The User Interface will be available in the Mate30 Series

Huawei EMUI10 was officially launched during the Huawei Developers Congress which was held on August 9, in Dongguan. Dr. Wang Chenglu, President of theSoftware Engineering Department at Huawei Consumer Business Group, said that EMUI10 is a pioneering distributed technology application which provides anall-scenario experience. Its development will enable scenario-specific applications such as audio and video calls in all scenarios, business tasks across devices, and smart vehicle-mounted devices.

In the same stroke, one-time development for multi-device deployment can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and provide users with an all-scenario,smart experience.EMUI has enabled the connection among multiple devices as well along with other devices and applications, and it will further improve the service experience in additional scenarios. Likewise, the EMUI team adheres to a cooperative and open attitude and hopes that more partners and developers will join together to create innovative experiences in all scenarios.

At the conclusion of the launch event, Dr.Wang announced thatanEMUI10 Beta versionwill be internally tested with Huawei P30 series and other models on September 8, and EMUI10 will be available on the next generation of Mate series products.At this point, Huawei EMUI has more than 500 million DAUs in 216 countries, and supports 77 languages. Technological iterations have been made over the past 7 yearssince the birth of EMUI1.0 in 2012. Huawei is dedicated to providing EMUI upgrade services and premium experience for existing users.

Statistics show that the user upgrade rates of EMUI8.0 and EMUI 9.0 reached 79% and 84% respectively and that the number of users upgrading their phones to EMUI10 is expected to reach 150 million.In recent years, Huawei has invested heavily in EMUI R&D to continuously boost system performance. GPU Turbo technology has improved the efficiency of graphics processing by 60%, whileLink Turbo network aggregation technology lets smartphonesaccess multiple networks like 4G andWiFi for network speed 70% faster than using 4Galone. Other innovations like the EROFS super file system improves Android's random read by 20%, and additionally, the Ark Compiler also smooths third-party applications by 60%.

EMUI10 brings three updates: UX design,an all-scenario ultimate experience, and a new standard of smooth operation.EMUI10 adds a dark mode to bring more visual comfort. Human factors research revealed that a colour’sbrightness and saturation are perceived differently depending on a light or dark background. The dark mode optimizes bothcolour contrast between texts and dark backgrounds as well asthe colour of texts and system icons, and the end result ensures the visual consistency, comfort, and legibility. More UX design features of EMUI10 will be disclosed at the EMUI UX design concept launch event on August 10.

EMUI10 adopts revolutionary distributed technology to support HD video calls among multiple devices. Users can make audio and video calls whenever and wherever they are. If there is an incoming call, users can choose to answer using a smart speaker. Or if it is avideo call, they can answer through a TV, vehicle-mounted device, or even senda real-time videofeed from a drone so that friendsand familycanalso enjoy the beautiful scenery. At work, a smartphone and computer can share screensso thatdata can be exchanged easily through drag-and-drop. Sucha seamless experience is made possible by revolutionary distributed technology.

To implement distributed technology, the hardware capabilities of each deviceneeds to first be virtualized. In other words,what a device iscapable of, such asin terms of its display, camera, microphone, or speaker, isnot based on the device itself butrather a shared resource pool. In this way, each device can leverage needed functions or hardware capabilities from the resource pool or by sharing their capabilities with other devices.Therefore, for users and applications, different devices can be merged into one.

In recent years, the number of Huawei mobile phone users has increased significantly. Huawei shipped 100 million units in just five months this year, andin the future, EMUI will provide more applications and synergized cross-device experiences for users.Huawei has always adhered to finding mutually beneficial opportunities, andit was said during the launch event that Huawei will continue to make the capabilities of tools and platforms such as the Ark Compiler and HuaweiDevEco Studio more open.It is also stated that Huawei intended towork with developers and industry partners for win-win outcomes and to jointly create innovative experience across all scenarios.Huawei EMUI teamlooks forward to joining handswith developers and partners to offeran all-scenario ultimate experience for users.

Photo caption - President of the Software Engineering Department, Huawei Consumer Business Group