Here’s the HarmonyOS NEXT Roadmap

October 8, 2024

These are the first batch devices that participated in the public beta activity including:

• Huawei Mate 60 series
• Huawei Mate X5 series
• Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2-inch series

Interestingly, these phone and tablet users have unlimited testing slots and can experience the upcoming features firsthand prior to the official rollout.

October 22, 2024

Starting today, Huawei will push the public HarmonyOS NEXT beta for the following devices:

• Huawei Pura 70 series
• Huawei Pocket 2
• Huawei MatePad Pro 11-inch 2024 Edition

2025

HarmonyOS Upgrade Roampap will expand next year with the following models

• Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design
• Huawei Nova Flip
• Huawei Nova 13 series
• Huawei Nova 12 series
• Huawei MatePad pro 12.2
• Huawei MatePad Air 12-inch
• Huawei MatePad 11.5 series

The company has confirmed that more devices will be announced later on as the testing and compatibility phase progresses.

Stable

Following the public beta activity, Huawei will release a full build for these devices. However, no official rollout date is confirmed for stable release.

HarmonyOS NEXT

This HarmonyOS version brings a new user interface with a redesigned control center, intuitive sliders, and large switches.

It improved the lock screen and home screen personalization. The OS has increased app security and apps that don’t meet the safety requirement cannot be installed on the system.

It has encrypted file security for users to user sharing. The ARK engine has upgraded for graphics, media, memory, scheduling, storage, lower power consumption, and better internet surfing.

Compared to HarmonyOS 4, HarmonyOS NEXT brings 1.5GB memory running memory efficiency. It is 30 percent fluent and provides more than 55 minutes of battery efficiency.

Huawei HarmonyOS NEXT Upgrade Roadmap (Source – Huawei)

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The company has shared some insights on this development saying that its partners started these app development on September 25, 2023, and the number continues to grow as of October 2024.

Yu Chengdong, Chairman of Huawei Consumer Business Group has made this announcement official with a giant presentation of all of the app icons including during HarmonyOS NEXT unveiling.

These new numbers are important for Huawei’s growth in smart operating systems. It has been working with these developers for the past four years and finally set a feat to compete against Android.

Huawei reveals 15,000 native HarmonyOS apps (Source – Huawei)

These native apps are exclusively developed for HarmonyOS. Huawei said the new HarmonyOS NEXT comes with fluency and operational performance improvements.

These new upgrades will appear during app interactions and smoothen the overall experience. Speaking of which, Huawei has made some fresh changes in the UI, which will also enhance the app’s graphical appearance and animations and adapt them to different platforms including smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and more.

At the Huawei Developer Conference 2024, the tech maker announced that HarmonyOS native apps have entered a final phase of development. All of the top 5000 apps have turned into the native HarmonyOS ecosystem.

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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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Yu Chengdong, Executive Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Business Group, and Chairman of Automotive Business Solution made this announcement during the HarmonyOS NEXT 5 launch event.

Huawei HarmonyOS 1 Billion Devices (Source – Huawei)

This figure includes sales from wearables, smartphones, HarmonyOS smart car cockpit, smart TVs, earphones, tablets, smart home devices, and smart home control devices.

Yu Chengdong also revealed that Huawei ranked first in the global smart wearable devices shipment for the first half of 2024. He also confirmed that the global users for the Huawei Health app crossed more than 100 million users.

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In 2019, the Chinese tech maker introduced HarmonyOS in the wake of US sanctions. The US banned the company from accessing Android and Google Play Services (GMS). This led to a sharp decline in Huawei’s smartphone sales in the global market.

In 2020, HarmonyOS entered mobile devices and adapted for millions of devices. Initially, the software’s interface and features were identical to its Android-based counterpart “EMUI”.

Some software industry observers criticized Huawei’s new mobile operating system and called it a “forked Android”. These allegations have a simple connection with Android Open Source library integration to HarmonyOS code.

The company separated both software ecosystems and kept HarmonyOS exclusive to the Chinese market where it still sells a majority of devices.

The initial HarmonyOS software has Android app support due to the lack of an app ecosystem. The company wanted to use its existing developer base for EMUI devices. In the past three years, it has turned this base into HarmonyOS and added millions of new developers.

This continued until last year when Huawei announced the development of a native HarmonyOS version. The company also confirmed that this new software will run only HarmonyOS apps.

This news has made many headlines across the internet due to the potential it could bring in the competition against iOS and Android, two of the most dominating mobile OS.

That brings us back to HarmonyOS, the company has been working on this OS for the past two years. Throughout this time, it has been cooperating with Chinese software industry leaders to create a whole environment of HarmonyOS NEXT apps.

Some of the notable names are Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com and more. As of October 2024, these firms have completed their HarmonyOS NEXT app and could launch their release version any time soon.

Aside from the ecosystem, this new HarmonyOS NEXT launched with performance upgrades compared to its predecessor. It has fluid animations and better-optimized visuals.

Furthermore, the software is labeled as HarmonyOS NEXT 5, which indicates that the software is moving further from HarmonyOS 4.

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Huawei has been testing public beta with unlimited user slots since October 8 and registered recently released flagship devices for early beta recruitment. That includes the Huawei Mate 60 series, Pura 70 series, Mate X5, and more.

This operating system for smartphones brings numerous new changes and optimizations. The control center has optimized the buttons and provides fast interactions on every switch. The visibility of the control center is also improved compared to HarmonyOS.

The new HarmonyOS NEXT.0.0.72 version has a downloadable package size of 1.1GB. It has added a new one-tap lock screen service button. This will allow you to lock the smartphone with one click after adding it to the home screen.

You need to press the phone’s side button or wait for the screen time out to lock the device. However, if the feature works exactly according to its name, it would be a useful addition for HarmonyOS NEXT users.

This upgrade has a new slider bar with a shape progress bar to show the intensity of the brightness or system sound settings. The icon changes dynamics based on the volume or brightness level.

Huawei said the new change will make the control panel more intuitive and visible to the eyes. Additionally, the update will optimize some UI settings for display to improve the viewing experience.

Last but not least, the company has enabled a drag and reposition feature for the lock screen. This will allow you to reposition the clock on the lock screen and place it anywhere.

Huawei HarmonyOS NEXT.0.0.72 (Source – HCNewsroom)

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Weibo tipster Pikachu said two new Mate 70 phones will equip slightly curved large screens with 1.5k resolution. The Mate 60 and Mate 60 Pro released last year feature 6.69-inch and 6.82-inch screens respectively.

These two come with 2688 x 1216 pixels and 2720 x 1260 pixels resolution respectively. Other technologies in the display include a 1-120 Hz LTPO adaptive refresh rate, OLED panel, 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and 300Hz touch sampling rate.

These new models will equip a right-angle middle frame design, which will be a major shift in Huawei’s design strategy for the Mate series.

This design refers to the smartphone’s edge where the front and the back panels meet. Instead of matching the curved back and front panel edges, these frame edges form a 90-degree angle. Simply put, this angle shows a more flat frame than previous flagships.

Since the Mate 10 lineup, the middle frame of Mate devices has turned rounder and seamless supporting the display curve. Mate 30 Pro is the company’s largest curved-edge display smartphone ever built.

However, the trend started to change with the Mate 50 Pro lineup, stepping away from waterfall screens. Instead, Huawei has utilized the screen ratio and made it look less curved on all sides. This new design language has provided the device with a clean look and stability improvements.

Mate 60 series took this strategy to a new level and shrank the curved edges to the lowest on all four sides. However, the frame is somewhat curved to support the rear panel. Furthermore, the body is slightly wide, which may not be comfortable for some users.

Installing a right-angle frame will help to improve the grip and reduce the bezels around the screen, which is widely visible from the front.

Still, there’s confirmation about the device’s identity but these could be Mate 70 and Mate 70 Pro.

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This App Clone feature is exclusive to HarmonyOS NEXT and has been spotted with a recently closed beta rollout. It can create up to 5 clones of the original app within the same device.

These apps will open and function separately based on their features. The company has also confirmed that cloned apps will be listed on the app clone settings. These can be deleted in case you no longer need them.

With that being said, you can create icons for these apps on the home screen altogether. A little blue icon on the bottom right corner of the app icons is confirmed as a clone.

Huawei HarmonyOS NEXT App Clone (Source – ithome)

The feature reminds me of App Twin, a capability first introduced with EMUI smartphone years ago. This feature creates two instances of the same app and allows you to log in with two different accounts (for that app).

This feature was launched for social media apps such as FaceBook and WhatsApp. Upgrading such capability and bringing a more aggressive cloning capability is new for HarmonyOS NEXT. Although app clones may not fancy all but it will be useful for some users.

HarmonyOS NEXT is a new operating system based on HarmonyOS and developed by Huawei. The Chinese tech maker has polished many core software technologies for this new OS and built for native applications.

This new HarmonyOS has been under testing since early 2024 and it’ll enter public test on October 8.

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SCMP reports Huawei is testing new AI chips with clients in China including the firms searching for Nvidia alternatives for high-end servers. The Chinese tech giant is packing Ascend 910C chips for large server firms covering hardware testing and configuration.

Nvidia is the most popular AI chip seller in the global AI market including China. However, US sanctions on AI chips have barred the company from selling flagship chipsets to Chinese companies.

Since August 2022, the US restricted Nvidia A100 and H100 exports to China. These two are the most popular AI solutions for large language models and generative AI. The company later modified these two chips to a lower-end version A800 and H800, which got banned in October.

Nvidia has modified its chipsets for Chinese clients and developed H20, L20, and L2 GPUs to comply with US export guidelines and maintain its edge in the Chinese AI market.

Given this opportunity, Huawei started selling Ascend 910B AI chipset last year. It has changed the previous Ascend AI architecture and introduced this new version with various performance improvements to compete against Nvidia’s top sellers.

It also allowed the Chinese company to collect some early customers. However, the next version is expected to widen this reach in the high-end AI chipset market.

Huawei reportedly testing Ascend 910C for the past six months and cooperating with the Chinese tech industry to comply with the specifications as much as possible. Some of these potential customers ByteDance, Baidu, and China Mobile have already received the Ascend 910C chipset for testing.

These companies have placed large numbers of orders for the chip when it goes into production. However, Huawei spilled no beans on this matter and kept the AI chip progress low-key. The report also mentioned that the company could start shipping later this year.

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Huawei uses HarmonyOS smart automotive software solution to provide self-driving technologies for car companies across the Chinese automotive industry.

Yu Chengdong said that HarmonyOS for smart cars could become the number one solution in the high-end car market in the next five years. The company has already integrated its solutions in the sub 500,000 yuan range and now it’s going for 1 million yuan and above market.

The automotive chief said Huawei makes cars with several brands including Aito, BAIC, and others. He pointed out that the company has already become successful in the high-end market citing the Wenjie M9 vehicle with robust sales.

“Although the four-world cars are made by different car manufacturers, Huawei is in control of the experience and underlying technology,” said Chengdong.

ADS 3.0

Earlier this year, Huawei introduced Automated Driving System (ADS) 3.0 for smart cars. The solution uses LiDAR + Camera solutions. On the other hand, rivals such as Tesla are considering using camera solutions and have eliminated LiDAR a few years ago.

Yu Chengdong said camera solutions without LiDAR will leave the camera blinded. He said cameras have limits and it could become hard for the car to maintain its senses in unfavorable weather.

The system brings smart features such as enhanced parking features. It has also added AI safety checks to keep the car functioning in most scenarios. To conclude, the automotive chief said that ADS 3.0 is not L3 yet but is designed based on L3 standards.

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