With its operating system called HarmonyOS, Huawei is preparing to challenge the reign of Android in the smartphone world. But will it be able to even reach the level of Android? that’s a big question.
Last year in May, Huawei was blacklisted by the U.S. and banned from doing business with U.S. companies. Following this, Google has stopped supplying its proprietary Mobile Services to Huawei, causing a big business loss for the Chinese company in the smartphone business in the overseas market.
To overcome from its mobile software challenges and to prepare for the future, Huawei announced HarmonyOS at HDC 2019. This new OS is a new-microkernel-based, distributed OS developed for the cross-device experience.
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Moving forward, this year Huawei announced HarmonyOS 2.0, which supports new Huawei device supports such as smartwatches, in-car systems, and even “smartphones”.
Richard Yu, Huawei’s Consumer Business Chief has confirmed that the company will release a new smartphone pre-installed with HarmonyOS 2.0 in 2021. As recently, an alleged roadmap of HarmonyOS leaked on Chinese networking site Weibo that potentially suggests Huawei’s plan for upgrading old Huawei devices on HarmonyOS in a phased process.
Below you can check the phone that is included in that has highers changes to receive a HarmonyOS upgrade. According to huaweicentral, Huawei may first test the HarmonyOS in the Chinese market and prioritize devices that launched without Google Mobile Services (GMS) for HarmonyOS.
Things to know:
- This is not an official roadmap
- It’s based on a leak
- Huawei may confirm the official rollout map by next year.
HARMONYOS ELIGIBLE DEVICES:
- Huawei Mate 40
- Huawei Mate 40 Pro
- Huawei Mate 40 Pro+
- Huawei Mate 40 RS Porsche Design
- Huawei Mate X
- Huawei Mate Xs
- Huawei P40
- Huawei P40 Pro
- Huawei P40 Pro+
- Huawei Mate 30 4G
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro 4G
- Huawei Mate 30 5G
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G
- Huawei Mate 30 RS Porsche Design
- Huawei Nova 8 (Upcoming)
- Huawei Nova 8 Pro (Upcoming)
- Huawei Nova 7 Pro 5G
- Huawei Nova 7 5G
- Huawei nova 7 SE
- Huawei P30
- Huawei P30 Pro
- Huawei Mate 20
- Huawei Mate 20 Pro
- Huawei Mate 20 X 4G
- Huawei Mate 20 X 5G
- Huawei Mate 20 RS
- Huawei Nova 6 5G
- Huawei Nova 6 SE
- Huawei MatePad
- Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro (Pre-installed)
- Huawei Watch GT 2e
- Huawei Watch GT 2
HarmonyOS is not out in the open and Huawei has still explained how it will create a full-blown application ecosystem for the consumers. Even if it creates an application ecology for the domestic users (Chinese) but it’ll have to make big moves for European markets, which it’s losing day by day.
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