Huawei confirms that it says goodbye to Android: it already has its own operating system and will launch it between 2019 and 2020

Hit of effect by Huawei. The Chinese technology firm has confirmed what has been rumored for days. Yes, it has "plan B": it is called HongMeng OS and it is your new operating system, which, according to the first details that have transpired, would be based on Android, you can count on your own application store (App Gallery is the name that is in the quinielas) and would be compatible with Android applications.

The name that more force charges in the internet gossip, ArkOS. What sounds in the pools is that the next platform will be a "fork" -

It's been a long time since the company was very aware that among the US plans. I was cutting relationships with them. The administration of Donald Trump made the worst predictions of the firm that Ren Zhengfei founded in 1987 last May. Huawei became part of the "black list" of President Trump, thus prohibiting any kind of business with companies that suppose a risk to national security. It was the definitive step after several months of confrontation.


The White House has always argued that Huawei is at the service of the Peking regime. And although the accusations of espionage remain unproven, the shadow over a real commercial war is getting longer and longer. The US, however, has not hesitated to take action or pressure its allied countries to cease their relations with the Chinese firm.

Against this background, Google announced on May 26 that it was suspending business with Huawei. Panic seized users, who did not know what was going to happen with their Huawei phones, among which also Honor, their second brand. But an unexpected truce on the part of the United States. It has calmed the waters for 90 days. Huawei will continue with Google and operate as normal with Android until August 19. Afterwards, Android updates on Huawei phones will come to an end. It will be then when Huawei writes a new chapter in its history: the birth of its own operating system.

As the company has confirmed to «TechRadar», they do have their own software. Its code name is HongMeng and it will be the one that replaces Android. Although at first it had been rumored that it would be launched in June, the reality is that its implementation will be delayed a bit more: in China it will be launched at the end of 2019 and internationally in 2020.

Android makes way for Ark OS
"Huawei's own operating system, code-named HongMeng, is scheduled to replace Android once the Google ban becomes effective," said Alaa Elshimy, director and vice president of Business Business at Huawei in the Middle East. TechRadar ». "Huawei -continued- knew that this was coming and has been preparing. The operating system was ready in January 2018. It was our 'plan B'. But we did not want to take it to the market because we had a strong relationship with Google and we did not want to ruin it. "

The operating system could be called Huawei Ark OS and is expected to be compatible with «smartphones», computers, tablets, televisions ... That is, would support the »Internet of Things» (Iot), the all connected of the future. "It is expected that all applications that work with Android will work with this new software without the need for additional customization," says Elshimy. In addition, users can download the applications from Huawei AppGallery, a store that, as expected, will not be released with the offer that currently have Google Play or App Store. In this sense, the challenge for companies is to attract users.

«We are self-sufficient»
«The US sanctions they will not affect the operating system of the company or the chipsets, since we are self-sufficient in many aspects », recalls the person in charge. "We have all the chipsets," adds Elshimy, "except for Intel for PCs and servers. Everyone in the market is using the Qualcomm chip and we are the only ones who use our own chip. That's why we can go at the speed we want ».