That iteration, referred to as HarmonyOS Subsequent, will probably be a “China-originated, unbiased and controllable” working system, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s client enterprise group, mentioned on the firm’s developer convention on Friday.
The Shenzhen-based firm launched on the convention a beta model of HarmonyOS Subsequent for builders, with a beta improve for shoppers anticipated in August.
The cell platform improve will probably be formally launched for business use on Huawei’s subsequent flagship 5Gsmartphone sequence, the Mate 70, within the fourth quarter this 12 months, Yu mentioned on the convention.
The newest bulletins by Huawei present that it’s attempting to bolster HarmonyOS’ presence within the nation, after unseating Apple’s iOS because the second-biggest cell working system on the mainland within the first quarter.
With HarmonyOS, Yu mentioned that it took simply 10 years for Huawei to attain what its Western counterparts did over 30 years in constructing a brand new working system.
Huawei additionally claimed that HarmonyOS has surpassed the Linux kernel, the muse of the Android cell platform, with a 10-per cent efficiency enchancment.
HarmonyOS was launched as a substitute for Android in August 2019, three months after the US authorities added Huawei to its Entity Record. Below this commerce blacklist, Huawei is barred from shopping for software program, chips and different US-origin applied sciences from suppliers with out Washington’s approval.
There are presently greater than 900 million gadgets that run on HarmonyOS, with greater than 2.5 million builders creating apps for the platform, Yu mentioned on Friday.
The adoption of HarmonyOS has accelerated on the again of speedy development in Huawei’s smartphone shipments. The Pura 70 sequence, the corporate’s newest flagship smartphone line launched in late April, noticed shipments develop 68 per cent on the finish of Might, in comparison with the earlier P sequence in the identical interval final 12 months, in response to Yu.
Shipments of Huawei’s flagship Pura 70 line and Mate 60 sequence, which was launched final 12 months, grew 72 per cent within the first 5 months of the 12 months, Yu mentioned.
Huawei ranked fourth in China’s smartphone market within the first quarter with a 15.5 per cent share and gross sales development of practically 70 per cent, in response to a report by Counterpoint Analysis.
The corporate has made the build-up of the HarmonyOS’ app ecosystem “a vital job for Huawei in 2024”, the agency’s rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhijun mentioned in April.