers. Whether it is Apple in the smartphone market or Nvidia in the AI chipset space. Although it’s still a few steps away from the U.S. chip producer.

Huawei AI chips (Image Credits: Huawei)

As per Bernstein Research, Huawei owns only 10% of the Chinese AI chip market whereas, Nvidia has 90%. It’s no less than an AI chip dominator in China.

Nvidia even said in an interview that it still receives more than expected orders for H20 every month despite China’s promotion of its home-ground AI chips.

Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers lack advanced chipmaking tools like EUV that help in improved chip fabrication. Yet, they are trying their best to rise in this game.

China is also constantly encouraging its firms and customers to use Huawei AI chips to boost AI computing ecosystem development in the country. iFlytek, for instance, launched recent AI models equipped with Huawei’s AI processors.

As more Chinese customers opt for Huawei Ascend AI chips, the company will progress in the chipset field. Huawei has started taking on consumers for AI Ascend 910C chip sampling. Let’s see how this activity progresses in the time ahead.

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According to the DigiTimesAsia, the Huawei Mate 70 series could debut in mid-November. The expected launch date for the flagship may fall on Singles’ Day 2024.

China is busy celebrating the Double Eleven sale fest. Several e-commerce channels organize this festival on the occasion of “Singles’ Day” which is on November 11 this year. The report hints that Huawei could launch its new Mate lineup on the same day.

Last year, Huawei unveiled the Mate 60 series on August 23 with a discrete launch. The same time and treatment were expected this year for the next Mate models.

However, the hardware and software optimizations of the Huawei Mate 70 series led to a delay in launch. While users expected to witness the flagship lineup in September 2024 clashing with the iPhone 16, it shifted to mid-November.

But the wait is seemingly about to end. Many Chinese tech giants are ready to showcase their new premium smartphones in the market and Huawei will probably join this race by November 11, 12 (Tuesday) or in the same week with Mate 70 series.

The report further says that the Mate 70 models have already entered mass production. Judging from last year’s promotion strategy, the company may directly unveil its new Mate handsets on Singles’ Day this year. But an official confirmation awaits on this matter.

This time, Mate 70 probably won’t trouble customers with its tight supply problems. Early inputs revealed that Huawei has prepared enough stock to meet the market demands without fail. The overall unit capacity is 50% more than the Mate 60 series.

Huawei Mate 70 series will bring major internal upgrades and some minor changes to the appearance. The devices may use the next-gen basalt body architecture, Kunlun Glass, and camera framework with better drop and wear-resistant properties.

Display and imaging capabilities will also fetch new upgrades to deliver the best viewing and photography experience. HarmonyOS NEXT and the rumored 5nm Kirin chip are also on the list to boost the performance of the new models.

Let’s see what else we will find with the new Mate 70 smartphones.

Huawei Mate 70 series tipped to debut by mid-November (Image Credits: Huawei)

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Zhao Ming talked about Honor and Huawei in a livestream interview. The official said that Honor has cut off its relationship with Huawei in a far better way than any other company. But this separation initially brought many challenges.

The CEO mentioned that his original family (Huawei + Honor) has been successful. Although after being separated from the parent firm, Honor felt immense pressure.

It had to begin everything from scratch. The biggest challenge for Honor executives was to manage those operations that they were completely unaware of.

Why separated?

After the U.S. banned Huawei in 2019, the company sold its subsidiary firm Honor to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology in November 2020. The aim was to prevent Honor from the drawbacks of the ban and enable it to operate freely.

The beginning was quite tough for Honor. The company was under pressure to meet consumers’ expectations with better products. Yet it managed the difficult times and came out with flying colors.

Honor faced pressure and challenges after leaving Huawei: CEO (Image Credits: MyDrivers)

Zhao Ming further spoke on comparisons of Honor with Huawei and Apple. According to him, Honor feels pressure while competing with tech giants. Yet, the company remains calm and continues to explore new ways that can benefit its consumers.

“When communicating with backbones and supervisors, everyone said that we are leading, but we always feel a lot of pressure. We have three big mountains. The objects we compare with are not Apple today, but Huawei tomorrow.” 

Zhao Ming states that he tries to see positivity in every aspect. The official once said that despite pressure and challenges, Honor made a separate identity from Huawei. The company is constantly achieving success and aims to offer more improved and innovative products in the future.

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The Chinese tech giant opened a HarmonyOS beta program for Watch GT 4 and Watch Ultimate two months ago. It seems the recruitment is now over and the registered wearable users are fetching new health capabilities via a beta firmware.

Inputs reveal that the Huawei Watch GT 4 is getting new health features with the HarmonyOS 4.2.0.521 version. It also has a software package of 322 Megabytes.

Users can install the new update from the Huawei Health app. Open the app and go to the Devices. Select your device and follow the on-screen steps for an upgrade.

Speaking of the changelog, the Huawei Watch GT 4 is receiving the same health features as the Watch GT 5 series. It now supports a new health trend analysis reflecting fat loss and body shaping. The device will also detect arrhythmia pulse.

Female users can check their menstrual cycle, month view, and related info on time. Another useful addition in the update is the Sunflower positioning system.

It equips a special sunflower antenna that smartly tracks satellite signals. On the other hand, the self-developed positioning algorithms help provide accurate positioning in various sports conditions like running, cycling, walking, and more.

You can check all the new features below.

Huawei Watch GT 4 new update (Image Credits: ITHome)

New health features

• Added fat loss, body shaping, and health trend analysis
• New pulse arrhythmia detection NMPA
• New female menstrual cycle calendar and month view
• Added wrist running posture
• Huawei GT 4 46mm model gets Sunflower positioning (GPS) feature

Huawei Watch GT 4 is receiving advanced health feature update (Image Credits: UncleKanshan/Weibo)

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