Huawei News and Analyses

[TaiShang]

Huawei to release HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta on Wednesday

2020-12-14 12:33:03 GMT+8 | cnTechPost

Huawei will hold a HarmonyOS 2.0 Beta release event on December 16. This morning, Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei's consumer business software division, said he will release HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta in Beijing on that day.

Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, later said that mobile developers are welcome to join HarmonyOS on December 16.

Huawei will release the HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta program on the morning of December 16, when the company will introduce the HarmonyOS 2.0 design concept, DevEco Studio 2.0 one-stop distributed application development platform, and mobile emulators.
In the afternoon, Huawei experts will explain the key features and development tools of HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Beta.

Event Agenda
12.16 AM.

10:00~10:30 Huawei launches HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta Program
10:30~12:00 Application partners will share HarmonyOS full-scene innovation cases
12.16 PM.
13:30~15:10 Huawei experts explain HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Beta key features and development tools
15:30~17:00 Face-to-face interaction with developer KOLs and Huawei technical experts

Huawei to release HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta on Wednesday - CnTechPost

Huawei will introduce the HarmonyOS 2.0 design concept, DevEco Studio 2.0 one-stop distributed application development platform, and mobile emulators.

cntechpost.com

 

[Beidou2020]

All Huawei products to use HarmonyOS
By MA SI | China Daily
Updated: Dec 17, 2020

Wang Chenglu, president of the software department at Huawei's consumer business group, speaks at the release of Huawei's developer beta version of HarmonyOS 2.0 on Wednesday in Beijing. Photo provided to CHINA DAILY

Huawei Technologies Co said on Wednesday that it plans to expand its in-house operating system HarmonyOS to all of its self-developed products, including smartphones and tablets next year, as the Chinese technology giant accelerates its push to build a robust app ecosystem amid the US government restrictions.

Yang Haisong, vice-president of the software department at Huawei's consumer business group, said that, so far, more than 100,000 software developers have participated in HarmonyOS' development projects and the number of hardware partners has risen from five to 10.

The comments came as Huawei on Wednesday released a developer beta version of HarmonyOS 2.0 targeting at smartphone app developers, as the Chinese technology giant works to prepare for transition from Google's Android operating system to the self-developed HarmonyOS.

The move is meant to encourage developers to come up with applications for HarmonyOS on smartphones, creating a sound foundation for Huawei to officially use the operating system in its smartphones next year.

Wang Chenglu, president of the software department at Huawei's consumer business group, said so far, home appliance makers like Midea, Joyoung, and Robam Appliances, have all released products such as ovens and smoke exhaust ventilators that run on HarmonyOS.

The tech giant's goal for 2021 is to cover more than 100 million devices from more than 40 mainstream brands, Wang said.

HarmonyOS was unveiled more than a year ago, after Washington restricted Huawei from using Google's Android operating system. HarmonyOS is inarguably the biggest push by Huawei to build its own software ecosystem.

In September, Huawei unveiled an updated version of Harmony-OS 2.0, which is designed for the era of internet of things, and it can be used in devices such as Huawei's smartwatches and in-car systems, as well as home appliances from third-party companies.

For instance, with HarmonyOS 2.0, e-commerce giant JD's app can run on televisions, even refrigerators, and other screen-equipped devices. Thus, hundreds of millions of devices including cars equipped with a smart screen can run the JD app or any other app.

At present, the beta version public test recruitment activities have been rolled out and developers and partners can apply to participate in the same for free. However, it is open to select smartphones and tablets including the Mate 40 series and Huawei P40 series as well as the MatePad Pro tablet, Huawei said.

Charlie Dai, principal analyst at market research company Forrester, said: "The US government's bans leave Huawei no choice but to accelerate research and development to build an open tech ecosystem of its own, from hardware to software for smartphones. It is a tough journey but Huawei must go through it to survive and thrive."

But currently, the growth is largely driven by domestic app developers, and more efforts are needed to attract overseas developers to embrace HarmonyOS, said Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Information Consumption Alliance, a telecom industry association.

 

[Beast]

I think Huawei leadership has great foresight. They are a force to be reckon. If huawei is listed, you can park your money on them for 10years and get your retirement rewards.

Huawei may plan to go into area of google like software and online platform to challenge google. The american are in real big trouble.

Imagine a titan strong in both apps, software, online platform and hardware. It's called complete domination.

 

[TaiShang]

I think Huawei leadership has great foresight. They are a force to be reckon. If huawei is listed, you can park your money on them for 10years and get your retirement rewards.

Huawei may plan to go into area of google like software and online platform to challenge google. The american are in real big trouble.

Imagine a titan strong in both apps, software, online platform and hardware. It's called complete domination.

Huawei is well-positioned and already has a strong base for innovation and commercialization.

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei will release a new S series of smart screens with the latest HarmonyOS on December 21, the first new consumer-facing hardware product after the Beta release of HarmonyOS 2.0 for cell phones, according to Chinastarmarket.cn.

Huawei will also release a whole-house smart solution and a new smart home strategy at that time, the report said.

On December 16, Huawei released the HarmonyOS 2.0 Developer Beta at its HarmonyOS 2.0 mobile developer beta event and launched a call for volunteers to test the software publicly.

HarmonyOS 2.0 is available on the Huawei P40, P40 Pro, Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro, and MatePad Pro, and it supports OTA upgrades and running Android apps.

In a sense, HarmonyOS is just a change in the underlying system, which means that the Android + EMUI used by Huawei phones is now HarmonyOS 2.0 + EMUI.

Huawei said that HarmonyOS is a distributed operating system for the Internet of Everything era, and Huawei hopes to work with partners and developers to create a super terminal experience for the Internet of Everything era.

Huawei said to release new smart screen products with HarmonyOS 2.0 on Dec 21 - CnTechPost

Huawei will also release a whole-house smart solution and a new smart home strategy at that time, the report said.

cntechpost.com

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei said to launch business laptop with Kirin 990 and UOS in March

2020-12-19 18:37:42 GMT+8 | cnTechPost
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Huawei will launch a business laptop called the Qingyun L410 with Kirin 990 processor and UOS 20 in March next year, according to a well-known Weibo blogger.

Digital blogger @看山的叔叔 said that Huawei's laptop will be based on the already announced MateBook B5-420 business laptop, which is based on the MateBook 14's mold.

He added that the laptop could be shipped in small quantities this month.

The following Weibo page was automatically translated.

The commercial products currently available at Huawei Mall are the Huawei MateStation B515 desktop, MateBook B5-420 notebook, MateBook B3-510 notebook, MateBook B3-410 notebook and Huawei Tablet C3 2020.
The MateBook B5-420 notebook features a 14-inch 3:2 ratio 2K screen, and consumers can choose between a 10th generation Core i5 or i7 processor and an optional MX 350 graphics card.

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei released a smart screen for cars on December 21, claiming that users can experience smart travel without changing cars. The device is priced at RMB 1,699 ($260) and will be officially launched on January 8.

It features an 8.9-inch 1920*720 resolution touchscreen with a brightness of up to 700nit.

It supports cross-screen streaming of mobile apps, and already supports more than 30 apps, including mainstream navigation apps such as Baidu Maps and Gaode Map, and music apps such as Himalaya FM.

The device supports voice control and overhead gesture control. It can also connect to the original car stereo.

Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, said Huawei's HiCar has now partnered with more than 20 car companies and covers more than 150 vehicles.

He expects it to be pre-installed more than 5 million times by 2021.

Huawei says over 20 automakers support HiCar, aims to get 5 million cars pre-installed next year

Huawei releases smart screen for cars, priced at about $260 - CnTechPost

Huawei released a smart screen for cars on December 21, claiming that users can experience smart travel without changing cars. The device is priced at RMB 1,699 ($260) and will be officially launched on January 8.

cntechpost.com

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei’s All-in-One Smart Home Solution to Be Available Next Year

LIAO SHUMIN
DATE: 9 MINUTES AGO
/ SOURCE: YICAI

Huawei’s All-in-One Smart Home Solution to Be Available Next Year

(Yicai Global) Dec. 21 -- Huawei Technologies’ new all-in-one intelligent house system will be on sale from March next year as the Chinese telecoms giant looks to diversify its product line to get round a series of US sanctions that are crippling its handset business.

The product controls the lighting, security, air, water, music and sensor systems in a home, the company said on its Twitter-like Weibo account today.

The firm released the second version of its self-developed operating system in September with new features such as cross-device collaboration and voice interaction.

Chinese household appliance makers Midea Group and Robam Electric as well as soybean milk machine manufacturer Joyoung have already integrated the new OS into their products.

Huawei was forced to develop its own proprietary OS after the US government placed the company on its so-called Entity List last May over national security concerns, barring US companies from buying its products and from selling it their hardware and software. This has meant that key apps, such as Google’s Play Store, Google Maps and Youtube, are no longer accessible on the latest Huawei phones, greatly affecting the general user experience.

With the new software now launched, the firm is keen for it to be used on as many platforms as possible. Huawei’s goal for next year is for HarmonyOS to be installed on 100 million devices, Yang Haisong, vice president of its consumer business group’s software department, said previously.

The firm is also aiming for a 16 percent share in the country’s smart home market by the end of 2021, Yang said. This will be quite a challenge and would require it to become one of the biggest players in the market. In the third quarter, Beijing-based Xiaomi was top of the pile with a 16.3 percent market share, followed by Midea with 11.3 percent and Haier with 9.8 percent.

The global smart home device market is expected to grow 4.1 percent this year from the year before to 854 million units, according to September data from US market intelligence firm International Data Corp. This should increase to a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent over the next five years to 1.4 billion units in 2024, it added.

Editor: Kim Taylor

 

[Beidou2020]

Huawei unveils automotive-grade high-performance LiDAR and establishes pilot production line
2020-12-22 18:17:02 GMT+8 | cnTechPost

Huawei on Tuesday released automotive-grade high-performance LIDAR products and solutions for the automotive industry, enabling the detection of pedestrians and vehicles in urban areas.

Compared with millimeter wave radar and cameras, LIDAR has stronger capabilities in target contour measurement, angle measurement, light stability, and universal obstacle detection.

Non-regulated pedestrians, non-regulated roads, and even non-regulated driving in urban areas urgently need LIDAR to solve these difficult scenarios.

According to Duan Zhongyi, general manager of Huawei's fusion sensing product department, Huawei designed and developed this 96-line medium-long range LIDAR product, which can achieve urban pedestrian-vehicle detection coverage.


It also has both high-speed vehicle detection capability, which is more in line with scenarios in China's complex road conditions, according to Duan.

LIDAR is an optomechanical product that requires deep integration of multiple fields of optomechanics. Thanks to its long-term accumulation of optical design, signal processing, and overall engineering in ICT, Huawei has reconstructed the core components of LIDAR, including the transmitter module, receiver module, and scanner.

Huawei has established the first Pilot production line for automotive-grade LiDAR, which will be geared toward million-level mass production needs.

Huawei says it is already pushing ahead with an annual production capacity of 100,000 sets/line to accommodate future mass production demand.

BAIC's premium new energy brand ARCFOX then announced that its latest HBT model will be the first in the world to be equipped with Huawei's LIDAR.

Earlier, Yu Liguo, deputy general manager of BAIC New Energy and president of ARCFOX BU, said that the new HBT vehicle will be equipped with three 96-line LiDARs.

Huawei unveils automotive-grade high-performance LiDAR and establishes pilot production line - CnTechPost

Huawei says it is already pushing ahead with an annual production capacity of 100,000 sets/line to accommodate future mass production demand.

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[S10]

Who else thinks Huawei is going to be an integrated device maker like Samsung? The way they're buying fabs and creating design labs suggest so.

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei pushes HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta for first time

2020-12-26 10:23:37 GMT+8 | cnTechPost
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On December 16, Huawei held a HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta event and announced the opening of the HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta recruitment.
The first beta version of Huawei HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Beta (Beta1) has been pushed out for beta users, but only for developers and Huawei's industry partners.

Huawei P40, P40 Pro, Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro, and MatePad Pro users are already eligible to sign up for the HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta until 23:59:59 on January 31 next year.
The update package is only 4.04GB in size and the version number is HarmonyOS 2.0.0.33 (SP2DEVC00E2R5P90). However, there is no development log for this update, only the most basic notes for developers.

Huawei pushes HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta for first time - CnTechPost

On December 16, Huawei held a HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta event and announced the opening of the HarmonyOS 2.0 Mobile Developer Beta recruitment.

cntechpost.com

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei equipment passes international security test

By Song Su-hyun

Published : Dec 29, 2020 - 16:07
Updated : Dec 29, 2020 - 16:13

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Huawei announced Tuesday the company’s 5G and LTE equipment have passed global wireless standards body 3GPP’s testing, highlighting the security of its network.

Performed by European certification organization DERKA, Huawei’s 5G RAN gNodeB and LTE eNodeB passed 3GPP’s security assurance specifications testing, known as SCAS, the Chinese company said.

The tests included network product general security, air interface security, and basic vulnerability testing, such as data and information protection, air interface ciphering and integrity protection, robustness and fuzz testing.

According to the report, each of the tests passed with a score of 100 percent.

The Huawei equipment had also passed GSMA’s network equipment security assurance scheme audit, known as NESAS.

With that, Huawei has become the first 5G and LTE vendor to pass both GSMA’s security evaluation and 3GPP’s SCAS officially.

NESAS/SACS is a standardized cybersecurity assessment mechanism, specifically for the mobile industry. It was jointly developed by GSMA and 3GPP, the telecom industry’s leading standards-setting organizations.

The integrated assessment process avoids fragmented assessments and conflicting security assurance requirements in different markets.

“Huawei supports GSMA and 3GPP in developing a global standardized security evaluation, and urges the industry to widely adopt NESAS/SCAS to promote sustainable development on this global network security standards,” the company said in a press release.

Huawei equipment passes international security test

Huawei announced Tuesday the company’s 5G and LTE equipment have passed global wireless standards body 3GPP’s testing, highlighting the security of its network. Performed by European certification organization DERKA, Huawei’s 5G RAN gNodeB and LTE eNodeB passed 3GPP’s security assurance...

m.koreaherald.com

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei said to hold event to launch new notebooks and PC app market

2021-01-02 22:50:09 GMT+8 By: Phate
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Huawei is about to hold a new event that is expected to launch high-end models of the MateBook 13 and MateBook 14, while the PC Huawei app market should be a major highlight of the new machine, according to digital blogger @勇气数码君.

(The automatically translated Weibo page)
It was previously reported that Huawei had unofficially launched the Huawei application market for PCs, which has software that covers the majority of commonly used software compared to the current mainstream variety of software stores.

Huawei app market for PC is divided into five sections: "Explore", "Office", "Categories", "Management" and "Settings".

The "Explore" section provides a variety of commonly used software, such as Tencent QQ, WeChat, Tencent Video, WPS and so on.
Microsoft's official application market is virtually useless, and most of the software needs to be downloaded by users on their own to the official website, the launch of Huawei app market is expected to facilitate users to download applications.

 

[TaiShang]

Brazil's Bolsonaro to allow China's Huawei in 5G auctions: newspaper

Brazil's government will not seek to bar Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei from 5G network auctions slated for June this year, newspaper Estado de S. Paulo reported on Saturday, citing government and industry sources.

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Brazil's government will not seek to bar Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei from 5G network auctions slated for June this year, newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported on Saturday, citing government and industry sources.

Financial costs potentially worth billions of dollars and the exit of U.S. President Donald Trump from the White House are forcing President Jair Bolsonaro to backtrack on his opposition to Huawei bidding to provide the next generation cellular network for carriers in Brazil, the paper said.

Like Trump, Bolsonaro opposes Huawei on the unproven grounds that it shares confidential data with the Chinese government.

But, with China being Brazil's largest trade partner and Huawei's ability to compete on price, he has faced resistance from the industry and within his own government, including from Vice President Hamilton Mourao.

O Estado de S. Paulo quoted Mourao as saying all companies that provide the necessary guarantees on respecting Brazil's national sovereignty and data protection will be allowed to offer 5G equipment in the country.

Last month, sources told Reuters that Bolsonaro's government was looking for a legal way to exclude Huawei from 5G networks in Brazil.

@qwerrty

 

[qwerrty]

Brazil's Bolsonaro to allow China's Huawei in 5G auctions: newspaper

Brazil's government will not seek to bar Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei from 5G network auctions slated for June this year, newspaper Estado de S. Paulo reported on Saturday, citing government and industry sources.

news.cgtn.com

Brazil's government will not seek to bar Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei from 5G network auctions slated for June this year, newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported on Saturday, citing government and industry sources.

Financial costs potentially worth billions of dollars and the exit of U.S. President Donald Trump from the White House are forcing President Jair Bolsonaro to backtrack on his opposition to Huawei bidding to provide the next generation cellular network for carriers in Brazil, the paper said.

Like Trump, Bolsonaro opposes Huawei on the unproven grounds that it shares confidential data with the Chinese government.

But, with China being Brazil's largest trade partner and Huawei's ability to compete on price, he has faced resistance from the industry and within his own government, including from Vice President Hamilton Mourao.

O Estado de S. Paulo quoted Mourao as saying all companies that provide the necessary guarantees on respecting Brazil's national sovereignty and data protection will be allowed to offer 5G equipment in the country.

Last month, sources told Reuters that Bolsonaro's government was looking for a legal way to exclude Huawei from 5G networks in Brazil.

@qwerrty

brazilian trump still don't have the money to not use huawe's equipment that trump admin promised. like always, cheap empty talk. now those clowns are out, they go back to lick china's @ss.