Huawei HarmonyOS 4 officially released! New features include live windows and permanent capsules

Huawei HarmonyOS 4 released with new features live windows and permanent capsules

On the afternoon of August 4th, the HDC 2023 and HarmonyOS 4 launch event was held at Songshan Lake in Dongguan. The brand new HarmonyOS 4 was officially unveiled and released. HarmonyOS 4 brings four major upgrades: more personalized design, smarter services, the intelligent Xiao Yi that understands you better, and the new Ark Engine, providing users with a more ultimate personalized and efficient interactive experience.

Specifically, HarmonyOS 4 brings personalized features such as personalized themes, panoramic weather wallpapers, and mood wallpapers, allowing users to arrange their phone screens more freely.

Among them, the newly launched “Intelligent Composition of Image-based Content Recognition” and “AI Image Cutout Technology” in HarmonyOS 4 can instantly transform ordinary photos into exquisite wallpapers. The new panoramic weather theme brings interactive real-time weather wallpapers, providing 20+ sets of panoramic weather wallpapers in 7 different weather categories such as rain, sunny, and sandstorm. With the gravity sensing function, users can switch between three different perspectives of landscape: eye level, overhead, and looking up. In addition, HarmonyOS 4 also upgrades and enriches the existing Emoji system, allowing users to create exclusive mood wallpapers. In addition, HarmonyOS 4 watch faces have added elements such as planets, photography, and cartoon animation, and users can replace the colors of various elements in the watch face.

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In terms of gameplay, the new notification center of HarmonyOS 4 prioritizes important notifications such as live updates and social communication, while marketing and information messages are displayed in a unified area, making various information clear at a glance. The live window can intelligently switch between card and capsule forms. Its function is to aggregate multiple notifications from the same application into a single dynamic card and present them in a timeline manner, avoiding notification flooding. On Huawei watches, HarmonyOS 4 introduces the Crescent Window feature, which allows important information to be displayed in the upper right corner of the watch face, just like a crescent moon.

In terms of fluency, HarmonyOS 4 brings a new Ark Engine, including Huawei Ark Graphics Engine, Huawei Ark Memory Engine, Huawei Ark Scheduling Engine, Huawei Ark Storage Engine, Huawei Ark Multimedia Engine, and Huawei Ark Low Power Consumption Engine, which improves device response speed, smoothness of sliding, and battery life.

In addition, with the support of the Pangolin Big Model’s underlying capabilities, HarmonyOS brings more advanced AI, and Xiaoyi will have AI big model capabilities.

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