Richard Yu, CEO of the firm's consumer business group, made the remarks at the company's annual developer conference, held in the Chinese city of Dongguan.
SHENZHEN, China, September 10. - Huawei Technologies plans to introduce its Harmony OS operating system next year, considered the company's best bet to replace Google's Android mobile operating system, Richard Yu, CEO of Google, said Thursday. the firm's consumer business group, reports Reuters.
Yu made the remarks at the company's annual developer conference in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan. He also said that Huawei had a version 2.0 of the operating system - which it first introduced last year - and that it planned to open a beta version for mobile phones to developers in December.
After the United States banned Huawei in May last year, Google was unable to provide the Chinese firm with technical support for its new phone models using Android. Huawei was also unable to use Google Mobile Services (GMS), the suite of services for developers on which most Android applications are based.
This led the company to experience a drop in overseas smartphone sales, something that was later offset by an increase in domestic sales.
Yu said the company shipped 240 million smartphones last year, but added that software shortages had hurt the company in recent months. Huawei has introduced Harmony as a multi-device platform that includes watches, laptops and mobiles rather than a competitor that operates only in the Android system areas.
In August, the United States expanded restrictions aimed at preventing Huawei from sourcing semiconductors without a special license, including chips made by foreign companies that have been developed or produced with American software or technology. Experts consulted believe that such restrictions threaten Huawei's crown as the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, a ranking it obtained this year, and that its smartphone business would disappear completely if it could not obtain this type of material.
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