Former Huawei subsidiary Honor has formally unveiled its Magic OS Eight replace, and with it a set of latest AI-powered options that tease the potential street forward for rival cellular working techniques.

Based mostly on Android 14 and set to debut with the Honor Magic 6 sequence within the coming months, Magic OS Eight is constructed round what Honor describes because the “world’s first intent-based UI.” What does that imply, precisely? Effectively, as an alternative of performing upon request, Magic OS Eight makes use of a function referred to as Magic Portal to render providers in accordance with person intentions. 

In essence, it’s a shortcut function that lets customers swap between apps and providers with a single swipe. As an illustration, should you’re despatched some location info by a buddy and need to get to that location in a rush, Magic Portal will allow you to drag these particulars – in a single fell swoop – from the messages app throughout right into a appropriate ride-hailing or navigation app, saving you clicks within the course of. Nonetheless confused? Try Magic Portal in motion through the video under.

On the time of writing, Magic Portal helps over 100 apps in China throughout classes together with journey, productiveness, leisure and purchasing. When Honor’s new Magic 6 telephones – and thus Magic OS 8 – launch in Europe (extra on their potential launch date under), this help will presumably develop to fashionable, app-owning Western manufacturers like Uber and Starbucks.

Honor says its intent-based UI “can interpret language, pictures, gestures and eye actions to grasp a person’s intent and provide providers proactively.” This “revolutionary course of,” in accordance with the model, “streamlines in any other case complicated person operations for a extra user-friendly, handy expertise.”

We’ve lined the eye-tracking performance of the Honor Magic 6 already. In layman’s phrases, you’ll be capable of navigate sure components of the Honor Magic 6 interface (particularly, a Dynamic Island-like digital cut-out on the high of the cellphone’s show) utilizing solely your eyes, in the same method to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. 

At Snapdragon Summit 2023, Honor shared a render of this eye-tracking performance in motion. Within the brief clip (above), a girl will be seen opening the Uber app by altering the path of her gaze, which is a barely bonkers extension of the model’s aforementioned swipe-based Magic Portal function.

The Honor Magic 6 and its siblings, the Honor Magic 6 Lite and Honor Magic 6 Professional, are slated to debut in China tomorrow (January 12), however we might see not less than two of these new telephones launched in Europe as quickly as February. 

Together with their Lite siblings, the Honor Magic four Professional and Honor Magic 5 Professional have been unveiled exterior of China at MWC 2022 and MWC 2023, respectively, so this 12 months’s MWC 2024 showcase – which is scheduled to kick off on February 26 – appears as seemingly stage as any for the Honor Magic 6 sequence launch.

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