Huawei Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 system officially released: new “live window”, Xiaoyi AI upgrade, Ark engine

Gamingdeputy News on August 4th, at the Huawei HDC 2023 Developer Conference this afternoon,Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 The system is officially released.

Huawei Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 adopts a brand-new design, which claims to “make your photos, mood and even natural weather a perfect expression of personality”.

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In the new system, users can identify subjects through AI cutouts and match them with various artistic backgrounds;Combined with magazine design, let photos become wallpapers;Set the panoramic weather wallpaper, put the natural weather into the mobile phone, and perceive the weather changes in real time; HarmonyOS 4 also brings more vivid Emoji expressions.

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Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 adopts a new notification center, which can “top” key information.

The new system adds a new function “Live Window” for mobile phones/tablets, and a “Moon Window” for watches. This feature is similar to Live Events in Apple’s iOS,App information can be displayed in real time on the upper left corner of the screen and on the lock screen interface, and can be switched between capsules and cards.

Huawei Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 also improves some efficiency tools:

  • The super transfer station supports more applications, and two-finger long press can easily extract text and pictures and drag them into the transfer station;

  • The super desktop expands more scenarios, not only supporting the transfer of mobile games to the smart cockpit screen, but also supporting the transfer of drone aerial images to the smart cockpit;

  • The demonstration annotation function turns HUAWEI M-Pencil into a whiteboard marker in seconds, and the shared content can be highlighted and marked.

In terms of AI functions,Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 brings AI model upgrade to Xiaoyi voice assistant. According to the official introduction, Xiaoyi’s mobile phone monthly active users have reached 200 million.The new Xiaoyi of HarmonyOS 4, powered by the AI ​​model, claims to be continuously enhanced in the three directions of intelligent interaction, efficient productivity and personalized service.

According to the presentation at the press conference, Xiaoyi supports the generation of complex scenes, quick summaries, text creation, natural dialogue, talking through pictures, secondary creation of pictures, casual note reminders, and scene-based service combinations, etc.

Huawei said,The new Xiaoyi AI large model access will be tested later this monthIT home friends can try more ways to play by themselves.

In terms of system optimization, Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 has created a brand new “Ark Engine”, including graphics, multimedia, memory, scheduling, storage, and low power consumption.It is said that the performance has been improved by 20%, and the battery life has been increased by 30 minutes.The camera startup speed increased by 57%, the picture loads faster, and the animation effect of the mobile phone is more natural (folding animation, can be interrupted halfway, etc.).

In terms of security, Huawei Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 has more control over application risks, such as automatic control of risky application installation, active interception at runtime, and minimizes the granting of risky application permissions (for empty data), restricting access to sensitive information; application tracking management , users can choose whether to allow the app to track your activity on other apps and websites.

Huawei Hongmeng HarmonyOS 4 will start the upgrade public beta after 4 pm todayyou can go to Huawei’s official app to sign up for an upgrade experience.

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