“If nothing changes, HarmonyOS may arrive with the Huawei P40”.
HarmonyOS could reach the market with the Huawei P40, the next major flagship that the Chinese company will launch in the spring of next year. This has been assured by Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s mobile division, in an interview with the media in which SamaGame has been present. It took place within the framework of IFA 2019, after the conference where they presented their new Kirin 990 processors.
The context in which he has given us this answer has been when he has been asked what will be the first phone with HarmonyOS, so it is almost ruled out that it will be the Mate 30. During the Keynote, Richard Yu did not mention anything to the respect, but then he did get wet after the conference. In her, deliberately mentioned the P40 as the mobile with which HarmonyOS could arrive.
“We are associated with Google,” explained Richard Yu when asked by the press about the arrival of HarmonyOS. “But now the US government has put us in a position where it is impossible to continue to use Google Mobile Services for new products in the US.”
Yu has made it clear that HarmonyOS is now ready for use on mobile phones, but that they are waiting to see if their situation in the United States changes. We recall that the company is caught in the middle of the trade war between the United States and China, where Trump has prohibited his companies from doing business with Huawei.
Therefore, although so far all new mobiles are coming out and will continue to be updated with Android, the doubt is in the next releases in which you will not be able to use Google products on Android, which would leave them out of the official application store and many other basic and essential services for the operation of the mobile.
“The first product with HarmonyOS may be the P40 next spring.”
“If we are still prevented from using Google Mobile Services on our phones, then I think we will consider using our HarmonyOS,” he said. “So the first product with HarmonyOS may be the P40 next spring, maybe next March. “
During this interview with the media, the CEO of Huawei also mentioned that they have their own gallery of applications ready, as well as some “Harmony mobile services” that would replace those of Google. Come on, that your operating system already has adapted applications ready, both the basic ones and others from third parties.
With these statements, not only is a date set for the arrival of the operating system created by Huawei as an alternative to Android, but also speculation about what would happen to the Mate 30 that they present in a few days ends. He is not sure that it will arrive with the Android applications, they have not clarified anything about it, but everything seems to indicate that it will arrive with Android.
HarmonyOS will be compatible with Android
As we have told you, the idea is that HarmonyOS adapts to any screen but also to different development methods. It is based on a microkernel structure, this makes it much more versatile since it does not use a universal kernel for all devices, but smaller cores focused on different areas of the operating system.
In principle, a more compact core is achieved and able to run on varied platforms optimally. With this it also allows that, for example, root permissions are not granted to external services, as in Android for example. This means that, in principle, more security is offered to the user.
With all of that inside, HarmonyOS will be able to read and run Android apps. But they also hope to develop the operating system so that in the future it can work with HTML5 applications. At the moment they keep separate kernels for Android, Linux (LiteOS) and HarmonyOS, but they hope to replace Linux in the future with HarmonyOS.
The company also assured that it is a lightweight operating system and capable of running on devices with reduced performance. For this, they have a distributed architecture, which allows developers to make a single application and for the operating system to decide how to display and run the app in each product.
HarmonyOS has a latency engine that establishes the execution priority of each task, thus making the IPC performance more efficient and improving the performance on the device. In other words, will optimize the apps in the best possible way on each type of device that we use.
In any case, not everything has been said yet, and everything now depends on what the US government ends up deciding regarding the permits of local companies to do business with Huawei. There is still the opportunity for everything to be clarified and their mobiles continue with Google’s Android, with HarmonyOS remaining in a secondary system as Samsung’s Tizen ended up.
