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Huawei MateBook Fold Ultimate is an 18" all-screen laptop that folds to the size of a 13" laptop
Asharq Al-Awsat
19-05-2025
- Business
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Huawei Launches 1st Laptops Using Home-grown Harmony Operating System
Huawei launched two new laptop models on Monday, the first sold with its own Harmony operating system, in a bid to take on well-established Western Big Tech rivals even as the United States seeks to limit its access to crucial chips. Despite its emergence as the world's leading producer of tech hardware, China's development of computer operating systems has lagged behind Microsoft (MSFT.O), and Apple (AAPL.O), whose Windows and macOS have cornered the global market for decades. The new MateBook Fold and MateBook Pro both run on HarmonyOS 5, the latest version of an operating system Huawei Technologies began developing in 2015 and introduced five years later on its Mate series smartphones, Reuters reported. It began developing the laptop prototypes in 2021. "The Harmony laptop gives the world a new choice," Yu Chengdong, head of Huawei's consumer business group, said during a livestreamed launch event. "We kept on doing the hard things but the right things." The base model of the MateBook Fold, which does not have a physical keyboard and offers an 18-inch OLED double screen when fully extended, will sell for 23,999 yuan ($3,328). The MateBook Pro model, which uses a conventional laptop keyboard, is priced from 7,999 yuan. Washington began restricting Huawei's access to U.S. technology in 2019 over national security concerns, pushing the company to build its own capacity to develop and produce chips and operating systems. Huawei said the HarmonyOS for computers currently offers over 150 applications, including WPS Office from Kingsoft ( - an alternative to Microsoft's Office - and photo editing app Meitu ( Xiu Xiu. By the end of 2024, over 7.2 million individual developers were developing apps for HarmonyOS, which was installed on over a billion devices, including smartphones and TVs, according to Huawei's latest annual report. Huawei did not disclose which processing chip it had used to power the newly-launched laptops. But it said the computers' relatively high prices were the result of the cost of new manufacturing technology for the chipset.
Zawya
19-05-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Huawei launches first laptops using home-grown Harmony operating system
Huawei launched two new laptop models on Monday, the first sold with its own Harmony operating system, in a bid to take on well-established Western Big Tech rivals even as the United States seeks to limit its access to crucial chips. Despite its emergence as the world's leading producer of tech hardware, China's development of computer operating systems has lagged behind Microsoft and Apple, whose Windows and macOS have cornered the global market for decades. The new MateBook Fold and MateBook Pro both run on HarmonyOS 5, the latest version of an operating system Huawei Technologies began developing in 2015 and introduced five years later on its Mate series smartphones. It began developing the laptop prototypes in 2021. "The Harmony laptop gives the world a new choice," Yu Chengdong, head of Huawei's consumer business group, said during a livestreamed launch event. "We kept on doing the hard things but the right things." The base model of the MateBook Fold, which does not have a physical keyboard and offers an 18-inch OLED double screen when fully extended, will sell for 23,999 yuan ($3,328). The MateBook Pro model, which uses a conventional laptop keyboard, is priced from 7,999 yuan. Washington began restricting Huawei's access to U.S. technology in 2019 over national security concerns, pushing the company to build its own capacity to develop and produce chips and operating systems. Huawei said the HarmonyOS for computers currently offers over 150 applications, including WPS Office from Kingsoft - an alternative to Microsoft's Office - and photo editing app Meitu Xiu Xiu. By the end of 2024, over 7.2 million individual developers were developing apps for HarmonyOS, which was installed on over a billion devices, including smartphones and TVs, according to Huawei's latest annual report. Huawei did not disclose which processing chip it had used to power the newly-launched laptops. But it said the computers' relatively high prices were the result of the cost of new manufacturing technology for the chipset. Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the chip. Reuters reported last year that the U.S. revoked licences that had allowed companies including Intel and Qualcomm to ship chips used for laptops and handsets to Huawei. Republican lawmakers had been angered by the launch of Huawei's first AI-enabled laptop, which was powered by an Intel processor. (Reporting by Che Pan and Brenda Goh; Editing by Joe Bavier)
South China Morning Post
19-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Huawei launches US$3,300 foldable tablet running HarmonyOS, flexing its hardware muscle
Huawei Technologies on Monday launched two new laptops, including a model with a foldable screen, that run its self-developed HarmonyOS operating system, which the company is pushing across devices after its Microsoft Windows license expired in March. Advertisement The Huawei MateBook Fold Ultimate Design takes the form of an 18-inch tablet, with a thickness of just 7.3 millimetres when unfolded. Weighing 1.16kg, the device folds down to 13 inches, according to Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei's consumer business group, who announced the launch on Monday in Shenzhen. The touch-screen device also comes with a separate keyboard, which attaches to the laptop via magnets, adding 290 grams to the device and an extra 5mm to the thickness. The product, with an 'ultimate-high' cost, as Yu put it, is priced at 23,999 yuan (US$3,328) with 1 terabyte of storage and 26,999 yuan for 2TB of storage. Presales started on Monday, with shipments set to begin on June 6. Alongside the foldable device, the company launched a new MateBook Pro with a more traditional laptop form factor. It has a 14.2-inch screen, weighs 970 grams, and is priced between 7,999 yuan and 10,999 yuan. The company teased the device earlier this month, but did not unveil the price or specifications at the time. Advertisement Both computers run a version of HarmonyOS 5, also referred to as HarmonyOS Next , which is meant to offer a single integrated ecosystem across a variety of gadgets, including smartphones and Internet-of-Things devices.
