It’s taking place. Huawei is ditching Android and changing it with an in-house developed open-source OS of their very own. The HongmengOS, or the HarmonyOS is coming to smartphones on December 18, effectively on schedule, identical to the corporate introduced final month.

A cellphone leaker on Weibo (a Chinese language microblogging platform) stories that Huawei will begin rolling out beta variations of HarmonyOS for builders to check on Huawei telephones in mid-December. The corporate has plans emigrate present and new telephones to HarmonyOS in early 2021. By the second quarter, 90% of their fashions will probably be working the brand new working system.

Ever because the commerce ban in 2018, it has been a bumpy experience for Huawei. They misplaced your complete U.S. market, entry to American corporations together with Google, and even their Kirin chipsets. However Huawei shouldn’t be able to fade into obscurity simply but.

Each Microsoft and Samsung failed at their very own working methods and switched to Android. And HarmonyOS must go towards the identical Android and iOS for the market share. It’s too early to foretell if Huawei will be capable of pull it off, however not like the locked-down Home windows, HarmonyOS is open-source — identical to Android.

With full management over each the {hardware} and software program, Huawei can supply higher efficiency and seamless connectivity throughout a number of units. Extra to the purpose, it’s anticipated to help Android apps. So though Huawei is creating the OS from scratch, they nonetheless have loads of floor coated.

Plus, Huawei is making it a distributed working system, that means it might run on any good gadget — the whole lot out of your cellphone to your automotive. Their technique is to construct an working system from the bottom up, designed for each good gadget in Huawei’s ecosystem. However that’s to not say it’s going to be simple. Even when the brand new OS takes off, Huawei nonetheless has to deal with the belief and privateness considerations that bought them banned within the first place.