Huawei’s own operating system, HarmonyOS (HongMengOS in China), has been in the news a lot for quite some time. The Chinese giant has been accelerating its development as it has lost access to key hardware and software as a result of trade restrictions imposed by the US government. After much waiting, it seems that Huawei phone users will finally start receiving it this year.
Huawei has been rolling out public developer betas of the HarmonyOS operating system to a set of select flagship phone models. Now, the company has announced that it is preparing for the deployment of the final or stable version from the beginning of next June 2021.
HarmonyOS will arrive on Huawei phones from June
According to Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei’s consumer business software department and director of the artificial intelligence and smart business department, the company will release the HarmonyOS or HongMengOS update from the beginning of June. While the executive did not announce the specific models that would receive this update, the Mate 40 series, Mate 30 series, P40 series and Mate X2 series are expected to be first on the waiting list for reception.
Anyway, after the initial batch of smartphone models receives this OTA, Huawei will begin to include other models for deployment in the following batches for the following weeks. A lot of the company’s older models are also expected to receive new firmware later in the summer as well.
200 million Huawei phones will move away from Android
The deployment of HarmonyOS would mark a major move by the company. This means that it moves away from the Android operating system for around 200 million smartphones that are currently in circulation. Of course, it should be noted that the company’s operating system is compatible with Android applications, and even with Google services (in those older terminals that still enjoyed Google certification).
The brand aims to move all these 200 million devices to its own platform by the end of this year. This new operating system is also cross-platform, which means that it was designed to be uniform and work seamlessly with all types of Smart Home products from the company. Hopefully, rollout for global users won’t take long after in China.