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Huawei Q&A: HarmonyOS, Huawei P50, Mate 50, Nova 7i, Watch GT 2 and more
Yes, we’re here, with a brand new action-packed question and answer session of Huawei Central and on the topic of Huawei.
This year, the story of Huawei continues to fight and struggle a lot of difficulties in the face of U.S. sanctions. Yet, it’s doing it well and forging ahead with the will to survive.
Talking of the start, this year, Huawei launched its second-gen foldable phone Huawei Mate X2 powered by Kirin 9000 processor and a brand new design mechanism consisting of two displays – one on the rear and the other on the main side.
In May, Huawei unveiled a bunch of new products that come with various new sub-products including the Huawei MateView and MateView GT monitors.
But the main topic of discussion is HarmonyOS, which the Chinese company officially unveiled on June 2 and also began the adaptation process in the home ground.
Huawei has a huge roadmap in work for this new operating system and every eligible device owner is now wondering when their device will get to test the new features offered by the HarmonyOS.
The hype is real and it’s really high, to be mentioned Huawei has not revealed a roadmap for the global models, which is one of the main reasons, why the global users are concerned about the timeline as well as the rollout procedure.
At the event, Huawei also revealed a number of new smart devices including the Huawei Watch 3 series, MatePad Pro, MatePad 11, and the 4G variants of the top flagships powered by HarmonyOS.
These are just a few new products that made their debut and there’s a lot more to come as we enter the second half of this year.
But there are also questions that need to be answered. We know that Huawei is quite busy and doesn’t have enough time to answer our readers.
So, we just stepped foot and conducted a brand new Question and Answer session, where you’ve asked us the questions and we try to answer them as accurately as possible.
To be mentioned, we’ve received over 1000 questions via Mail, Facebook, and Twitter. However, most of them are related to HarmonyOS, so we’ve organized them and put them in the same category, and answered them accordingly.
Although, there several answers that you may find below but there’s a specific question that we’re received the most and if we count, the number will go above 200 for at least and it’s related to the Huawei Nova 7i and P40 lite.
Q. My Huawei Nova 7i or P40 Lite will receive HarmonyOS?
A. Huawei Nova 7i and Huawei P40 Lite are the global versions of Huawei Nova 6 SE, which is is eligible to get HarmonyOS and it directly means that these devices are also eligible to run HarmonyOS.
Q&A Starts from here:
Q. When Huawei P50 will launch?
A. Possibly in July or August.
Q. Huawei Mate 50 will not launch in 2021?
A. It’s possible but there’s no official confirmation.
Q. Huawei P20 series not receiving the software update
A. Huawei P20 series has already completed its EMUI security update timespan. So, it’s not eligible to get regular software updates.
Q. I am not receiving security updates
A. We recommend you try via the HiSuite app or check your device’s security timespan in the monthly and quarterly EMUI/Magic UI security update section.
Q. When HarmonyOS will rollout for the global users:
A. No official confirmation on this matter is available but it’s likely to be announced this year for the global consumers.
Q. Huawei P40 will receive HarmonyOS?
A. P40 devices are eligible to run HarmonyOS.
Q. When HarmonyOS will come to Saudi Arabia and the Middle East?
A. No confirmation on this matter, but it’ll come with the global roadmap, which is yet to be announced.
Q. HarmonyOS will rollout for Y series devices?
A. Yes but specific devices are yet to confirm.
Q. WhatsApp will work on HarmonyOS?
A. Yes, it’ll work.
Q. Huawei Watch GT 2/GT 2e and GT 2 Pro will receive HarmonyOS?
A. Yes, according to sources Watch GT 2 and GT 2e will upgrade with HarmonyOS alongside Watch GT 2 Pro but we’ll have to wait for official rollout.
Q. HarmonyOS will rollout for Honor 8X
A. Yes.
Q. HarmonyOS will rollout for Honor Play
A. Yes.
Q. HarmonyOS still support Android apps?
A. Yes.
Q. Huawei Nova 5T will receive HarmonyOS?
A. Yes.
Q. HarmonyOS phones will receive security updates?
A. Yes.
Q. Huawei P30 series will receive HarmonyOS?
A. Yes
Q. Huawei Mate 20 series will receive HarmonyOS?
A. Yes.
Q. My device doesn’t have EMUI 11, will I receive HarmonyOS?
A. Yes.
Q. Until when HarmonyOS rollout will begin for old devices?
A. By the end of this year or 2021.
Q. My global Huawei phone is not receiving HarmonyOS, is there a problem?
A. Currently, HarmonyOS is not avaialble to upgrade for the global models and it’s only limited to the Chinese variants.
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.
