After a devastating ban in 2019, Huawei has formally moved on from Android with “HarmonyOS Subsequent,” a platform which now not helps Android app, which launches on the corporate’s newest smartphones.

In China, Huawei has this week unveiled the Mate 70 sequence and the Mate X6, it’s newest book-style foldable. The brand new smartphones carry loads of {hardware} upgrades, together with the usage of a spectral imaging sensor on the Mate 70 Professional for improved shade accuracy and shadows inside images. The Mate X6 has related digicam upgrades alongside higher water resistance and enhancements to the hinge.

The massive story Huawei is pushing, although, is that these are the primary gadgets designed for HarmonyOS Subsequent.

HarmonyOS Subsequent was first introduced in late 2023 with the shocking reveal that the system wouldn’t help Android apps in any respect. Earlier this yr, Huawei totally unveiled the brand new platform, once more reiterating that it was casting off Android as the bottom and that builders would wish to construct apps for this new platform. As of September, it was reported that over 10,000 apps had been prepared for the swap.

Nonetheless, in contrast to many are saying, it sounds just like the Huawei Mate 70 and Huawei Mate X6 gained’t be prepared for HarmonyOS Subsequent straight away. GSMArena factors out that solely “some” Mate X6 items will ship with HarmonyOS Subsequent, whereas the Mate 70 gained’t have it out of the field in any respect. Quite, each gadgets will probably be utilizing the prevailing HarmonyOS 4.3, which remains to be primarily based on Android. Updates to the brand new Android-free model will come sooner or later.

This aligns with feedback from Richard Yu, Huawei’s head of shopper enterprise, who mentioned that these gadgets “can function” on the brand new working system. Huawei stopped wanting saying they’d be working the brand new model at launch, although. Reuters provides that Yu mentioned that “the Mate 70 sequence will supply customers a selection between HarmonyOS 4.3, which maintains Android compatibility, and the brand new HarmonyOS NEXT 5.0,” including that the platform will help “100,000 apps within the coming months.”

It was clarified that all future Huawei releases will probably be working HarmonyOS Subsequent beginning in 2025, that means that is very possible the final launch we’ll see the place Huawei has gadgets nonetheless working Android.

Huawei, notably, is quiet on among the key specs of those gadgets, most notably the chipset, as a result of ongoing US ban. Nonetheless, it’s although that the gadgets are utilizing the Kirin 9100 which is produced in China.

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