Chinese language telecom large, Huawei, has introduced the primary vary of gadgets that run on its in-house HarmonyOS working system. This contains two new tablets and a smartwatch.
The corporate’s HarmonyOS is an working system that’s supposed to exchange Android on its gadgets, after the US commerce ban on the corporate barred it from utilizing the Google-run platform..
Google withdrew its Android license from Huawei after the commerce ban, which suggests the Chinese language large is not capable of set up native Google apps on its gadgets out of the field. HarmonyOS comes with its personal app retailer, known as the App Gallery, which is supposed to exchange the Google Play Retailer. Whereas gadgets working on the platform aren’t accessible in India but, it’s going to play a key function in Huawei’s future. The working system is meant to run throughout system sorts, together with smartphones, laptops, TVs and extra.
The brand new gadgets embody the MatePad Professional and MatePad 11 tablets, and the Huawei Watch 3 smartwatch.
The truth that Huawei received’t be capable of use Android on its gadgets has already affected its enterprise over the previous yr. In keeping with April 2021 information from Counterpoint Analysis, the corporate’s market share fell to 4% within the first quarter of 2021 as in comparison with 8% within the fourth quarter of 2020. It had 17% market share to start with of final yr, and the corporate even took the highest spot out there for a short interval final yr.
Curiously, the brand new tablets nonetheless use chips from Qualcomm, regardless of American firms being barred from doing enterprise with the telecom large. The MatePad Professional (which will likely be bought in 12.6 inch and 10.8 inch variants) will run on the Snapdragon 870 chips from Qualcomm. Alternatively, the MatePad 11 runs on the Snapdragon 865 chips. In keeping with a letter from the India Mobile and Electronics Affiliation (ICEA) to the federal government in March, Huawei had procured two years’ value of chips earlier than September final yr, it’s attainable that the chips on these new gadgets are a part of that provide.
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The corporate additionally makes its personal chips below the HiSilicon model, however has additionally confronted issues working that enterprise, as a result of sanctions. Huawei’s deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, had mentioned at an analyst summit in April, that the corporate had sufficient chip stock in the interim and can preserve the HiSilicon unit working for so long as attainable.
