Huawei will integrate on the EMUI 11 a system that allows you to create a digital ecosystem between the different devices of the Chinese company. Here’s how it works
Huawei will launch the new EMUI 11 by the third quarter of 2020, as confirmed in early July by the head of the company’s Consumer Business Software division, Wang Chenglu. Along with the announcement, however, came very little official news about the new features of the Chinese giant’s custom interface for smartphones. One of them, however, looks very interesting.
It’s the so-called “Distributed Technology”, which will improve both the performance of Huawei’s apps and the user experience. This is a very advanced technological move for Huawei, which means the company’s willingness to use Google Android (of which Huawei can only use the open source version, without Google Mobile Services) exclusively as a technical base on which to build a more and more complete and closed ecosystem. Or, if we want, more and more “Apple-style”. Huawei calls it the “All-Senario Experience” and it consists of a very strong integration between apps, services and devices of the Chinese manufacturer.
Huawei Distributed Technology: what it will be able to do
One of the things that is possible to do through Huawei Distributed Technology is to manage HD video calls between different types of devices in an advanced way: a user, for example, could decide to answer an incoming video call via a smart speaker, handling it as an audio-only call, or could route it to a smart TV, a device mounted on a connected car, or even send a real-time video feed from a drone to friends’ and family’s devices.
Other thing that will be possible to do with Huawei Distributed Technology: share screens between smartphones and computers, to exchange data very quickly through a trivial drag&drop. In practice, what is “distributed” in Huawei Distributed Technology is the access to the main components of multiple devices: sending audio to a device’s speakers, images and videos to a smartphone’s screen from a PC, or from a smartphone to a PC’s screen, and so on.
EMUI 11 on Android 11
All this, however, Huawei will have to do without Google’s official support. EMUI 11 will be available starting with Android 11, which, like Android 10, due to Donald Trump’s ban Huawei will only be able to use in an open source version. It remains in the drawer, at the moment, Huawei’s proprietary operating system: HarmonyOS. We just have to wait for the next Huawei Developer Conference 2020, scheduled between August and September, to know what else EMUI 11 based on Android 11 open source will be able to do.