Huawei's original OS 'Harmony OS' may be installed in Huawei smartphones by the end of 2021



The US government claims that Huawei and other Chinese products pose telecommunications risks, and in July 2020

designated Huawei and ZTE as 'national security threats .' It is reported that Huawei may install its own OS ' HarmonyOS ' on Huawei smartphones from 2021 as the tightening on Huawei becomes stricter.

Huawei's HarmonyOS is coming to smartphones --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/10/21430275/huawei-harmonyos-smartphones-release-date

Huawei releases OS source code in push for own ecosystem
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-09-huawei-os-source-code-ecosystem.html

The conflict between the United States and China has had a great impact on corporate relations and transactions, and Google decided to suspend transactions with Huawei in 2019. Many new Huawei smartphones are Android-based, but Google services such as Google Play are no longer available.

Google has stopped supporting Huawei's Android, it seems that future Huawei smartphones will not be able to use Google services such as Google Play at all --GIGAZINE



After that, it was reported that 'Huawei will release a smartphone equipped with its own OS within 2019', but at the time of writing the article, smartphones equipped with its own OS have not appeared.

It is reported that Huawei's original OS-equipped smartphone will appear within 2019 --GIGAZINE


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At Huawei's annual developer conference in Shenzhen , China, on September 10, 2020, Richard Yu , CEO of the Consumer Business Group, said, 'Huawei's own OS, Harmony OS, is a wide range of products including smartphones. We announced a plan to install it in.

Harmony OS announced in 2019 is an OS designed mainly for IoT devices, and the latest version of Harmony OS 2.0 SDK released for developers targets products such as smart TVs and in-vehicle systems. .. Mr. Yu said that he will release a version of Harmony OS for smartphone application developers in December 2020, and suggested that Huawei smartphones equipped with Harmony OS may appear in 2021.

Huawei has also announced that it will launch a project called 'Open Harmony'. This enables development based on the open source version of Harmony OS, similar to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) on Android . At the time of writing, the Open Harmony project only supports devices with 128MB or less of RAM , but the limit will be expanded to 4GB in April 2021 and will be lifted by October 2021. That's right.

The smartphone operating system continues to be dominated by Android and iOS, but this announcement shows that Huawei plans to build its own ecosystem. Yu claims that through Harmony OS, products made by Chinese developers can be delivered to consumers around the world, while overseas developers can find users in the huge Chinese market through Harmony OS. “We want to be a bridge between the two,” Yu said.


by Kārlis Dambrāns

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