Huawei HarmonyOS 3 beta is here for P40 series

After the successful adaptation process of HarmonyOS 3 beta for the second batch (round 2) devices, the company is now activating for dispatching procedure for the eligible devices including the Huawei P40 series users.

To your knowledge, approx 2000 users have successfully registered for this beta version, which means the update is released in batches and may take time to reach each registered user.

If you haven’t received it yet, then the company to soon send Huawei P40 series users an approval notification for the HarmonyOS 3 beta version. Below you can check the adaptation model and version number for your preference:

Adopted model:

• Huawei P40 4G (ANA-AL00)
• Huawei P40 5G (ANA-AN00)
• Huawei P40 5G (ANA-TN00)
• Huawei P40 Pro (ELS-AN00)
• Huawei P40 Pro (ELS-TN00)
• Huawei P40 Pro+ (ELS-AN10)

Version number:

• HarmonyOS 3.0.0.115/116

What’s new:

The new normal HarmonyOS 3 beta update brings a number of new features for your Huawei P40 series device to make it more compatible and refresh its working operation for the users

Notably, in performance and power consumption, it upgrades the superframe game engine according. As a result, it reduces energy consumption by intelligently scheduling CPU and memory resources.

Below you can check the detailed description of the HarmonyOS 3 beta changelog:

New Interaction

Service widgets, change freely:

• Stackable: You can drag cards of the same size to form a stacking state, you can slide up and down to view the widgets or pull down and then slide left to delete, or drag to adjust.
• Combinable: Cards of different sizes and application shortcuts can be sorted at will, and freely combined into a widget, the combined card supports resizing, or a combined template can be applied with one click.
• Smart folders: These can be large or small There are more sizes and styles, and you can also adjust the size by long-pressing the folder. No matter how many or few applications are used, you can always find a suitable way to store them and use them more efficiently.
• Home Screen space: Smart home screen layout and personality are so
• Simple: Pinch the home screen to intelligently layout the home screen, classify applications and widgets by color and function, and automatically generate a personalized home screen by one-click selection.
• Celia Suggestions, Extraordinary: Celia Suggestions continue to upgrade wisdom, and can dynamically recommend services or applications by sensing time, scene, location, and usage habits, bringing you a convenient experience that saves time and effort.

Smart life in all scenarios

• Super Device, more experience: Super Device is fully expanded to support more types of devices. Various devices can be flexibly combined, interconnected, and coordinated, and devices with different HUAWEI IDs can also be quickly interconnected so that the advantages of each device can be freely invoked.
• Broadcast control center, broadcast control is more convenient: Added support for connecting two pairs of Bluetooth headsets at the same time, one song, two people can enjoy, and listen to the beauty together. In addition, it brings a multi-device remote control function. Consequently, this can easily control the music playback of nearby speakers through the broadcast control center of the mobile phone (currently only some headphones and speakers).

Performance power consumption

• Super Frame Game Engine: It upgrades the superframe game engine according. As a result, it reduces energy consumption by intelligently scheduling CPU and memory resources.

Privacy & security:

• Privacy Center: Provide you with a general dashboard of all application permission behaviors, and proactively provide privacy protection suggestions for possible risks.
• Security Center: You can check the security status of the current device or other devices with the same HUAWEI ID at any time, proactively help you identify problems, and provide protection suggestions, making device security easier.

Barrier-free experience

• Visual Aid: Added image description, text recognition, and other functions, which can inform the features and positions of people or objects recognized in the scene. Further, the text content recognizes in the reading environment and describes the people appearing in the camera lens through voice broadcast.
• Hearing Aid: Added vocal enhancement function to tune the sound by enhancing the clarity of human voices in the environment, calls, as well as media to make the sound heard more clearly. Supports quick connection with hearing aids, can quickly discover nearby hearing aids via Bluetooth, and Easy pairing and connection.