Huawei’s Senior Global Product Manager, Peter Gauden has described the company’s new HarmonyOS as “an operating system for the future”. That future could be sooner than we think as the exec also stated that HarmonyOS will soon feature on smartwatches and laptops sold outside China.
The Huawei exec spoke to a select group of journalists including reporters from Digital Trends at a briefing on the new software in London. During the briefing, Gauden discussed the intricacies of HarmonyOS and how it will potentially shape the future of the company’s products. This, he attributes to the potential of HarmonyOS connecting most of the products we use such as TVs, fitness products, smart speakers and smartphone.
While the company isn’t ready to use the OS for its smartphones, Gauden hinted that the first products with HarmonyOS installed available outside China could include smartwatches and laptops. Huawei has its own smartwatch operating system already, called LiteOS, and elements of it have been absorbed into HarmonyOS’ micro-kernel. Thus, the successor to the Watch GT may come with HarmonyOS. However, it doesn’t look feasible that the company will ditch Microsoft’s Windows operating system for its own OS now but the Huawei exec says it will do that soon.
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HarmonyOS is being promoted as “a single OS that covers everything, and works with all product types.” The operating system is engineered to communicate openly regardless of the device, and by using a microkernel system, Huawei says HarmonyOS is secure, which is a concern when dealing with Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.
In addition, with Huawei’s Ark Compiler, programming languages can be translated so apps work with HarmonyOS, and that includes Android apps, simplifying adoption for third-party developers. It’s even intelligently adaptive and will display correctly on various screen sizes, just like adaptive mobile websites, so it’ll work in your car and on your TV without looking awkward.
The details presented looks promising but we expect to find out the real potential of HarmonyOS when the US trade embargo goes into full effect, if that’s going to happen.
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