Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Less than three months after the release of HarmonyOS 4, what has been called the fastest growing intelligent terminal operating system in history has once again ushered in its own milestone.

On October 30, Huawei officially announced that the number of HarmonyOS 4 upgraded devices has exceeded 100 million!

HarmonyOS 4 was officially unveiled at Huawei HDC2023 conference in August this year, which is the fourth major version update of Hongmeng.

Two weeks after the launch of HarmonyOS 4, he Gang, chief operating officer of Huawei, revealed that more than 5 million users had voluntarily signed up for the upgrade experience. Among them, the new features such as personality theme, interesting mood theme and panoramic weather wallpaper are loved by young users, and the net recommended value (NPS) of users has increased by 16% compared with the previous generation.

At Huawei's autumn full-scene new product launch on September 26, Yu Chengdong, managing director of Huawei, terminal BG CEO and chairman of smart car solution BU, announced that the number of upgraded devices in Hongmeng 4 has reached 60 million, and the number of users is increasing by 1.2 million every day.

Now, after four iterations from 2019 to 2023, Hongmeng Ecology has gone through the four most difficult years. With the Mate60 series, Mate X5 and other Wang fried products with HarmonyOS 4 released one after another, HarmonyOS 4 ushered in a moment of Nirvana.

As implied in "a boat has sailed over ten thousand mountains", Hongmeng has climbed ten thousand peaks and opened a new chapter under the curtain of the digital age.

As a new choice in the digital world, Hongmeng has passed the Wanzhongshan Hongmeng system and made its debut at the 2019 developer Conference. The background of its birth is not only the strategic layout of Huawei's preparation in advance, but also the urgent need of the digital age.

According to the "Research report on the Operation status and Development Strategy of China's Internet of things Industry from 2020 to 2026" released by Zhiyan Consulting, it is predicted that by 2025, the number of terminal connections of the Internet of things in the world will reach 25.6 billion, while the total number of connections of the Internet of things in China will reach 10.2 billion. An earlier report released by IDC confirmed this: the number of Internet of things connections in China will increase from 5.6 billion in 2022 to about 10.25 billion by 2026.

As consumers, we can clearly feel the trend that modern consumers no longer rely on smartphones as the only smart terminals.

Huawei, as a leader in the technology industry for many years, has long had an insight into the opportunities of the Internet of everything era, and the past ecological fragmentation of systems and the lack of rich applications and services for IoT devices are obviously not suitable for the pace of the Internet of everything era.

This also means that Huawei is bound to take a completely different route from Android and iOS to build a brand new system.

Under this kind of thinking, Hongmeng was officially born.

This is an operating system across mobile phone terminals, intelligent hardware, the Internet of things and other multi-terminal devices, facing the future, with the concept of panoramic distribution as the core. This also explains why every time Hongmeng updates a large version, there will be tens of millions of equipment upgrades.

Based on the concept of full scene distribution, Hongmeng is not just made for mobile phones. The huge number of IoT ecological equipment has become the basis of Hongmeng's upgrade. Every time Hongmeng tries to recruit a new version, in addition to Huawei phones, there are also a variety of IoT devices, such as watches, tablets, headphones, smart screens, and even smart door locks and routers.

Together, they have built Hongmeng's huge ecological base, which is unthinkable on any operating system in the past.

As a new intelligent terminal operating system that can be transferred and deployed for all devices, Hongmeng has continued to evolve on the road to achieving the grand goal of the Internet of everything over the past four years:

In August 2019, HarmonyOS was first applied to Huawei Smart screen.

A year later, HarmonyOS 2 version brought distributed soft bus, distributed data management, distributed security and other technologies.

In July 2022, HarmonyOS 3 launched an upgrade, with six features of HyperTerminal, Hongmeng Zhaopin, Universal Card, fluency, privacy security and information accessibility, bringing a commonly used and new wisdom experience.

Today, HarmonyOS 4 has evolved in an all-round way, bringing four upgrades around personalization, efficiency, intelligence, fluency and security, once again leading the industry.

In a short period of four years, Hongmeng system has achieved a leap from zero to one, from one to infinity. Through continuous innovation and upgrading, Hongmeng system has made remarkable achievements:

Huawei's HarmonyOS has become the fastest growing intelligent terminal operating system in history. At present, the number of devices equipped with HarmonyOS has exceeded 700 million.

From insight into the times to adapting to the times, and then to leading the times, Hongmeng has gone through ten thousand mountains, which has also helped Huawei achieve a bottoming rebound.

HarmonyOS 4: the more personalized Hong Meng, the more secure Hong Meng, the number of devices that surged to 100 million in only three months is also inseparable from the excellent experience of HarmonyOS 4 itself.

HarmonyOS 4 brings unprecedented personalized and efficient interactive experience, focusing on personalization, efficiency, wisdom, fluency, security and other aspects of the key upgrade, a new interface style, unique personalized settings, efficient and smooth interactive experience and continuously progressive privacy and security features are well received by consumers.

Specifically, HarmonyOS 4 brings personalized features such as personalized theme, panoramic weather wallpaper, mood wallpaper, and brings unique visual and interactive experience to users through new algorithms with the help of AI capabilities. For example, in terms of individual themes, HarmonyOS 4 launched "picture main content automatically identify intelligent composition" and "AI matting technology", users only need to upload photos to the theme center, select the corresponding style theme, the system can automatically complete matting, wallpaper design and other actions, so that ordinary photos become exquisite wallpaper in seconds.

HarmonyOS 4 also optimizes the vision of the notification center and adds a live window function to bring users a complete, continuous and efficient experience through capsules and cards. For example, for takeout applications, the status of "serving, picking up, and delivering" can be displayed in real time, avoiding notification brushing, and allowing users to obtain information efficiently and intuitively.

For watch equipment, HarmonyOS 4 also adds a "chord moon window", which can place important information such as flight check-in counter, boarding gate and travel license plate on the upper right of the dial, so that users can get important information by raising their hands.

For productivity and interaction, HarmonyOS 4 brings a new super transit station and smart screen recognition, in which the super transit station has the ability to recognize the smart screen, which can support more applications and usage scenarios.

On HarmonyOS 4, Xiaoyi integrates AI large model ability, HarmonyOSAPI and other technologies, has a strong natural language understanding ability, can understand and understand users' more colloquial expressions, and can achieve more natural and smooth dialogue and interaction. For example, in HarmonyOS 4, Xiaoyi allows users to communicate in natural language. Under user authorization, Xiaoyi can understand and record important events and critical days. At the same time, Xiaoyi's broadcasting experience is constantly optimized to provide users with broadcasting experiences in different scenarios.

For a more smooth experience, HarmonyOS 4 brings the new Huawei Ark engine, which significantly improves the capabilities in graphics, multimedia, memory, scheduling, storage, low power consumption, etc., as well as a series of security functions such as brand-new application control center and application tracking management, making risk alerts more visible, risk applications more controllable, and protection online at all times.

In addition, with the blessing of HarmonyOS 4, Hongmeng cockpit has also realized the collaborative experience of multiple people and devices, including the super desktop of HarmonyOS 4, which further optimizes the collaboration and experience between mobile phone and mobile phone, adds more game applications, so that users can use the handle to play mobile games in the cockpit; and supports Hongmeng cockpit multi-screen sharing function, the driver can help children or the elderly in the back row operate the back screen interface and select content through central control.

HarmonyOS 4 is the thrill of personality, fluency, and security. It provides users with an unprecedented personalized and efficient interactive experience, extreme fluency and strong security features, once again "far ahead" in the industry.

Written in the end, HarmonyOS 4 evolution proves that any advanced technology evolves in the dynamic. Since the birth of the first generation of HarmonyOS, Huawei has always moved forward steadily, actively listening to the feedback of the market and consumers, in order to enrich the user experience and layout the ecosystem, and lead the industry to develop rapidly.

In August this year, Huawei officially announced HarmonyOS NEXT, which will bring users a more smooth, efficient, pure and secure operating system.

For this truly own Hongmeng application ecological building, Huawei has trained millions of Hongmeng talents, and will invest 10 billion yuan to support the development of partners, covering 18 areas of applications, and promoting Hongmeng native application development at full speed.

At this point, a new page of Hongmeng has been opened.

Why choose the most difficult route? Perhaps this has something to do with Huawei's "struggle" gene engraved in its bones, and it is also inseparable from Huawei's firm determination to self-research at the bottom and foresight for the future.

But the hundreds of millions of HarmonyOS 4 devices have proved to us that although this road is tortuous and difficult, there will be another day when "ten thousand mountains have passed".

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