Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 users gets HarmonyOS 3.0 beta update

Huawei is hastily sending the HarmonyOS 3.0 beta pack to some of its super-duper smartphones. These include the P50 series, Mate 40 series, and the flip-flop model – P50 Pocket. But to our surprise, we also find the one-year-old Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 tablet attaining the HarmonyOS 3.0 beta firmware.

Yes, that’s right. As per the info coming from the official forum, the Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 beta testers are receiving the latest HarmonyOS 3.0 beta interface with the 3.0.0.82 version. Notably, users must prepare their device with a huge amount of storage space and battery level since the update holds a package size of approx 8GB.

On the other hand, the beta package is only available to a few compatible models. You can check these models in the below-given list.

• MatePad Pro 12.6 2021 WGR-W09
• MatePad Pro 12.6 2021 WGR-W19
• MatePad Pro 12.6 2021 (5G) WGR-AN19

So if you’re carrying any of the above models then you are completely eligible to gain the benefits of the latest HarmonyOS interface. What are the new implements? Well, there are a bunch of new surprises with the HarmonyOS 3.0. You can have a glimpse at these features through the changelog given below.

HarmonyOS 3.0 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 apply 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 flexibly combine, interconnect, and coordinate with different HUAWEI IDs can also quickly interconnect 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.
• Additionally, 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.
• The text content recognizes 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, as well as easy pairing and connection.

The above update is running in the initial stage. Thus, there are high chances that you may find some bugs and errors with the new tweaks. Do not panic and give some time to the device for adapting to the system.

Still, if you want to roll back to the previous firmware, then you can click HERE.

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