HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 released: Deep integration of mobile phones and cars opens up a new smart travel experience with the Internet of Everything

On August 5, 2023, the 2023 Huawei Smart Travel Ecological Summit was successfully held. Huawei officially released HUAWEI HiCar 4.0, with the deep integration of mobile phones and cars as the core highlight, bringing new and upgraded seamless smart travel solutions for people and cars to car companies. plan. At the press conference, Xu Jingjin, general manager of Huawei Device BG Smart Travel, held the HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 ecological launch ceremony with representatives of ten automotive industry partners, and will start a new journey of HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 with outstanding partners in the automotive industry.

 HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 released

HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 , based on HarmonyOS 4.0, helps make cars smarter and realizes a new smart travel experience with full integration of IoT and human-computer interaction. Its cross-device experience design concept can be simply summarized as the "three Cs" . 

　　1. Minimalist connection Connected: including one-step connection, extremely fast connection, stable and reliable connection, etc., just like building a highway between mobile phones and cars;

　　2. Seamless transfer Continuous: Tasks on personal terminal devices can be transferred to the car to continue working, such as watching movies, making phone calls, listening to music, and navigating, etc., to experience seamless transfer between devices;

      3. Hardware mutual assistance: Each device has its best capabilities, and devices can complement each other's advantages and support each other's hardware.

The release of HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 symbolizes that mobile phone and car-machine interconnection have entered the 2.0 era, and will move from interconnection to integration. In the past, mobile phone and car-machine interconnection modes and experiences were mainly based on screen projection, which was reasonable when the capabilities of the older generation of car-machine were insufficient, but it is no longer in line with the development trend of the new generation of smart cars. As automobiles have developed into smart cockpits, terminals need a more integrated and collaborative approach to make the cockpit more intelligent and human-computer interaction more concise and unified, rather than simply projecting a screen.

Entering the era of intelligence, smartphones and smart cars, as the two largest super-intelligent terminals, are connected at the system level, sharing ecosystems and mutually assisting hardware, bringing consumers a collaborative experience of 1+1>2. In smart travel scenarios, cars are the largest smart IoT devices. In addition to mobile phones, consumers’ personal smart devices may also include smart watches, smart glasses, etc. Passengers in the back may also use laptops or PADs for work, or use AR/ Watch movies with VR glasses. These personal smart devices will gradually cooperate seamlessly with car cockpits in the future to create a new cross-device and cross-scenario smart cockpit experience with multi-device collaboration.

Mobile phones and cars are moving from the Internet to the integration, which is mainly reflected in four aspects:

1. Interactive integration

a) Human-computer interaction is the first entrance to user experience. What users need is easy to use and direct access in one step; the interactive experience of using local applications on the car and using applications on the mobile phone should not be separated, including interaction steps and UI layout. , voice interaction, usage fluency and other aspects should be consistent.

b) The previous generation mobile screen projection interface and the car’s native interface are two different interface designs, which increases learning costs for consumers. The traditional Internet projection mode is similar to two rooms. Users usually use mobile phone screen projection applications in one room. If they want to use the local application of the car, they have to leave the room where the mobile phone screen is projected to another room, which takes about 3 to The 5-step operation is cumbersome and unsafe for users.

c) HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 integration solution realizes the integration of mobile phone applications and car local applications on one HMI interface, and the priority is clear. At this time, the car is the owner, the mobile phone is the guest, and the guests sit in an orderly manner according to the owner's ranking. That is to say, the applications from the mobile phone and the native applications of the car are interactively integrated in an orderly manner, so as to achieve a unified human-computer interaction experience.

d) In terms of intelligent voice interaction, in traditional mode, if you want to operate a mobile phone application by voice, you must use the phone's wake-up word, and if you operate a car-based application, consumers need to use the car-based voice wake-up word. This is not only in terms of user experience. It is fragmented and makes it more difficult for users to use. In HUAWEI HiCar 4.0 integration mode, the gap of voice experience separation will be broken.

2. Application integration, HUAWEI HiCar can enable more applications to be added to the car. Through application integration, the car and machine can share the mobile application ecosystem.

3. Data fusion. On the premise of satisfying user privacy data protection, the integration and application of personal data on personal smart terminal devices and car data can create more useful, interesting, and innovative new scenarios.

4. Hardware mutual assistance and integration. Cars have powerful and professional hardware configurations, and personal terminal devices also have many sensors and actuators. These hardware capabilities integrate and help each other, just like the King Kong Calabash Doll. Each smart terminal device is like a Calabash Doll, and some are Some have "clairvoyance" and some have "ears for the wind". 7 gourd dolls can be combined to form a super gourd doll, which can achieve powerful functions that a single device cannot achieve.

In terms of architecture, the smart cockpit is the brain of the car. The car end is pre-installed with the HUAWEI HiCar plug-in to achieve the effect of increasing the cerebellum and command and dispatch mobile phone resources. Due to the SOA architecture transformation of mobile phones, a rich application ecosystem and hardware resources can be opened to the smart cockpit in the form of APIs. When the cockpit carries out intelligent innovation, it is not limited to the application of hardware resources and software resources of a single device in the cockpit. It can also call the second host - the mobile phone, which is equivalent to the "sixth domain" of the car.

    On August 1, the Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industry Ecological Alliance (ICCE) under the guidance of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the "Mobile Phone-Car Interconnect Performance Experience Evaluation Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Evaluation Report") in Beijing. This evaluation report focuses on five major experience scenarios and 11 experience indicators that industry partners focus on, and combines mainstream mobile phone-car interconnection solutions to randomly select 6 cars for evaluation. Among them, HUAWEI HiCar has a comprehensive score of 96.63 points, fast wireless connection, smooth and smooth audio output. Voice interaction is accurate and ranks first.

Up to now, HUAWEI HiCar has supported more than 30 car company brands, more than 400 models and more than 1,600 new cars , and has received support from many car companies. It will soon meet with consumers one after another, let us wait and see.