The giant Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Huawei, announced on Tuesday that, starting next year, its new smartphones and tablets will no longer use the Android operating system.
In 2019, Google, the owner of the Android operating system, restricted the access of Huawei devices to some updates as a result of measures taken by US President Donald Trump against China.
Users of the new phones no longer had access to some applications from Google Apps.
Huawei unveiled on Tuesday its new series of Mate 70 mobile phones, which are the first to be equipped with an operating system developed inside the company, called HarmonyOS Next. The new devices presented on Tuesday are part of Huawei’s strategy to set up an ecosystem without the involvement of major American technology suppliers, according to Agerpres.
The Mate 60, the model released last year, has re-entered the spotlight after being equipped with a Chinese-made processor, thus bypassing American restrictions designed to deny it access to the most advanced processors.
The phones in the Mate 70 series, with a price of 5,499 yuan (3,589 lei) for the model with a diagonal of 6.7 inches, will come with a 40% increase in performance compared to the predecessor, one of the reasons being the HarmonyOS Next operating system, said Richard Yu, who did not want to give details about the processors equipping the new phones.
