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During the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC 2020) the Chinese giant made official what everyone had feared for some time: Huawei says goodbye to Android and the first will arrive in 2021 Huawei smartphone without Android and with HarmonyOS 2.0. The decision depends entirely on Donald Trump’s open battle against Huawei and other Chinese companies deemed a threat to American national security.
Meanwhile, again since HDC 2020, Huawei has launched the long-awaited interface EMUI 11 which, however, is still based on Android 10 even though Google has just released Android 11. The separation between Huawei and Google, therefore, begins to become a real gap. To know if this is an irremediable rupture, we will most likely have to wait for the results of the next US elections in November. Huawei, however, tries to show itself prepared for the impact and begins to show the world its new operating system HarmonyOS 2.0 which will be used for dozens of different devices, including smartphones starting in 2021.
When HarmonyOS smartphones arrive
Huawei has already released software development kits to create applications compatible with HarmonyOS 2.0. But at the moment it’s only about kits for smart watches, smart TVs and car infotainment systems. In December, however, Huawei will also launch the kit for the smartphone app.
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei, confirmed that 2021 will be the year in which we will see the first smartphone with HarmonyOS 2.0 and without Android. Taking into account the development times of the applications, and the fact that without an application a smartphone is of little use, it is likely that this Huawei smartphone without Android will not arrive in the first months of next year, but towards the middle.
Huawei 2021 smartphone: how it will be
Next year, Huawei will not only have to change the operating system of its smartphones, but also much more. Due to US sanctions against companies that work for Huawei (even non-US ones), the Chinese giant is at risk of finding itself without components to build your smartphones.
Of September 15in fact, the Taiwanese TSMC will no longer produce Kirin 1000 SoC for Huawei, Koreans SK Hynix me Samsung They will no longer provide memories and the latter will not be able to sell OLED screens to Huawei either. Samsung has officially applied to the US government for permission to work with Huawei, but it is difficult to get an unconditional go-ahead.
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