Experience EMUI 1 1 across devices and feel the ecology of HarmonyOS system in advance.

65438+February 16, one year after EMUI 10 introduced the concept of "full-scene smart life", Huawei HarmonyOS system finally launched version 2.0 Beta, with more than 15000 enhanced APIs, which provided a broader ".

As a full-scene distributed operating system for the Internet of Everything era, the concept and determination of HarmonyOS system and its software and hardware partners to create a "super terminal experience" have already been laid out in EMUI. The latter not only enjoys the distributed technology of HarmonyOS system, but also can be directly connected with the equipment equipped with HarmonyOS system.

So how will Huawei's different hardware products be unified in the same ecology in the future, and what role will it play? If you are as curious about the actual experience of "HarmonyOS System Ecology" as we are, you might as well follow this article of EMUI 1 1 to get a glimpse of it in many scenes and experiences.

Mobile phones are often regarded as the biggest enemy of efficiency and attention, but EMUI 1 1 makes Mate 40 Pro, Matebook and even FreeBuds Pro the most reliable working partners.

Take my own most commonly used document editing and notes as an example. In this scenario, it is common to insert real photos into documents. According to the previous operation logic, it may be necessary to shoot first, then transfer it to the computer through a third-party App, and finally save the inserted document-high-frequency requirements require complicated operations to complete, which is actually unreasonable.

Huawei's solution perfectly solves this "pain point". When the mobile phone touches the computer at work, multi-screen collaboration begins. Then we can call the camera of the mobile phone directly on the computer to shoot. After the shooting is finished, we can hold the picture taken by the mobile phone on the computer and drag it into the document on the computer side.

Of course, the other way around. We can also use the "Huawei Share" function to quickly send the text information extracted by computer OCR to the mobile phone. In the whole process, the information transmission between the mobile phone and the computer does not need any third-party transfer, which greatly improves the recording and office efficiency.

With the blessing of EMUI 1 1, this experience of equipment linkage and cooperation can be said to be polished to the extreme in HarmonyOS system ecology. Huawei's early promotion of "multi-screen collaboration" further supports "three windows opening", supports the simultaneous opening of three complete mobile phone interfaces on the "big screen" of the computer, and dismantles the levels of each UI, which further brings convenience and efficiency that the mobile phone can not be independently realized on the "small screen".

For example, if you want to edit the local food strategy on your mobile phone before you travel, the information you need is scattered in many apps, and it is very troublesome to switch back and forth. At this time, "multi-screen collaboration" and "three windows open" are used to solve the problem.

I can edit photos, put a strategy in the memo, and view comments in the application. For the edited file or photo, you don't need to click on the picture illustration, just drag it from the file window to the memo window. When you encounter a picture that needs to be properly edited, you can also drag it directly from your mobile phone to your computer for processing, and then drag it back to the mobile phone window after processing.

This mechanism of breaking the boundaries of existing devices, organically combining the forms and characteristics of different devices and giving full play to their respective advantages also exists between mobile phones and other hardware.

For example, when different video and voice calls come, you no longer have to worry about not knowing which one to connect. With the function of multi-screen collaboration, you can answer all calls on the computer, and turn off the microphone of each phone back and forth by using the microphone and camera of the computer, which is very convenient and simple. Of course, you can also work while talking on the phone, so it is possible to use three things at a time.

For video enthusiasts, the two most important basic elements are "picture" and "sound". Although shooting with a mobile phone can ensure the picture, it is always difficult to collect the "sound" of the external environment reasonably. In EMUI 1 1, we can use Mate 40 Pro and FreeBuds Pro to achieve seamless collaboration. Mobile phones mainly shoot stable and high-definition pictures, and headphones are used as radio equipment. In addition, it also supports low-latency real-time aural return. While solving the portability of photographer's equipment, it also completes the fidelity of video and audio.

After experiencing the whole multi-device expansion process, apart from the amazing hardware form limitation, what impressed me the most was the "moving" that runs through all the cross-device cooperation processes.

Transferring files, answering phones, recording inspiration, shooting videos, playing music across devices, projecting screens on mobile phones and distributing networks on devices ... these are common trivial things in life, but various inhuman designs make it possible for us to complete them separately on separate devices, and it will take a lot of time and energy to unify them later. The "touch" of EMUI 1 1 seems simple, but it directly cuts into the intuitive operation of "connecting" devices, ensuring the consistency and integration of multi-device experience in the intelligent ecosystem.

The improvement of EMUI 1 1 is not only in office and efficiency, but also in life and travel, which enables mobile phones and smart watches to achieve a smarter collaborative experience.

Take Huawei Mate 40 Pro and WATCH GT 2 Pro as examples. Whether walking or riding, holding mobile navigation is not an elegant and safe solution. However, in the ecological circle of EMUI 1 1, the linkage of mobile phones and watches greatly enhances this scene experience, allowing us to better focus on roads and surrounding environment.

The whole process is as intuitive as the "touch" above: when you leave, you can put away your mobile phone by entering the destination or itinerary in Baidu map, and the next navigation is completed by the watch; Every time you lift your wrist, the watch can give you information tips, and at key sections, the watch will also tell us the specific direction through vibration.

In this process, if you connect with FreeBuds Pro, you can further combine "wrist-lifting navigation" and "voice prompt", so that the navigation operation during walking and riding can be completely migrated from the mobile phone to the more portable and natural watches and headphones.

At this stage, in addition to going out for navigation, key information such as car information and high-speed rail/flight itinerary will also "flow" between the mobile phone and the watch: after the mobile phone confirms the drip itinerary, it will prompt all key information of the ride on the watch, including vehicle order information, vehicle model information, vehicle arrival information, and even the driver can directly answer it with the watch when contacting you; Before traveling by high-speed rail or flight, the watch will remind you of relevant travel information through information push and vibration 30 minutes before the start of the trip, and you won't miss any key information when you are busy.

In addition, the emergence of HiCar has also solved the "rigid" operation problem of traditional car machines and made driving smarter. After the first car-machine pairing, every time you sit in the driver's seat and start the engine, HiCar will start. Then, according to the travel information we give on the mobile phone, we learn the travel habits and common routes, and will prompt the corresponding commuting information every time we leave. The focus of all travel information, from the moment you sit in the driver's seat, is transferred from the mobile phone to the car, and the experience is very natural.

As for the interaction of HiCar itself, in addition to function buttons, smart cards based on scenes account for the largest proportion in the first screen, which should also be the core experience of HiCar. Smart cards can not only predict destinations according to time and place, but also present schedule, music, telephone and other information according to card order, presenting more valuable information in limited pixels.

The overall experience, in addition to feeling the optimization of grassroots polishing, highly accurate voice interaction has also raised HiCar's experience to a new height. When driving, you can start the voice assistant with a little proficiency, and then you can use voice commands to complete most of the operations in the car. You don't need to be distracted to click on the screen while driving.

Finally, HiCar also gives the car machine greater expansibility to a great extent. In addition to the navigation design related to driving, HiCar also supports playing games, watching streaming media and browsing news, which gives us more choices when resting in the car and maximizes the utilization rate of the car. Perhaps HiCar will bring us more surprises when HarmonyOS System 2.0 and Huawei's in-vehicle smart screen officially face the market.

If work and travel account for two-thirds of life, then the last part of most people's life should be entertainment and sports. In terms of related application scenarios and experiences, EMUI also brought me many surprises.

For example, in order to avoid accidentally dropping my mobile phone due to exercise, I usually put my mobile phone aside. At this time, headphones and watches have become the main way of interaction. Therefore, when running, you only need to say "little art" and give the instruction of "start running", and the mobile phone can automatically unlock the running mode of the health App through the instruction of FreeBuds Pro, and immediately call the watch to monitor the physical function data and broadcast the real-time situation to the user.

If you are learning fitness movements through Fit App at home, when playing video teaching on your mobile phone, the watch will also cooperate with the movements to help us correct the fitness posture in time.

In the casino scene, EMUI plays a more "host" role. We can put it together with the computer to expand the big screen-just touch it, or let us project the mobile game on the computer for "big screen play" without an emulator. With the gamepad, we can get different game feelings and visual experiences.

Another example is the video you haven't finished watching on the road. When you get home, you can transfer pictures and sounds to the smart screen by "touching". With Huawei's stable real-time data transmission performance, you can get a high-definition and low-latency viewing experience.

Finally, for audio, scene switching is the biggest test of ecological maturity.

EMUI is also good at multi-dimensional coordinated scheduling of mobile phones, headphones, watches and speakers. If you are watching a movie on the tablet and your mobile phone receives a call, at the moment of answering the phone, FreeBuds Pro will immediately switch to the signal of the phone and pause the media playback on the tablet; After you hang up, you can also respond quickly and switch back automatically. These seemingly complicated steps need only be completed in an instant by FreeBuds Pro.

This kind of relay can also play a role when we come home from outdoors-Mate 40 Pro and audio speaker can "touch" the relay between headphones and speakers without special connection, so that songs we haven't heard on the road can continue to play when we get home.

Compared with the trend of UI interaction and visual style updating in recent years, EMUI's continuous investment in ecological and hardware collaborative experience in recent two years makes it more like a hardcore player.

However, it is this two-way drive of software and hardware that makes the experience of "HarmonyOS System Ecology" finally mature. Huawei, which has been deeply involved in domestic smart life experiences and scenes, has the strength to compete with Apple's software and hardware ecology.

This software and hardware collaborative experience based on EMUI echoes Huawei's powerful distributed technology on HarmonyOS system. Driven by both software and hardware, distributed technology regards all devices in the user ecosystem as the bottom components of Huawei's intelligent ecosystem, and EMUI as the ecological center, so that data and information among devices can be shared and responded quickly. In this way, what users can feel is no longer a single device, but a brand-new integrated thing. Devices are no longer isolated, everything is interconnected.

It is HarmonyOS's vision and Huawei's ambition to fundamentally break the fragmentation of experience caused by the differences in hardware forms and let us have a consistent and collaborative software experience on all smart devices. In the ecological experience that EMUI shows us now, we see the charm and possibility of this future.