The power of Huawei’s Hongmeng OS is beginning to show! The actual test experience is better than EMUI, but the power consumption is lower. There are many surprises.

In 2019, Huawei officially released Hongmeng OS. At that time, Hongmeng was still in the conceptual stage, and there were constant ridicules and doubts from the outside world.

On April 27, 2021, Huawei’s Hongmeng OS developer public beta version was pushed to developers in large quantities, and a large number of Hongmeng OS actual test videos appeared online. It is worth mentioning that all developers will check the "Confidentiality Agreement" when applying for the public beta version of Hongmeng OS. Therefore, if the developer version of Hongmeng OS is released at will, developers may face the risk of having their Hongmeng OS test qualifications revoked. However, many netizens could not restrain their excitement and took risks to release many Hongmeng OS experience videos.

On April 30, the well-known digital blogger @digitalchat.com briefly tested the performance of Hongmeng OS on Huawei Mate X2 folding screen mobile phone. He said that in the ultimate picture quality of "Honor of Kings" and the HDR anti-aliasing mode of "Peace Elite", the smoothness and stability of Hongmeng OS2.0 are better than those of EMUI 11, and the power consumption is also lower.

He also said that the smoothness of the Hongmeng OS 2.0 system and the speed of opening and switching apps are currently consistent with EMUI11. He explained that considering system stability and compatibility, he chose to package the dual architectures of Hongmeng and AOSP (Android 10) together, so the current running environment of most Android Apps on mobile phones is still Android to ensure smoothness.

Developers who have been exposed to Hongmeng OS have revealed that the Hongmeng App suffix is ??Hap, which is completely different from the Android APP suffix Apk. However, the number of Hongmeng Apps is still relatively rare.

According to Huawei’s previously announced smooth evolution plan for Hongmeng OS to support Android APPs, there will be more and more Hongmeng APPs in the future until they completely replace the Android application ecosystem.

It is worth mentioning that in the latest update of the Hongmeng OS developer public beta version, three Hongmeng applications appeared in the system, namely CCTV Video, Youku Video, and Sina News. These Hongmeng applications have built-in distributed functions, which can be experienced as long as there are two Hongmeng devices. This feature is unique to Hongmeng applications and cannot be achieved by Android systems.

To give an example, according to the experience video of Zhihu netizen @fluorchloronaphthalene, the Youku APP Hongmeng version can link the mobile phone and the tablet, the tablet becomes a TV, and the mobile phone becomes a TV remote control device to control the video on the tablet.

In addition, according to the netizen, at the previous Huawei Developer Conference, the Hongmeng version of Youku APP can also realize other more cool functions, such as using the Hongmeng mobile phone to control the panoramic video angle and camera position. You can also play variety shows on your tablet to watch the panoramic stage, and synchronize the exclusive perspective of your favorite celebrities on your mobile phone. However, according to the author's analysis, this function should not be applicable to all video content, and it must be implemented with exclusive video content shot by more than 360 cameras. However, the emergence of Hongmeng OS may make this method of video content presentation more popular and bring more personalized content services to netizens.

In addition, the file sizes of these Hongmeng APPs are much smaller than the Android versions. For example, the Hongmeng version of CCTV Video is only 1.35MB, while the Android version is 27.9MB in size. According to analysis, the main reason for this phenomenon may be the "flexible deployment" feature of Hongmeng OS, which is inherently more time-saving.

In addition to the above Hongmeng OS experience, there are other more surprises. The author briefly summarized them for netizens’ reference:

In addition, there is also the Hongmeng OS application transfer function. It has been implemented on the Hongmeng vehicle equipped with the BAIC Polar Fox Alpha S. For example, when making a video call on a mobile phone, the video call can be seamlessly transferred to the car machine after getting in the car, without hanging up and dialing the video call again.

Let’s talk about my personal thoughts:

Hongmeng OS has received endless cold looks and ridicule since its release. This is actually a norm in Huawei’s history. Huawei’s Kirin chip It was also not optimistic in the early stages, but facts have proven that Huawei can always overcome difficulties step by step, and finally reach the other side of victory, such as the current Kirin 9000 chip, global 5G voice, etc.

The author has cooperated with the Huawei team many times at work. Although I am not in a technical position, I have always seen pigs run away if I have never eaten pork. Faced with a leading Chinese technology company that has made real achievements, the author has never doubted that Huawei can develop a future-oriented domestic independent operating system. I also believe that in the coming era of the Internet of Everything, Hongmeng OS will definitely shine.