The number of upgraded devices in HarmonyOS 4 exceeded 100 million! The four-year iteration of Hongmeng is the moment of the milestone

Less than three months after the release of HarmonyOS 4, the fastest-growing smart device operating system in history has once again reached its milestone moment -

On October 30, Huawei officially announced that the number of HarmonyOS 4 upgraded devices has exceeded 100 million.

HarmonyOS 4 was officially unveiled at Huawei's HDC2023 conference in August this year, which is the fourth major version update of HarmonyOS.

Two weeks after the release of HarmonyOS 4, Huawei's Chief Operating Officer He Gang revealed that more than 5 million users had signed up for the upgrade experience. Among them, the new features such as personality theme, fun mood theme, and panoramic weather wallpaper are deeply loved by young users, and the user Net Promoter Score (NPS) has increased by 16% compared with the previous generation.

At Huawei's autumn all-scenario new product launch event on September 26, Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei, CEO of Device BG, and chairman of Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, announced that the number of upgraded devices in HarmonyOS 4 has reached 60 million, and the number of users is increasing by 1.2 million every day.

Now, after four iterations from 2019 to 2023, the HarmonyOS ecosystem has gone through the most difficult four years. With the release of the Mate60 series, Mate X5 and other HarmonyOS 4-powered products, HarmonyOS 4 has ushered in a moment of nirvana.

As the implication of "the light boat has crossed the Wanzhong Mountain", Hongmeng has crossed the Wanzhong Mountain and opened a new chapter under the giant curtain of the digital era.

A new choice for the digital world, HarmonyOS has passed the mountains

HarmonyOS was first unveiled at the 2019 Huawei Developer Conference. It was born against the backdrop of Huawei's strategic plan and the urgent need of the digital era.

According to the "2020-2026 China Internet of Things Industry Operation Status and Development Strategy Research Report" released by Zhiyan Consulting, it is predicted that by 2025, the number of global IoT terminal connections will reach 25.6 billion, and the total number of IoT connections in China will reach 10.2 billion. Earlier, IDC released a report that confirmed this: in 2022, the scale of IoT connections in China will be 5.6 billion, and by 2026 it will increase to about 10.25 billion.

As consumers, we can clearly feel the trend that modern consumers no longer rely solely on smartphones as the only smart terminals.

Huawei, as a leader in the technology industry for many years, has long seen the opportunities in the era of the Internet of Everything, but the fragmentation of the system ecosystem and the lack of rich applications and services for IoT devices in the past are clearly not suitable for the pace of the Internet of Everything era.

This also means that Huawei will inevitably take a completely different route from Android and iOS to build a new system.

Under this kind of thinking, Hongmeng was officially born.

This is an operating system that spans multiple terminal devices such as mobile terminals, smart hardware, and the Internet of Things, and is future-oriented and centered on the concept of all-scenario distribution. This also explains why every time HarmonyOS updates a major version, there will be tens of millions of device upgrades.

Based on the concept of all-scenario distribution, HarmonyOS is not just for mobile phones. The huge number of IoT ecosystem devices has become the basis for HarmonyOS upgrades. In addition to Huawei mobile phones, there are also a variety of IoT devices, such as watches, tablets, headphones, smart large screens, and even smart door locks and routers.

Together, they build the vast ecosystem of HarmonyOS in a way that was unimaginable on any operating system in the past.

As a brand-new intelligent terminal operating system for all devices, which can be multi-terminal and deployed, HarmonyOS has continued to evolve on the road of realizing the grand goal of the Internet of Everything in the past four years:

In August 2019, HarmonyOS was first applied to Huawei Smart Screen.

A year later, HarmonyOS 2 brought technologies such as distributed soft bus, distributed data management, and distributed security.

In July 2022, HarmonyOS 3 was upgraded to bring a smart experience that is commonly used and always up-to-date.

Today, HarmonyOS 4 has evolved to lead the industry in four major areas, including personalization, efficiency, intelligence, smoothness, and security.

In just four years, the HarmonyOS system has achieved leapfrog development from zero to one, from one to infinity. Through continuous innovation and upgrading, the HarmonyOS system has achieved remarkable achievements:

Huawei's HarmonyOS has become the fastest-growing operating system for smart devices in history. Currently, the number of devices running HarmonyOS has exceeded 700 million.

From perceiving the times to adapting to the times, and then to leading the times, HarmonyOS has passed thousands of mountains, and it has also helped Huawei to bottom out.

HarmonyOS 4: A more personalized and more secure HarmonyOS

Behind the explosion of the number of devices to 100 million in just three months, HarmonyOS 4 itself is also inseparable from the excellent experience.

HarmonyOS 4 brings an unprecedented personalized and efficient interactive experience, focusing on personalization, efficiency, intelligence, smoothness, security, and other aspects.

Specifically, HarmonyOS 4 brings personalized features such as personalized themes, panoramic weather wallpapers, and mood wallpapers, and uses AI capabilities to bring users a unique visual and interactive experience through new algorithms. For example, in terms of personalized themes, HarmonyOS 4 introduces "Intelligent Composition with Automatic Recognition of the Main Content of Images" and "AI Cutout Technology", which allow users to upload photos to the theme center and select the corresponding theme to automatically complete the cutout, wallpaper design, and other actions, turning ordinary photos into beautiful wallpapers in seconds.

HarmonyOS 4 also provides visual optimizations for the notification center and a new Live Window feature, which provides users with a complete and continuous experience in both capsule and card formats, such as the real-time display of "food delivery, pick-up, and delivery" status for food delivery apps, eliminating the need for notification swiping and allowing users to obtain information efficiently and intuitively.

For watch devices, HarmonyOS 4 also includes a "crescent window" that allows users to display important information such as flight check-in counters, boarding gates, and license plates at the top right of the watch face, just like a crescent moon, so that users can access important information with a raise of their hand.

For productivity and interaction, HarmonyOS 4 brings a new Super Relay Station and Smart Screen Recognition, which are equipped with the ability of Smart Screen Recognition to support more applications and usage scenarios.

On HarmonyOS 4, Xiaoyi is connected to AI large model capabilities, HarmonyOSAPI and other technologies, and has powerful natural language understanding capabilities, which can understand and understand users' more colloquial expressions, and can achieve more natural and smooth conversational interactions. For example, in HarmonyOS 4, Xiaoyi supports users to communicate in natural language, and with the authorization of the user, Xiaoyi can understand and record the user's intentions on important events and key days. At the same time, Xiaoyi's broadcasting experience is continuously optimized, which can provide users with a broadcasting experience in different scenarios.

For a smoother experience, HarmonyOS 4 brings the all-new HUAWEI Ark Engine, which significantly improves graphics, multimedia, memory, scheduling, storage, and low power consumption. There are also a series of security functions such as the new application control center and application tracking management, which make risk reminders more visible, risky applications more controllable, and protection always online.

In addition, with the blessing of HarmonyOS 4, the HarmonyOS cockpit also realizes multi-person and multi-device collaborative experience, including the super desktop of HarmonyOS 4 in-car machine, which further optimizes the collaboration and experience between mobile phones and in-car machines, and adds more game applications, allowing users to use the controller to play mobile games in the cockpit; It supports the multi-screen sharing function of the HarmonyOS cockpit, and the driver can help the children or elderly people in the rear seat to operate the rear screen interface and select content through the central control.

HarmonyOS 4 is a HarmonyOS for Personality, a smoother Harmony, and a more secure HarmonyOS. It provides users with an unprecedented personalized and efficient interactive experience, extreme fluency, and powerful security features, once again "leading the industry".

Write at the end

HarmonyOS 4 Evolution proves that any advanced technology evolves dynamically. Since the inception of the first generation of HarmonyOS, Huawei has been steadily moving forward, actively listening to market and consumer feedback, enriching the user experience and laying out the ecosystem, leading the industry forward and rapid development.

In August this year, Huawei also officially announced HarmonyOS NEXT, which will bring users a smoother, more efficient, pure and secure operating system.

Huawei has cultivated millions of HarmonyOS talents and will invest 10 billion yuan to support the development of partners, covering 18 applications in 18 fields and promoting the development of HarmonyOS native applications at full speed.

At this point, a new page of HarmonyOS has been opened.

Why choose the toughest route again? Perhaps this is related to Huawei's "struggle" gene engraved in its bones, and it is also inseparable from Huawei's firm determination to self-research at the bottom and farsightedness for the future.

However, the number of HarmonyOS 4 devices has exceeded 100 million, proving that although this road is tortuous and difficult, there will be a day when "the mountain has been crossed".