Huawei launched its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system on its handsets on Wednesday as it adjusts to having lost access to Google mobile services two years ago after the U.S. put the Chinese telecommunications company on a trade boycott.
The Shenzhen-based company declared that around 100 Huawei smart phone models will utilize its exclusive HarmonyOS system, and that the operating system will likewise be accessible on specific tablets and smart screens in the fourth quarter of the year.
The launch of the operating system comes as the company still cut off from American technologies including Google’s services and some computer chips to control its gadgets after the U.S. put it on an “substance list,” saying Huawei may help China’s secret activities efforts, an allegation the company fervently denies.
Huawei’s inclusion on the list restricts American companies from working with the Chinese telecommunications equipment and smart phone producer. The boycott has been a basic blow for Huawei, which has depended on fundamental technologies from the U.S.
“The client experience of HarmonyOS has outperformed the experience of the Android period. We tackled issues, for example, the easing back down and slacking of gadgets over the time in the Android period,” said Richard Yu, President of Huawei’s customer unit, in an online product launch occasion Wednesday.
“Our HarmonyOS has more grounded usefulness and perseverance, and it will be the best operating system in this internet of things period,” he said.
When the world’s biggest smartphone producer Huawei dropped out of the best five universally last year, pushed aside by South Korea’s Samsung, given data from market research firm Canalys.
Other Chinese smartphone producers, for example, Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo have since overwhelmed Huawei as far as worldwide deals. Huawei right now positions seventh worldwide and third in China following a 50% drop in smartphones shipments in the first quarter of this year compared with last year.
Last November, Huawei likewise sold its budget Honor smartphone brand as it tried to pad the effect of the U.S. sanctions.
Huawei’s HarmonyOS smartphone rollout is a workaround for its lack of access to Google services, particularly for smartphones that it sells abroad. While handsets that were sold preceding Huawei’s boycott keep on running Google services, its more current gadgets will have no access to Google’s mobile services or updates.
To take care of this issue, Huawei launched its own Huawei mobile services (HMS) platform that allows developers to launch applications for Huawei gadgets. In March, Huawei said that more than 120,000 applications are currently on its application store and utilizing HMS, despite the fact that it is still missing applications popular abroad like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Owners of Huawei telephones who have no access to Google services will not have the option to download applications like Gmail or YouTube. All things considered, HMS offers easy routes to the versatile destinations of such services.
Google is impeded in China, so Huawei clients in China are probably not going to be affected. Be that as it may, the absence of access to Google services makes Huawei a less appealing choice for overseas clients, who are accustomed to watching recordings on YouTube or utilizing the Gmail email application, analysts say.
Efforts to popularize Huawei’s new HarmonyOS might be a difficult errand. Challenges to predominant operating systems have typically failed, for example, Microsoft’s Windows Telephone operating system and Samsung’s Tizen operating system, which is unpopular in the smartphone world yet, is utilized in smartwatches.
“It’ll be intriguing to perceive what the HarmonyOS user interface resembles and whether there truly are a few highlights that make it a better for certain clients, yet I’m not holding my breath,” said Bryan Ma, VP of customer gadgets at market research firm IDC.
“It actually returns to all the conversation that has been occurring over the last few years which is, if there are no Google services, that is a major issue,” he said.
Notwithstanding, Huawei’s transition to a versatile operating system that can run on smartphones could give it another plan of action of pushing it to other smartphone merchants in China that may be anxious to acquire income by posting their applications on Huawei’s operating system.
“HarmonyOS may be very interesting to merchants who don’t have the assets to assemble their own operating system,” said Nicole Peng, VP of mobility at Canalys.
