Huawei is planning to release its proprietary harmony working machine on smartphones in 2021, the firm announced at its annual developer conference in Dongguan on Thursday.

The readiness of HarmonyOS handsets will largely be contingent at the range of apps Huawei can appeal to inside a quick window. HMS centre, Huawei’s counterpart to Google Play services and the toolkit assisting builders construct and manage apps, now consists of 96,000 apps, the corporation stated nowadays. That’s up from 81,000 in July and 60,000 in March.




In evaluation, both Google Play and Apple App store have accumulated apps numbered in the millions. To entice extra apps into its atmosphere, Huawei announced that a beta version of its 2nd-generation working system — HarmonyOS 2.0— for cellular developers will launch with the aid of the end of this 12 months. That suggests Huawei phones are nevertheless based totally on Android in the intervening time. indeed, Huawei’s contemporary person interface, the EMUI 11 unveiled today, runs on Android, though it pretty lives on the dated tenth era rather than Android eleven, which arrived days ago and incredibly supports Huawei’s local rivals Xiaomi and Oppo.

In the meantime, the beta version of HarmonyOS will move open-supply for pills, in-vehicle systems and smartwatches starting this week. Huawei’s running system has a modern reach of 490 million customers through the organisation’s family of hardware devices, and it’s trying to increase its base via the internet of factors market.


For one, it has struck deals to bake HarmonyOS into recognized domestic equipment names along with Midea and Joyoung. The HiCar interface, Huawei’s equal to Apple’s CarPlay and Android Vehicle, has teamed up with over 20 automakers and goals to rack up 5 million pre-installs in cars subsequent 12 months. Huawei smartwatches are a distant 2nd to Apple Watch with an 8.3% proportion of world shipment all through H1, up 2.8% yr-over-year, in accordance to investigate firm Counterpoint.

Huawei’s addition to the U.S. entity listing final yr has blocked its get admission to key American providers, consisting of Google, which brought about Huawei to create an alternative to the Android app surroundings.

The telecoms massive shipped 105 million handsets in the first half of 2020, down from 118 million within the identical duration of 2019, as purchasers reply to Huawei phones’ loss of key Android capabilities and a global economic downturn. Huawei’s purchaser enterprise, consisting particularly of cellphone income, pulled in 255.8 billion yuan ($37.4 billion) in H1, up from 220.8 billion yuan the year before.

~Team Blogglance