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Breaking: HarmonyOS 4 will launch next year
At Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2022, Huawei dropped a big revelation that HarmonyOS 4 operating system next year. As it has now been confirmed that the company has decided to skip the HarmonyOS launch for this year.
The announcement came during the HDC 2022 keynote from Huawei Consumer Business Group Chief Operating Officer, He Gang, saying that the next HarmonyOS version – HarmonyOS 4 will launch next year.
According to the information, HarmonyOS 4 will play a major role in establishing the concept of “HarmonyOS World” and work with the corresponding technologies.
However, He Gang has not revealed any specific details or user interface designs for phone users.
HarmonyOS will garner 30,000APIs that help developers to install new features to the operating system as well as mobile applications.
HarmonyOS:
HarmonyOS is designed as a cross-device multi-platform operating system from Huawei and started its journey in 2019. From there, the company announced HM OS 1 for smart TVs, followed by HarmonyOS 2 in the subsequent year.
HarmonyOS 2.0 was revolutionary and it opened the gate for smartphone adaptation, a beginning that Huawei smartphone users have been waiting for.
HarmonyOS 3 is the next step and Huawei phones, tablets, smartwatches, and other smart devices already started upgrading to this version.
At today’s event, Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO – Yu Chengdong confirmed over 320 million installations for HarmonyOS operating system, which is a new milestone.
On the other hand, Huawei’s third-party electronic devices’ operating system HarmonyOS Connect has also touched new heights with 250 million installations and a 212% on-year increase in devices that are launching with this OS.
Nonetheless, we now have to wait until Huawei Developer Conference 2023 to get HarmonyOS 4 on board. However, the outcome may meet our expectations and there are some amazing features that Huawei is likely to bring with HarmonyOS 4.
All and all, we are excited about this announcement and will keep you posted with future developments for HarmonyOS 4.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
