Honor unveiled the MagicOS 9.0 in China a week before announcing its Magic7 flagship series. It called it the world’s first all-scenario personalized AI operating system and highlighted the deeper integration of the Yoyo voice assistant or AI Agent as they call it.
Android 15-based MagicOS 9.0 works in a number of applications, using MagicLM, Honor’s proprietary language model. The company claims it understands natural language and computer vision, while also learning from your habits and being aware of context.
Thanks to the in-app control, he can order a coffee for you like a human assistant. It makes the purchase itself and verifies the payment with a single prompt.
Although the new 3B parameter model has lower parameters than the previous 7B on-device model, MagicLM here should deliver 80% less power consumption, 77% faster charging speed and 500% faster word output speed; all this means a reduction of 1.8 GB of storage space and 1.6 GB of RAM consumption.
MagicOS 9.0 also comes with the industry’s first AI Deepfake Detection feature against scams and protecting users.
In terms of design, the operating system offers new features such as Versatile Desktop, Magic Lock Screen and Magic Style – tools to deeply customize your experience. There is also an AI gallery, AI eraser, face repair and AI image expansion.
Honor has already confirmed that three dozen devices will get the new update, along with a rollout timeline. However, it’s for the Chinese market, which means international units will have to wait a little longer.
We expect MagicOS 9.0 to release globally in the early months of 2025, along with an international launch of the Magic7 phones. That’s when we’ll know more about a global rollout of the operating system and when internationally available devices will get it.