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Huawei could release the Mate 30 series without Android, will it be HarmonyOS or?
Huawei, the No. 2 smartphone maker in the world, is set to reveal its new Mate 30 series smartphones in Munich on September 18, according to several reports. We already have seen many high-quality promo pictures of the smartphones and have checked numerous leaks related to the upcoming flagship series.
However, according to a Google spokesperson (via Reuters), Huawei may not be able to offer Google’s official Android OS and widely used Google apps.
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However, Google has said earlier that it wants to continue working with Huawei. And Huawei has the same opinion on Google – we are not looking for the replacement for Google’s Android OS (Huawei said this after the company announced its HarmonyOS/Hongmeng OS in early this month as an alternative to Android.)
Well, Huawei may still release the Mate 30 series with a licensed version of Android OS and Google’s popular applications – but how? For that Google would need to apply for a license from the U.S. government for the specific products to be exempted from the ban.
According to the report:
A Google spokesman told Reuters the Mate 30 cannot be sold with licensed Google apps and services due to the U.S. ban on sales to Huawei. A temporary reprieve that the U.S. government announced last week does not apply to new products such as the Mate 30, the spokesman said.
U.S. companies can seek a license for specific products to be exempted from the ban. Google, a part of Alphabet Inc, would not say whether it had applied for a license to offer its apps and services known as Google Mobile Services, though it has said in the past that it wants to continue supplying Huawei.
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Let’s talk about possibilities – Huawei could also use an open-source version of Android without official Google apps – such as Gmail, YouTube, Drive, etc. It means Huawei could release the Mate 30 series without the Play Store, the same as the Chinese market where users are used to Android smartphones without Google services.
Another possible solution, Huawei may use its own OS – HarmonyOS (or Hongmeng OS) — could replace Google’s Android OS on the Mate 30 series.
Apart from this OS news, Huawei is all set to unveil the processor of the Mate 30 series, the Kirin 990 chipset, at the IFA consumer tech fair in Berlin on September 6.
In my opinion, Huawei should work closely with Google to resolve the current issue and continue to work on the performance improvement of the HarmonyOS – so it could replace the Android OS in the future.
What do you want to see inside the Mate 30 series – Android OS or HarmonyOS? Let us know in the comments below.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
