Huawei does not plan to launch a phone with the Harmony operating system this year

Even though Huawei boasts the power of his Harmony operating system – a potential alternative to Android – the company insists that it wants to maintain a unique ecosystem and stick to Google's platform. As such, the Chinese manufacturer of telecommunication equipment and telephony said that it was not planning to launch a Harmony-based smartphone.

That's what Huawei Vice President Vincent Yang, who spoke at a media event in New York on Wednesday, said.

"We want to maintain a standard, an ecosystem," said Yang, adding that Harmony would be an option B for the company.

But Harmony serves as a security system if the United States opts for a ban that would prevent Huawei from accessing key elements of Android, including Google services such as maps and the gambling shop. Monday, the US Department of Commerce extended a temporary general license to allow Huawei continue to do business with US companies. The company has designed the platform, which she calls cleaner than Android, because it has far fewer lines of code, to power other smart products like cars, TVs and more. the watches.

Huawei, who is caught in the tensions between China and the United States and fueled by the trade war, is expected to unveil a television under his Harmony operating system. Yang said he planned to launch a smartwatch also using this platform.

Yang hinted at a future flagship – widely regarded as the Huawei Mate 30 Pro – and announced that he would use Android. If the ban were to be respected, Huawei would switch to Harmony on his phones, but that would not happen until the last minute, when he was certain that the company would be closed to Android.

While Yang said that it was unlikely that Huawei was launching a Harmony-based phone, things could change if the ban was upheld.

"You never know," he says.

Huawei's reluctance to commit to the Harmony operating system as a phone operating system is not a shock. As a brand new OS that has just made its debut at the developer conference of the company earlier this monthit has virtually no application support. Avi Greengart, an analyst at Techsponential, said the company could not sell a phone running a Harmony operating system in the Western market because it would miss Google services – a decisive factor for any consumer.