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Users will be able to install the new software on all smartphones, tablets and wearables next year, while the Shenzhen-based company is pushing the operating system due to Washington restrictions, Chinese media reported.
Huawei Technologies plans to roll out its HarmonyOS operating system to all products, China Daily reported Thursday.
More than 100,000 software developers have joined forces to build HarmonyOS development projects, with hardware partners increasing from five to ten, Yang Haisong, vice president of software at the company’s consumer business group, said in the report.
The statement comes during the Huawei beta of HarmonyOS 2.0 for smartphone app developers on Wednesday, which aims to replace Google’s Android operating system on the Chinese company’s products.
Developers have been encouraged to build apps for smartphones using HarmonyOS to facilitate the software’s rollout next year, the report said.
Wang Chenglu, president of software at Huawei’s consumer business group, device manufacturers such as Midea, Robam and Joyoung have launched ovens and fume extractors with HarmonyOS, among other things, the report said.
Huawei plans to install the software on more than 100 million devices from about 40 major brands, she added.
A timeline from Huawei Central revealed that the Chinese tech giant plans to build a tablet and smartwatch with the Huawei P50 series running on HarmonyOS in 2021.
Huawei’s move to self-sufficiency amid the US trade war against China
The news comes after the Trump administration has blacklisted Huawei along with ZTE, SMIC and dozens of Chinese tech companies in recent months, citing national security concerns amid its contentious trade war with Beijing.
But both Huawei and Beijing pledged to build technical self-sufficiency to counter the measures, with the former investing huge sums in research and development and funding the latter technology initiatives through a $ 1.4 billion plan unveiled in October. .
The US government bans leave Huawei no choice but to accelerate research and development to build its own open tech ecosystem, from hardware to software for smartphones. It’s a tough journey, but Huawei has to go through it to survive and thrive, ”said Charlie Dai, chief analyst for research firm Forrester, as quoted by China Daily.
The world’s largest IT equipment provider plans to launch HarmonyOS in five phases, with devices using the company’s Kirin 9000 system-on-a-chip (SoC) and Kirin 990 5G processors, reported in October.
Huawei also announced a ‘Go Global Ecological Alliance’ in September to boost the HarmonyOS ecosystem, with 12 Chinese technology companies joining the alliance, it was announced at the Huawei Developers Conference 2020 at the time.