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the world's first tri-fold screen mobile phone released by huawei not long ago is still hot. on the afternoon of september 24, huawei launched a new package of new products for all scenarios, including the largest smart screen in history (110 inches, 69,999 yuan), the first watch equipped with huawei's xuanji sensing system-huawei watch gt 5 series, new routers, etc.

yu chengdong, huawei's executive director, chairman of the terminal bg, and chairman of the intelligent automotive solutions bu, revealed at the just-concluded autumn full-scenario new product launch conference that huawei's native harmonyos next will officially start public beta on october 8. the first batch of public beta models include huawei mate 60 series, mate x5 series and matepad pro 13.2 series.

"we have spent more than a year to go through the journey that foreign operating systems have taken over ten years," yu chengdong said on the spot.

in addition, new progress has been made in huawei's hongmeng intelligent driving. yu chengdong announced that the first coupe suv of hongmeng intelligent driving and the second car jointly developed by huawei and chery automobile, the zhijie r7, has been officially launched. the car was opened for pre-order during the chengdu auto show in august this year.

the original hongmeng will be launched in public beta on october 8

harmonyos is a domestically produced, independent and controllable operating system launched by huawei in 2019, positioned as a full-scenario distributed operating system.

since its debut in 2019, hongmeng has undergone four major iterations, and its global device installation volume has exceeded 900 million.

on january 18, 2024, huawei announced that harmonyos next (native hongmeng) hongmeng galaxy version is fully open to developers for application, marking that huawei hongmeng is about to enter a new "independent" development stage, because harmonyos next has achieved complete independent research and development from operating system kernel, file system to programming language, ai framework and large models, and is not compatible with android. currently, most of the global operating systems, including android, ios, etc., are based on linux or unix kernels.

therefore, the development of native hongmeng has attracted much attention from all walks of life. earlier this year, huawei's rotating chairman xu zhijun said at the 2024 huawei analyst conference that this year is a critical year for building the hongmeng system.

recently, at the 2024 china international fair for trade in services, chen xinxin, general manager of huawei's hongmeng industry solutions, revealed that huawei's "pure-blooded" hongmeng system harmonyos next, which is fully independently developed, natively secure, and natively intelligent, will launch its official version in the fourth quarter of this year.

now, time is about to enter the fourth quarter of 2024, which means that the release of the official version of native harmonyos is about to enter the countdown stage.

at huawei's autumn full-scenario new product launch conference held on september 24, yu chengdong revealed that huawei harmonyos next will officially start public beta on october 8. the first batch of public beta models include huawei mate 60 series, mate x5 series and matepad pro 13.2 series. consumers can apply for upgrade through the "my huawei" app-"upgrade to try it".

"it took us more than a year to go through the journey that foreign operating systems have taken for more than ten years. we would like to thank our partners, huawei employees and others who have worked silently behind the scenes." yu chengdong called on the industry to jointly build and share the hongmeng ecosystem.

data shows that huawei's hongmeng harmony0s's market share in china increased from 8% in the first quarter of 2023 to 17% in the first quarter of 2024, while ios's share fell from 20% to 16%. this is the first time that huawei's harmony0s has surpassed apple's ios in the chinese market, becoming the second largest operating system in china. with the release of the official version of harmonyos next, huawei's harmony0s's market share is expected to further increase.

continue to increase investment in the wearable field

at this press conference, huawei also released new wearable devices, routers, smart screens, etc., indicating that huawei is optimistic about these tracks.

among them, huawei's actions in the field of wearable devices have attracted much attention.

idc data shows that the global wrist-worn device market declined by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2024, but china's wearable device market has continued to maintain a high growth trend since the beginning of this year. in the first quarter, china's wearable device market shipments reached 33.67 million units, a year-on-year increase of 36.2%. the smart watch market shipments were particularly impressive, reaching 9.1 million units, a year-on-year increase of 54.1%. in the second quarter, the global wrist-worn device market shipments were 15.55 million units, a year-on-year increase of 10.9%, continuing to lead the global market.

at huawei's autumn full-scenario new product launch conference today, huawei terminal bg ceo he gang stated that huawei will rank first in global wrist wearable shipments in the first half of 2024, and will rank first in china's wrist wearable shipments for five consecutive years from 2019 to 2023, with cumulative global wrist wearable shipments exceeding 150 million.

he gang released the huawei watch gt 5 series, the first huawei smartwatch equipped with huawei's xuanji sensing system. he introduced that the watch supports monitoring of more than 60 sports health indicators, including new functions such as negative emotion monitoring, stress monitoring, and female ovarian health research, and supports more than 100 sports modes.

earlier, at the end of august this year, huawei sports health launched its core technology brand, the xuanji perception system, and revealed that the first device equipped with the system will be released in september. now it seems that the device huawei revealed at the time was the huawei watch gt 5 series.

zhang wei, president of huawei's smart wearable product line, once told a reporter from securities times e-company that the characteristic of this sensing system is that it integrates single-point monitoring technology into multi-dimensional sensing. based on huawei's investment in basic research in optics, electricity, materials, etc., it has achieved higher accuracy and speed in vital sign data monitoring. "it overcomes the influence of factors such as skin color, wrist thickness, weather changes, etc. on data monitoring, and has obtained industry authoritative certification for monitoring indicators such as heart rate, blood oxygen, and blood pressure."

cooperating with chery to build cars: losses will definitely occur this year

in addition, yu chengdong also announced on the spot that the second car jointly developed by huawei and chery, the first coupe suv under hongmeng zhixing, the zhijie r7, was officially launched on the market, and the price was also announced for the first time, starting at 259,800 yuan.

previously, on the afternoon of august 26, during the chengdu auto show, huawei unveiled the zhijie r7 for the first time and opened pre-orders for the car on the same day.

as of that time, the number of huawei's hongmeng intelligent driving model has increased to 6, namely, wenjie m5, wenjie m7, wenjie m9 in cooperation with seres, zhijie s7, zhijie r7 in cooperation with chery, and xiangjie s9 in cooperation with baic bluepark, covering suvs, coupes and other models.

interestingly, when talking about the cooperation with chery automobile to "build cars", yu chengdong once again complained about the losses. he said: "there will definitely be losses this year. i look forward to the cost reduction and turning losses into profits after the models we cooperate with chery increase in volume."

in august, when huawei released the new m7 pro version, yu chengdong also said: "we lose 20,000 to 30,000 yuan for every car sold."

regarding the latest zhijie r7, yu chengdong introduced that it is equipped with huawei ads 3.0 advanced intelligent driving when it is released, making parking smarter and more convenient. it is also equipped with a smarter hongmeng cockpit and omnidirectional collision avoidance 3.0. it is also equipped with the full-blooded tuling platform. the whole series is standardly equipped with continuously variable damping shock absorber + intelligent air suspension, with a maximum range of up to 802km, and 800v high-voltage fast charging as standard for the whole series.

"safety is the greatest luxury. the omnidirectional collision avoidance system of all models of hongmeng intelligent driving has avoided 63,000 possible collisions!" yu chengdong said on the spot.

yu chengdong revealed that the cumulative orders for the m9 have exceeded 140,000 units, firmly ranking first in sales of domestic luxury cars worth 500,000 yuan, and the booking volume for the r7 has exceeded 30,000 units in two weeks.