The Chinese tech giant opened a HarmonyOS beta program for Watch GT 4 and Watch Ultimate two months ago. It seems the recruitment is now over and the registered wearable users are fetching new health capabilities via a beta firmware.

Inputs reveal that the Huawei Watch GT 4 is getting new health features with the HarmonyOS 4.2.0.521 version. It also has a software package of 322 Megabytes.

Users can install the new update from the Huawei Health app. Open the app and go to the Devices. Select your device and follow the on-screen steps for an upgrade.

Speaking of the changelog, the Huawei Watch GT 4 is receiving the same health features as the Watch GT 5 series. It now supports a new health trend analysis reflecting fat loss and body shaping. The device will also detect arrhythmia pulse.

Female users can check their menstrual cycle, month view, and related info on time. Another useful addition in the update is the Sunflower positioning system.

It equips a special sunflower antenna that smartly tracks satellite signals. On the other hand, the self-developed positioning algorithms help provide accurate positioning in various sports conditions like running, cycling, walking, and more.

You can check all the new features below.

Huawei Watch GT 4 new update (Image Credits: ITHome)

New health features

• Added fat loss, body shaping, and health trend analysis
• New pulse arrhythmia detection NMPA
• New female menstrual cycle calendar and month view
• Added wrist running posture
• Huawei GT 4 46mm model gets Sunflower positioning (GPS) feature

Huawei Watch GT 4 is receiving advanced health feature update (Image Credits: UncleKanshan/Weibo)

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The company is informing its app developers about the new HarmonyOS NEXT API 12 SDK. As per the official notice, Huawei will only support API 12-based apps on the HarmonyOS NEXT AppGallery, starting from November 10, 2024.

Other applications based on the beta API 12 or below builds won’t be listed on the AppGallery. Hence, developers should update their apps to the latest SDK version at the earliest. Or else, their applications may face restriction problems.

“Starting from November 10, 2024, Huawei AppGallery on HarmonyOS NEXT will only support API 12 apps that have integrated Release SDK and Beta apps of API 12 or below will be restricted. Please complete the version update as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation and support!.”

API (Application Programming Interface) and SDK (Software Development Kit) are significant tools for developers to build apps. In the latest API 12 release, Huawei made amendments that make apps more compatible with HarmonyOS NEXT.

HarmonyOS NEXT AppGallery to support only API 12 apps: Huawei (Image Credits: ITHome)

Inputs further reveal that Huawei has released the DevEco Studio NEXT 5.0.3.900 version. It is a dedicated development platform for apps and services. It offers multiple features and supports various programming languages, the multi-device preview of UI codes, and other significant tools for app making.

The company is now asking its developers to download the new DevEco Studio version for recompiling and updating their applications with the API 12 SDK.

Changes:

• ohpm-repo adds the use_reverse_proxy field to configure whether to use the reverse proxy option.
• The API capability level of this version is API 12 release

Doing so will make the native apps more compatible with HarmonyOS NEXT as well as enable users to easily manage them on their devices. It will also make them stable and more responsive towards new features and existing services.

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The OpenHarmonyOS 5.0 version is released by OpenAtom Foundation. Developers will find major changes in the app development kit, ArkUI, and other segments. These modifications will provide clearer logic and scenario-based views.

Further details in the changelog show refinements for network stability, distributed data management, richer encodings for media, and optimized power supply. Developers can quickly develop apps using enhanced Web capabilities with upgraded tools.

Other sections in the list count communication, security, graphics, camera, event notification, encryption, hardware capabilities, and more. You can check the details below.

OpenHarmony 5.0 Changelog

Highlights:

• The application framework gets more lifecycle management capabilities and provides sub-process-related capabilities.
• ArkUI further opens up the rendering capabilities of custom nodes.
• Application package management improves application packaging efficiency and enriches the operational scenarios for end users to use applications. (For instance, creating application clones, creating desktop shortcuts, and more)
• It enhanced the distributed data management capabilities and security while ensuring reasonable data sharing.
• File management further improves Picker’s capabilities and enables reasonable control of permissions and reasonable data sharing.
• It enhances the media’s audio, video playback, and recording capabilities with the support for multiple audio, video, and image encoding formats. It now has more detailed playback control operations.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application Framework

• Supports creating JS/Native sub-processes. Developers can execute time-consuming operations in sub-processes.
• The lifecycle monitoring ability supports more lifecycles such as onNewWant.
• Supports the ability to return AbilityResult to the caller without actively destroying itself.
• The context supports Sendable object conversion for multi-threaded Context transmission.
• Supports application-level font settings.

ArkUI

• Enhanced the component customization capability with the addition of new components like a modifier, ContentModifier, and DrawModifier, which support adding new properties based on existing components, customizing component content and fully self-drawing.

The Custom nodes and Native rendering nodes are open. Custom nodes are node objects that have some basic capabilities of underlying entity nodes. These nodes can be mixed with native components through custom placeholder nodes.

Custom nodes can have the ability to calculate the layout of a single node, set basic properties, set event monitoring, and customize the drawing and rendering content. It includes three types of objects: FrameNode, RenderNode, and BuilderNode.

• BuilderNode: Provides a custom BuilderNode that can mount native components.
• FrameNode: Provides a custom FrameNode, which represents the entity node of the component tree. NodeController can mount it to NodeContainer through the FrameNode held by BuilderNode, or obtain RenderNode through FrameNode and mount it to other FrameNodes.
• RenderNode: Provides self-drawing rendering node RenderNode to support custom drawing requirements on the Native side.
• NodeController: NodeController implements operations such as creation, display, and update of custom nodes. It is responsible for mounting custom nodes on NodeContainer.

Other enhancements in the ArkUI section include the NDK capability for the third-party framework components. It covers component creation, property setting, event registration, customization capabilities, and component tree construction.

The Navigation component has more enhanced capabilities, including single-column and double-column switching effects, interruption and continuation of transition animations, and the ability to monitor the page life cycle.

The control visuals, animations, and interactions have been refreshed and added support for aging-friendly interfaces, mirrored languages, and screen reading. Menu and pop-up components support developers in defining color, shape, rounded corners, size, position, and shadow.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application package management

• Supports access and management of application clones. Applications can access application clones through simple configuration.
• Supports home screen shortcuts. Users can dynamically add shortcuts to the home screen.
• Supports independent upgrade capabilities of system-level HSP and ArkWeb. It also supports independent updates of preset applications.
• Supports recovery mechanism after abnormal interruption of OTA upgrade. If a power outage or service crash occurs during the OTA upgrade process, the OTA process will be restored upon restart to continue installing and updating applications.
• Provides automatic cache directory cleaning capability and supports storage management to automatically clean up the cache directory when the device space is insufficient.
• Supports Native software packages and provides the capabilities of packaging, installing, and uninstalling native software packages.
• When the packaging tool packages the app, it compresses the entire app package to reduce its size on the shelf.

Distributed soft bus

• IPS provides CAPI basic interface capabilities, including serialization or deserialization, message sending and receiving processing interfaces, etc.

OpenHarmony5.0: Distributed Data Management

• RelationalStore&Preferences support access to common sandbox data.
• RDB supports opening in read-only mode.
• UDMF supports the compatibility query between UTD and MIME types.
• Migration scenario data asset synchronization optimization.
• Supports distributed data management with Class E encryption.
• The inverted index construction scenario supports an application-specified external tokenizer.
• The NDK-based CAPI supports the cross-device drag-and-drop capability of UDMF data.

A Distributed Hardware

• Provides refined ACL management: It performs refined addition, deletion, modification, and query operations on ACLs based on business devices, users, accounts, and package names.
• Quality reinforcement to improve functional stability and reliability.

Distributed DeviceProfile

• Equipment data is reconstructed hierarchically to improve the efficiency of adding, deleting, modifying, and checking data.
• Quality reinforcement, optimization of background link establishment function, and improved stability and reliability.

File Management

• Supports incremental file backup.
• Provides an interface for the backup application to obtain detailed information about the amount of backup data, allows the application to report the number of data records to be backed up (such as the number of text messages), and supports reporting of abnormal events during the backup and recovery process.
• Added support for SA access backup and recovery framework.
• Enhanced Picker capabilities: Provides the ability to select multiple files at a time in the Audio Picker; adds a Download Picker, allowing applications to save files directly to the “Download/package name level” directory, and subsequent access to the directory does not require permission to apply, complementing the download experience of applications such as browsers.
• Apps are supported to obtain access rights to public directories (Download, Desktop, Document) by applying for permissions (supported by some devices and needs to be determined by syscap). Apps cannot directly access public directories without applying for permission.
• Supports applications to select files or directories through FilePicker and obtain temporary access rights to the directory or file, and supports persistent access capabilities. Non-persistent files or directories cannot be accessed after the application exits.
• Added CreateStream, fdopenStream, and other streaming file access interfaces .
• Added new interfaces for setting and getting extended attributes.

Graphics, Images, and Windows

Graphics

• The NativeImage module based on the NDK’s C API now supports NativeWindowBuffer.
• The NDK-based C API now supports NativeVsync and multiple callbacks for a single frame.
• The NDK-based C API now supports variable frame rates.
• ColorSpaceManager supports sendable capabilities.
• The font engine supports text-shadow capabilities and underline alignment.
• The graphics drawing interface improves drawing-related capabilities.

Window

• Provides the display.getDisplayByIdSync interface for use with the multi-screen feature, allowing applications to synchronously obtain information about the screen where the Ability is located through IDs.
• Supports obtaining screen available area information.
• Support setting status bar text color according to page color in ArkUI.

Media: Audio

• Audio focus enhancement: Supports focus sessions, allowing apps to set concurrent playback policies with other apps, and allowing apps to play silently without interrupting audio playing in the background.
• Added support for more audio devices such as DP and USB headsets, and support for switching the default sound device function (earpiece and speaker).
• Added a new audio stream type for video calls to optimize the audio stream playback experience in this scenario.
• Added a unified volume component to facilitate use and reduce development complexity.
• Supports customization of the style of in-app casting components.
• Supports ringtone list query and customized ringtone settings.

Play

• The player start and seek performance are optimized to reduce latency.
• Added multiple playback protocols or formats: support DASH streaming protocol playback; support AMR, APE, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio playback.
• Added a variety of playback control capabilities: support for multi-track video playback, changing the output Surface during video playback, silent playback, precise seek, setting playback range, and subtitles.
• Supports configuration of streaming media buffer size; supports audio offload mode.
• Enhanced streaming media playback capabilities: Optimized streaming media cache strategy to reduce lag.

Recording

• Enhanced audio recording capability. It now supports MP3, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio recording.

Screen Recording

• Supports exempting the application’s own privacy window from screen recording protection, and provides a privacy confirmation window and screen recording status prompt.
• Supports excluding the specified window when recording.
• Supports configuring screen rotation and dynamically adjusting rotation parameters.
• Supports simultaneous recording of microphone and system sound.

Audio and video codec

• Added AVTranscoder transcoding interface. It supports bit rate reduction, outputs video files in video encoding AVC, audio encoding AAC, and encapsulation format MP4, and reduces the amount of data transmitted/stored.

DRM

• AVPlayer / AVCodec supports DRM information parsing of DASH protocol programs, decryption of TS-encapsulated H265 video format, and audio decryption.
• AVCodec DRM adaptation adds decryption parameter settings.

Camera

• New model capabilities have been added, including time-lapse photography, panorama, streamer shutter, large aperture video recording, and fluorescent photography.
• Added a new camera PerConfig one-click configuration mechanism to ensure consistent camera effects and reduce development complexity.
• Optimize the segmented process to improve the performance and quality of photo/video recording.
• Benchmark ArkTS API capabilities and complete related C APIs.
• Enhanced camera experience, including mirroring, zoom, anti-shake, continuous shooting, camera status notification, etc.

Picture

• EXIF reading and writing capabilities are enhanced, supporting EXIF ​​batch reading and writing, and GIF supports obtaining playback count information.
• Support HDR capabilities: HDR dual-layer encoding and decoding, and conversion between HDR and SDR.
• The codec format is enhanced to support HEIF codec and DNG decoding.
• The editing framework is based on the NDK’s C API, including the effector base class, filter base class, and custom algorithms.

Event Notification

• CEM tools now support publishing custom public events.
• Emitter adds a new generic interface that can be used to directly pass Sendable objects.
• Supports synchronous query notification enablement status.

Basic Communications

• Support third-party applications to connect to hotspots through network management.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Network Management

Network management capabilities

• Supports specifying a Wi-Fi hotspot by creating a NetConnection object to connect to it.
• An NDK-based C API that provides network management status monitoring, application-level proxy monitoring, and other capabilities.

The Network protocol stack capabilities

• Supports upgrading TCP Socket to TLS Socket to improve communication security.
• TLS Socket supports skipping certificate verification to avoid scenarios where the certificate cannot be verified under special circumstances.
• All sockets support obtaining local IP and port.
• HTTP supports configuring certificate pinning information.
• HTTP supports the brotli compression algorithm.

Power Supply

• Supports obtaining the current charging current. Third-party applications can obtain the current device current through nowCurrent.
• Supports temperature control actions in flight mode. Developers can customize temperature control strategies to control the device to enter flight mode.
• Supports power consumption control based on the WorkSource agent running a lock-assisted resource scheduling module.
• It supports automatically entering S4 sleep mode after waking up from S3 sleep mode when the battery is low, achieving ultra-long standby characteristics.
• After the system starts, it supports reading and broadcasting the presence information of the device shell/case, the battery information kernel node, whether to send a broadcast, etc., which supports developer configuration.

USB

• USB DEVICE configuration management security access control enhancement.
• The USB standard data transfer mode (interrupt transfer, bulk transfer) function is enhanced.
• Supports standard USB peripheral security management and control.

Start Recovery

• It supports Native software package packaging, installation, running, and uninstallation, and builds a Native software package development and release system, which helps to quickly build productivity software ecosystem capabilities and also helps system developers improve development efficiency.
• Provides a resettable developer anonymous device identifier ODID to replace UDID and other hardware identifiers.
• Supports running bftpd commands and debugging application sandbox data access in user mode.

Globalization

• Provides C API to support internationalization capabilities of the ICU4C standard.
• International formatting processing capabilities support screen size adaptation.
• Full support for pseudo-localization testing.
• Provides C API to support resource file management capabilities.
• String resources support translatability markers.
• Provides minority language font capabilities.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Safety

Encryption and decryption algorithm library framework

• ArkTS API provides corresponding C APIs for some commonly used encryption and decryption algorithm capabilities.
• Support SM4-GCM algorithm interface.

Certificate Management

• Provides an API for launching the certificate management interface.
• Provides an API for obtaining an application’s private certificate list.

Program access control

• Geolocation permissions support a one-time authorization option.
• Supports opening the permission management application interface of the settings page.

User IAM

• Supports password validity period checking.
• Supports recovery keys.

Account

• Supports logging out of local accounts.
• Supports specifying a short account name (used as the name of the personal folder) when creating a local account.
• Support querying local account names.
• Added new privacy account type.
• Added unlock authentication intent.
• Added new credential types: Graphic and Four-digit PIN.

OpenHarmony 5.0: ArkCompiler

The ArkTS front-end compiler

• Syntax enhancement: the compilation target is switched from es2017 to es2021, and the compilation of source code files with es2018~es2021 syntax features is supported.
• The obfuscation capability is enhanced to support exception stack restoration, file granularity non-obfuscation, HAP and HSP module file name obfuscation, and whitelist wildcard function.

ArkTS Runtime

• Supports lazy loading of modules, and synchronously loads executable files when variables are used, improving application startup performance.
• The concurrency capability is enhanced, providing a Sendable object-sharing mechanism to optimize the object cross-thread communication performance; TaskPool provides functions such as task queues, long-term tasks, and periodic tasks.
• The debugging function is enhanced to support reverse debugging, Smart Step into, and other functions.
• The tuning function is enhanced to support hiperf/profiler mixed back stack and multi-instance HeapDump functions.

ArkTS basic library

• It supports high-precision floating-point operations, provides StringDecoder character stream decoding capabilities, stream data stream processing capabilities, and supports bit vectors.

JSVM

• Provides a system JS engine that supports the high-performance running of JS and WASM.

Integrated sensor processing platform

Drag frame

• Supports rotating and dragging the window as the window rotates.
• Supports dragging between three devices.
• Supports application-defined configuration to not display quantity badges during dragging.
• Supports data receiver to customize cut and copy behaviors.

Keyboard and mouse crossing

• Control both ends to initiate activate interface calls at the same time.
• Optimize the timing issues of keyboard and mouse crossing, reduce system dependence, and eliminate timing issues between multiple processes.
• Improve traversal management performance, increase success rate, and reduce traversal delay.

Multimode input

• Provides C API to support device information query and other related capabilities.

Pan Sensor

Vibrator

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• The system can better use motor devices to trigger vibration according to different device capability levels.

Sensor

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• Provides C API to support linear acceleration and game rotation vector sensors.

Accessibility

• Magnification gesture: supports magnifying the screen content through gestures.
• Active broadcast capability: When the application is adapted for screen reading, it can support active broadcast of changing information through accessibility in some dynamically changing scenarios.
• Active focus capability: When an application is adapted to screen reading, it can request active focus on components in certain scenarios.

Resource Scheduling

Background Tasks

• Apply for long-duration task types and support applying for multiple types of long-duration tasks at the same time.
• The application applies for DATA_TRANSFER download-related long-term tasks, and supports returning download notifications to the application for progress updates.

Performance, power consumption, thermal integration control

• The system load fusion gear is determined based on information such as the current temperature, load, and whether it is in a high-load scenario. After the application registers the system load callback, it can adaptively downgrade its own business load according to the different levels of the system load fusion gear, thereby reducing the load of the entire machine.

Agent reminder

• When an application applies for a recurring calendar reminder, it supports specifying an exclusion day, on which no reminder will be given.
• When the application applies for a reminder, wantAgent supports passing parameters. When jumping to the target UIAbility after clicking the reminder, the parameters are carried.
• When the application queries for published reminders, the corresponding reminderId is returned in the query results.

Testing Framework

• Supports compatibility testing of cross-platform interfaces.

DFX

• Provides an API to determine whether the HDC debugger is connected.
• Support turning on the trace function in developer mode.
• Enable awareness of main thread timeout events.
• errorManager supports TaskPool and Worker to listen for unhandled Reject events.

Kernel

• Provide thread QoS level marking and scheduling based on user interaction relationships.

Upload and download

• request.agent.Fault refines the error types to help developers quickly locate API usage problems.
• request.agent.Config adds a new proxy member to support setting the network proxy address of the task.
• request.agent.Task.start supports restarting failed\stopped tasks, making it easier for developers to quickly recover failed tasks.
• request.agent.Task supports configuring TLS certificate pinning fingerprints using the network.json configuration file.
• request.agent.FileSpec supports specifying all file paths under the base directory of the application sandbox, making it easier for developers to manage sandbox files. It also supports uploading public files on the front end, such as gallery files and album files, to reduce the overhead caused by additional copies.

Input Method Framework

• The NDK-based C API now supports self-drawn UI components using input methods, including launching and exiting input methods, and processing text on-screen requests.
• Optimize the callback timing when pulling up the keyboard, so that the input method application can adjust the keyboard display content in time according to the input box properties.

Time Zone

• Provides system APIs for forcing NTP time to refresh and obtaining the current NTP time.
• The NDK-based C API provides the ability to obtain the time zone.

Clipboard

• The NDK-based C API supports clipboard capabilities.
• Provides a cross-device clipboard switch.
• When the app is upgraded to API 12 or later, add a read permission check to the clipboard reading interface.

Web

• The network takeover feature is enhanced to support obtaining the FrameUrl of the request and the ResourceType of the intercepted request.
• Supports the pre-screening capability of the Web scene input method.
• Supports Web Components keyboard hosting capabilities.
• Supports synchronous drawing capabilities of Web components and ArkUI native components.
• Supports setting whitelist directories that can be accessed across domains using the File protocol.
• Support applications to specify rendering subprocesses.
• Web components support an accelerometer and gyroscope.
• Web components support intelligent filling of H5 pages.
• Web components support BFCache capabilities.
• Improve the soft keyboard avoidance mechanism of Web components and support Resize and Offset modes.

Theme Framework

• Supports enabling themes through folder directories, which improves the performance of enabling themes compared to enabling through compressed packages.
• Supports the management of card resources, and the ability to add, delete, modify and query added subject cards.
• Provides characterization functions for external screen devices and supports enabling external screen themes.
• Theme enablement support does not switch the current “active” directory.

Compile and build

• The CMake version required for compiling and building dependencies has been upgraded from 3.16.5 to 3.28.2.

OpenHarmony 5.0 released with ArkUI and other improvements (Image Credits: OpenHarmony)

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The Watch GT 5 series made its debut on September 19 in Spain. After a few days, the company launched it in the home ground with new features, watch faces, and dynamic workout modes. Now this new experience is coming to Malaysian users.

Huawei has now kept the Watch GT 5 series (standard, Pro) and the Watch Ultimate Green Edition on the shelves of the Malaysia site. These devices are in the pre-order stage till October 4 and are available with a bunch of freebies and offers.

Let’s check these details one by one!

Standard Watch GT 5:

Huawei Watch GT 5 is available for pre-order starting at RM1099. Users can purchase the device at once or choose the installment method and pay RM99.92 for 12 months. Note that you need to pay an RM60 deposit to book the wearable.

Don’t worry as you will get it back in the form of a rebate. Paying a deposit will also list you in the priority delivery that will begin on October 5. Now let’s look at freebies.

Buying a Watch GT 5 will bring a FreeBuds 5i and APAC region warranty to customers. One can also stand a chance to win a MatePad Pro 12.2 tablet and many other hidden surprises. Tap HERE to learn more about the Watch GT 5 pre-order.

Huawei Watch GT 5 pre-order details in Malaysia (Image Credits: Huawei)

Specifications: Watch GT 5 brings a classic sharp-edged design. The dial is more attractive than the previous model. It has a more recognizable crown and a feature button on the right side. The company has also introduced new color variants and 11 new watch faces with customization options.

• Watch GT 5 46mm: Brown, Blue, and Black
• Watch GT 5 41mm: Gold (metal strap), White, Brown, Blue, and Black.

The 46mm and 41mm models have a 1.43-inch and 1.32-inch AMOLED color screen respectively. Both have a resolution of 466 x 466 pixels. The former supports a 14-day battery life while the latter can run 7 days under typical usage.

TruSense system is the most significant addition to this watch. It ensures that the device offers faster and more precise health reports to users. The system holds advanced health sensors to monitor sleep, heart rate, and other body functions.

Some new features in the list include real-time route details, shaping routes, a Stay Fit app to estimate calories and manage health assessments, running analysis, Emotional Well-being, and more.

The Sunflower positioning system is another new add-on that tracks satellite signals to pinpoint positions for outdoor activities. Read More…

Huawei Watch GT 5 (Source – Huawei)

Watch GT 5 Pro

Huawei Watch GT 5 Pro pre-order begins at RM1399 or RM116.58 for 12 months. Users have to pay an RM60 deposit to book the device. They will get the rebate during the official sale. The freebie section counts FreeBuds 5i and APAC Region Warranty.

Users can also get a free MatePad Pro 12.2 tablet by booking the wearable before October 4. Note that the Watch GT 5 series can also get a Huawei Care 1-year extended warranty service worth RM103. Tap HERE to pre-order the device.

Huawei Watch GT 5 Pro pre-order details in Malaysia (Image Credits: Huawei)

Specifications: Watch GT 5 Pro comes in two size variants: 46mm and 42mm. The first one has a more muscular and sporty design while the second one gives an elegant feel. Both adopt an AMOLED screen with the same sizes as the standard variants.

• Watch GT 5 Pro 42mm: White, Ceramic White
• Watch GT 5 Pro 46mm: Black, Titanium

The battery life is also the same as the Watch GT 5. But unlike the standard version, the Pro model gets 13 new watch faces with sporty, geometric, and numerical themes. It also gets 15000+ golf course databases and allows users to check 3D views of green areas, fairways, bunkers, and more.

It also has an ECG analysis that provides a real-time ECG report within 30 seconds – thanks to the TruSense system. You can check more features HERE.

Huawei Watch GT 5 Pro (Source – Huawei)

Watch Ultimate Green Edition

Huawei has introduced the Watch Ultimate Green Edition in Malaysia. It is priced at RM3799 and brings freebies worth RM1258. Users can also buy the wearable in installments for RM316.58 x 12 months. One can also get 5x member points.

In terms of freebies and offers, the Watch Ultimate Green Edition brings a free Huawei FreeBuds Pro 3. Customers can also claim an RM 150 voucher till November 04. There’s also a “Review and Win” contest where sharing an image of a new Watch Ultimate will stand you a chance to win a 50W Car charger. Tap HERE.

Huawei Watch Ultimate Green Edition pre-order details in Malaysia (Image Credits: Huawei)

Specifications: The wearable shines in a dual-color bezel and two crowns on the right side. It is covered with a zirconium-based liquid metal casing. Meanwhile, the sapphire glass dial offers a clear view – thanks to anti-glare properties.

The Green Edition implies a full golf-related wearable. Yes, users can access golf course modes, offline contour maps, golf match-based themes and watch faces. Other main features include a driving range mode and an expedition mode.

The rest of the specifications are the same as the standard Watch Ultimate. You can check the complete details HERE.

Note that the official Huawei Malaysia site doesn’t show any details of the Watch D2 for now. Although we’ll keep you posted with the latest revelations on this matter.

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The tech maker launched this device on September 10. As of today, it received more than 6.5 million reservations in the pre-order period. The first sale will begin sales on September 20 in China.

Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said it’s hard to tell whether Mate XT can keep up its sales momentum and future demand. There were instances when the demand for a Huawei flagship dropped rapidly after its release in the past.

Kuo said the foldable smartphone market could decline from 30 million to 15 million units this year. The decrease could be based on software experience, which is still immature for larger screens. Profit is another important aspect of foldable devices, which is demotivating brand vendors.

Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design 10-inch Display (Source – Huawei)

The analyst touched on the processor part of this tri-fold, saying that the company is lagging behind in competitive performance and it would also limit its ability to ship more devices to fulfill the demand.

Mate XT equips a 10-inch foldable display. It could be used as a fold or two phone like a smartphone or a tablet respectively.

The company has also added a couple of new camera features and optimized HarmonyOS software to adapt these screens. So far, customers are excited about this launch, which costs a lot.

However, tech enthusiasts are buying the device upfront without any second thoughts. As for now, Huawei has not revealed any official date for the Mate XT shipment.

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Display

The phone has a 10.2-inch screen, the first ever and largest foldable screen in a smartphone. You can use it as a 6.4-inch and 7.9-inch screen phone.

The company has an OLED panel with an LTPO adaptive refresh rate, 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and a Max 240Hz touch sampling rate.

Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design 10-inch Foldable Display (Source – Huawei)

Size and Weight

• Single screen: 156.7mm (length) × 73.5 mm (width) × 12.8 mm (thickness)
• Dual screen: 156.7mm (length) × 143 mm (width) × 7.45mm/4.75mm (thickness)
• Triple screen: 156.7mm (length) × 219 mm (width) × 3.6mm/3.6mm/4.75mm (thickness)

The device weighs only 238 grams, which is still light and handy.

Huawei Mate XT thickness (Source – Huawei)

Battery

This tri-fold has slim battery packs installed on the rear side of each folding partition. It combines a total of 5,600mAh capacity and can be recharged with a 66W wired charger. The phone supports backward charging as well. On the other hand, the tri-fold has 50W wireless charging support.

Camera

The camera has a big octagonal outlook with four openings. The camera system includes a 12MP f/2.2. aperture Ultra wide-angle camera to take wide shots. It brings a 50MP main camera with a 1/1.56-inch sensor size. It has variable aperture technology to switch between f/1.4 and f/4.0 with a 10-stop aperture system and optical image stabilization.

Third is a periscope telephoto camera with 12 megapixels and 5.5x optical zoom with optical image stabilization. It can expand the zoom up to 50X (13mm-1200mm). Fourth is a laser focus sensor.

The photography is supported by XMAGE technology, which enhances and improves the post-capture images. There’s also an 8MP front-facing camera to take selfies.

Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design Camera System (Source – Huawei)

Price:

Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design is launched at the following prices

1. 16GB+256GB = 19999 yuan (2,820 USD, 2,548 Euros)
2. 16GB+512GB = 21999 yuan (3,108 USD, 2,800 Euros)
3. 16GB+1TB = 23999 yuan (3,390 USD, 3,050 Euros)

The rear design has genuine leather finishing in red and black colors.

Booking of this phone is already started and the first sale is targeted for September 20 at 10:08.

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Honor recently wrote an email to Bloomberg. The company described the latest investment made by China Mobile and how the cooperation will work in the future.

An Honor spokesperson revealed on Friday (August 23, 2024) that both companies will look after their responsibilities to promote digital services. This will ultimately offer a stable, better, and more efficient network experience for Chinese consumers.

“Both parties will give full play to their respective advantages and jointly provide consumers with a better and more innovative experience.”

The former Huawei subsidiary added more statements to China Mobile’s investment. It says that Honor has always worked on open and transparent development for its consumers. The company welcomes China Mobile in financial investment with good synergy in the innovation of the commercial and consumer device market.

China Mobile and Honor have not disclosed major details of this investment such as the amount of purchasing stakes and more. Though ‘China Mobile invests in Honor’ news will bring industrial and economic benefits for both companies.

Last year, Honor said that it was looking to improve its ownership structure. It started preparing for an IPO (initial public offering) after being separated from its parent firm Huawei. This initiative shows a step towards diversifying the company’s capital.

The next step in China Mobile and Honor cooperation would likely become official in the upcoming days. Stay tuned.

China Mobile invests in Honor to boost digital services: (Image Credits: Honor/X)

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Amid UK bans on Huawei network equipment, a few regions constantly demand the company’s 5G solutions and Malaysia is one of them. After Maxis Communications, Huawei is shaking hands with U Mobile to boost 5G evolution in Malaysia.

The agreement says that Huawei will supply the most advanced hardware as well as software to U Mobile. These components will help in achieving highly efficient performance in the 5G network for the region. It will also contribute to RAN techs.

U Mobile is further seeking Huawei’s help in providing skills like global expertise and extensive R&D with its technicians. Doing so will aid the firm to meet its market needs. It will also fulfill ultra-low latency and massive bandwidth requirements.

Apart from the 5G network treatment, both tech giants will seek new and significant opportunities in financing to increase the economic growth of the region.

Huawei and U Mobile teams up to accelerate 5G evolution in Malaysia (Image Credits: U Mobile)

The CTO of U Mobile – Woon Ooi Yuen says that U Mobile is delighted to receive Huawei Malaysia’s support for the deployment of the second 5G network. He adds that Huawei’s help will support rapid 5G evolution and fulfill high-performance needs, especially for enterprise customers in the region.

“As long-term partners, we have benefitted from Huawei Malaysia’s techs and global expertise and we believe they will continue to play a critical role in helping us improve the 5G experience and also in our preparations to deploy future RAN technologies.”

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The phone maker announced yesterday that Huawei’s latest flip-flop has surpassed 45000 units within 72 hours of its release. Compared to the Pocket S folding handset in the same period last year, Huawei Nova Flip foldable sales have risen by 85%.

Further details reveal that this ultimate sales record of the Nova Flip has increased the company’s small foldable market share by 70%. Thanks to various AI fun features, the unique square cover screen, thin design, and HarmonyOS 4.2 software support.

This is a new milestone for the company in the field of clamshell products. It shows that the company is steadily growing in both standard and folding phone markets.

With many new specs and smart AI capabilities, the device has started winning hearts in the consumer market. After China, the company might bring this clamshell product to global customers to strengthen its position in the overseas market.

Huawei Nova Flip beats Pocket S sales record by 85% in 72 hours of launch (Image Credits: Weibo)

Nova Flip Feature & Specifications

Nova Flip is a thinner foldable compared to its rivals the Xiaomi Mix Flip and Galaxy Z Flip 6. It comes in four colors: Grass Green, Zero White, Sakura Pink, and Starry Black. Consumers can also pick mini bags and phone cases for the new foldable.

Powered by the Kirin 8000 chip, the device sports a 6.94-inch and a 2.14-inch OLED cover screen with 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 300Hz touch sampling rate. The visual effects are better than predecessors.

For camera, the device brings a two-lens arrangement on the rear side with a 50MP main snapper and an 8MP wide-angle lens. Users can enjoy features like 10x digital zoom, several shooting modes, and an upgraded Portrait Engine for clearer selfies.

The front side holds a single punch-hole design with an 8MP selfie lens. Nova Flip packs a 4400mAh battery with 66W fast charging support and Turbo 2.0 capability. It runs on HarmonyOS 4.2 and brings various fun features for the system and cover screen.

Users can turn on Call Fun Display, Cute Pet, Custom Style, or Interactive Themes to glorify the external display. The device also supports Smart AI elimination, cutout feature as well as Intelligent Communication 2.0.

Huawei Nova Flip foldable image (Image Credits: Huawei)

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Maxis is one of the leading telecommunications in Malaysia which offers standard network services to customers. For instance, broadband plans, internet plans, phone plans, and more. Its headquarters is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As of now, the telecom operator is joining forces with the Chinese OEM to bring advanced 5G-A network solutions to the region. Both firms sealed their partnership with an MoU at the Malaysia Commercialization Year Summit 2024 ceremony.

Looking into the agreement, both parties will indulge in the exploration of innovative network technologies that can be in gigabit capacity and help in mobile phone network expansion. For instance, mobile edge computing, network slicing, RedCap, Passive IoT, end-to-end network orchestration, and more.

Huawei and Maxis will further work on AI and machine learning usage to maintain network operating efficiencies and handle 5G-A technology far more effectively.

Huawei ties up with Maxis to meet 5G-A and digital goals in Malaysia (Image Credits: Bernama)

Apart from the tech sector, both companies will also provide better skills to university students. Doing so will lead to talented individuals for R&D projects, academic, as well as telecom industry sectors.

The CEO of Maxis Communications – Goh Seow Eng said that it’s the first to exhibit 5G-A solutions across the region. As the country’s leading telecoms, Maxis aims to bring better 5G-A facilities with Huawei that can result in economic evolution in Malaysia.

“The continued collaboration with Huawei is one of the many ways we are supporting Malaysia’s digital ambition. With this latest collaboration, we want to take full advantage of 5G-Advanced by building up human capital alongside commercialized innovation for enterprises and industries.”

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