Huawei's HarmonyOS is about to enter smartphones |
The CEO of Consumer Business Group said that Huawei plans to launch its operating system called HarmonyOS (or Hongmeng in China) in China. The best choice. Huawei today, Thursday.
So far, the OS appears to have reached 70% or 80% of the Android standard, and Richard Yu spoke at the company's annual developer conference in Dongguan, southern China. China.
When the system layer (Harmony OS) approaches the level of Android and the United States prohibits Chinese companies from using Android completely, the company can install it on smartphones to replace Android.
In other words, the OS is almost complete and it can compete with and replace Android around the world.
Yu also said: The company released the first version of HarmonyOS 2.0 last year and plans to open a beta version of the developer tool that will be included on smartphones in December 2020.
The Chinese brand has confirmed that it will offer a trial version of (Harmony OS 2.0 SDK) for smart watches, televisions and in-car entertainment devices from September 10, 2020.
"We may see smartphones with HarmonyOS from next year," Yu said at the Huawei Developers Conference (HDC).
The company also revealed a roadmap for its OpenHarmony project, an open source version of Harmony OS, similar to Android AOSP.
Huawei said: This open-source project supports devices with 128MB of RAM or less, but will expand to 4GB in April next year and the memory limit will be fully lifted by October. 2021.
The company said: It will fully open HarmonyOS before October 2021.
Yu said: The company sold 240 million smartphones last year, making it second in the market. But he added that software shortages had hurt the company in the past few months.
Huawei claims that HarmonyOS is a multi-device platform that covers watches, laptops, and mobile phones, not a competitor to Google's Android OS.
The Chinese brand offers many features of its operating system, such as a device-based adaptive user interface, improved security and audiovisual artificial intelligence for more intelligent speech recognition.
The company also focuses on transferring data between devices and demands faster remote reading, writing and search performance compared to (Samba) and (iOS Spotlight) respectively.
In the past two years, Huawei has also committed to improving its multi-screen capabilities and provided many examples in (Harmony OS 2.0).