Chinese company Huawei plans to launch its Harmony OS early next month, beginning its effort to maneuver beyond the previous Trump administration’s sanctions. Huawei revealed its plans during a newly published video, but the corporate doesn’t have much else to mention at now, leaving some questions on how HarmonyOS will roll bent the general public.
In its short teaser video, Huawei revealed plans to showcase HarmonyOS during an occasion on June 2. The video focuses on the company’s OS, which is essentially just a just like open-source Android with Huawei’s veneer on top, but the video also briefly mentions that new products also will be launched on this date.
The event will happen at 1400 CEST, which is 8 AM ET / 5 AM PT. It’s unclear whether we’ll see new smartphones running HarmonyOS arrive with this launch; likewise, we don’t yet know if the corporate plans to obtrude updates for its existing handsets and when such activities may happen.
We’ve known about HarmonyOS for a few of years now, but it remains to be seen whether the Android clone — which can lack Google services — will have any substantial impact on Huawei’s efforts to affect the 2019 sanctions within the US.
The sanctions followed years of accelerating concerns about Huawei’s alleged national security threat and potential ties with the Chinese government — allegations it repeatedly denied. The upcoming June 2 event will finally give us an in depth check out HarmonyOS and the way the corporate plans to proceed.