In Huawei‘s recent conference, Huawei President Dr. Wang Chenglu revealed that starting next year, HarmonyOS will finally be making its long awaited appearance on smartphones. Dr. Wang emphasized that Harmony won’t be replacing Android. On top of that, Android is still Huawei’s preferred OS of choice and remain as the basis for most of their devices.
Other interesting points were also brought up regarding the operating system. HarmonyOS will be marketed internationally instead of just locally in China like before. To further push this fact, he also announced that HarmonyOS would officially be fully open source for the public by August next year, which makes sense considering Huawei’s recent stance.
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Not long ago, Joy Tan, Huawei’s senior vice president of public affairs, said in an interview that the HarmonyOS code has fewer lines of code and higher security. Counterpoint Research also claims that HarmonyOS is expected to surpass Linux by the end of 2020 and become the fifth most popular smart digital terminal operating system.
The question now is, will HarmonyOS actually make an appearance on Huawei’s flagship devices, or will it be relegated to side devices? Samsung’s Tizen also saw an appearance on mobile devices, but it was only on the company’s Z-series devices. The operating system seems to hold a lot of potential, so it’d be interesting to see it make an appearance on an important device. Perhaps Huawei can even dual boot it, like was reported before this.
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