Last week, Hongmeng officially announced the "100 machine upgrade plan", a total of more than 180 devices will be upgraded to Hongmeng 4.2 system before June, paving the way for the Hongmeng NEXT (5.0) version in the second half of the year. In other words, the devices that can upgrade Hongmeng 4.2 this time can basically be upgraded to Hongmeng 5.0, and we can understand Hongmeng 4.2 as a springboard for upgrading 5.0.
However, HarmonyOS 4.2 is upgraded in batches of public beta, and on April 11, a total of 24 Huawei devices were open for public beta recruitment, and on April 15, another 15 Huawei devices were open for public beta recruitment. They are the P50 series, nova12 series, Pocket series, MateXs 2 series, and MatePad Air and MatePad 11-inch 2023 models, covering 13 phones and 2 tablets.
The way to upgrade is also very simple, just enter the "My Huawei" app and click on the upgrade to try it out. Of course, if your mobile phone is not within the scope of the open beta recruitment, then even if you click on the upgrade early adopter, it will be useless, and it will display "No devices eligible to participate in the upgrade early adopter activity" will be displayed. I know that many users are Kirin 990 mobile phones, and this model should be arranged in the last batch, that is, in May at the earliest, and in June at the latest, so I can't wait.
Let's talk about the upgrade content of HarmonyOS 4.2, the current official announcement interface UI is to improve the operation details of more scenes, and the theme of the artistic protagonist can be replaced with a custom background when cutting out the background. In terms of system functions, the speed of satellite communication connection has been improved, the speed of taking photos and previewing scenes has been optimized, the speed of application launch, task switching and sliding operations has been improved, and new switches such as automatic connection to WLAN network and Bluetooth device recording have been added.
Of course, in addition to Huawei phones, early Honor phones can also get the HarmonyOS 4.2 upgrade. It is known that there are a total of 6 models including Honor Play4 Pro, 30 series, and V30 series, and the rest of the Honor devices will not be able to upgrade HarmonyOS 4.2. The reason is very simple, these six Honor mobile phones are all Kirin 990 chips, and there is a high probability that they can also upgrade to Hongmeng 5.0 in the future.