Huawei has announced its new smartphones, the general Mate 70 series or the foldable X6. And its biggest novelties do not lie in the hardware, but in the HarmonyOS Next operating system, which for the first time is installed on Huawei mobile phones. without any dependency on Google’s Android services and without running any Android applications.
It is Huawei’s response to Trump’s blockade in 2019, a consequence of the escalation of the trade war against China. The White House thus prohibited Huawei from accessing the technology of American companies and prevented it from using the Google ecosystem in software or Qualcomm chips in hardware that it had also been using.
HarmonyOS NEXT ¡Adiós a Android!
Few thought that Huawei could survive without its huge dependence on Android. But if there is someone who could achieve it, it was the Chinese giant. And it is achieving it, but not without dropping sales and income brutally in years past when it was about to surpass Samsung and Apple at the head of the mobile market.
Huawei made a virtue of necessity and created HarmonyOS, an open source operating system that was initially based on Android as a transition. But the objective was another. Achieve a completely independent software ecosystem. The HarmonyOS NEXT beta was presented a few months ago and now the final version installed on the Mate 70 series has arrived.
Technically, the operating system uses a microkernel based on the open source OpenHarmony kernel. It is compatible with applications through the Huawei Ark compiler with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) and promises a seamless unified architecture between the devices that use it (Huawei’s own), the cloud and interconnectivity between different formats.
The company promised that its system (with 110 million lines of code) improves (versus Android) the overall performance of mobile devices that use it by up to 30 percent. It is also optimized to increase battery life and free up memory for tasks that do not involve operating the operating system.
The most important thing, taking into account the importance of apps and digital stores, is that Huawei has already launched more than 15,000 native applications and metaservices for HarmonyOS. In China, its main market, the main social networking or e-commerce applications (Meituan, Douyin, Taobao, Xiaohongshu, Alipay, JD.com…) are among those that have developed native applications for the system.
Of course, the big question remains whether HarmonyOS NEXT will end up convincing users in Western markets. At the moment, the Mate 7 and the
Source: www.muycomputer.com
