HarmonyOS NEXT released
Huawei has officially released its own operating system “HarmonyOS NEXT”, freeing itself from the Android ecosystem.
To be fair, we’re not there yet. The company has “officially begun public beta testing” of its OS for select smartphones and tablets powered by its proprietary Kirin and Kunpeng chips, but unlike previous HarmonyOS, HarmonyOS NEXT will no longer support Android apps. Ta.
As a company that develops native apps for the OS such as Meituan, Douyin, Taobao, Xiaohongshu, Alipay, and JD.com, which are China’s top shopping, payment, and social media apps, Huawei believes that the lack of Android support has discouraged customers. I don’t think it will bother you. .
Huawei also claimed that more than 15,000 HarmonyOS native applications and meta services were also launched at the time of the announcement. Google and Apple still have the right to be big on their app stores, but this is an important start.
The new OS has 110 million lines of code and claimed to improve the overall performance of mobile devices running it by 30%. It also extends battery life by 56 minutes and leaves an average of 1.5GB of memory for purposes other than running the OS. Also works on tablets and mobile phones.
Apparently the company has no plans to offer Harmony OS NEXT outside of China, so Westerners will be stuck with the Apple-Google duopoly.
Huawei wants to put its own OS on PCs. Last month, Yu Chengdong, chairman of the Chinese giant’s consumer business group, revealed that future machines would not run Windows, but instead run Harmony OS.
