Berita 24 English - Huawei Technologies announced on June 2 the launch of its new Harmony operating system for smartphones, the company'...
Berita 24 English - Huawei Technologies announced on June 2 the launch of its new Harmony operating system for smartphones, the company's most significant move yet toward reclaiming its mobile phone business from the damage caused by US sanctions.
By developing its own operating system, it will be able to break free from Android's shackles. Sanctions imposed by the United States prohibit Google from providing technical support for new Huawei phone models and granting access to Google Mobile Services, the collection of developer services upon which most Android apps are built.
It was not immediately clear whether it would launch new smartphones concurrently, whether existing phones would receive updates, or how quickly the rollout would occur.
The new HarmonyOS will only mitigate some of the impacts of the 2019 sanctions, which also barred Huawei from accessing critical US-origin technology, impeding its ability to design its own chips and source components from third parties.
Once the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, Huawei is now ranked sixth worldwide, with a 4% market share in the first quarter.
The previous Trump administration asserted that Huawei posed a threat to US national security – an allegation that Huawei has denied.
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei this week urged employees to "dare to lead the world" in software, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
The company's development approach will need to become more "open source", and it will need to recruit more software experts from outside the country as part of the pivot.
