Because of the ongoing US trade ban against Huawei, the upcoming Mate 30 series phones will be arriving without any apps from Google. The Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro won’t be featuring Play Store and other important Google apps like Gmail, YouTube and so on. At IFA 2019 tech event, Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu addressed the media the company is working on a solution to bring Google apps to the Mate 30 series after the launch.
Yu said that the company is looking for possibilities to let users install Google apps on the non-Google version of Android on Mate 30 handsets. He also stated that the process of installing Google apps on Mate 30 series would be ‘quite easy’ because of the open source nature of Android. He added that third party developers have collaborated on bringing Google apps to Mate 30 series owners.
Meizu, a known smartphone brand in China lets users install Google services through its own app store. Huawei could be working on a similar solution for the Mate 30 series and forthcoming mobile devices. It could be a good solution for bringing Google apps on Huawei devices, but side-loading can result in security issue. Last year, cyber criminals offered malware through Fornite app that required users to install it by side-loading.
Yu said that the company was aiming to achieve shipments of 300 million phones in 2019 if the US trade ban was not imposed on it. The executive stated that it was targeting shipment of 90 million in the last quarter of the year prior to the sanctions.
In related news, Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone was expected to go official in August. However, its arrival has been delayed for reasons best known to the company. Yu has said that the company release the Mate X as early as October or in November. There is a possibility that the company may also release a more powerful Kirin 990 chipset edition of the Mate X.
The Mate 30 series is scheduled to go official on Sept. 19. The first market to receive it will be China. The Chinese firm may release leather-clad edition of the Mate 30 series.
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