AI has reshaped the world around us, and how we interact with our surroundings.
When you take a photo with your phone, the AI camera can identify what's in the frame (for example, the blue sky or spread of food), and apply intelligent enhancements that correspond to the scene, generating detailed and vibrant images. You can remain productive, even when your hands are occupied, thanks to voice assistants like HiVoice or Siri on your phone. Make payments with AI-powered face recognition, in which your phone stores and analyzes your facial profile, even recognizing your behavioral patterns, to determine when it is you making a purchase, or logging in to an account.
In 2017, the release of Huawei's Kirin 970 captured the industry's imagination. As the first-ever mobile chipset to integrate an independent neural processing unit (NPU), the Kirin 970 represented a milestone for mobile AI. The following year, Huawei unveiled its HiAI platform, opening up Huawei's chipset, device, and cloud capabilities to global developers, and providing invaluable assistance by bolstering a wide range of apps with newfound intelligence.
Since its advent, HUAWEI HiAI has focused on applying innovative new technology from the bottom layer of the system on up. Distributed intelligence forms the key to transforming device software and hardware from isolated capabilities into a collaborative, mutually-reinforcing ecosystem. In this way, HUAWEI HiAI enables software and hardware makers to facilitate innovation in their respective areas of expertise, and contribute to the seamless user experience of tomorrow.
AI cares…
Technology seems like magic, in a sense. It helps unlock unforeseen potential, enriching the lives of countless individuals, in particular, those with disabilities. New apps are constantly being introduced, offering life-altering capabilities.
Huawei has teamed up with IIS Aragon and DIVE Medical to jointly launch the TrackAI project, which is dedicated to helping ophthalmologists run visual tests for children, using Huawei smart devices equipped with HiAI. Numerous medical institutes around the world, in China, Spain, Vietnam, Mexico, and Russia, among other countries, have begun amassing the plethora of data required to train the AI algorithm, through their work with over 2,000 visually-impaired children.
TrackAI's complete detection system consists of the Device for an Integral Visual Examination (DIVE), a Huawei P30 mobile phone, and a Huawei MateBook E tablet. The system displays visual stimuli on a screen, and uses an eye track to detect the child's focus. The system can also learn the differences between children with and without an eye disease. Lastly, the Huawei P30 smartphone runs a pre-trained machine learning model, powered by HiAI, to detect whether the child has a visual impairment.
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The HiAI-powered TrackAI system can help stop an eye disease in its tracks
Compared with traditional models, in which data is uploaded to the cloud for analysis, with the results transferred back to devices, HUAWEI HiAI's on-device analysis is remarkably efficient. In leveraging the local Kirin chipset for AI processing, users have access to real-time analysis, with less latency. Even in rural areas where Internet access is spotty, doctors can still use the TrackAI system for testing. This provides for tremendous benefits for children's healthcare in developing countries.
On-device processing also provides for enhanced privacy safeguards. Users can rest assured that data is stored only on their device, avoiding the risks associated with cloud storage, such as data leak.
Huawei has drawn on AI to improve the lives of those living with disabilities, in a myriad of other ways.
In collaboration with the Polish Blind Association, Huawei developed Facing Emotions, an app designed to assist the blind and visually-impaired perceive emotions through the power of sound. The app uses the rear camera and AI on Huawei phones to translate human emotions into unique sounds. For the millions of people who are unable to see faces and read emotional cues, this offers a truly life-altering capability, bringing them closer to friends and loved ones. Imagine the joy of "hearing" a smile for the first time!
There's also StorySign, an app that helps deaf children read by translating the text from selected books into sign language. Huawei partnered with the European Union of the Deaf, Penguin Books and Aardman Animations, as well as other organizations, in developing StorySign. When a child opens a selected reading book in front of them, then opens the app and holds the phone over the page, an avatar signs the story, while the app highlights each word that has been signed. Thanks to multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and document adjustment technology, StorySign now supports more than 10 European sign languages. StorySign enriches of lives of deaf children and their parents, opening up a wondrous world of storytelling and literature, in which they learn to read and sign together.
HUAWEI HiAI powered StorySign supports more than 10 European sign languages
Huawei has also provided crucial assistance to the Chinese-developed Qimingtong app, which is designed to help the visually-impaired better interact with the world around them. The app reads text out loud, such as that from newspaper articles, letters, and product user guides. It also leverages HUAWEI HiAI capabilities, including face detection and facial feature detection, and enables the visually-impaired to take pictures following simple voice instructions.
All of the above apps are powered by AI, and it is HUAWEI HiAI's primary mission is to make app development effortless.
HUAWEI HiAI provides developers with access to the truly boundless potential from Huawei's chipset, device, and cloud technology. On the chipset side, developers benefit from cutting-edge NPU acceleration. Device capabilities bolster face, image, text, and speech recognition, while cloud technology enables apps to provide timely scenario-based services.
AI empowers...
Developers are dreamers, and HUAWEI HiAI is the platform that helps them fulfill their dreams. Since its debut in 2018, HUAWEI HiAI has connected more than one million developers, and 4000 partners.
SketchAR, a tool for teaching drawing using augmented reality (AR) and AI, offers a prime exactly of how HiAI has revolutionized user experience. It enables users to transmit an image from their device onto any surface, such as a sheet of paper or white wall. The image can then be used on their device as a template for manually drawing on the surface of choice. SketchAR utilizes HUAWEI HiAI's NPU acceleration, to boost image recognition speeds by up by 40%, for improved accuracy and greater responsiveness.
The Chinese-developed app Lvmuxia (Green Screen Compositor) helps users composite a captured video with a background video. Typically, green screen compositing requires powerful computing capabilities, and could previously only be accomplished on the cloud. But as on-cloud computing poses a number of challenges for developers, including high costs, high latency, and privacy risks, it was not practical. By working with HUAWEI HiAI, the Lvmuxia app has overcome those challenges, providing on-device AI capabilities, and shortening the app's time to market.
While attending a conference or lecture, you may want to take photos of the PowerPoint slides for future reference, but the quality of the images can be poor, particularly if you were seated in a corner, or there is some sort of visual obstruction. HiAI provides an elegant solution, with its document adjustment feature, in which photos are straightened, clarifying text and removing unwanted corners. With the OCR feature, you can even add notes or correct mistakes in the text.
From single-device AI to distributed AI
In November 2019, Huawei introduced HiAI 3.0, an open AI capability platform that allows smart devices to share AI computing power between them, representing the tremendous leap from single-device AI to distributed AI.
In its infancy, HUAWEI HiAI 1.0 only supported single type devices. 2.0 expanded to support such devices as phones, tablets, and smart screens. HUAWEI HiAI 3.0 goes even further, pooling hardware resources to form a super device. Powered by distributed AI, devices mutually reinforce each other, providing users with the best possible experience, given the resources at its disposal.
Smart devices are designed to fulfill specific needs, but each category of device comes with drawbacks. For example, smart TVs, watches, and earphones excel in collecting images, videos, and sensor data, but fall short in terms of sheer AI computing power. Smartphones are equipped with increasingly powerful photography features, but still don't compare to dedicated televisions and surveillance cameras, in many regards. Their sound collection capabilities also pale in comparison to a speaker's microphone array.
Huawei developed HiAI 3.0 in response to the ever-present need for enhanced capabilities on smart devices. It works by pooling the hardware resources from different devices to form a super intelligent system. When enriched with shared AI capabilities, all of the participating devices are equipped to provide seamless, cross-device intelligence that is responsive to any and every user whim.
By drawing from such basic distributed technologies as distributed virtual bus and device virtualization, HUAWEI HiAI 3.0 facilitates high-speed connectivity between devices, allowing them to share capabilities and reinforce each other. This has seemingly countless applications in real life.
For example, fitness apps have often been regarded as less effective than professional personal trainers. But HiAI 3.0 helps turn such apps into viable personal trainers in their own right. HiAI 3.0 connects the user's smart TV, phone, and speaker to form a wholly-integrated, super intelligent system. The system can use the TV's camera to capture the user's posture, the phone's AI computing power to analyze the images, and determine whether the user's posture is standard based on their skeleton information, before finally having the speaker remind the user to correct their posture by voice.
When the user gets into their car, their phone can automatically connect to the car and utilize the in-car microphone to pick up sounds, while the in-car camera uses the phone chipset's AI computing for driver monitoring. If any driver fatigue or distractions are detected, an alert will be played.
On-device, distributed AI allows devices to "see", "hear", "sense", and "calculate" with greater precision and sensitivity. Fragmented experiences are merged into one consistent, cross-device experience, and device silos are connected to form a super device.
This basic understanding underpins the new paradigm that is Huawei's Seamless AI Life strategy — unbounded intelligence in all scenarios. Powered by AI, diverse hardware resources, including those from smartphones, are pooled, and mutually reinforcing, providing the seamless flow of information across all usage scenarios, and the connected intelligence that will power innovation.
Source: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/press/news/2020/huawei-hiai-3-0-arrived/
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As we all know, Huawei unveiled the HUAWEI P40 series at 19:30 on April 8th. The all-new line of flagship smartphones are highlighted by the presence of five Leica cameras, a Quad-curve Overflow Display with 90Hz refresh rate, and a staggering 100X Digital Zoom feature. But wait, there's another highlight that we'd be remiss not to metion… HUAWEI OneHop!
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HUAWEI OneHop Kit serves as an all-scenario solution that facilitates seamless interaction between different devices. By leveraging NFC technology, it streamlines the collaboration between the smartphone and your other devices, including certain third-party devices, and can be initiated with a simple tap. Thus far, HUAWEI OneHop Kit has been integrated for laptops, smart TVs, and tablets, and incorporates a diverse range of app capabilities, including OneHop transfer, OneHop projection, and OneHop continuity.
Tapping the NFC area on the phone against the NFC tag on the laptop establishes an instant connection between the two devices. Tapping again initiates two way file transfers, enhancing efficiency by making file transmission nearly instantaneous
If you would like to project your phone screen to a smart TV, just enable NFC on your phone, and tap it against the NFC tag on the remote control for the TV. Just like that, the content on your phone will appear on the larger screen device. This revolutionizes the way your phone interacts with your surroundings, and provides for immersive leisure at all times.
Better yet, you are freed from the hassle of manual connections, or the all-too-common disappointment of learning that the video on your phone can't be viewed on a larger screen. Simply by tapping the NFC area on your phone against that on your phone, you can rest assured knowing that the video will be synced to the tablet in the exact same state that it was playing on your phone. With the recent release of version 8.6.3 of the YouTube app on AppGallery, you can now enjoy all of your favorite content, in all of its splendor.
Versatile Mobile Office Functions
Huawei's distributed technology is underpinned by a high degree of hardware-software synergy, which allows for effortless collaboration between different devices. This provides for interactions that are as easy and intuitive as saying conversing with a friend. The implications for work efficiency are enormous. Half-completed files can be synced to other devices, with zero effort, and half-watched videos can be picked up right where they left off, on another device.
Enhanced Efficiency Across the Board
Huawei's "1+8+N" framework, proposed in 2019, with "N" standing for third-party devices, envisions an all-encompassing, all-embracing smart device ecosystem, in which other electronics brands are invited into the fold. In this spirit, Huawei will introduce the Kit to a wider range of devices in the near future, including car kits, IoT devices, speakers, and wearables, so that its benefits touch upon every facet of daily life.
HUAWEI OneHop Kit breaks down arbitrary barriers between different devices, making genuine cross-device collaboration a living, breathing reality.
For the developer guide, please visit HUAWEI Developer at: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/development/connectivity-Guides/OneHop--guide
Any questions about this kit, you can try to acquire answers from HUAWEI Developer Forum.
Great tech from Huawei,
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Great tech from Huawei,
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Yeah. Expect its better performance.
Freemind R said:
As we all know, Huawei unveiled the HUAWEI P40 series at 19:30 on April 8th. The all-new line of flagship smartphones are highlighted by the presence of five Leica cameras, a Quad-curve Overflow Display with 90Hz refresh rate, and a staggering 100X Digital Zoom feature. But wait, there's another highlight that we'd be remiss not to metion… HUAWEI OneHop!
Tap to Explore
HUAWEI OneHop Kit serves as an all-scenario solution that facilitates seamless interaction between different devices. By leveraging NFC technology, it streamlines the collaboration between the smartphone and your other devices, including certain third-party devices, and can be initiated with a simple tap. Thus far, HUAWEI OneHop Kit has been integrated for laptops, smart TVs, and tablets, and incorporates a diverse range of app capabilities, including OneHop transfer, OneHop projection, and OneHop continuity.
Tapping the NFC area on the phone against the NFC tag on the laptop establishes an instant connection between the two devices. Tapping again initiates two way file transfers, enhancing efficiency by making file transmission nearly instantaneous
If you would like to project your phone screen to a smart TV, just enable NFC on your phone, and tap it against the NFC tag on the remote control for the TV. Just like that, the content on your phone will appear on the larger screen device. This revolutionizes the way your phone interacts with your surroundings, and provides for immersive leisure at all times.
Better yet, you are freed from the hassle of manual connections, or the all-too-common disappointment of learning that the video on your phone can't be viewed on a larger screen. Simply by tapping the NFC area on your phone against that on your phone, you can rest assured knowing that the video will be synced to the tablet in the exact same state that it was playing on your phone. With the recent release of version 8.6.3 of the YouTube app on AppGallery, you can now enjoy all of your favorite content, in all of its splendor.
Versatile Mobile Office Functions
Huawei's distributed technology is underpinned by a high degree of hardware-software synergy, which allows for effortless collaboration between different devices. This provides for interactions that are as easy and intuitive as saying conversing with a friend. The implications for work efficiency are enormous. Half-completed files can be synced to other devices, with zero effort, and half-watched videos can be picked up right where they left off, on another device.
Enhanced Efficiency Across the Board
Huawei's "1+8+N" framework, proposed in 2019, with "N" standing for third-party devices, envisions an all-encompassing, all-embracing smart device ecosystem, in which other electronics brands are invited into the fold. In this spirit, Huawei will introduce the Kit to a wider range of devices in the near future, including car kits, IoT devices, speakers, and wearables, so that its benefits touch upon every facet of daily life.
HUAWEI OneHop Kit breaks down arbitrary barriers between different devices, making genuine cross-device collaboration a living, breathing reality.
For the developer guide, please visit HUAWEI Developer at: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/development/connectivity-Guides/OneHop--guide
Any questions about this kit, you can try to acquire answers from HUAWEI Developer Forum.
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I just bought HUAWEI P40 Pro last week. Maybe it is time to try this for fun.
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About the phone P40 Pro, it's good for me for example multiple functions, amazing camera, and its curved screen. Satisfy with those.
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AI has reshaped the world around us, and how we interact with our surroundings.
When you take a photo with your phone, the AI camera can identify what's in the frame (for example, the blue sky or spread of food), and apply intelligent enhancements that correspond to the scene, generating detailed and vibrant images. You can remain productive, even when your hands are occupied, thanks to voice assistants like HiVoice or Siri on your phone. Make payments with AI-powered face recognition, in which your phone stores and analyzes your facial profile, even recognizing your behavioral patterns, to determine when it is you making a purchase, or logging in to an account.
In 2017, the release of Huawei's Kirin 970 captured the industry's imagination. As the first-ever mobile chipset to integrate an independent neural processing unit (NPU), the Kirin 970 represented a milestone for mobile AI. The following year, Huawei unveiled its HiAI platform, opening up Huawei's chipset, device, and cloud capabilities to global developers, and providing invaluable assistance by bolstering a wide range of apps with newfound intelligence.
Since its advent, HUAWEI HiAI has focused on applying innovative new technology from the bottom layer of the system on up. Distributed intelligence forms the key to transforming device software and hardware from isolated capabilities into a collaborative, mutually-reinforcing ecosystem. In this way, HUAWEI HiAI enables software and hardware makers to facilitate innovation in their respective areas of expertise, and contribute to the seamless user experience of tomorrow.
AI cares…
Technology seems like magic, in a sense. It helps unlock unforeseen potential, enriching the lives of countless individuals, in particular, those with disabilities. New apps are constantly being introduced, offering life-altering capabilities.
Huawei has teamed up with IIS Aragon and DIVE Medical to jointly launch the TrackAI project, which is dedicated to helping ophthalmologists run visual tests for children, using Huawei smart devices equipped with HiAI. Numerous medical institutes around the world, in China, Spain, Vietnam, Mexico, and Russia, among other countries, have begun amassing the plethora of data required to train the AI algorithm, through their work with over 2,000 visually-impaired children.
TrackAI's complete detection system consists of the Device for an Integral Visual Examination (DIVE), a Huawei P30 mobile phone, and a Huawei MateBook E tablet. The system displays visual stimuli on a screen, and uses an eye track to detect the child's focus. The system can also learn the differences between children with and without an eye disease. Lastly, the Huawei P30 smartphone runs a pre-trained machine learning model, powered by HiAI, to detect whether the child has a visual impairment.
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The HiAI-powered Track AI system can help stop an eye disease in its tracks
Compared with traditional models, in which data is uploaded to the cloud for analysis, with the results transferred back to devices, HUAWEI HiAI's on-device analysis is remarkably efficient. In leveraging the local Kirin chipset for AI processing, users have access to real-time analysis, with less latency. Even in rural areas where Internet access is spotty, doctors can still use the TrackAI system for testing. This provides for tremendous benefits for children's healthcare in developing countries.
On-device processing also provides for enhanced privacy safeguards. Users can rest assured that data is stored only on their device, avoiding the risks associated with cloud storage, such as data leak.
Huawei has drawn on AI to improve the lives of those living with disabilities, in a myriad of other ways.
In collaboration with the Polish Blind Association, Huawei developed Facing Emotions, an app designed to assist the blind and visually-impaired perceive emotions through the power of sound. The app uses the rear camera and AI on Huawei phones to translate human emotions into unique sounds. For the millions of people who are unable to see faces and read emotional cues, this offers a truly life-altering capability, bringing them closer to friends and loved ones. Imagine the joy of "hearing" a smile for the first time!
There's also StorySign, an app that helps deaf children read by translating the text from selected books into sign language. Huawei partnered with the European Union of the Deaf, Penguin Books and Aardman Animations, as well as other organizations, in developing StorySign. When a child opens a selected reading book in front of them, then opens the app and holds the phone over the page, an avatar signs the story, while the app highlights each word that has been signed. Thanks to multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and document adjustment technology, StorySign now supports more than 10 European sign languages. StorySign enriches of lives of deaf children and their parents, opening up a wondrous world of storytelling and literature, in which they learn to read and sign together.
HUAWEI HiAI powered StorySign supports more than 10 European sign languages
Huawei has also provided crucial assistance to the Chinese-developed Qimingtong app, which is designed to help the visually-impaired better interact with the world around them. The app reads text out loud, such as that from newspaper articles, letters, and product user guides. It also leverages HUAWEI HiAI capabilities, including face detection and facial feature detection, and enables the visually-impaired to take pictures following simple voice instructions.
All of the above apps are powered by AI, and it is HUAWEI HiAI's primary mission is to make app development effortless.
HUAWEI HiAI provides developers with access to the truly boundless potential from Huawei's chipset, device, and cloud technology. On the chipset side, developers benefit from cutting-edge NPU acceleration. Device capabilities bolster face, image, text, and speech recognition, while cloud technology enables apps to provide timely scenario-based services.
AI empowers...
Developers are dreamers, and HUAWEI HiAI is the platform that helps them fulfill their dreams. Since its debut in 2018, HUAWEI HiAI has connected more than one million developers, and 4000 partners.
SketchAR, a tool for teaching drawing using augmented reality (AR) and AI, offers a prime exactly of how HiAI has revolutionized user experience. It enables users to transmit an image from their device onto any surface, such as a sheet of paper or white wall. The image can then be used on their device as a template for manually drawing on the surface of choice. SketchAR utilizes HUAWEI HiAI's NPU acceleration, to boost image recognition speeds by up by 40%, for improved accuracy and greater responsiveness.
The Chinese-developed app Lvmuxia (Green Screen Compositor) helps users composite a captured video with a background video. Typically, green screen compositing requires powerful computing capabilities, and could previously only be accomplished on the cloud. But as on-cloud computing poses a number of challenges for developers, including high costs, high latency, and privacy risks, it was not practical. By working with HUAWEI HiAI, the Lvmuxia app has overcome those challenges, providing on-device AI capabilities, and shortening the app's time to market.
While attending a conference or lecture, you may want to take photos of the PowerPoint slides for future reference, but the quality of the images can be poor, particularly if you were seated in a corner, or there is some sort of visual obstruction. HiAI provides an elegant solution, with its document adjustment feature, in which photos are straightened, clarifying text and removing unwanted corners. With the OCR feature, you can even add notes or correct mistakes in the text.
From single-device AI to distributed AI
In November 2019, Huawei introduced HiAI 3.0, an open AI capability platform that allows smart devices to share AI computing power between them, representing the tremendous leap from single-device AI to distributed AI.
In its infancy, HUAWEI HiAI 1.0 only supported single type devices. 2.0 expanded to support such devices as phones, tablets, and smart screens. HUAWEI HiAI 3.0 goes even further, pooling hardware resources to form a super device. Powered by distributed AI, devices mutually reinforce each other, providing users with the best possible experience, given the resources at its disposal.
Smart devices are designed to fulfill specific needs, but each category of device comes with drawbacks. For example, smart TVs, watches, and earphones excel in collecting images, videos, and sensor data, but fall short in terms of sheer AI computing power. Smartphones are equipped with increasingly powerful photography features, but still don't compare to dedicated televisions and surveillance cameras, in many regards. Their sound collection capabilities also pale in comparison to a speaker's microphone array.
Huawei developed HiAI 3.0 in response to the ever-present need for enhanced capabilities on smart devices. It works by pooling the hardware resources from different devices to form a super intelligent system. When enriched with shared AI capabilities, all of the participating devices are equipped to provide seamless, cross-device intelligence that is responsive to any and every user whim.
By drawing from such basic distributed technologies as distributed virtual bus and device virtualization, HUAWEI HiAI 3.0 facilitates high-speed connectivity between devices, allowing them to share capabilities and reinforce each other. This has seemingly countless applications in real life.
For example, fitness apps have often been regarded as less effective than professional personal trainers. But HiAI 3.0 helps turn such apps into viable personal trainers in their own right. HiAI 3.0 connects the user's smart TV, phone, and speaker to form a wholly-integrated, super intelligent system. The system can use the TV's camera to capture the user's posture, the phone's AI computing power to analyze the images, and determine whether the user's posture is standard based on their skeleton information, before finally having the speaker remind the user to correct their posture by voice.
When the user gets into their car, their phone can automatically connect to the car and utilize the in-car microphone to pick up sounds, while the in-car camera uses the phone chipset's AI computing for driver monitoring. If any driver fatigue or distractions are detected, an alert will be played.
On-device, distributed AI allows devices to "see", "hear", "sense", and "calculate" with greater precision and sensitivity. Fragmented experiences are merged into one consistent, cross-device experience, and device silos are connected to form a super device.
This basic understanding underpins the new paradigm that is Huawei's Seamless AI Life strategy — unbounded intelligence in all scenarios. Powered by AI, diverse hardware resources, including those from smartphones, are pooled, and mutually reinforcing, providing the seamless flow of information across all usage scenarios, and the connected intelligence that will power innovation.
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2020 was a roaring year for the food delivery sector – the already thriving industry was boosted by an increasingly digital population that had no other means to enjoy their favourite dish due to social distancing measures. According to Sensor Tower, these factors contributed to a huge 21% year-on-year growth of 1.7 billion food and drink category apps installs globally in 2020.
However, competition within this sector also intensified last year as new companies looked to stake their claim in the growing market. In order to do this, food apps need to be able to compete with the top dogs on all fronts to ensure they are equally effective at acquiring and retaining users. For many, the answer was evident – develop a more intuitive, powerful, and enjoyable app experience. Given the industry offers little space for differentiation in terms of services, companies are dependent on driving a superior user experience to build their brand loyalty.
This set of challenge holds true for two apps in Thailand – Delivery platform Line Man as well as its lifestyle services review platform partner Wongnai. Line Man was looking to expand in 2020 but the lack of robust map service features and location tracking capabilities severely hamper its ability to achieve that goal. Similarly, Wongnai’s lacklustre location tracking capability and platform manipulation issue was affecting its standing among users during a pivotal period.
Step in Huawei. The partners sought out Huawei for guidance to address their respective issues for their apps on AppGallery. The discussion then evolved to a collaboration with Huawei where the two developers integrated the open HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) Core capabilities, and were able to successfully eradicate their roadblocks and unleash better location and tracking capabilities.
Triangulating users’ locations swiftly, accurately and clearly
Wongnai, as a leading lifestyle services review platform, needed to accurately pinpoint users’ location to recommend relevant nearby shops and attractions. By integrating with the HMS Core Location Kit, Wongnai was able to leverage the kit’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Wi-Fi, and base station location functionalities to provide flexible location-based services. This allows it to make dynamic, relevant recommendations for its users.
Line Man was facing a similar situation as well – it needed to constantly provide users with the location of their food and delivery riders to provide the most optimal ordering experience. Not only does the integration with Location kit achieve this, it also enables advanced features such as geofencing and activity identification. These capabilities enable the app to share reliable updates on the status of the order unceasingly, building goodwill and positive word-of-mouth among customers.
Displaying a map that is not only relevant but intuitive
Given that both services are heavily reliant on users’ location, the developers also needed a map service that can be customised according to their needs and is capable to convey all the relevant information effectively. In consideration of this, Wongnai and Line Man chose to integrate HUAWEI Map Kit with their respective apps as well.
With Map Kit, apps can leverage Huawei’s powerful map service and route planning capabilities to provide an elevated app experience for the users. The two developers were able to introduce an assortment of map functions based on their respective userbase’s unique needs. As a result, the users are able to effortlessly identify the various participating restaurants and businesses in one simple glance, improving the overall user experience.
Huawei and HMS Core drive success for their partners
The partnership with Huawei was a resounding success for the developers, both commercially and operationally. The integration with HMS Core not only propelled both apps past the two million downloads milestone, but it also helped Line Man boost its daily user figures by three-fold in the first two months.
Huawei is acutely aware of the different operational challenges facing developers, including the cost associated with launching apps across multiple distribution platforms. As part of its commitment to developers, Huawei provides developers with free access to certain HMS Core Kits to help alleviate the operational cost. Furthermore, HMS Core offers a unique function that can identify whether a device supports Huawei Mobile Service, allowing the app to call upon the corresponding SDK. This essentially meant that developers only need to maintain one app, reducing the time spent in terms of deployment and testing, as well as the operational costs associated with these activities.
In addition, Huawei extends its support for developers across the entire operation management spectrum, including marketing efforts. Wongnai and Line Man collaborated with AppGallery on a week-long campaign last year where users were able to redeem HUAWEI points through purchases in-app. The campaign was particularly effective for Wongnai who saw its new user download figures skyrocket 10-fold. The campaign boosted the apps’ visibility among AppGallery users, leading to a significant increase in daily downloads even after the campaign ended.
Another notable feat from this collaboration is the time it took to complete the entire integration process, especially in the case of Wongnai. The developer implemented three other HMS Core kits – Site Kit, Safety Detect, and Push Kit – on top of the two examples discussed above, and despite the mountainous amount of technical work that comes with it, the team was able to successfully incorporate the five kits into their app in just three weeks. This achievement was made possible through an intimate collaboration with Huawei’s developer support team, who offered extensive support as well as technical insights to facilitate the development process.
Huawei launched a range of smartphones, smart watches, and tablets powered by its new HarmonyOS 2 operating system today, including a new version of the HUAWEI Mate 40 Series and HUAWEI Mate X2, the HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series, and the HUAWEI MatePad Pro.
At today's event, Huawei also released the HUAWEI FreeBuds 4, its next-generation open-fit Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) wireless Bluetooth earbuds, and two high-end monitors, the HUAWEI MateView and the HUAWEI MateView GT. The company took this opportunity to announce that roughly 100 other Huawei devices – including both smartphones and tablets – will be upgraded to run on HarmonyOS 2, giving consumers access to a seamless intelligent experience across multiple devices in all different types of scenarios.
There are more smart devices in our lives than ever, but the experience they provide often isn't smart. Siloed systems tend to complicate interconnectivity and operations, which have ultimately led to a fragmented user experience.
HarmonyOS is designed to address this problem. As a next-generation operating system for smart devices, HarmonyOS provides a common language for different kinds of devices to connect and collaborate, providing users with a more convenient, smooth, and secure experience. It uses distributed technology to meet the varied needs of all types of different devices with a single system, enabling flexible deployment as needed. HarmonyOS also combines previously independent devices into a cohesive and holistic Super Device that integrates all hardware and resources to freely leverage the capabilities of its component devices based on the user's real-time needs. For developers, HarmonyOS allows cross-platform development and cross-device deployment of apps, making the development of apps across devices easier than ever before.
HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series: An independent smart assistant as powerful as your smartphone
Huawei's brand-new flagship smart watch, the HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series, redefines fashion on your wrist. Featuring a curved glass screen and 316L stainless steel case, this stylish watch comes complete with a brand-new 3D rotating crown that senses different levels of pressure and provides haptic feedback in response to user input, making the watch both comfortable to wear and easy to operate. The HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series also allows you to make and receive phone calls and listen to music using the same phone number and data plan as your smartphone.
The HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series runs on HarmonyOS 2, which allows it to integrate seamlessly with Huawei smartphones to serve as a multifunctional travel assistant. Functionality flows directly from your smartphone to your wrist, making all ride-hailing and flight information available at a glance. On the ride home from the airport, if you're taking public transit, both your watch and your phone will remind you when you're getting close to your final destination. You never have to worry about missing your stop again1.
The HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series also serves as a professional fitness & health manager that supports more than 100 workout modes. In addition to a broad range of healthcare support options, the watch can now monitor skin temperature with a new, high-precision temperature sensor2. It also supports fall detection and SOS functions so users can monitor and manage their health in real time.
The HUAWEI WATCH 3 Pro features an ultra-long battery life, which lasts five days in smart mode and 21 days in ultra-long battery life mode. The HUAWEI WATCH 3, in turn, has a battery life of three days in smart mode and 14 days in ultra-long battery life mode3.
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HUAWEI MatePad Pro: A new productivity hub that breaks through boundaries for maximum creativity
The new HUAWEI MatePad Pro features a stunning 12.6-inch OLED FullView Display with a 90% screen-to-body ratio, the highest among all tablets currently available on the market. Every display comes with a ΔE color difference of less than 0.5 for incredibly high color accuracy, delivering a crisp, color-accurate picture that is on par with professional monitors. The HUAWEI MatePad Pro also has an ultra-high contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, and supports a DCI-P3 color gamut.
Equipped with Kirin 9000 series chipsets, the HUAWEI MatePad Pro delivers incredible levels of performance. Supported by the distributed data management and task scheduling capabilities of HarmonyOS, the tablet can work together seamlessly with smartphones and PCs to double your productivity and creativity in different scenarios, whether you're in the office or at the drawing board.
The HUAWEI MatePad Pro also supports Multi-screen Collaboration with PCs4. The tablet can become a drawing board in Mirror mode and a monitor in Extend mode. It also supports cross-device file dragging and dropping, delivering a more efficient and collaborative multi-device experience.
The second-generation HUAWEI M-Pencil5 was unveiled together with the HUAWEI MatePad Pro. The new smart pen features a new platinum-coated nib for high-precision handwriting and ultra-low latency, accurately differentiating between 4,096 levels of force. The HUAWEI M-Pencil supports FreeScript, which converts handwriting in any input box into digital text in real time. In addition, intelligent interactions such as double-tap to switch, Instant Shape, and Instant Table make handwritten input more seamless and natural to fit your unique workflow.
An entirely new interactive experience: Easier to use and smarter than ever
Multi-device interaction with HarmonyOS makes working across multiple devices as simple as controlling one. The new Control Panel supports simple and intuitive connections through a drag-and-integrate feature that allows users to freely connect the devices they want based on specific scenarios.
For example, if you want to watch a movie at home late at night, all you have to do is open up the Control Panel and drag the smart screen icon to your phone icon, and the movie jumps directly from your phone to the TV. If you're wearing your HUAWEI FreeBuds 4, you can then drag the earphone icon to the phone icon, at which point the movie will play on your smart screen while rerouting its sound through your FreeBuds. This is just one example of the Super Device experience.
HarmonyOS 2's new Task Center allows apps to travel between different devices at will without installing them on each and every one, so that all functions and services are available whenever and wherever they're needed. On any device that's part of a Super Device system, you can see the tasks running on all other devices6. If you want a bigger display for mobile gaming, you can simply swipe up and hover to bring up the Overview Screen, and then transfer the game to your HUAWEI MatePad Pro to continue the fun.
The new HarmonyOS Home Screen is more streamlined and organized than ever. You can swipe up on apps to generate Service Widgets7 that display real-time, easy-to-access information or services without having to open the app itself. You can customize the size of the Service Widgets, tap apps and swipe up to display their widgets, and tap any vacant location on the home screen to hide them. Service Widgets can also be used to access Atomic Services, which can be easily called on and shared in the Service Center without the need to download or install anything, making it easier and more convenient to access functions like news aggregation8.
In terms of look-and-feel, the beauty of innovative interaction lies in the aesthetic details: The specially designed HarmonyOS Sans font and natural Gravitational Animations offer a consistent user experience across all HarmonyOS devices.
HUAWEI HiLink has been upgraded to HarmonyOS Connect to equip more non-Huawei devices with smart features. Smart home devices can be connected to your mobile phone with a single tap: Tap your phone against a Midea oven that supports HarmonyOS Connect and select a recipe to start preparing your meal instantly. Keep your leftovers safe for longer with Haier refrigerators that automatically adjust their temperature based on the type of food you're storing. And get the perfect soymilk for your body with Joyoung soymilk machines that can recommend recipes based on the data in your Health app9. When working together, these connections can turn your kitchen into a personal health coach.
Comprehensive performance gains for more privacy and security
HarmonyOS 2 runs even more smoothly than the last generation of EMUI. A HarmonyOS 2 phone can maintain read/write speeds similar to those of a new phone after 36 months of use, even with very little storage still available on the device.
HarmonyOS 2 keeps opened apps running in the background so that your tasks are always available where you left off. You can return to the last action or page on a given app even if you have dozens of other apps open. For example, if you were on a shopping app looking at a product, then you switched to another app to send your friend a message, and then opened up your browser to search for something else, you can now return to the last page you were browsing on your shopping app without a hitch. What's more, you can enjoy a longer battery life with a HarmonyOS 2-based device. After upgrading to HarmonyOS 2, the HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro can run Game for Peace for 5.1 hours straight10.
Huawei is committed to protecting user privacy and security. HarmonyOS inherits and further builds on the leading privacy and security technologies found in EMUI. Our core design principle is to ensure that only the right person can access the right data with the right device, ensuring the security of each access to each device, as well as the security of each act of storing, transmitting, and using data across all scenarios. When multi-device collaborative identity authentication is activated, users can only unlock their phones with a combination of facial recognition on their smartphone and a special check that ensures that the user's watch is the one that's connected to the phone.
In addition, HarmonyOS manages user data by category and protects devices by level, setting specific security thresholds for Super Devices. Only devices that meet strict security requirements can access data corresponding to their security level, making sure that users can make use of Multi-device Collaboration features with true peace of mind. HarmonyOS apps go through rigorous testing throughout development, release, installation, and use to ensure they deliver a secure experience in a clean ecosystem.
"We are surrounded by more and more smart devices these days, and are now in a world where all things are connected," said Richard Yu, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei's Consumer Business Group. "Every single one of us is a part of this fully connected world, as is every device. We look forward to working with more partners and developers to build a thriving HarmonyOS ecosystem and provide even better experiences, products, and services to our customers the world over."
To give more consumers the opportunity to experience the convenience, seamlessness, and security of HarmonyOS across all scenarios, nearly 100 Huawei devices are set to receive the HarmonyOS 2 upgrade in China, including the HUAWEI Mate 40 series, Mate 30 series, P40 series, Mate X2, nova 8 series, and MatePad Pro series. Users who want to try out the new OS sooner can submit an application at the Huawei Club or on the My Huawei app, or sign up for the HarmonyOS Experience Officer Program in any of Huawei's 66 offline experience stores in China11.
1.These features are provided through third-party apps, the availability of which varies from country to country. Please refer to Huawei's local official website.
2.Only supported after OTA programming upgrade. This feature is not designed to be a medical device, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. All data and measurements should be used for personal reference only.
3.All data is based on lab test results. The actual length of usage may vary depending on individual product differences, user habits, and environmental variables. For more details, see the HUAWEI WATCH 3 Series product page on Huawei's official website.
4.This function is only supported by certain files and apps between Huawei tablets powered by HarmonyOS 2 and above and Huawei laptops with a HUAWEI PC Manager version of 11.1 and above. If you have any questions about this function when buying or using Huawei products, please contact Huawei's customer service staff.
5.This function is only available on certain Huawei tablets powered by HarmonyOS 2 and above.
6.The Task Center is currently available only on certain Huawei smartphones and tablets powered by HarmonyOS 2 and above.
7.The apps and functions supported by Service Widgets are subject to actual situations. Certain apps only support Service Widgets after receiving an OTA upgrade.
8.This news function is provided by the Sina News app, and is currently only available on the Chinese mainland.
9.The products referred to here are the Midea S5 Mini steam oven and Joyoung Soymilk Machine DJ12R-K2S (HM). The Haier refrigerator is not yet commercially available.
10.Data from Huawei labs. Game version: 1.13.12. Game play settings: HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro with a screen refresh rate of 90 fps with smooth images displayed.
11.Offline experience is available in more than 30 cities across China. For more information, please visit https://consumer.huawei.com/en/ or the My Huawei app.
Original Link:https://consumer.huawei.com/en/press/news/2021/huawei-launches-new-products-powered-by-harmonyos-2/
does it provide mobile phone development?
Now, AI has been rolled-out in education, finance, logistics, retail, transportation, and healthcare, to fill niches based on user needs or production demands. As a developer, to stay ahead of the competition, you'll need to translate genius insights efficiently into AI-based apps.
HMS Core HiAI Foundation is designed to streamline development of new apps. It opens the innate hardware capabilities of the HiAI ecosystem and provides 300+ AI operators compatible with major models, allowing you to easily and quickly build AI apps.
HiAI Foundation offers premium computing environments that boast high performance and low power consumption to facilitate development, with solutions including device-cloud synergy, Model Zoo, automatic optimization toolkits, and Intellectual Property Cores (IP cores) that collaborate with each other.
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Five Cores of Efficient, Flexible DevelopmentHiAI Foundation is home to cutting-edge tools and features that compliment any development strategy. Here are the five cores that facilitate flexible, low-cost AI development:
Device-cloud synergy: support for platform update and performance optimization with operators for new and typical scenarios
Because AI services and algorithm models are constantly evolving, it is difficult for AI computing platforms to keep up. HiAI Foundation is equipped with flexible computing frameworks and adaptive model structures that support synergy across device and cloud. This allows you to build and launch new models and services and enhance user experience.
Model Zoo: optimizes model structures to make better use of NPU (neural processing unit) based AI acceleration
During development, you may need to perform model adjustment on the underlying hardware structure to maximize computing power. Such adjustment can be costly in time and resources. Model Zoo provides NPU-friendly model structures, backbones, and operators to improve model structure and make better use of Kirin chip's NPU for AI acceleration.
Toolkit for lightweight models: make your apps smaller and run faster
32-bit models used for training provide high calculation precision, but equally consume a lot of power and memory. Our toolkit converts original models into smaller, more lightweight ones that are better suited to NPU, without comprising much on computing precision. This single adjustment helps save phone space and computing resources.
HiAI Foundation toolkit for lightweight modelsNetwork architecture search (NAS) toolkit: simple and effective network design
HiAI Foundation provides a toolkit supporting multiple types of network architecture search, including classification, detection, and segmentation. With specific precision and performance requirements, the toolkit runs optimization algorithms to determine the most appropriate network architecture and performance based on the hardware information. It is compatible with mainstream training frameworks, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Caffe, and supports high computing power for multiple mainstream hardware platforms.
HiAI Foundation NAS toolkitIP core collaboration: improved performance at reduced power with the DDR memory shared among computing units
HiAI Foundation ensures full collaboration between IP cores and open computing power for hardware. Now, IP cores (CPU, NPU, ISP, GPU) share the DDR memory, minimizing data copy and transfers across cores, for better performance at a lower power consumption.
HiAI Foundation connects smart services with underlying hardware capabilities. It is compatible with mainstream frameworks like MNN, TNN, MindSpore Lite, Paddle Lite, and KwaiNN, and can perform AI calculation in NPU, CPU, GPU, or DSP using the inference acceleration platform Foundation DDK and the heterogeneous computing platform Foundation HCL. It is the perfect framework to build the new-generation AI apps that run on devices like mobile phones, tablets, Vision devices, vehicles, and watches.
HiAI Foundation open architecture
Leading AI Standards with Daily Calls Exceeding 60 BillionNowadays, AI technologies, such as speech, facial, text, and image recognition, image segmentation, and image super-resolution, are common features of mobile devices. In fact, it has become the norm, with users expecting better AI apps. HiAI Foundation streamlines app development and reduces resource wastage, to help you focus on the design and implementation of innovative AI functions.
High performance, low power consumption, and ease of use are reasons why more and more developers are choosing HiAI Foundation. Since it moved to open source in 2018, the calls have increased from 1 million times/day to 60 billion/day, providing its worth in the global developer community.
Daily calls of HiAI Foundation exceed 60 billionHiAI Foundation has joined the Artificial Intelligence Industry Technology Innovation Strategy Alliance, or AITISA, and takes part in drafting the device-side AI standards (currently under review). Through joint efforts to building industry standards, HiAI Foundation is committed to harnessing new technology for AI industry evolution.
Visit HUAWEI Developers to find out more about HiAI Foundation.