Cutting corners: Huawei hopes that by pushing new devices with Harmony Os 2.0 and updating many of the existing ones, it can pause free from the shackles of Us sanctions and drift over 300 million users to the new operating system in a relatively short fourth dimension frame. Whether or non they can succeed is anyone'southward gauge, simply the visitor seems confident it tin thrive without Android and Google services.

Huawei has launched several new products powered by the homegrown Harmony OS 2.0. The company aims to prove information technology can compete with Android by starting the transition with its higher stop devices and completing information technology with existing models that tin can be updated over the air.

The first devices that will see the update to Harmony Os ii.0 are the Mate 40 serial, Mate 30 series, and the exotic Mate X2 foldable phone. People with older phones like the Mate 10 and the P20 series are slated to receive the update the offset half of next year. According to CEO Richard Yu, almost 100 models of Huawei tablets, phones, and watches volition be able to run the operating organisation by the terminate of 2022, including the upcoming P50 smartphone that was teased during the Harmony Bone livestream.

The company used the occasion of today'southward media event to unveil updated versions of its iPad clones. The latest lineup includes a new larger 12.6-inch MatePad Pro, a x.eight-inch MatePad Pro and the MatePad 11. In addition to running Harmony Bone two.0, the Pro versions also come equipped with Huawei's own Kirin 9000 chipsets, but notably the MatePad 11 uses a Snapdragon 865 SoC.

Huawei spent a lot of fourth dimension talking well-nigh the new Harmony Os experience on the new MatePad lineup, but information technology can really be summed up as a foreign imitation of Apple's iPadOS, from the overall look of the home screen downward to the "Task Center." The visitor fifty-fifty added a feature called "FreeScript" that allows yous to utilise the new M-Pencil to write directly into dialog boxes where your handwriting volition get converted to typed text. You can as well mirror the screen of a MateBook or Huawei phone onto a MatePad or MatePad Pro.

Non everything about the MatePads is a directly carbon copy of a design conclusion or software feature nowadays in the iPad Pro though. For i, Huawei placed the webcam on the long edge, which is platonic for a lot of people who use their tablets in landscape mode when going into a video call. And while the latest iPad Pro features a Mini LED display, the new MatePad Pro tablets come with OLED screens.

Other notable features are support for 5G and Wi-Fi six connectivity, and Huawei promises upward to 14 hours of battery life on the MatePad Pro. Even if information technology doesn't last that long, there'south back up for fast charging at upward to 40 watts over cablevision and upward to 27 watts on a wireless charger. If y'all're using accessories that support wireless charging, you lot tin can also accuse them from a MatePad Pro.

Pricing was detailed for the Chinese market only, but it's possible they'll likewise arrive in Europe in the coming months. The 12.6-inch MatePad Pro and the 10.8-inch MatePad Pro will beginning aircraft on June 10 and will first at four,999 yuan ($780) and 3,799 yuan ($530), respectively, while the Chiliad-Pencil will set yous back 599 yuan ($93). Pricing and availability for the MatePad xi has yet to be announced.

The new Huawei Watch 3 and Scout 3 Pro are as well the visitor'southward first smartwatches to run Harmony OS. On the hardware side, these infringe aesthetics from several competitors, merely it'due south harder to discover an exact watch that these would be a clone of.

You lot have a new rotating crown instead of the top button on the side of the stainless steel case, and you're greeted past a 1.43-inch AMOLED screen with a pixel density of 326 ppi and 1,000 nits max effulgence. It'south also surprisingly thin at only 12.15 mm thick, and weighs 54 grams. The Pro variant is 14 mm thick and weighs 63 grams.

The company is touting support for over 100 conditioning modes and support for blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) tracking, and at least in theory you should be able to stretch the bombardment life to 21 days if you lot turn off the 4G LTE connection and put the lookout man into a low-power mode. Realistically, you can expect around ii days of battery life with normal use, but later on that you'll demand to pop it onto a Qi wireless charger.

The software side suffers from the same shortcomings as the other devices in the Huawei ecosystem -- you're express to the Huawei App Gallery, which may not do the trick if you're outside of China. The visitor says it'due south working to bring more than apps to Harmony OS, but that's not a guarantee and will probably be a deal breaker for many. For what it's worth, you can participate in video calls made via Huawei's MeeTime app.

The Huawei Watch 3 and Watch iii Pro will starting time shipping on June 11 in China and will price two,600 yuan ($407) and 3,300 yuan ($517), respectively. The Picket 3 will also get in in the Uk on June 18 at a launch toll of £349.99, followed by the Watch 3 Pro which volition price £499.99.