X tipster @UniverseIce dropped a video showing smoother animations of the One UI 7.0. The clip is more likely a screen recording done on the Galaxy S25/Plus phone.

Note that the clip has been deleted from YouTube. But another tipster has managed to get it. Tap HERE to check the smoother animations of the new software build.

Although the interesting part of this clip is the fluid transitions. The overall motions like swipe gestures as well as the opening and closing of apps appeared faster and more stable. Users will probably have the best animation experience with One UI 7.

It doesn’t show any lag or glitches while opening/closing apps. Switching between apps is much easier and faster than ever. Just a simple touch and users will see quicker responses.

Some applications that were indulged in this animation testing are Gallery, Settings, Phone, and Camera. These appeared in redesigned icons. The Weather widget also gets a makeover with a thinner shape than the previous major upgrade.

It’s just the beginning and Samsung could make ever better changes with the stable version.

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Weibo tipster @FixedFocus implies the Huawei Mate 70 series will equip a new AI motion sensor. This microchip may bring more features similar to air gestures.

AI sensing chip or a motion sensor ultimately tracks and identifies motion or signals made by the user’s hand. It recognizes these signals in real time and tries to process the data in the device to fulfill the user’s command for a particular operation.

These sensors are further combined with 3D depth-sensing lenses, infrared technology, as well as machine learning to provide accurate results in real time.

Huawei will likely use a more advanced AI motion sensor for the Mate 70 series to bring interesting gestures on board. Apart from air gestures, users may find more new motion-based features that will take the interaction to a whole new level.

Huawei Mate 70 series may use an advanced AI motion sensor (Image Credits: Weibo)

Huawei Mate 70 series may use an advanced AI motion sensor (Image Credits: Weibo)

The company is reportedly imposing new components to the Mate 70 series to deliver a perfect device experience. A recent leak suggested an upgraded ISP camera chip for improved shooting effects. It will likely bring a far better photography experience.

Now an advanced motion sensor seems to be in the components list.

What is Air Gesture?

Air Gesture is a useful capability that enables users to interact with their smartphone or tablet without touching the screen. It relies on AI algorithms and uses ultrasonic waves to detect and understand the hand gestures in front of the display.

One can take screenshots, scroll up and down, or left and right, answer a call, pause or play audio/video, and do various other with Huawei air gestures.

The OEM introduced AI air gesture with Mate 30 Pro. It kept upgrading the feature with new devices. The Pura 70 series is the latest example to support air gestures.

As of now, the tech giant is planning to introduce smarter gestures with the Mate 70 lineup. Let’s see what other changes we will get with the upcoming flagship.

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The OpenHarmonyOS 5.0 version is released by OpenAtom Foundation. Developers will find major changes in the app development kit, ArkUI, and other segments. These modifications will provide clearer logic and scenario-based views.

Further details in the changelog show refinements for network stability, distributed data management, richer encodings for media, and optimized power supply. Developers can quickly develop apps using enhanced Web capabilities with upgraded tools.

Other sections in the list count communication, security, graphics, camera, event notification, encryption, hardware capabilities, and more. You can check the details below.

OpenHarmony 5.0 Changelog

Highlights:

• The application framework gets more lifecycle management capabilities and provides sub-process-related capabilities.
• ArkUI further opens up the rendering capabilities of custom nodes.
• Application package management improves application packaging efficiency and enriches the operational scenarios for end users to use applications. (For instance, creating application clones, creating desktop shortcuts, and more)
• It enhanced the distributed data management capabilities and security while ensuring reasonable data sharing.
• File management further improves Picker’s capabilities and enables reasonable control of permissions and reasonable data sharing.
• It enhances the media’s audio, video playback, and recording capabilities with the support for multiple audio, video, and image encoding formats. It now has more detailed playback control operations.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application Framework

• Supports creating JS/Native sub-processes. Developers can execute time-consuming operations in sub-processes.
• The lifecycle monitoring ability supports more lifecycles such as onNewWant.
• Supports the ability to return AbilityResult to the caller without actively destroying itself.
• The context supports Sendable object conversion for multi-threaded Context transmission.
• Supports application-level font settings.

ArkUI

• Enhanced the component customization capability with the addition of new components like a modifier, ContentModifier, and DrawModifier, which support adding new properties based on existing components, customizing component content and fully self-drawing.

The Custom nodes and Native rendering nodes are open. Custom nodes are node objects that have some basic capabilities of underlying entity nodes. These nodes can be mixed with native components through custom placeholder nodes.

Custom nodes can have the ability to calculate the layout of a single node, set basic properties, set event monitoring, and customize the drawing and rendering content. It includes three types of objects: FrameNode, RenderNode, and BuilderNode.

• BuilderNode: Provides a custom BuilderNode that can mount native components.
• FrameNode: Provides a custom FrameNode, which represents the entity node of the component tree. NodeController can mount it to NodeContainer through the FrameNode held by BuilderNode, or obtain RenderNode through FrameNode and mount it to other FrameNodes.
• RenderNode: Provides self-drawing rendering node RenderNode to support custom drawing requirements on the Native side.
• NodeController: NodeController implements operations such as creation, display, and update of custom nodes. It is responsible for mounting custom nodes on NodeContainer.

Other enhancements in the ArkUI section include the NDK capability for the third-party framework components. It covers component creation, property setting, event registration, customization capabilities, and component tree construction.

The Navigation component has more enhanced capabilities, including single-column and double-column switching effects, interruption and continuation of transition animations, and the ability to monitor the page life cycle.

The control visuals, animations, and interactions have been refreshed and added support for aging-friendly interfaces, mirrored languages, and screen reading. Menu and pop-up components support developers in defining color, shape, rounded corners, size, position, and shadow.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application package management

• Supports access and management of application clones. Applications can access application clones through simple configuration.
• Supports home screen shortcuts. Users can dynamically add shortcuts to the home screen.
• Supports independent upgrade capabilities of system-level HSP and ArkWeb. It also supports independent updates of preset applications.
• Supports recovery mechanism after abnormal interruption of OTA upgrade. If a power outage or service crash occurs during the OTA upgrade process, the OTA process will be restored upon restart to continue installing and updating applications.
• Provides automatic cache directory cleaning capability and supports storage management to automatically clean up the cache directory when the device space is insufficient.
• Supports Native software packages and provides the capabilities of packaging, installing, and uninstalling native software packages.
• When the packaging tool packages the app, it compresses the entire app package to reduce its size on the shelf.

Distributed soft bus

• IPS provides CAPI basic interface capabilities, including serialization or deserialization, message sending and receiving processing interfaces, etc.

OpenHarmony5.0: Distributed Data Management

• RelationalStore&Preferences support access to common sandbox data.
• RDB supports opening in read-only mode.
• UDMF supports the compatibility query between UTD and MIME types.
• Migration scenario data asset synchronization optimization.
• Supports distributed data management with Class E encryption.
• The inverted index construction scenario supports an application-specified external tokenizer.
• The NDK-based CAPI supports the cross-device drag-and-drop capability of UDMF data.

A Distributed Hardware

• Provides refined ACL management: It performs refined addition, deletion, modification, and query operations on ACLs based on business devices, users, accounts, and package names.
• Quality reinforcement to improve functional stability and reliability.

Distributed DeviceProfile

• Equipment data is reconstructed hierarchically to improve the efficiency of adding, deleting, modifying, and checking data.
• Quality reinforcement, optimization of background link establishment function, and improved stability and reliability.

File Management

• Supports incremental file backup.
• Provides an interface for the backup application to obtain detailed information about the amount of backup data, allows the application to report the number of data records to be backed up (such as the number of text messages), and supports reporting of abnormal events during the backup and recovery process.
• Added support for SA access backup and recovery framework.
• Enhanced Picker capabilities: Provides the ability to select multiple files at a time in the Audio Picker; adds a Download Picker, allowing applications to save files directly to the “Download/package name level” directory, and subsequent access to the directory does not require permission to apply, complementing the download experience of applications such as browsers.
• Apps are supported to obtain access rights to public directories (Download, Desktop, Document) by applying for permissions (supported by some devices and needs to be determined by syscap). Apps cannot directly access public directories without applying for permission.
• Supports applications to select files or directories through FilePicker and obtain temporary access rights to the directory or file, and supports persistent access capabilities. Non-persistent files or directories cannot be accessed after the application exits.
• Added CreateStream, fdopenStream, and other streaming file access interfaces .
• Added new interfaces for setting and getting extended attributes.

Graphics, Images, and Windows

Graphics

• The NativeImage module based on the NDK’s C API now supports NativeWindowBuffer.
• The NDK-based C API now supports NativeVsync and multiple callbacks for a single frame.
• The NDK-based C API now supports variable frame rates.
• ColorSpaceManager supports sendable capabilities.
• The font engine supports text-shadow capabilities and underline alignment.
• The graphics drawing interface improves drawing-related capabilities.

Window

• Provides the display.getDisplayByIdSync interface for use with the multi-screen feature, allowing applications to synchronously obtain information about the screen where the Ability is located through IDs.
• Supports obtaining screen available area information.
• Support setting status bar text color according to page color in ArkUI.

Media: Audio

• Audio focus enhancement: Supports focus sessions, allowing apps to set concurrent playback policies with other apps, and allowing apps to play silently without interrupting audio playing in the background.
• Added support for more audio devices such as DP and USB headsets, and support for switching the default sound device function (earpiece and speaker).
• Added a new audio stream type for video calls to optimize the audio stream playback experience in this scenario.
• Added a unified volume component to facilitate use and reduce development complexity.
• Supports customization of the style of in-app casting components.
• Supports ringtone list query and customized ringtone settings.

Play

• The player start and seek performance are optimized to reduce latency.
• Added multiple playback protocols or formats: support DASH streaming protocol playback; support AMR, APE, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio playback.
• Added a variety of playback control capabilities: support for multi-track video playback, changing the output Surface during video playback, silent playback, precise seek, setting playback range, and subtitles.
• Supports configuration of streaming media buffer size; supports audio offload mode.
• Enhanced streaming media playback capabilities: Optimized streaming media cache strategy to reduce lag.

Recording

• Enhanced audio recording capability. It now supports MP3, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio recording.

Screen Recording

• Supports exempting the application’s own privacy window from screen recording protection, and provides a privacy confirmation window and screen recording status prompt.
• Supports excluding the specified window when recording.
• Supports configuring screen rotation and dynamically adjusting rotation parameters.
• Supports simultaneous recording of microphone and system sound.

Audio and video codec

• Added AVTranscoder transcoding interface. It supports bit rate reduction, outputs video files in video encoding AVC, audio encoding AAC, and encapsulation format MP4, and reduces the amount of data transmitted/stored.

DRM

• AVPlayer / AVCodec supports DRM information parsing of DASH protocol programs, decryption of TS-encapsulated H265 video format, and audio decryption.
• AVCodec DRM adaptation adds decryption parameter settings.

Camera

• New model capabilities have been added, including time-lapse photography, panorama, streamer shutter, large aperture video recording, and fluorescent photography.
• Added a new camera PerConfig one-click configuration mechanism to ensure consistent camera effects and reduce development complexity.
• Optimize the segmented process to improve the performance and quality of photo/video recording.
• Benchmark ArkTS API capabilities and complete related C APIs.
• Enhanced camera experience, including mirroring, zoom, anti-shake, continuous shooting, camera status notification, etc.

Picture

• EXIF reading and writing capabilities are enhanced, supporting EXIF ​​batch reading and writing, and GIF supports obtaining playback count information.
• Support HDR capabilities: HDR dual-layer encoding and decoding, and conversion between HDR and SDR.
• The codec format is enhanced to support HEIF codec and DNG decoding.
• The editing framework is based on the NDK’s C API, including the effector base class, filter base class, and custom algorithms.

Event Notification

• CEM tools now support publishing custom public events.
• Emitter adds a new generic interface that can be used to directly pass Sendable objects.
• Supports synchronous query notification enablement status.

Basic Communications

• Support third-party applications to connect to hotspots through network management.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Network Management

Network management capabilities

• Supports specifying a Wi-Fi hotspot by creating a NetConnection object to connect to it.
• An NDK-based C API that provides network management status monitoring, application-level proxy monitoring, and other capabilities.

The Network protocol stack capabilities

• Supports upgrading TCP Socket to TLS Socket to improve communication security.
• TLS Socket supports skipping certificate verification to avoid scenarios where the certificate cannot be verified under special circumstances.
• All sockets support obtaining local IP and port.
• HTTP supports configuring certificate pinning information.
• HTTP supports the brotli compression algorithm.

Power Supply

• Supports obtaining the current charging current. Third-party applications can obtain the current device current through nowCurrent.
• Supports temperature control actions in flight mode. Developers can customize temperature control strategies to control the device to enter flight mode.
• Supports power consumption control based on the WorkSource agent running a lock-assisted resource scheduling module.
• It supports automatically entering S4 sleep mode after waking up from S3 sleep mode when the battery is low, achieving ultra-long standby characteristics.
• After the system starts, it supports reading and broadcasting the presence information of the device shell/case, the battery information kernel node, whether to send a broadcast, etc., which supports developer configuration.

USB

• USB DEVICE configuration management security access control enhancement.
• The USB standard data transfer mode (interrupt transfer, bulk transfer) function is enhanced.
• Supports standard USB peripheral security management and control.

Start Recovery

• It supports Native software package packaging, installation, running, and uninstallation, and builds a Native software package development and release system, which helps to quickly build productivity software ecosystem capabilities and also helps system developers improve development efficiency.
• Provides a resettable developer anonymous device identifier ODID to replace UDID and other hardware identifiers.
• Supports running bftpd commands and debugging application sandbox data access in user mode.

Globalization

• Provides C API to support internationalization capabilities of the ICU4C standard.
• International formatting processing capabilities support screen size adaptation.
• Full support for pseudo-localization testing.
• Provides C API to support resource file management capabilities.
• String resources support translatability markers.
• Provides minority language font capabilities.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Safety

Encryption and decryption algorithm library framework

• ArkTS API provides corresponding C APIs for some commonly used encryption and decryption algorithm capabilities.
• Support SM4-GCM algorithm interface.

Certificate Management

• Provides an API for launching the certificate management interface.
• Provides an API for obtaining an application’s private certificate list.

Program access control

• Geolocation permissions support a one-time authorization option.
• Supports opening the permission management application interface of the settings page.

User IAM

• Supports password validity period checking.
• Supports recovery keys.

Account

• Supports logging out of local accounts.
• Supports specifying a short account name (used as the name of the personal folder) when creating a local account.
• Support querying local account names.
• Added new privacy account type.
• Added unlock authentication intent.
• Added new credential types: Graphic and Four-digit PIN.

OpenHarmony 5.0: ArkCompiler

The ArkTS front-end compiler

• Syntax enhancement: the compilation target is switched from es2017 to es2021, and the compilation of source code files with es2018~es2021 syntax features is supported.
• The obfuscation capability is enhanced to support exception stack restoration, file granularity non-obfuscation, HAP and HSP module file name obfuscation, and whitelist wildcard function.

ArkTS Runtime

• Supports lazy loading of modules, and synchronously loads executable files when variables are used, improving application startup performance.
• The concurrency capability is enhanced, providing a Sendable object-sharing mechanism to optimize the object cross-thread communication performance; TaskPool provides functions such as task queues, long-term tasks, and periodic tasks.
• The debugging function is enhanced to support reverse debugging, Smart Step into, and other functions.
• The tuning function is enhanced to support hiperf/profiler mixed back stack and multi-instance HeapDump functions.

ArkTS basic library

• It supports high-precision floating-point operations, provides StringDecoder character stream decoding capabilities, stream data stream processing capabilities, and supports bit vectors.

JSVM

• Provides a system JS engine that supports the high-performance running of JS and WASM.

Integrated sensor processing platform

Drag frame

• Supports rotating and dragging the window as the window rotates.
• Supports dragging between three devices.
• Supports application-defined configuration to not display quantity badges during dragging.
• Supports data receiver to customize cut and copy behaviors.

Keyboard and mouse crossing

• Control both ends to initiate activate interface calls at the same time.
• Optimize the timing issues of keyboard and mouse crossing, reduce system dependence, and eliminate timing issues between multiple processes.
• Improve traversal management performance, increase success rate, and reduce traversal delay.

Multimode input

• Provides C API to support device information query and other related capabilities.

Pan Sensor

Vibrator

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• The system can better use motor devices to trigger vibration according to different device capability levels.

Sensor

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• Provides C API to support linear acceleration and game rotation vector sensors.

Accessibility

• Magnification gesture: supports magnifying the screen content through gestures.
• Active broadcast capability: When the application is adapted for screen reading, it can support active broadcast of changing information through accessibility in some dynamically changing scenarios.
• Active focus capability: When an application is adapted to screen reading, it can request active focus on components in certain scenarios.

Resource Scheduling

Background Tasks

• Apply for long-duration task types and support applying for multiple types of long-duration tasks at the same time.
• The application applies for DATA_TRANSFER download-related long-term tasks, and supports returning download notifications to the application for progress updates.

Performance, power consumption, thermal integration control

• The system load fusion gear is determined based on information such as the current temperature, load, and whether it is in a high-load scenario. After the application registers the system load callback, it can adaptively downgrade its own business load according to the different levels of the system load fusion gear, thereby reducing the load of the entire machine.

Agent reminder

• When an application applies for a recurring calendar reminder, it supports specifying an exclusion day, on which no reminder will be given.
• When the application applies for a reminder, wantAgent supports passing parameters. When jumping to the target UIAbility after clicking the reminder, the parameters are carried.
• When the application queries for published reminders, the corresponding reminderId is returned in the query results.

Testing Framework

• Supports compatibility testing of cross-platform interfaces.

DFX

• Provides an API to determine whether the HDC debugger is connected.
• Support turning on the trace function in developer mode.
• Enable awareness of main thread timeout events.
• errorManager supports TaskPool and Worker to listen for unhandled Reject events.

Kernel

• Provide thread QoS level marking and scheduling based on user interaction relationships.

Upload and download

• request.agent.Fault refines the error types to help developers quickly locate API usage problems.
• request.agent.Config adds a new proxy member to support setting the network proxy address of the task.
• request.agent.Task.start supports restarting failed\stopped tasks, making it easier for developers to quickly recover failed tasks.
• request.agent.Task supports configuring TLS certificate pinning fingerprints using the network.json configuration file.
• request.agent.FileSpec supports specifying all file paths under the base directory of the application sandbox, making it easier for developers to manage sandbox files. It also supports uploading public files on the front end, such as gallery files and album files, to reduce the overhead caused by additional copies.

Input Method Framework

• The NDK-based C API now supports self-drawn UI components using input methods, including launching and exiting input methods, and processing text on-screen requests.
• Optimize the callback timing when pulling up the keyboard, so that the input method application can adjust the keyboard display content in time according to the input box properties.

Time Zone

• Provides system APIs for forcing NTP time to refresh and obtaining the current NTP time.
• The NDK-based C API provides the ability to obtain the time zone.

Clipboard

• The NDK-based C API supports clipboard capabilities.
• Provides a cross-device clipboard switch.
• When the app is upgraded to API 12 or later, add a read permission check to the clipboard reading interface.

Web

• The network takeover feature is enhanced to support obtaining the FrameUrl of the request and the ResourceType of the intercepted request.
• Supports the pre-screening capability of the Web scene input method.
• Supports Web Components keyboard hosting capabilities.
• Supports synchronous drawing capabilities of Web components and ArkUI native components.
• Supports setting whitelist directories that can be accessed across domains using the File protocol.
• Support applications to specify rendering subprocesses.
• Web components support an accelerometer and gyroscope.
• Web components support intelligent filling of H5 pages.
• Web components support BFCache capabilities.
• Improve the soft keyboard avoidance mechanism of Web components and support Resize and Offset modes.

Theme Framework

• Supports enabling themes through folder directories, which improves the performance of enabling themes compared to enabling through compressed packages.
• Supports the management of card resources, and the ability to add, delete, modify and query added subject cards.
• Provides characterization functions for external screen devices and supports enabling external screen themes.
• Theme enablement support does not switch the current “active” directory.

Compile and build

• The CMake version required for compiling and building dependencies has been upgraded from 3.16.5 to 3.28.2.

OpenHarmony 5.0 released with ArkUI and other improvements (Image Credits: OpenHarmony)

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Looking into the key features, the Huawei MatePad 12 X tablet brings an ultra-bright PaperMatte display, an upgraded GoPaint app, a NearLink accessory, smart tools for the Notes app, ultra-long battery life, and the most appealing color variants.

Without any ados, let’s jump into the MatePad 12 X tablet features and specs!

Design

The ultimate tablet comes in three colors: Greenery, White, and Sakura Pink. It adopts an all-metal design with clear-cut lines and glossy bezels around the screen. The shimmery polish on the rear side with a Nova 12-like camera design gives a stunning feel.

Huawei MatePad 12 X colors (Image Credits: Huawei)

Display and Dimensions

MatePad 12 X dimensions count 183 x 270 x 5.9mm and weighs 555 grams. It features a 12-inch LCD screen with 2800 x 1840 pixels resolution, 280 PPI, 16.7 million colors, a P3 wide color gamut, 1000 nits peak brightness, and an 88% contrast ratio.

It has a self-adaptive refresh rate of 30-144Hz which ensures crystal clear view and reduces power consumption, offering a reliable experience.

Being a PaperMatte solution, the device reduces light interference by 99% and reflection by 60%. Thus, users get tactile, natural, and brighter visuals.

Huawei MatePad 12 X display features (Image Credits: Huawei)

Internal Configuration

Huawei hasn’t listed the chipset details yet. But a previous input said that the tablet sports a Kirin 9000W chip, the same as the MatePad Pro 13.2.

It pre-installs the HarmonyOS 4.2 software system paired with 8GB/12GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The tablet supports NearLink technology, a 3rd-gen stylus, and a magnetic keyboard to give a PC-like experience.

Huawei MatePad 12 X specs (Image Credits: Huawei)

Camera

The tablet has a dual-lens arrangement with a 13MP (f/1.8 + autofocus) HD main shooter and an 8MP (f/2.2 + fixed focus) wide-angle lens. The front side bears a tiny 8MP selfie lens with f/2.2 aperture). An LED flash also resides in the elongated frame.

Battery and Charging

MatePad 12 X installs a 10100mAh large-capacity battery paired with 66W super fast charging. It provides 14 hours of video playback in a single charge cycle.

New Upgraded Apps:

Huawei MatePad 12 X tablet has an upgraded GoPaint app with 150+ premium brushes, smart tools, quick gestures, and interactive training tutorials.

PC-level WPS office shares a laptop-like interface so that users can get more done on the go. The Notes app also has smart tools like lasso, Note Replay, and a one-tap split-screen tool. Users can also access SuperHub and Floating Multi-Window features.

Huawei MatePad 12 X features (Image Credits: Huawei)

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The CEO of Honor Company Zhao Ming announced that the Magic 7 series will debut with the AI Agent features. It will be the first smartphone lineup to support the new assistant. The executive shared the news after the Apple iPhone 16 launch event.

Zhao says that Apple and Honor share the same goal regarding AI tech and its development. They can eventually promote innovation to the next level by fairly competing with each other for new AI services. His statements on Weibo reads:

‘AI Agent will start a new round of innovative competition in smartphones. Honor Magic 7 will be the first mobile phone that Chinese consumers can experience AI Agent. More surprises are worth looking forward to.”

Honor AI Agent (Image Credits: Honor/X)

Honor also showcased its AI Agent at the IFA 2024 event alongside Apple Intelligence. The company demonstrated a few AI Agent features on the stage. For instance, It identifies user intentions precisely and performs complex tasks accordingly.

Users can also manage multiple scenarios or operations by drag-and-drag gestures or a voice command to the smart assistant. Just a few seconds and the work is done.

The company has built its AI Agent on four capabilities. These are understanding and computer vision, learning users’ behavior and habits as per scenarios, intent recognition and decision-making, and in-app as well as cross-app actions.

Honor AI Agent capabilities (Image Credits: Honor/X)

According to the Honor Global page on X, the AI Agent:

“Phone assistants are not new, but by harnessing the power of AI, we’re proud to present the first on-device AI Agent for the open ecosystem.”

AI Agent understands the on-screen content and takes multiple steps to process the task. For example, canceling subscriptions. It also supports the Deepfake Detection Tech to help keep users safe from fake video fraud in the outside world.

The feature will enable your phone to auto-renew some apps. It may also let you command multiple tasks in one tap or one command. For example trip planning, ticket booking, and more. All these features will show up with the Magic 7 flagship.

Honor AI Agent features (Image Credits: Honor/X)

In the advanced phone competition where Apple introduced the iPhone 16 with AI absence, Honor and Huawei are grabbing the surface with AI-oriented devices. After Mate XT, the Magic 7 series seems ready to take over Apple with AI Agent.

Apple will introduce AI features to iPhone 16 Chinese models next year. This delay could push back the U.S. tech giant in the smartphone race where its rivals are already hyping their new products with the AI smart features.

Honor AI Agent vs Apple Intelligence (Image Credits: Honor/X)

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The Android 16 Quick Settings and Notification Panel tweak has appeared ahead of the Android 15 stable release. Spotted in the Android 15 QPR1 beta, the U.S. firm plans to separate the Quick Settings and Notification Panel with the next upgrade.

Up to this point, Android software used to offer a unified Notification Panel and Quick Settings. But with the next Android version, Google could change this pattern.

Starting with the Notification Panel, users will be able to access the panel via a single swipe gesture. But rather than covering the entire screen, the panel will only take a quarter of the display. Notably, this gesture won’t let you access Quick Settings.

Android 16 Notification Panel (Image Credits: AndroidAuthority)

For the Control Center, users need to swipe down on the screen with two fingers. This could be slightly annoying as it ends the one-hand accessibility. Although Google might make new changes or enhancements to this segment in the time ahead.

Quick Settings will further reflect a dual-shade design throughout. Also, the brightness adjuster now appears in a thick pill shape and shows a text label, just like volume sliders. Users may also see 2 x 2 grid tiles and 4 x 2 grids for narrow tiles.

The Quick Settings will show 12-16 tiles per page. One can swipe left or right to access more settings. Light mode could be another addition. This is just an initial look and Google could make changes to these panels with the next versions.

Android 16 Quick Settings (Image Credits: Android Authority)

Huawei Central’s Take:

Separate Quick Settings and Notification Panel – well, that reminds us of the Huawei phones. The Chinese OEM introduced this concept with EMUI 12 based on extensive research on user preferences and psychology. One can easily go through all alerts and notifications at a time without getting stuck due to Quick Settings.

Years later, smartphone makers started adopting the same pattern for their Android skin. Xiaomi’s HyperOS and now Google are examples in this case. But instead of making it a tough task, Huawei simplified the dual panels with easy one-finger gestures.

How Google will renovate this idea with Android 16 would be worth looking at.

[Source – AndroidAuthority]

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The device measures 9.2mm when folded and is the thinnest AI foldable. Other dimensions are 156.6mm in height and weigh 230 grams. (Black variant: 226 grams).

Thinnest & Lightest Foldable

Compared to other book-type folding phones like Galaxy Z Fold 6 or the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, the Magic V3 is the slimmest, lightest, and most incredible creation. It is only 9.2 mm thick when folded. This is even less than its predecessor (Magic V2 foldable: 9.9mm).

When unfolded, the device becomes even thinner with a 4.4mm measurement. Thus, users will get a lighter and more amazing feel even holding the phone for hours. In terms of heaviness, here’s a short comparison:

• Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold: 257 grams
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6: 239 grams
• Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: 232 grams
• Honor Magic V3: 226 grams.

The winner is Magic V3. Another mind-blowing point in this topic is, that Honor’s new foldable uses a 5150mAh battery. Despite a larger cell than rivals, the device is lightweight and offers a comfortable touch to consumers’ hands.

Honor Magic V3 is the thinnest foldable to date (Image Credits: Honor)

Now let’s have a look at other features

• Dynamic Design
• Dome-Shaped Octagonal Camera
• Faster Charging
• Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip
• AI Features

Hinge

Magic V3 adopts a super steel hinge. It not only makes the phone thinner but also durable. The device has survived around 500000 folds and claims to provide the best user experience. The inner screen uses non-newtonian fluid and nonscale anti-wear coating to boost the phone’s lifespan.

Honor has crafted Magic V3 with aerospace-grade fibers. It adopts an anti-scratch nanocrystal coating on the screen and an extra protective film which increases the scratch and drop resistance by 10 times. These materials hike the phone’s durability by 40 times.

The device uses a 7.92-inch inner OLED screen and a 6.43-inch outer OLED panel. These screens support the AI defocus lens principle to reduce eye fatigue and offer a better visual experience.

Other screen parameters include 1.07 billion colors, DCI-P3 wide color gamut, 4320Hz PWM dimming, and flicker-free capabilities.

Honor Magic V3 camera specifications (Image Credits: Honor)

Internal Configuration

The foldable phone equips the octa-core Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip paired with Adreno 750 GPU. It comes with the MagicOS 8.0.1 software system and supports several AI functionalities. The enhanced C1+ chip in the model ensures efficient performance of both hardware and software. Whereas, the discrete security S1 chip looks after the privacy aspects.

Honor uses a Silicon Carbon cell with a capacity of 5150mAh that offers a long battery life to Magic V3. It supports 66W SuperCharge wired charging and 50W wireless charging.

Speaking of the camera, Honor Magic V3 bears a triple-lens arrangement with a 40MP main camera, a 50MP ultra-wide angle lens, and a 50MP telephoto lens. It also supports 100x digital zoom focus. Meanwhile, the front part has dual-camera sensors: 20MP wide camera + 20MP wide camera.

AI Features

• AI Privacy Call 3.0: It identifies the ambient volume and ensures clarity without leaking the sound. It supports two-way noise cancellation and filtering for clear dialogue.
• Face-to-face translation: The inner and outer screens together translate the content regardless of the input method.
• AI Honor Notes: The notes application now lets you convert audio into text and use multi-person voiceprint verification. Users can also translate multiple languages at the same time.
• Smart Gestures: Use knuckle circle gestures to look for any image on Google Search or from other apps.
• App Sorting: The feature offers a clutter-free interface by organizing them well on the home screen. It also lets you access the app directly whenever required.

Some other smart features that users can access with the Magic V3 foldable are AI Magic Ring and Magic Portal. The device has qualified for an IPX8 rating.

Alongside the Honor Magic V3 device, the company has also unveiled the MagicPad 2 and the MagicBook Art 14 laptop for global consumers.

Honor Magic V3 specifications (Image Credits: Honor)

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GoPaint app (Born to Draw in Chinese) launched in May this year. It is the company’s first self-developed drawing app which offers interesting features, new brushes, beautiful canvas, and even tutorial videos to become a Pro in the drawing field.

The app already had 100 brush strokes, different canvases with ink wash, old paints, and watercolor options. It also consists of shortcut gestures to select a color, undo any command, control/adjust the canvas, or enter the immersive painting mode.

But with the stable version, Huawei has added more new offerings to the GoPaint app. Users can now access up to 150 preset brushes with 80+ brush settings. Use a normal, dual, or fluid brush to form a splash ink pattern by double-clicking the pen.

Huawei GoPaint app new features (Image Credits: Huawei)

The company has further integrated AI into the app to make it smarter than before. MatePad tablet owners can use AI smart selection, correct the curves, draw with a willow leaf pen, or opt for other smart tools to reach the utmost artistic level.

The next add-on is the Fantigan Painting Engine 2.0. This tech supports 8K large canvases with 120fps and 100+ 6K high-definition layers. Thus, users will get immensely smoother, and impressive creativity at a high frame rate with low latency.

Fantigan Painting Engine 2.0 for GoPaint app (Image Credits: Huawei)

AI portrait exercise will enable you to select your picture and create its animated portrait. With artificial intelligence, the app gives your image an animated look. Pre-set line drawing templates are now also available with the stable GoPaint app version.

Huawei GoPaint app new features (Image Credits: Huawei)

Huawei GoPaint New feature support plan

After launching the official GoPaint app, the company announced a new feature support plan for its tablets. This plan will come into action later this month (late August) and cover 15 MatePad devices including flagship as well as mid-rangers.

The company divided the new GoPaint app features based on the compatibility of tablets. Hence, only a few tablets will support AI tools. You can check the details below.

Splatter Brush:

• Available for MatePad Pro 12.2. Requires Huawei M-Pencil 2nd-gen and above

Fluid Brushes:

• Available for MatePad Pro 12.2 and MatePad Air 2024
• Rollout time for other devices: late August
• Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2
• Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2024 models

8K Canvas:

• Rollout time: late August
• Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2
• Huawei MatePad Air 12
• Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2
• Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2024 models

AI Portrait Practice:

• Available for MatePad Pro 12.2 and MatePad Air 2024
• Rollout time for other devices: late August
• Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2
• Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2024 models
• Huawei MatePad 11.5-inch S
• Huawei MatePad 11.5-inch S Smart Edition

September 2024: Stable GoPaint app for other models

• Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 2022
• Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 2021
• Huawei MatePad Air 11.5
• Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2022 Performance Edition

October to December 2024

• Huawei MatePad Pro 11 2022
• Huawei MatePad 11
• Huawei MatePad 11 2023
• Huawei MatePad Pro 10.8 2021
• Huawei MatePad 2023

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FreeBuds 6i is already available for the pre-sale activity. Although the tech giant has now launched it officially for its home ground consumers with effective features.

Design:

Starting with the standard variant, the Huawei FreeBuds 6i in China has arrived with upgraded features. It is available in three shades: Sky White, Flowing Purple, and Magic Night Black. It measures 31.4 x 21.3 x 23.7mm and weighs 5.4gm without a charging case.

The charging case bears a dimension of 48.2 x 61.8 x 27.0mm and weighs 34 grams. FreeBuds 6i supports various audio techs like Dynamic EQ, ANC, and Transparent Video/Call noise reduction. It also has Infrared, Hall, and Touch sensors.

Huawei Freebuds 6i colors (Image Credits: Huawei)

Well, touch sensors remind of how the device effectively supports quick gestures for certain tasks. Just adjust the settings and you can opt for the following operations:

• Double Tap: Play/Pause the music or Answer/Hang up the call.
• Tap three times: switch to the next song or go back to the previous song.
• Slide: Slide up or down once to increase or decrease the volume by one level.
• Press and hold: You can adjust the noise control or reject any call by pressing and holding the earbud.

Internal Parameters:

Based on the Helmholtz resonance principle, the FreeBuds 6i design easily makes the noise from the outer surroundings less effective. It has 3 mics. Two of these collect ambient noise whereas, the other captures noise in the ear to provide optimized sound.

Huawei Freebuds 6i internal specs (Image Credits: Huawei)

The earphones include an 11mm four-magnet dynamic driver with a range of 14Hz-40kHz. It equips skin-friendly silicon buds that come in different sizes. The device has qualified for an IP54 rating yet, the case is not waterproof.

Battery and Charging

Each earbud contains a 55mAh cell whereas, the charging box carries a 510mAh battery. A full charge to these buds can let you tune on to your favorite music for up to 35 hours. Battery down? Don’t worry, just charge it for 10 minutes and it will be alive to play music for 4 hours more. Thus, you can enjoy your music anytime.

Note: 35 hours of music playback only works when the Noise Reduction feature is disabled.

The device supports a powerful bass and 27dB noise cancelation depth at all frequencies. ANC 3.0 algorithm is the next useful tech that optimizes the earbuds as per the environment. It can adapt to 34 types of scenarios in seconds, bringing a noise-free experience. The company has improved the noise reduction by 100%.

Huawei FreeBuds 6i supports the highest ANC bandwidth of 5kHz. It can adjust according to the surroundings. For instance, it will lessen the noise of coffee machines, conversations, and footsteps in a cafe, while making it most silent in the airplane so you may not get disturbed by the heavy engine noise.

Huawei Freebuds 6i specifications (Image Credits: Huawei)

FreeBuds 6i Flowing Light Sound Edition

Apart from the standard variant, the company has also unveiled the new Huawei FreeBuds 6i Flowing Light Sound Edition in China. It is co-developed with Pop-Mart and brings an exciting gift box for consumers. Although the specs are similar as the original version.

It has a pearl-textured charging case which symbolizes a glowing as well as healing energy. You may also find new pop-up themes while connecting it to your Huawei device.

Price:

The standard FreeBuds 6i is available for 599 yuan in China whereas, the new Flowing Light Sound Edition costs 899 yuan and is live on pre-sale. Meanwhile, the standard FreeBuds 6i sale has started on the official VMall.

Huawei Freebuds 6i Flowing Light Sound Edition (Image Credits: Huawei)

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Samsung has been ruling the Android world with its high-profile Galaxy S series for years. Even though the company didn’t make dynamic shifts in the design, it kept upgrading the device with powerful Qualcomm and its self-developed Exynos chips.

The South Korean firm used AI features as another weapon to maintain its position in the global smartphone market. Galaxy S24 series is the latest example of smart AI features. It’s something that Huawei lacks in its overseas smartphone units.

But one thing where Samsung lags far behind Huawei is software and UI smoothness. While the former is still struggling to make its One UI more efficient and fluent, the latter seems to have mastered the field. How so? Let’s find it out in detail.

Samsung has been trying to improve its UI animations for the past three years. The company was said to enhance its software smoothness with One UI 5.0 (Android 13).

Test: HarmonyOS 3.0 vs One UI 5.0

Although Huawei pushed off the company in this race with HarmonyOS 3.0. The software dynamically responded to swipe-up gestures and other animation scenarios over One UI 5.0 during a test. It even surpassed the iOS 16 operating system.

On the other hand, One UI 5.0 gave sluggish UI outcomes with slow and non-fluent animations. Even though the company tried to improve this problem with One UI 6 and other versions, it persisted even on flagship phones like the Galaxy S series.

Comparison of HarmonyOS 3.0, One UI 5.0, and iOS 16 UI (Image Credits: Ice Universe/X)

Animation Issues with Flagship Devices:

Users of Galaxy S23 handsets reported last year that they continue to face jittery animations on several third-party apps. The UI isn’t smooth enough and often lags while performing quick gestures or other important operations on the device.

“…All I’m seeing is micro stutters all over. Even YouTube is doing it for me now, so not only 3rd party apps. I came from an iPhone 11 Pro Max, due to 60Hz it definitely wasn’t as smooth. But it was ‘smoother’ since there were no weird lag issues like S23.” – said a Reddit user.

The problem continues…

A reliable tipster @UniverseIce recently said that Samsung is the only brand unable to achieve trouble-free system animations. While scrolling or swiping on One UI 6, the animation either cuts off in the middle or the app icons suddenly disappear.

Many users facing similar issues agreed with the tipster’s point. Despite AI features and sky-touching priced phones, Samsung disappointed users with UI smoothness. The problem might not have affected every Samsung phone user, yet it is there.

Samsung One UI animation issue (Image Credits: Ice Universe/X)

Huawei EMUI software and UI

Huawei, on the flip side, is making huge leaps in UI customizations and smoother animations. Whether we talk about EMUI 14 or HarmonyOS 4.2 the company has made its software much more fluent than any other OS in the current scenario.

A huge credit goes to Huawei’s self-developed Ark Engine. The tech giant has used a beneficial component that significantly reduces lagging and enhances smoothness. Compared to One UI, the latest EMUI 14.2 build offers faster image loading, smoother motions, and quicker app launches in Huawei smartphones.

Regardless of numerous apps running in the background, the software responds to the user’s operation in no time, without ruining the visual experience.

HarmonyOS NEXT vs One UI 7

Huawei is now focusing on HarmonyOS NEXT. The stable version is yet to be released. But ahead of that, many tipsters exploring the testing builds said that HarmonyOS NEXT is far smoother than other OS like One UI, iOS, and more.

Samsung is also working on improving the animation part with One UI 7. But whether it will be able to resolve the previous issues completely is still a question.

Not only the software, but Huawei is bringing smoothness to the next level with HarmonyOS native apps. Compared to other Android apps, these applications will be 20-30% smoother. Thus, Huawei seems ready to raise the competition for Samsung in UI smoothness.

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