Huawei Launches New Smartphone with Its Own Operating System
A challenge for Apple and Google's has been launched
Apple and Microsoft’s dominance in mobile operating systems is running dry. Chinese manufacturer Huawei has released the Mate 70, the latest version of its high-end cell phones. They will be equipped with an operating system derived from HarmonyOS Next, developed entirely by the Chinese technology group. The operating system is completely independent of Android (the previous version of HarmonyOS was still based on Android), and actually apps developed for that system will not work, but over 15,000 native apps have already been developed.
Richard Yu, Huawei’s chief executive, said at the launch of the new models held in Shenzhen, the Chinese city where Huawei is based: “The Mate 70 is the most powerful ever” and will be the first smartphone to feature satellite paging and implement artificial intelligence to improve, among other things, photos and reduce call noise. But the focus is entirely on the HarmonyOS Next operating system, with which the group aims to challenge Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, which currently cover the vast majority of mobile devices worldwide.
Pre-orders for the new Mate 70 began on November 18, and since then, 3.34 million (optional) reservations have been made on the company’s website.
