Huawei to launch Harmony OS for it's smartphones
Huawei’s Harmony OS is finally ready for launch. HarmonyOS, or Hongmeng in Chinese, is an operating system designed for various devices and settings. It was first launched on Internet-of-Things devices. The HarmonyOS has already been used on Huawei watches, laptops and home appliances over the past two years. The use of its own OS will mean it will no longer be reliant on Android.
The US sanctions banned Google from providing technical support to new Huawei phones and access to Google Mobile Services. Now, Huawei is all set to take the global smartphone market by storm, once again.
Huawei Harmony OS would be used in all upcoming Huawei smartphones as the company is banned from doing any sort of business with US companies. The company has already released few TVs powered with Harmony OS in the last few months. But the real test of the OS will come when it would be made available with Smartphones.
After Huawei sold Honor, its budget smartphone brand, to Digital China for $15.2 billion late last year, rumours started making round about the possible exit of Huawei from the smartphone market due to the unavailability of any OS to power its smartphones.
The impact of the US ban was so severe that Huawei’s smartphone shipments declined by 41% YoY to a mere 8.3% share in Q4 2020. The company slipped out from the list of the world’s top five smartphone manufacturers to settle at sixth position. Since the ban, the Chinese top smartphone manufacturer lost more than half of its market.
If everything goes well with the time, the much awaited a complete app ecosystem and winning the confidence of the global app developers community is going to be a big battle to win – something that Microsoft and Samsung lost to Google Android measurably.
Therefore, it would be interesting to see if Huawei Harmony OS makes a global debut or meant to stay confined into China only.
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