Oddly enough, mobile phone manufacturers led by Apple, Huawei, and Xiaomi, instead of doing good business in the communications industry, have come to get involved in the automotive field.
With the needs of society, the mobile phone industry is not only ahead of the times in terms of intelligence, but also more sophisticated in product design breakthroughs; mature smart terminals have also made the mobile phone industry saturated. This has also forced many mobile phone manufacturers to find another way out. As a "daily product" in the new era, "intelligent connectivity" has already become the current development trend of the automobile industry; based on this, the automobile industry has become the next generation of intelligent terminals chosen by mobile phone manufacturers.
At the 2021 MWC Shanghai exhibition, Huawei built its first full-scenario "smart house". The entire smart house experience booth showed the prototype of a smart home in the era of the Internet of Everything through scene-based space design. The most eye-catching one is the white BYD Han electric car parked in the middle of the booth.
This BYD Han has a lot of background. It is the world’s first mass-produced car equipped with Huawei’s 5G technology, and it is also the first BYD Han equipped with Huawei’s HiCar system. The most powerful thing about this intelligent system is that it can Download apps that support the HiCar mapping system, covering multiple categories of apps such as maps, music, audiobooks, news, games, and children's entertainment.
In fact, before this, BYD officially announced that it would join forces with Huawei to create a new level of experience for people, machines, and cars; the car and machine of its high-end electric sedan BYD Han The DiLink system is equipped with Huawei HiCar App. In addition, after the DiLink vehicle system has the function of Huawei HiCar, Huawei mobile phone users can achieve further interconnection with BYD Automobile.
Not only that, BYD Han uses HUAWEI HiCar technology to easily open the car door with a Huawei mobile phone instead of a car key. Car owners only need to connect Huawei Wallet through BYD cloud service, activate the car key function, and then close the left and rear view mirror of the car to complete the unlocking. Even if the phone screen is idle, the battery is low or even dead, the vehicle can still be unlocked and started. This way The design seems very user-friendly.
As Huawei’s self-developed mobile phone and car interconnection function, Huawei HiCar is similar to Apple’s CarPlay service. Through the senseless full interconnection of mobile phones/IoT devices and cars, mobile phone and car resources can be realized*** Enjoy, very smart and convenient.
Currently, there are nearly 30 APPs in the Huawei HiCar App Store, including film, television, music, navigation, news and other types. The categories are very complete, and film, television and audio APPs account for the vast majority. It also complements BYD's large rotatable central control screen. Passengers sitting in the back row and in the front passenger seat can enjoy blockbusters anytime and anywhere. It can be called a "walking cinema".
It is worth mentioning that the current operating system of Huawei HiCar is Hongmeng 1.0 developed by Huawei, which only supports wired and wireless connection methods; however, HiCar will be updated to Hongmeng 2.0 in the future. The functions and experience will be even more powerful. By then, all calculation-related work can be completed on the mobile phone, and the car screen is only used for display.
And Huawei’s cooperation with car companies is not only BYD. So far, Huawei has reached cooperation with more than 30 independent car companies, including Mercedes-Benz, GAC, SAIC, Great Wall, Geely, Volvo and other brands. In the new year, the pre-installed volume of Huawei HiCar will reach 5 million units. This is only the early days of HiCar. I believe that more car companies will choose HiCar in-vehicle systems in the future. When the time comes, Huawei will be more calm and relaxed in the face of competition from Apple CarPlay and Baidu Carlife