The repetition is Harmony OS NextIt will be an operating system that is “Chinese, independent and controllable.” Richard Yu ChengdongThe chairman of Huawei's consumer business group made the remarks at the company's developers conference on Friday.
of ShenzhenThe company unveiled the beta version of HarmonyOS Next for developers at the conference, with the beta upgrade for general users scheduled for August.
The mobile platform upgrade is expected to be officially launched for commercial use with Huawei's next flagship products. 5G smartphone Yu said at the conference that the company plans to launch the latest models in its Mate 70 series in the fourth quarter of this year.
Huawei's latest announcement indicates that the company is looking to increase the presence of HarmonyOS in China. After taking over Apple's iOS It became the second largest mobile operating system in mainland China in the first quarter.
Yu said that with HarmonyOS, Huawei has achieved in just 10 years what it took its Western peers 30 years to build a new operating system.
Huawei also claimed that HarmonyOS offers 10 percent improved performance over the Linux kernel that underpins the Android mobile platform.
HarmonyOS was launched as an alternative to Android in August 2019, three months after the US government decided to adopt the Android OS. Add Huawei to the Entity ListThe trade blacklist would bar Huawei from buying software, chips and other U.S. technology from suppliers without Washington's approval.
There are currently more than 900 million devices running on HarmonyOS, and more than 2.5 million developers are building apps for the platform, Yu said on Friday.
HarmonyOS adoption is accelerating on the back of rapid growth in Huawei's smartphone shipments. Pla70 SeriesAccording to Yu, shipments of the company's latest flagship smartphone, the “P” series, which was released in late April, increased 68% year-on-year as of the end of May.
Huawei's flagship Pura 70 series shipments and Mate 60 SeriesThe service, which launched last year, grew 72 percent in the first five months of this year, Yu said.
According to a report by Counterpoint Research, Huawei ranked fourth in China's smartphone market with a 15.5% share in the first quarter and sales up nearly 70%.
The company sees building an app ecosystem for HarmonyOS as “a crucial task for Huawei in 2024,” its rotating chairman, Xu Zhijun, said in April.
