The HMS application services from Huawei has been making its way to cars and various automobile brands. Now, the company’s app services will also arrive in vehicles from the known Chinese car making brand BYD.

According to BYD senior official, Zhao Changjiang, the company’s Han series of mid size sedans will soon arrive with the Chinese smartphone maker’s HMS fast application services. The executive made the announcement on his official Weibo account, a Chinese microblogging website. For those unaware, Huawei has recently diversified its service into the automobile industry, seeking to offer its software and product services for the other car makers.

Its HMS for Car is a solution made to leverage its cloud services to provide in vehicle services and applications. Furthermore, HMS arrives with the company’s smart assistant as well, while the application program also acting as a control panel, which can be used immediately and does not require an installation process. An official image poster from Huawei had showcased various applications like F Express, Lychee, Bilibili, and more.HMS smart display. These apps might be pre loaded in the car or could be installed later on.

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The Chinese electric car maker BYD and smartphone maker Huawei has announced the world’s first series of cars that will feature the latter’s HiCar system. This new system has been developed by Huawei and is based on its proprietary HarmonyOS.

The new HiCar system is an intelligent connectivity based solution that is built on Huawei’s self developed operating system. It was announced on July 12th and marks the company’s expansion into the automotive networking field. BYD’s latest electric flagship car model Han will be the first to feature the new OS, according to Richard Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei.

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This is also the first time Huawei is offering 5G solutions in vehicles. HarmonyOS was built to be a widely supported cross platform OS and this expansion follows the same philosophy. Notably, the HiCar system will be available in more than 120 car modes from over 30 different automobile makers including Audi, BYD, GAC, and BAIC. The new system will basically allow users to control their cars with smartphones, check car status in real time, and more.

Furthermore, during the Sunday launch conference, the senior executive also unveiled a new special variant of the Huawei P40. This new variant of the flagship carries a logo on the rear that commemorates the new HiCar system and BYD collaboration and the word “Han” on the top right corner. Apart from the appearance, the device sports identical feature on the inside.

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The Mi 9 sold out really fast when it went on its first sale. According to Xiaomi, it sold out in less than a minute. Xiaomi is trying to meet up with demand and has now added a new OEM to increase production.

The new OEM is BYD Electronic (International) Company Limited and they will join Foxconn as manufacturers of the Mi 9 flagship. The information was revealed on Weibo by Lei Jun.

Xiaomi has always grappled with production so it mostly resorts to flash sales for a lot of its phones. Yesterday, CEO Lei Jun said he would join the production line if he needs to, so as to meet the target of 1 million units in the first month.

The Mi 9 launched on February 20. It has a 6.39-inch AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 855 processor and up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It is Xiaomi’s first phone with triple rear cameras made up of a 48MP primary rear camera paired with a 12MP telephoto camera and a 16MP ultrawide-angle camera. The selfie camera is a 20MP sensor.

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The Mi 9 has its fingerprint scanner under the display, runs Android 9 Pie, and packs a 3300mAh battery with support for 27W wired fast charging and 20W wireless fast charging.

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Yesterday, we came across a patent filing by Huawei for the trademark “Matebook” which was most likely for a new notebook computer from the company. The description of the trademark hinted that the Chinese smartphone manufacturer was going to enter the PC industry soon.

Now, a new post from one of the insiders of the industry has revealed that the Huawei Matebook laptop will most likely be made by BYD Electronics. This Shenzen based smartphone component manufacturer has made phones for companies like Nokia and Motorola. On the other hand, its confirmed that the Taiwanese ODM Inventec will design and manufacture laptops for Xiaomi.

So it looks like next year, we will have several new entrants in the PC industry starting with Xiaomi and Huawei. Xiaomi laptops are expected to start shipping sometime in the first half of 2016. However, we still have no idea about the release time frame of the Huawei Matebook laptop. Considering Xiaomi’s entry into the industry, the release should be around the same time as its rival. But for more information, it looks like, we will have to wait for a few more weeks at least.

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