BEIJING: Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s head says our own operating system for smartphones and laptops will be ready this year after the United States blacklisted the company, a report said Thursday.
The international version of the system could be ready in the first or second quarter of 2020, said Richard Yu, the head of Huawei’s consumer business.
The company was dealt a blow this week with Google’s decision to partially cut off Huawei devices from its Android OS following a US order banning the sale or transfer of American technology to the firm.
“Today, Huawei, we are still committed to Microsoft Windows and Google Android,” Richard Yu, head of Huawei´s consumer business, told CNBC. “But if we cannot use that, Huawei will prepare the plan B to use our own OS.”
The Global Times, a Chinese state-run daily, reported on Monday that the platform — named “HongMeng” — was undergoing trials and will gradually replace the Android system.
“We don’t want to do this but we will be forced to do that because of the US government. I think the US, this kind of thing, will also not only be bad news for us but also bad news for the US companies because we support” US businesses, Yu told CNBC. “We don´t want to do this but we have no other solution, no other choice.”
Source: https://futurenews.tv/huaweis-will-prepare-own-os-system-end-of-this-year-report/
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