Huawei first unveiled its HarmonyOS (Hongmeng OS in China) last year after the U.S government enacted a ban on the company. Huawei, in September, unveiled the HarmonyOS 2.0 at the company’s Developer’s Conference 2020. The HarmonyOS 2.0 incorporates smartphone adaptability for the first time and the company disclosed that it would launch a beta test version for smartphones for developers at the end of the year.
The president of Huawei’s Consumer Business Software department, Dr. Wang Chenglu, is reported to have hinted that the adaptation of Hongmeng OS 2.0 is currently progressing very well, and R&D is ready. He also stated that the new OS is expected to be released as scheduled in December.
According to previous details, Huawei and Honor branded phones which run on platforms such as Kirin 9000, Kirin 990 5G, Kirin 990, Kirin 985, Kirin 980, Kirin 820, Kirin 810, and Kirin 710 will continue to adapt to the HarmonyOS but models running EMUI 11 will be upgraded first.
Wang Chenglu also hinted that the Chinese tech giant started to internally develop the HarmonnyOS as early as May 2016 when it laid out the possible directions of the future market and technology. He hinted that the ROM is built on a special idea which gave as the decision to treat each isolated IoT device as a module. For example, the lamp is a display module, the TV is a display module with a speaker module. In this regard, while the user sees a connection between the two devices on the interface,HarmonyOS treat it as a connection of each module. This is said to be one of the core innovations of the OS which is believed to hold the ace to help the IoT industry solve the problem of failed interconnection.
Wang Chenglu also cited an illustration that he believes can help us understand how the OS works. He stated that in the future, as long as mobile phones and large screens all run on HarmonyOS, mobile phones can be transformed into professional microphones, while the TV can act as a media player that can be used to cut, tune or edit songs.
“In Huawei’s view, Hongmeng Operating System (HarmonyOS) is a set of operating systems developed for the Internet of Everything, and the mobile terminal industry has the most opportunity to develop in China,” the Huawei exec added.
The rollout will first happen in China but we believe Huawei will push it to other markets outside its home market.
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