Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, unveiled HarmonyOS at Huawei Developer Conference 2019. After a year, Huawei Developer Conference 2020 is about to kick off.
Huawei announced on August 25 that it will hold a full-screen new product launch event on September 10 at 8 p.m. Beijing time.
It released a poster showing that it will launch a new laptop, watch, and band at the event, which may come with HarmonyOS according to previous reports.
Huawei announces Sept 10 launch event, HarmonyOS-powered laptop, watch, band expected
At the conference, HarmonyOS will undoubtedly remain one of the main events, and the highly anticipated operating system may receive a new upgrade.
From what is known so far, HarmonyOS and Huawei Moblie Services will both receive new versions, and releasing more promising operating systems and eco-products will be Huawei's focus at this stage.
In 2019, Huawei officially launched version 1.0 of HarmonyOS, followed by the Huawei Glory Smart Screen with the system, becoming the first smartphone product to taste the system.
According to Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, at the time, HarmonyOS can open up multiple terminal forms across all scenarios, including smart screens, in the future.
Richard Yu said that Huawei mobile phones can be equipped with HarmonyOS at any time, but he did not give a clear timetable.
Huawei's Richard Yu: HarmonyOS will be used on PCs, tablets, and even phones
Compared to IoT terminals, the mobile OS and application ecosystem is more mature, and it is more complicated for Huawei to build its own mobile HarmonyOS ecosystem.
Take smart screen for example, its basic applications mainly include video platform, music platform, and other relatively simple scenes, can be equipped with HarmonyOS first, and gradually improve its application ecology.
But smartphones are completely different. In addition to audio and video, social networking, office, payment, maps, and other scenes need to have a complete ecological construction, otherwise, it is difficult to attract users to use.
That's why Huawei is vigorously promoting its Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem.
Over the course of a year, Huawei has focused a large number of R&D staff on pushing the iteration of HMS Core.
In June this year, Huawei just rolled out the HMS Core 5.0 update, adding new audio, video, image, graphics engine, computer graphics, augmented reality engine, and other service capabilities, further improving the core capabilities.
From Huawei's own point of view, this progress is not too fast. But there is still a distance to go if it is to achieve its goal of being on par with the Google Apple ecosystem.
Under the current unique circumstances, HarmonyOS has become a common expectation of the domestic industry and users, but the ecological construction is not a one-day effort, and Huawei needs to be given enough time.
Over the past year, Huawei executives have stressed on various occasions that Huawei HarmonyOS is an operating system that can span all devices, and that future IoT (Internet of Things) devices can all be connected through HarmonyOS.
As of now, Huawei is steadily moving forward with the landing of HarmonyOS on watches/bands, cars, and IoT products, as previously targeted.
The global smartphone market is currently facing large growth bottlenecks, and IoT is already seen by many manufacturers as the next growth engine.
This developer conference, if HarmonyOS launches new versions on watches, cars, and other terminals, the upgraded HarmonyOS may also have new distributed capabilities released to open up more IoT terminals and capabilities.
The ecological construction of HarmonyOS cannot be achieved by Huawei alone, and the support of partners is indispensable.
Take HarmonyOS's map ecological construction as an example, Huawei officially launched AR maps in April this year based on river map technology, which can achieve centimeter-level 3D maps and 1:1 restoration of the real world.
However, for these capabilities to be truly usable by users, they may need to be promoted in cooperation with the corresponding map and travel service providers.
