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How do you get the most out of your mobile internet allowance? They all have a clean, well-spaced look that's uniform and all tie in together nicely. It feels less cramped than before. This same approach is also applied to the drop-down menu which loads on top of any screen you're on. The quick settings tiles have been completely redesigned, turning them into a more stock-like grid of solid circle icons, similar to what you'd find on the Pixel. However, taking inspiration from the Magazine theme again, when you drag the quick settings all the way down, you the time and date taking up the top half acting as that headline, with the toggles and controls at the bottom, within easy reach of a thumb.
The minimalist approach extends into the Settings menu, where Huawei has drastically reduced the number of main settings options. Similarly, if you open a contact card, you'll now get a subtle pastel coloured card at the top. Huawei took inspiration from Italian artist, Giorgio Morandi, who was well known for using quite muted colours in his still life paintings. We can certainly see the resemblance.
If you've taken a lot of photos using Huawei's flagship Leica engineered cameras, you'll no doubt have come across the skeuomorphic look of the camera app, complete with its fake leather-textured panel at the bottom. That's now gone, replaced by a much cleaner black and white minimalist UI. It's , so naturally any new software has to come with the option for toggling on a system-wide dark theme.
Like the new magazine-style spacing UX design, it permeates through all of the stock pre-installed Huawei apps once it's been activated. Any backgrounds go completely black, essentially switching off all of those individual pixels to conserve battery, while the headlines and titles go a light shade of grey in order to contrast and be clearly legible, but without going too bright and being uncomfortable to look at. The aforementioned Morandi-inspired pastel colours go a much darker shade.
So instead of greens, pinks and oranges, you get darker shades of grey and brown with hints of blue, orange and green. Apart from looking cool Dark Mode has actual benefits, like helping your eyes relax and helping reduce your time staring at bright white screens with lots of blue light. As already mentioned, it also helps conserve phone battery.
So it's a win-win. Another element Huawei was keen to point out was the new fluidity and natural movement of its animations. It's mostly focussed on when you dismiss an app, returning to the home screen by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. As you're swiping the app away, it works out the trajectory and the speed that you're moving the app and then moves in that direction, spring back to wherever the app icon sits on the screen.
All in all, it certainly feels and looks fluid and smooth. It helps add a sense of cohesion, removing any slight abruptness that you may have felt before.
One other much more subtle animation is when you tap on anything on the screen, or launch an app. Look at an icon as you tap the app to launch it, and you'll notice a very slight spring animation, almost as if you're pressing an actual button. It's almost as if it is pushed down, before you release and the app launches.
The same happens if you select a photo in the Gallery app. It's only very subtle, but there's something remarkably pleasing about it once you notice it. Moving away from the visual aspect of its changes and on to AI: Huawei has done a lot of work to not only make the overall user interface snappier, but is also building the structures in place to make it work well with a whole ecosystem of products.
HONOR phones have the benefit of a service called Find My Device. This is provided by Google and is part of the Android operating system. It is. Lost your HONOR Android phone? Installing Find My Device in your phone is a good a solution. To locate your HONOR phone on a map, your phone will need to be switched on and signed in with your Google account.
Huawei wants the smartphone to act as a sort of hub that connects seamlessly with other devices. The realisation of that is in the future, but it begins with the way it works with Huawei's Matebook laptops. It's also very similar to the Continuity features that Apple has for seamless integration between macOS, iOS and other devices. By connecting a Huawei phone with the Matebook, you get a virtual smartphone screen on the laptop display, so you can easily and quickly copy and paste text using your keyboard and mouse.