Chinese users ‘acclaim’ HarmonyOS before launch: ‘Even ringtones bring a different auditory experience’

Recently, Mr. Nham Chinh Phi, founder and CEO of Huawei announced that the company’s plan in the future is to focus on software development, as a move to avoid US sanctions.

And the company’s latest move is to officially launch the HarmonyOS (or HongmengOS) operating system on June 2, announcing that it can be installed on mobile terminals such as smartphones. Huawei also expects that by the end of 2021, the number of devices equipped with this operating system will reach 300 million, of which more than 200 million are Huawei devices and the rest are from third-party partners.

In fact, many users in China have long experienced the internal beta and, more recently, the public beta version of the operating system. Most recently, Huawei has launched HarmonyOS 2.0 Beta 3 version. And seemingly to “prepare” for the HarmonyOS launch date, recently a wave of sharing experiences and comments about… feelings when using. This operating system of Huawei has spread strongly in the Chinese user community.

Some bloggers claimed that after the Mate X2 device was upgraded to HarmonyOS 2.0, they found it clear that some games have more fluidity and stability when playing, better than the EMUI 11 version, and the consumption level Power consumption is also lower. EMUI is a custom user interface based on the Android operating system developed by Huawei for its mobile devices and tablets. Therefore these people claim “It can be seen that the HarmonyOS system is actually better than Android.”

However, the blogs also “criticized” that due to the immature Huawei ecosystem, most of the applications currently running in the HarmonyOS system are actually still running on the Android platform, so the fluency is still relative. limit. In other words, it is the Android platform that hinders the effectiveness of HarmonyOS.

Meanwhile, a blogger tested the HarmonyOS system’s mobile phone ringtones and recorded a video of the custom ringtone. This person compliments that the volume of the ringtone has been changed on an original basis, so it “really offers a different auditory experience”.

Someone turned back the video to compare the “fluency” of the HarmonyOS 2.0 system with iOS 14, claiming the image processing speed and application launch speed of HarmonyOS is much smoother than iOS. In that video, the device used to do the comparison is a Huawei Mate 40 Pro and an iPhone 11 running the iOS 14.3 update.

But many people realize the “problem” in the video when the two devices used have a difference in launch time, when the iPhone model was released a year before Huawei phones, not to mention iOS 14.3 is not the version. the latest iOS 14. In addition, during the comparison, the background tasks of the iPhone 11 were not cleared, even a game was still running, while the background apps of the Huawei Mate 40 Pro were completely deleted. whole.

Photo taken from a video comparing iOS (left) and HarmonyOS (right) by Chinese users.

Some other “netizens” think that in terms of ease of use, HarmonyOS is better than IOS, and IOS is… not as good as Android. The illustrative examples mentioned can be mentioned as swiping back on the screen, or how to directly transfer files between mobile phones and computers.

“In terms of smoothness, HarmonyOS is much stronger than lOS, the current iOS operating system is not only cumbersome, but the code is also chaotic, far different from before,” the author of an article on Sina compared. This person said that many other testers have the same opinion, that the smoothness of iOS is not equal to the original Android operating system, even the ease of use is worse.

“I don’t intend to praise or criticize any system, including Android. I don’t know if the HarmonyOS system can surpass Android, but I do know that Android will be eliminated sooner or later, not because HarmonyOS or iOS,” added the author.

The core interface of HarmonyOS and Android is almost no different.

In fact, not everyone has the same opinion as the above statements. Some HarmonyOS testers have discovered that Huawei’s operating system is actually just a “disguised” version of Android. It not only has an almost similar interface to EMUI, but also “inherits” the system or application structure. Even HarmonyOS’s application development kit (SDK) uses a lot of components from Android.

A user in China using a Mate 40 Pro+ has upgraded from Android to a beta version of HarmonyOS. Previously, he had installed a number of Google apps, including the Play Store app store.

However, after upgrading to HarmonyOS, Google services can still be used. He can even use the Play Store to download and update apps. With Google not allowing the Play Store to run on any other platform than Android, it can be seen once again that Huawei’s HarmonyOS is actually still Android, not a completely new platform.