Huawei is in the midst of ditching assist for Android in favor of its personal working system. The brand new Huawei OS – HarmonyOS NEXT – is about to debut subsequent week.

HarmonyOS has been on the core of Huawei’s units for a while. The OS started as merely one other Android pores and skin, posing as one thing totally different than the remaining. The change got here with the concept Huawei would ultimately ditch Android altogether, opting to carry its units right into a devoted OS with assist for simply as many apps.

Since then, Huawei has been working in the direction of the objective of changing into fully self-reliant. Lately, the corporate introduced that HarmonyOS NEXT brings assist for 10,000 apps, overlaying “99.9% of customers’ utilization time wants.”

New data signifies that Huawei is lastly able to debut HarmonyOS NEXT and start bringing it to telephones presently in the marketplace (through South China Morning Publish). Once more, this comes as an effort to fully ditch Android. The brand new system is not going to assist Android apps, therefore the corporate’s makes an attempt to assist apps that customers will want.

It’s indicated that HarmonyOS made up 17% of China’s smartphone market in Q1 of 2024. That’s a big quantity of potential units breaking off from Android in a market dominated by both it or iOS.

HarmonyOS NEXT is about to start rolling out to Huawei units subsequent week. The OS will first come to the Mate 60, Mate X5, and MatePad Professional on October 15. There isn’t a indication that the brand new Mate XT tri-fold smartphone from the corporate will obtain an replace.

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