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At present, Android has become a household name almost as popular as Coca-Cola. Google's operating system runs on billions of devices and represents the lion's share of the smartphone market. The widespread adoption of Android has its own disadvantages, of which one is the fragmentation of the version among the hundreds of smartphones using the operating system.
Hoping to solve this problem, as well as other imperfections of Android, Google is developing another open source operating system, called Fuchsia. If you hear about it for the first time, you probably are not alone, its development is not exactly marketed by Google. However, as 9to5Google points out, there is now a reason that makes us smile.
A recent article on Fuchsia Gerrit, the operating system source code management site, indicates that a new patch has supported Kirin970, HiSilicon's SoC published last year. To test the newly added support, the main Fuchsia code was started on Honor Play, a recently released phone with the Kirin970 chip. Honor is a sub-brand of Huawei, which used the Kirin970 in a number of high-end phones, including the Mate 10 and P20 models. This is intriguing given that Google Pixel phones use Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile platform. The last time Google and Huawei worked together was for the Nexus 6P. Is this a sign that the two giants will unite their powers? May be. Or maybe Huawei's engineers just want a head start when the operating system is deemed to be ready to be marketed and lend a hand to its development. If this is the case, the noble gesture only raises more questions.
Whatever it is, this marks a big step in the development of fuchsia and shows that it could be closer to reality than originally planned. The new operating system of Google aims to make it work one day on all devices of the company, replacing not only Android, but also Chrome OS. Of course, if other manufacturers want to use it, they will probably be able to do so, under certain conditions.
Although this news is exciting for us phone geeks, the average user is in at least a few years before having to process fuchsia in any form whatsoever, and this assumes that Google will choose it as successor to Android. Let's hope that someday, new versions will be deployed on our non-Apple smartphones in days rather than months.
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