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Huawei is said to be developing its own mobile operating system to run on its smartphones.
- Huawei is said to be developing its own mobile operating system, which the company said is a "plan B" if relations with Google were ever to sour.
- Now that Huawei has been banned from accessing parts of Google's Android mobile operating system after the US government placed the company on a trade blacklist, it's as good a time as any for Huawei to speed up development towards its own mobile operating system.
- Little is known about Huawei's home-grown OS, but it's been reported that it's called "HongMeng OS."
- Even if Huawei can develop an amazing mobile operating system of its own, it would still need to convince app developers to bring popular apps to Huawei's own mobile app store.
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The Chinese telecoms company Huawei has been banned from accessing parts of Google's Android mobile operating system after the US government placed the company on a trade blacklist.
While it's not an all-out ban of Huawei devices, the blacklisting would affect future Huawei devices, and could mean that current Huawei phones will stop getting Android updates.
Without Android, Huawei phones could be nothing more than doorstop made of glass and silicon chips. Not only is the Android operating system the functional foundation of all Android smartphones, but it also brings Google's Play Store, which contains all of Google's popular apps, like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Maps, as well as the ever-growing list of popular third-party apps.
In order to prepare for a potentially Android-less future, Huawei is said to be developing its own mobile operating system to run on its smartphones.
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