Huawei is strengthening its relationship with Russian companies like Yandex and Mail.ru. The latter is reportedly in talks with the Chinese telecommunications giant to pre-install its apps inside Huawei smartphones. Given that Huawei is currently the world’s second-largest smartphone manufacturer, this could be a big deal for the Russian internet company.
Mail.ru Group has a lot of apps and services under its belt like VKontakte (VK), Delivery Club (Food delivery app), and Odnoklassniki (OK). While these apps are traditionally popular among the Russian speaking individuals, they still have a pretty strong fan following. For example, OK has over 2 million downloads on the Google Play store.
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Huawei is also reportedly in talks with another big Russian company, Yandex. The company is planning to install Yandex’s digital assistant – Alice on its smartphones. The two companies are also said to be working on other collaboration opportunities in areas such as search engine, music, taxi, and weather services.
However, both these deals have not yet been finalized. So there’s still time before we start seeing Huawei smartphones coming pre-installed with Mail.ru and Yandex apps.
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