The Chinese tech titan Huawei has unveiled a new wireless connectivity milestone called NearLink, a technology designed to fuse the best parts of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth into a single, efficient standard. Reports from the Ferra.ru portal helped bring this development into the public eye, highlighting how NearLink targets everyday device interactions without the friction of competing wireless protocols.
NearLink is built to handle short-range data transfers with impressive speed while consuming very little power. Huawei claims that NearLink can achieve speeds that are about six times faster than traditional Bluetooth, while delivering roughly 30 times lower latency. In addition, the technology is said to be around 60 times more energy-efficient and to extend the usable range, with the potential to support a larger number of concurrent connections. These promises place NearLink as a practical upgrade for consumer devices that rely on quick, seamless communication between components such as wearables, smartphones, headphones, and smart home gadgets.
The initial device to showcase NearLink is Huawei’s Mate 60 flagship smartphone, introduced late in August. Beyond the hardware release, Huawei envisions NearLink as a foundational feature across its software ecosystem. The company plans to weave NearLink into HarmonyOS and to bring compatibility to a wide array of Huawei devices as well as partner products, broadening the technology’s reach across devices used daily by consumers.
Huawei has embarked on a broad collaboration to advance NearLink, engaging with more than 300 partner companies, many of which are based in China. This cooperative effort aims to accelerate development, standardization, and deployment of NearLink across consumer electronics, automotive interfaces, and enterprise devices. While several tech giants such as Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and NVIDIA have been mentioned as potential collaborators, they have not yet joined the project, leaving room for future announcements and expanded ecosystem support.
Earlier communications noted that Huawei plans to release HarmonyOS in a full PC version, signaling the company’s broader ambition to unify its software and hardware across multiple form factors. This alignment of firmware, operating systems, and connectivity standards could influence future interoperability in smart devices and connected ecosystems that consumers rely on every day, particularly in markets across North America and Canada where users value fast, dependable wireless experiences.