Recently, Huawei user CEO Yu Chengdong revealed in an interview with the media that the HarmonyOS 4.2 system has been officially released and will be the first to be pushed to some Huawei mobile phone users at the end of April. Subsequently, Huawei officially announced through HarmonyOS's official WeChat that the HarmonyOS 4.2 100-device upgrade plan was launched, and a total of 24 devices can sign up for public testing, including 17 Huawei mobile phones.
This marks that the HarmonyOS system has entered a rapid iteration stage, and version updates will become more frequent. HarmonyOS 4.2 is the latest version of Huawei's self-developed operating system, what are the upgrades compared with 4.0/4.1?
At the same time, Huawei also announced that the next 4-6 months will usher in the "100 machine upgrade", and more old models will also reap the gospel of the HarmonyOS 4.2 system. So, is the Huawei mobile phone in your hand in the first batch of HarmonyOS 4.2 upgrade list?
What are the upgrades of the HarmonyOS 4.2 system?
HarmonyOS 4.2 has been optimized in the system kernel to improve the system response speed. Both the application launch speed and the smoothness of interface switching have been significantly improved, bringing users a smoother operation experience.
Compatibility issues with common applications have been fixed, and some applications have been fixed to solve the problem that some applications are unstable on the HarmonyOS system. In addition, adaptation to more mainstream Android applications has been added, improving the integrity of the application ecosystem.
A variety of cross-device usage scenarios such as multi-screen collaboration, file transfer, and notification sharing are added, and seamless connections with Windows, Pad, and other devices are supported, making the collaboration between multiple devices reach an unprecedented level.
Through algorithm optimization and process management, the system power consumption is reduced on the premise of ensuring fluency, and the battery life of the mobile phone is prolonged, ensuring that the HarmonyOS mobile phone still has excellent battery life.
This time, HarmonyOS 4.2 also strengthens the system security protection mechanism, using more stringent test standards to ensure the security of system data and privacy, and provides users with more reliable system security guarantees.
HarmonyOS 4.2 can be said to be an important iterative upgrade, which improves the HarmonyOS system in many aspects such as performance, compatibility, battery life, collaboration, and security, bringing users a better smartphone experience.
List of the first phones to be upgraded
According to Huawei's official announcement of the first batch of upgrades to HarmonyOS 4.2, the following 17 Huawei mobile phones are currently open for public beta registration:
Mate60 series, Mate50 series, Pocket2 series, MateX2 series, MateX3 series, and P60 series.
In addition, the public beta registration for the Huawei MatePad Pro 13-inch tablet has also been opened. As the name suggests, the upgrade of HarmonyOS 4.2 is not limited to mobile phones, other devices such as tablets are also included in the upgrade plan.
If you are a user of the above models, you can sign up for the upgrade in the Huawei My Huawei app. If you are eligible for the upgrade immediately, you can quickly experience the new experience brought by HarmonyOS 4.2. Otherwise, you can only wait for the subsequent push.
In the second half of the year, 100 machines were upgraded
In addition to the first batch of 17 upgraded mobile phones, Huawei also announced that it will launch a larger-scale "100-device upgrade" from April to June. At that time, there will be more old models that are expected to usher in the HarmonyOS 4.2 system.
Specifically, the mobile phone models in the 100-machine upgrade plan include:
Huawei P50 series, P40 series, nova12 series, nova11 series, nova10 series, Mate40 series, nova6-nova8 series.
As well as the Honor Paly4 Pro, V30 series, 30 series and other models.
This mainly covers newer models with Kirin 990 chips, as well as some models with Kirin 980. It is foreseeable that Kirin 990 and some Kirin 980 mobile phones can basically harvest the upgrade of HarmonyOS 4.2.
For older processor models such as Kirin 970 and Kirin 980, it may take a while to wait if you want to upgrade the HarmonyOS system.
However, in view of the low threshold for HongmengOS to adapt to processors, the possibility of subsequent models of this series of processors being upgraded still exists, so let's wait and see.
HarmonyOS future roadmap
In addition to HarmonyOS 4.2, many users are more concerned about the future development roadmap of HarmonyOS.
The industry predicts that HarmonyOS 4.2 is likely to be a "transitional version" of the HarmonyOS system launched by Huawei. After 4.2, Huawei is expected to launch a new system version codenamed "HarmonyOS 5".
This is the so-called "pure-blooded Hongmeng" system widely discussed in the industry, which may be named Hongmeng OS 5 or directly renamed "Hongmeng NEXT".
Compared with version 4.2, HarmonyOS NEXT will further enhance its self-development capabilities, get rid of the shadow of the Android system in more aspects, and truly realize comprehensive autonomy and controllability from the microkernel to the framework to the application layer.
The industry expects that HarmonyOS NEXT is expected to come out in the first quarter of 2023 and be pushed to users in the first half of 2023 at the earliest. At that time, it will once again set off a wave of upgrades to the Hongmeng system.
According to the current judgment, the upgrade threshold of Hongmeng NEXT will be further increased, and it is expected that only models equipped with Kirin 9000 and above chips will be able to experience it.
This means that most of the old models of Kirin series chips before Kirin 9000 may have to stop at HarmonyOS 4.2 and cannot be further upgraded to HarmonyOS NEXT.
Of course, the iteration of HarmonyOS will continue, and after 4.2, HarmonyOS 5/NEXT will be followed by HarmonyOS 6 and other subsequent versions. At that time, more models will be able to experience the upgraded HarmonyOS system.
Overall, HarmonyOS is accelerating the pace of iteration to bring users a better smartphone experience. At the same time, the ecological construction of HarmonyOS is also steadily advancing, and it is believed that in the near future, the HarmonyOS system will be known and accepted by more users around the world, becoming another important choice after Android and iOS.