Huawei is about to debut its HarmonyOS Next on Tuesday. HarmonyOS Next is Huawei’s homegrown mobile operating system, unlike the older version of HarmonyOS, which was built on the Android Open Source Project and the Linux Kernel.
HarmonyOS Next will be available publicly starting on the Huawei Mate 60 series, Mate X5 foldable and Huawei’s 13.2-inch MatePad Pro.
Huawei says this device is entirely independently developed and doesn’t support Android-based applications. According to the report, it is referred to as “pure blood” HarmonyOS in China.
The chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, Richard Yu, thinks highly of the new operating system ecosystem over companies like Google, “We covered the path of over a decade of foreign operating system ecosystem development in just one year.”
Further, Huawei says that more than 10,000 apps and native services have been developed for HarmonyOS Next, with Chinese tech firms like Baidu, J.D.com, and Tencent Holdings developing for the ecosystem.
I was a big fan of Huawei products back when they were available in Canada. I reviewed devices like the P20 and Mate 20 and the P30 and Mate 30. The company made incredible hardware, and in terms of mobile camera technology, it was far ahead of its time. The P30 Pro offered a periscope camera and 5x optical zoom before companies like Samsung, Google and Apple. However, these devices had a pretty annoying Android skin called EMUI, so I’m hoping that HarmonyOS Next is better than this.
However, it’s worth noting that these handsets probably won’t launch in Canada, considering Huawei is banned from selling its mobile devices in the North. Despite this, I’m excited to see what Huawei has planned.
Source: Yahoo Finance
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