Huawei Developer Conference 2019 is kicking off today, where the Chinese giant is expected to announce new products, including HongMeng OS, EMUI 10 and Honor Smart Screen among others.
After initial buzz about HongMeng OS being Huawei’s answer to Google’s Android operating system, the company’s executive claimed that HongMong OS was never meant to be an Android replacement and is for enterprise use.
However, it was recently reported that the company is working on to launch a new smartphone by the end of this year, which will be running HongMeng OS out-of-the-box. The report also claimed that the budget smartphone will be priced around 2,000 yuan.
Now, a new report has surfaced online which claims that the upcoming Huawei Mate 30 Lite will be the first smartphone to run the company’s in-house developed HongMeng OS. The report claims that while the international variant will be running Android Q and EMUI 10, the Chinese variant will be powered by HongMeng OS.
As per the leaks, the Mate 30 Lite will come with a 6.26-inch punch-hole display and is expected to feature quadruple-camera setup on the back which is housed within a square-shaped module. It will have 48 MP primary camera, an 8 MP secondary camera and two 2 MP camera sensors.
Under the hood, the device is powered by Huawei’s HiSilicon Kirin 810 octa-core processor, coupled with 6GB of RAM and 128GB internal storage as well as 8GB RAM and 256GB internal storage. The phone is said to have been fuelled by a 3,900mAh battery.
The previous report had claimed that the mid-range smartphone running HongMeng OS will be launched in order to attract software developers to join the company’s new ecosystem. It also added that the system has cryptographic functions that protect personal data and prevents users’ privacy from being breached.
As per the reports, the HongMeng OS is based on open-source Android and is fully compatible with Android applications. Also, during the test run, the operating system turned out to be 60 percent faster than Android.
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