Huawei unveils Harmony operating system, won't ditch Android for smartphones

By Sijia Jiang and Brenda Goh on Aug 12, 2019 6:58AM

As trade restrictions threaten to cut access to US technologies.

Huawei Technologies unveiled on Friday its proprietary operating system for smartphones and other devices, as US trade restrictions imposed in May threaten to cut the Chinese firm's access to US technologies such as Android. Huawei said that for now it would stick to using Google's Android for ...

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