Huawei Made a HarmonyOS Smart Water Bottle Because Why Not

Huawei has lengthy been banned from utilizing Google software program and working methods on its gadgets, so it developed the customized HarmonyOS as a alternative. Its telephones could also be struggling with out Android, however neglect all that: HarmonyOS now runs on a… water bottle.

Huawei’s HarmonyOS-powered good water bottle is offered on the market on Vmall, the corporate’s on-line retail store. According to NotebookCheck and Huawei Central’s translation of the product itemizing, it seems HarmonyOS primarily serves to supply standing updates on the water bottle.

As you would possibly anticipate, the 316L chrome steel good water bottle securely shops all forms of liquids, together with water, juice, espresso, tea, and even soda. The bottle is available in black, blue, and white and options an antibacterial coating that guarantees to nuke 99.9% of germs—certainly a significant promoting level proper now as we proceed to cope with a raging pandemic. In my very own translation of the product itemizing, there seems to be a built-in tea compartment towards the highest of the bottle.

But that’s all fairly normal stuff for a water bottle. The marquee function of Huawei’s latest system is its touchscreen show, and that’s the place HarmonyOS comes into play. The display screen itself is customizable and might show your title and observe the bottle’s inside temperature—useful in the event you’ve left the bottle behind in a automobile on a scorching day. Huawei advertises as much as 12 hours of temperature preservation. It additionally lets you know the way a lot liquid is left.

The bottle can also be Bluetooth so as to view these stats on to your smartphone. There can also be a fast pairing function out there, however in keeping with the translated effective print, it appears restricted to Huawei smartphones operating EMU 11. The bottle is IPX7 licensed, which means it could possibly submerge in as much as a meter of water. It contains a 250 mAh battery that guarantees as much as 20 days of use earlier than charging with the proprietary cable included within the package deal.

Huawei sells the bottle for about $25, transformed over from the Chinese Yuan. It prices double what you’d pay for a knock-off good water bottle on AliExpress, although it appears Huawei tuned its HarmonyOS to work a bit smarter than these cheaper variants.

Huawei’s good water bottle would possibly seem to be a gimmick out of the blue, but it appears to exist primarily as a testomony to how malleable Huawei hopes to make its home-brewed working system. Huawei launched HarmonyOS in 2019 after the U.S. had successfully blacklisted the corporate from promoting its gadgets. That additionally reduce off the corporate’s entry to Google’s Android working system, which beforehand powered its smartphones and tablets.

Since then, Huawei’s been on a journey to determine easy methods to scale HarmonyOS, which isn’t that unhealthy in any respect. I used it on the Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6, which is a beautiful piece of {hardware}. But with none Android apps and Google Play providers, it was laborious to get a lot completed past video playback and studying the web. At least this water bottle gained’t have these issues.