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Huawei drops its last link to the past
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Quick summaryHuawei has announced that its next phone will use HarmonyOS Next, marking the company’s progression beyond Android.Huawei has had restricted access to US technology products for the past five years and the new OS marks the beginning of a new chapter.
Huawei has announced that its next phone will use HarmonyOS Next, marking the company’s progression beyond Android.Huawei has had restricted access to US technology products for the past five years and the new OS marks the beginning of a new chapter.
Huawei has announced that its next phone will use HarmonyOS Next, marking the company’s progression beyond Android.Huawei has had restricted access to US technology products for the past five years and the new OS marks the beginning of a new chapter.
Huawei has announced that its next phone will use HarmonyOS Next, marking the company’s progression beyond Android.
Huawei has had restricted access to US technology products for the past five years and the new OS marks the beginning of a new chapter.
Huawei’s journey through the twists and turns of thesmartphone worldappears to have hit a new point, with the company moving on from Android completely. In what has been a thrill ride of a decade, there’s something final about the latest news from the Chinese brand.
Huawei really established itself withHuawei P30 Proin 2019. Having been through the annual launch of a range of devices, it all seemed to come together in that model – the power, the build, the battery life and the camera performance were all noteworthy. It’s ironic, then, thatUS bans on Huaweilanded in May 2019, just as the P30 Pro was getting started.
It was a certain President Trump who was in office at that point and it’s fitting that just as Trump prepares to return to the White House, Huawei is completing its final move away from US technology, leaving the open sourceAndroidit’s been using for the past few years behind.
Instead,according to details from Bloomberg, Huawei will use HarmonyOS Next to power devices. The company has spent a long time working with developers to enable access to apps outside of the Play Store to which it lost access, while also developing rival services to those thatGooglepreviously offered.
HarmonyOS Next is not compatible with Android apps, with Huawei spending the intervening years working with developers to establish its own app store.
The first phone that will get the HarmonyOS Next treatment is the Mate 70, its latest device unveiled on Tuesday. Like previous handsets, it’s likely to run on Kirin hardware, with Huawei unable to access the Qualcomm chips that it used to favour.
The Huawei Mate 70 is a significant phone for the company, signalling that Huawei isn’t dependent on US technology and that the bans don’t limit the company’s ability to launch a competitive smartphone. Huawei is eyeingApple’s success in China, as it looks to compete with theiPhoneand reassert itself as the premium device manufacturer of choice.
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The Huawei Mate 70 is said to include a satellite paging system and will come in a number of different variants, including the Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro Plus and the Mate 70 RS. The base model starts with a 6.7-inch display with a multitude of cameras. The Mate 70 Pro boosts the camera experience, while the Pro Plus extends the camera even further.
The Huawei Mate 70 RS takes the top model and adds a premium titanium build on top, as well as a tweak in the design. Currently, the company’s plans to launch the Mate 70 globally are unknown, but we suspect that it will still have ambitions to offer its own non-Google alternative to a wider audience than just China.
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