The system, called HarmonyOS NEXT, has been released for public beta testing and is supposed to be fundamentally different from the previous HarmonyOS. The biggest change for users will be the complete disconnection from Android. It will be the first to reach the Pura 70 series smartphones.
It is no secret that this is apparently part of China’s drive for technological independence. Coincidentally, the system was unveiled on the same day that Tim Cook met China’s Industry and Information Technology Minister Jin Zhuanglong in Beijing.
In the report, Huawei boasts of a number of companies that have already developed applications for its system, mainly Chinese companies, including the well-known Alipay. There are supposed to be 15,000 of them so far, which is a very small number compared to the millions of Android applications.
HarmonyOS NEXT logo and the first smartphone on which Android applications cannot be installed (in China)
The Chinese tech company also announced that their operating system contains 110 million lines of code. It claims to increase the overall performance of mobile devices by 30%. It also reportedly extends battery life by 56 minutes and frees up an average of 1.5 GB of memory for purposes other than operating the operating system itself.
Huawei puts HarmonyOS on its phones in China, but those sold in Europe still run Android, just without Google. According to Huawei, HarmonyOS NEXT will not be available outside of China either, although it was previously planning to move to Europe. If it continues to sell phones here, it will probably stick with AOSP without Google.
source: Huawei, The Register
Source: www.cnews.cz
