With the all-new Mate 70 series smartphones, Huawei is bidding adieu to Android for good. Huawei’s flagship lineup will now run HarmonyOS Next that is built completely in-house, presumably from the ground up, complete with its own app store and ecosystem.
With the all-new Mate70 series smartphones, Huawei is bidding adieu to Android for good. Huawei’s flagship lineup will now be able to run HarmonyOS Next that is built completely in-house, presumably from the ground up, complete with its own app store and ecosystem. Mate70 customers do have the option to stick with the older Android-based HarmonyOS 4.3 with access to Android apps, but there will be limitations to either choice, of course.
Plans by Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment vendor, to completely drop any semblance of American-made software or hardware from its devices have finally come to fruition. The freshly minted Huawei Mate70, Mate70 Pro, Mate70 Pro+, and Mate70 RS Ultimate not only boast an Android-free OS called HarmonyOS 5.
