After insisting for months that the company preferred to continue relying on Google’s Android mobile operating system in its handsets, despite a lingering US ban that precludes Google from allowing that to happen, Huawei appears to have finally succumbed to the inevitable.
According to a new report from the Chinese state media outlet Global Times, Huawei is pressing ahead with testing for a handset powered by the company’s own proprietary Hongmeng OS ahead of launching the device as soon as the fourth quarter. It would target low- and medium-end buyers, and be priced at 2,000 yuan (or a little more than $288).
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Remember when Huawei said its Android replacement isn’t for smartphones? Well, it is originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 09:26:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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