The Huawei P50 will indeed be the first smartphone to be sold directly under HarmonyOS rather than Android. A tipster claims that harmonyOS’ smartphone build is the first to switch to beta 3. The new operating system is actually a fork of the Android project.
Credits: @Hoiindi via Twitter
The Weibo account of a tipster has leaked an important info: the build of HarmonyOS for the Huawei P50 goes from beta 2 to beta 3, one hair away from the final version. All indications are that the Huawei P50 will be the first smartphone of the brand to be sold directly under HarmonyOS. The info is not in itself a surprise.
The firm has recently been testing the new operating system on a handful of high-end smartphones. But it was expected for months that the manufacturer would really launch the operating system with the release of one of its best flagship. However, it is not yet clear whether the Huawei P50 with HarmonyOS will really be available anywhere, or whether users will be able to choose internationally.
Unsurprisingly, the P50 will be the smartphone that will inaugurate HarmonyOS
The brand must also offer migration to HarmonyOS on other recent smartphones such as the P40. The start of this migration could take place around April, with the ambitious goal of seeing HarmonyOS installed on 300 to 400 million devices by the end of 2021 – including smartwatches, smart TVs and connected accessories.
In fact, this migration will not be a real revolution for the user,at least for now. HarmonyOS is actually largely a fork of the official Android project with which it shares much of the code. So much so that HarmonyOS can launch Android apps. The only real difference is the total absence of U.S.-licensed code.
Huawei also had to add its alternatives to Google’s apps and services, including AppGallery to replace the Play Store, Petal Maps to replace Google Maps, Petal Search to replace Google Search and Petal Docs to replace Google Docs.
Moreover, we note that other applications are coming, including Petal Assistant that we imagine to be an alternative to Google Assistant, Petal Keyboard, an alternative to GBoard and Petal Vision which seems to be an augmented reality application.
Source: GSMArena
