Honor announced its latest mobile operating system with MagicOS 8.0 at a dedicated event held in China today. The new version is based on Android 14 and brings a large MagicLM language model to the device with 7 billion parameters. Honor is also promoting MagicOS 8.0’s intent-based user interface (IUI) that proactively suggests services and apps based on usage patterns.
The other big new feature is called Magic Portal which uses Honor’s LLM and IUI to offer context-based connection recommendations to apps and services via a lateral swipe. Honor demoed an instance of dragging a reservation from the Messages app to the Maps app to get directions to the venue.
Magic Portal supports multimodal inputs such as text and images, and also tracks gestures and eye movement on supported Honor phones. You can tap and hold clothing images and then drag them to the side to search within shopping apps. Honor has confirmed support for the 100 most popular apps in China, but there are no details on how or if these features will be ported to other regions.
MagicOS 8.0 also brings new home screen customization options, UI speed improvements, and is expected to consume fewer resources thanks to some changes made by Honor’s software team. There’s a new “shake to block” advertising feature to fend off annoying pop-ups and system-wide parallel spaces to display two instances of the same app.
Honor MagicOS 8.0 will launch on Honor Magic6 series flagships which are on track to debut tomorrow in China.
Honor also shared a preliminary MagicOS 8.0 public beta release schedule with the following devices and launch times.
- Honor Magic5 Ultimate Edition
- Honor Magic5 Pro
- Honor to magic5
- Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition
- Honor Magic4 Pro
- Honor to magic4
- Honor Magic V2 Definitive Edition
- Honor Magic V2
- Honor to magic vs
- Honor Magic Vs2
- Honor to Magic
- Magic V
- V bag
- Honor Magic3 Ultimate Edition
- Honor Magic3 Pro
- Honor Magic3
- Honor 100 Pro
- Honor 100
- Honor 90 GT
- Honor 90 Pro
- Honor 90
- Honor 80 Pro
- Honor 80 GT
- Honor 80
- Honor 70 Pro+
- Honor 70 Pro
- Honor 70
- Honor 60 Pro
- Honor 60
- Honor 50 Pro
- Honor 50
- Honor X50GT
- Honor X50 Pro
- Honor X50
- Honor X40GT
- Honor X50i+
- Honor X50i
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