Huawei has announced that its new Mate 60 series smartphones now support StarLight a.k.a NearLink connection. It is a new generation of short-range wireless communication that is faster, more reliable, and more energy-efficient than traditional technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
However, for now, only Mate 60 series devices support StarLight connection. Huawei says this technology requires a specific hardware component to work in smartphones, meaning older devices will not be able to support Starlight even if they are updated to the latest Harmony OS 4.0.
Huawei has clarified that the StarLight feature currently only supports search and does not support discovery by other StarLight phones. This means that the StarLight settings interface on Huawei Mate 60 series phones can search for StarLight accessories, but cannot search for other StarLight phones.
So to make use of this, you might want to get your hands-on on the new Huawei FreeBuds Pro 3 which are world’s first headset to adopt a Starlight core connection. This allows the FreeBuds Pro 3 to achieve lossless transmission at 1.5Mbps when paired with a Huawei Mate 60 series phone.
Compared with traditional wireless connections, Huawei says StarLight’s power consumption is reduced to 60%, the data transmission rate is 6 times, and the latency is reduced to 1/30. It also supports up to 10 times more group connections than Bluetooth, making it well-suited for multi-device applications.
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