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Huawei Mate 30 Series, Android and the Future
On September 19, Huawei unveiled its latest Mate 30 series smartphones without Google Mobile Services (GMS) but still running on EMUI 10 based Android 10 using the Open source version.
Under these circumstances, Huawei has only showcased its new smartphones and its features and yet to announce the sales dates for the markets outside of China.
However, the first sales of Mate 30 series will start on September 26 in China and before we discuss this matter in detail let’s look at why Huawei is cannot use GMS.
Back in May, the US commerce department added Huawei into the Entity-List, which cuts the company’s ties with US firms including the Android provider Google. The new business terms will let Google serve its services to existing Huawei devices but not to those launched after the US blacklisting.
Due to the fact that Android is open-source software, it’s still can be used by Huawei for future smartphones but the GMS package including Play Store, Gmail, Youtube, Google Maps and other apps are the proprietary property of Google and requires licensing to pre-load them in devices.
How is Huawei launching Mate 30 series in China without a GMS License?
Since the Chinese smartphone market has its own set of application that replicates GMS package, Huawei loads these apps to launch smartphones in China using the open-source version and App Gallery to download additional applications. So, it can launch its phones in China without the need for Google’s applications.
On the other hand, it purchases licenses for smartphone markets outside of China because Google applications are popular among android users throughout the globe.
Market analysis shows, around 60-70% of Huawei’s smartphone market growth and earning comes only from China. Despite the US blacklisting, Huawei’s shares and sales are growing day by day in the country.
Therefore, selling Mate 30 series first outside of China will keep its sales balanced and will give the company the necessary time to find a solution to launch Mate 30 series in the markets outside of the country.
Any other Options?
It’s recently reported, the Chinese tech giant can unlock the bootloader of Mate 30 series to allow users to sideload Google’s applications. Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group ensured in a press briefing that the company is working on a solution to solve GMS issue.
So why not use HarmonyOS?
HarmonyOS is still at its early stage of distribution and limited to the Internet of Things (IoT) products including Smart TVs, Watches, in-vehicle systems, and smart speakers and later be expanded to other products. Also, it requires some time to expand the application ecosystem.
Compared to the HarmonyOS, Android is popular and already has a vast ecosystem that took several years to build by its developer’s community.
But the company is not sitting silently on this matter because, during the Mate 30 series launch, Huawei announced a special $1 Billion investment in its developer program to develop an application for Huawei Mobile Services and the same announcement was also made after the launch of HarmonyOS for its future goals.
So, What’s next?
Huawei Mate 30 series is offering the most advanced hardware specs, new design, and the most powerful camera system. That’s why, Huawei remains positive and announced that it will sell the Mate 30 series without GMS suite in different markets.
As for time being, there are four things that we can expect to happen with the Mate 30 series and upcoming smartphones:
- The US allows Huawei to do business with Google then installing GMS Core via a software update, similar to the Honor 20 Pro.
- Find a simple and working way to sideload Google’s application on its smartphones.
- Sell the smartphones solely with HMS and App Gallery.
- Start using HarmonyOS, which is currently totally useless for smartphones.
So, what else do you think Huawei will do next? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Huawei has finalized the design of the P60 series and the flagship could appear at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 at the earliest, which is piece of amazing news.
Input coming from different Weibo tipsters suggests that Huawei has confirmed the design of the Huawei P60 series. It is the first camera module that has a giant ring in the middle followed by a camera on the top and a periscope camera placed on the bottom side.
These tipsters have seen the test model, and the company is likely to keep the below-featured camera system, unlike the one that surfaced recently. The camera bump is rectangular and houses all of the sensors inside, making it a hybrid version of P50 and P40 devices.
MWC 2023:
Another tipster suggested that the Huawei P60 series revealing could occur at MWC 2023, which will be a surprise. However, the tipster insists that it could be the earliest launch attempt that the Chinese tech maker may choose to go with.
MWC Barcelona is an annual event and 2023’s conference will start from February 27, 2023, to March 2, 2023. So, the company could book the last week of this month to open the launch or by early in March.
At MWC 23, Honor will also participate in the launch of its new foldable device. This leads us to a prediction that, Huawei Mate X3 is also ready to enter among consumers and it would make sense, as this new foldable device is ready to raise the curtain.
Past information:
Huawei P60 series could be the most powerful camera smartphone, as it will feature a large sensor to boast better light. Also, it will debut variable aperture in the P series, which is another advantage for this flagship family.
For now, Huawei has not made an official announcement about the launch date. However, there is more information that will appear to amaze us.
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)
