Its Official, Huawei Launches Its Own Operating System HarmonyOS
Chinese telecom giant Huawei unveiled its own operating system HarmonyOS, as it faces the threat of losing access to Android systems amid escalating US-China trade tensions.
Richard Yu, the head of Huawei's consumer business, told a press conference in the southern city of Dongguan that the new system, called HarmonyOS or HongMeng in Chinese, would "bring more harmony and convenience to the world".
The highly-anticipated software is considered crucial for the tech group's survival as it confronts a looming White House ban on US companies selling technology products to Huawei which could remove its access to Google's Android operating system.
Yu said the new system was a "future oriented OS" to be "more smooth and secure", which he said was "completely different from Android and i...