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Huawei presents the new version of its operating system for connected devices, HarmonyOS 3. It will notably be integrated into the MatePad Pro 11 tablet.
During an event organized in China last week, Huawei presented the new renovated version of its in-house operating system, HarmonyOS 3, which will be deployed on a wide range of mobile products. In France, HarmonyOS is only available on touch tablets: this is where we are most likely to discover its version 3, during its international deployment.
HarmonyOS 3 promises better organization of app icons and widgets. © Huawei
Several new features are on the menu, starting with the possibility of making more Huawei products interact, which include the Vision screen, the MatePad Paper (e-Ink tablet presented at Mobile World Congress at the start of the year) and the PixLab printer. , in addition to the brand’s computers, tablets, smartphones and headphones.
Huawei also puts widgets in the spotlight, like competing systems which now offer the possibility of customizing them, in shape and color, and adding text to them. Still in the area of information organization, HarmonyOS 3 allows widgets to be superimposed to save space and to create groups of application icons and widgets.
In addition to its aesthetic novelties, HarmonyOS 3 promises to put more emphasis on the protection of privacy and offers a dedicated dashboard. New options avoid the sharing of sensitive information that accompanies photographs, such as their location and date of shooting.
A MatePad Pro 11 tablet running HarmonyOS 3
If HarmonyOS 3 should appear as an update in the coming months, it will also be offered immediately on a first product: the MatePad Pro 11. The tablet, equipped with an 11-inch OLED screen (2560 x 1600 pixels) at the refresh rate of 120 Hz, relies on finesse, since its case does not exceed 5.9 mm thick, and on lightness (449 g). The device is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chip, renowned for its efficiency, and benefits from 8 to 12 GB of RAM. The chip nevertheless remains confined to 4G, like all recent products from the Chinese brand.
The Huawei MatePad Pro 11 runs on HarmonyOS 3. © Huawei
The MatePad Pro 11 is equipped with 128 to 512 GB of storage, an 8300 mAh battery compatible with 66 W charging and a dual rear photo module (12 and 8 megapixels, the second taking advantage of ultra Big angle). Note that the tablet is compatible with a new generation M-Pen stylus. For the rest, the device offers WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, and includes six speakers. Its price as its date of availability remain to be specified. However, we should learn more during the IFA, electronics fair scheduled in just a month in Berlin.