News Huawei prepares to launch its first phones without Google Apps

Huawei is preparing to unveil its new Huawei Mate 30 smartphone on September 19, which should be delivered without any Google applications or services, according to a new report released by the Nikkei Asian Review.

This decision came after the US government decided not to extend the partial deadline imposed on Chinese blacklisted company and that the US ban threatened to compromise the next sales of the Chinese company, the state-of-the-art technology. world.

This decision concerns the Huawei Mate 30 range and its Huawei Mate X, which is expected to go on sale by the end of the month, will be free of Google products and services.

This means that there is no Google Play Store, Google Chrome, Gmail, YouTube or Google Maps preinstalled.

The loss of Google Play App Store is certainly the hardest hit, with the Google Play suite of services, on which many third-party applications rely to work properly.

Analysts expect the loss to contribute to a decline of 10 million Huawei smartphone sales units this year.

The United States does not show any sign of mitigating its position vis-à-vis major Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers. President Donald Trump said that Huawei raised concerns about national security.

"We are not doing business with Huawei," he said.

While Huawei was preparing for a possible loss of access to Google's mobile operating system, the news of its position on blocking pre-installed applications of upcoming phones has been a shock to the company in the end of the month of August.

In May, the US Commerce Department imposed a trade ban on Huawei and banned the export of software and US chips to the company, while granting a 90-day grace period to certain companies, such as Google, to protect the interests of American consumers.

This grace period expired on August 19 and, although the Commerce Department extended the grace period by 90 additional days, Google was not covered.

Ministry of Commerce decision will not affect Huawei smartphones sold in China, banned from installing Google applications and services by Chinese government, but threatens to disrupt Huawei's growth in overseas markets, where customers used Gmail and Google Maps on their phones.

Sales of overseas phones could fall by 30% or more, and it is estimated that the company has shipped about 100 million smartphones to China and 100 million to overseas, said a Chinese analyst.

The British research company IHS Markit predicts that Huawei's overseas sales will fall by 13 million phones, reaching a total of 88 million by 2019.