Yesterday Huawei‘s big media conference, Huawei President Dr. Wang Chenglu revealed that starting next year, HarmonyOS will finally be making its long awaited appearance on smartphones. We were pretty excited for all the possibilities a new Android competitor could bring the table, but it seems our hopes have already been dashed as Huawei have already gone back on their statement.
Earlier today, a Huawei spokesperson claimed that Huawei would definitely be introducing HarmonyOS to more devices, the only catch was that none of these devices were going to be smartphones. Instead, we’re It’s a bit of a surprise to us, we didn’t consider that they’d contradict themselves so quickly. Also, HarmonyOS won’t be available on tablets or laptops.
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We’re also unsure whether this only applies to the availability of HarmonyOS on smartphones or if all of yesterday’s conference interview has been rendered moot. If the latter is the case, then we probably won’t be seeing an open source HarmonyOS anytime soon, nor will it be marketed internationally as an Android alternative.
This is definitely some pretty disappointing news for us, as we were looking forward to a new operating system to shake things up a bit. As it stands, it appears Huawei won’t be budging from Android and EMUI anytime soon. Do you think this is good thing, or are you also disappointed? Tell us your thoughts down in the comments section below.
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