I've been watching a few videos on HarmonyOS, looks like Huawei's own version of Android. Compatibility seems to be the same as current Huawei Android, and there are some nice tweaks to the user interface. A pity it's not a customised realtime OS like BlackBerry 10 was; Huawei has certainly been rather vague about HarmonyOS.
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From the same wiki article.
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So when are they rolling out? want to upgrade my wife's y7p...
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Weekly poll results: HarmonyOS shows early promise
People are optimistic about having a third smartphone OS on the market – last week’s poll shows that 2 in 3 voters think that Huawei’s new HarmonyOS looks promising. The new version of the OS is already in the hands of over 10 million users and the AppGallery boasts 134,000 apps they can choose from.
The most common criticism we heard was that HarmonyOS (at least on smartphones and tablets) is a fork of Android. That seems to be the case, though Huawei claims to have a significantly different architecture on the inside.
We don’t see it as a deal-breaker either way. In fact, it may have been the only viable option – those 134,000 apps weren’t written in the few days since HarmonyOS 2.0 launched. Also, it would have been practically impossible to port a brand new OS to 100 old devices.
An Android fork isn’t glamorous, but it works – FireOS, Amazon’s Android fork, outlived Windows Phone. And the lack of apps was a major pain point for Microsoft’s mobile OS. BlackBerry tried to add an Android runtime to BBOS, but that had issues with compatibility, so it wasn’t a silver bullet.
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People are optimistic about having a third smartphone OS on the market – last week’s poll shows that 2 in 3 voters think that Huawei’s new HarmonyOS looks promising. The new version of the OS is already in the hands of over 10 million users and the AppGallery boasts 134,000 apps they can choose from.
The most common criticism we heard was that HarmonyOS (at least on smartphones and tablets) is a fork of Android. That seems to be the case, though Huawei claims to have a significantly different architecture on the inside.
We don’t see it as a deal-breaker either way. In fact, it may have been the only viable option – those 134,000 apps weren’t written in the few days since HarmonyOS 2.0 launched. Also, it would have been practically impossible to port a brand new OS to 100 old devices.
An Android fork isn’t glamorous, but it works – FireOS, Amazon’s Android fork, outlived Windows Phone. And the lack of apps was a major pain point for Microsoft’s mobile OS. BlackBerry tried to add an Android runtime to BBOS, but that had issues with compatibility, so it wasn’t a silver bullet.
Weekly poll results: HarmonyOS shows early promise
Huawei's new mobile OS looks promising, but it needs to create its own identity separate from Android. People are optimistic about having a third...
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Huawei HarmonyOS - what is it and is it here to stay? - GSMArena
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Stable HarmonyOS is now available to 65 Honor and Huawei devices
The official account of HarmonyOS has just announced that 65 devices from the Huawei and Honor portfolio are now eligible for a software update. The stable OS is available to an extended list of phones and tablets, but only for their Chinese variants that come with extra pre-loaded apps.
Huawei had promised around 100 devices to switch from Android to Harmony OS 2.0, and it is good to see that almost two-thirds are now ready to receive the stable version. It is worth noting that the list includes phones such as Honor 20 and Honor View 20, sold with GMS in overseas markets.
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The official account of HarmonyOS has just announced that 65 devices from the Huawei and Honor portfolio are now eligible for a software update. The stable OS is available to an extended list of phones and tablets, but only for their Chinese variants that come with extra pre-loaded apps.
Huawei had promised around 100 devices to switch from Android to Harmony OS 2.0, and it is good to see that almost two-thirds are now ready to receive the stable version. It is worth noting that the list includes phones such as Honor 20 and Honor View 20, sold with GMS in overseas markets.
Stable HarmonyOS is now available to 65 Honor and Huawei devices
Phones and tablets from both brands, available in China, can now switch to the new UI. The official account of HarmonyOS has just announced that 65 devices...
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So a reworded Android?
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For the IoT devices that might be true, for the phones its purely a fork of Android.
I know this hurts your soul, but its the truth.
Yeah, except you give an authoritarian regime (with terrible human rights records.... like harvesting people) access to your life in the process as well.
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Lol yes because we are discussing OpenHarmony
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Yeah, because OpenHarmony is what the phones are running on... completely just OpenHarmony.
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Yeah... I'm sure they snuck in a few extra lines here and there.
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HarmonyOS 2.0 reaches 90 million users, 8 new users are added every second
Huawei set an ambitious goal for HarmonyOS 2.0 – to reach 300 million devices by the end of the year. That’s a big number, but doesn’t sound impossible as the new OS is expanding quickly: it was at 10 million users in early June, 70 million at the end of August and days later it has shot up by another 20 million users.
That brings the total to 90 million. Okay, we should clear some things up. First, these numbers actually count the devices running HarmonyOS, which may not correspond to users one to one (i.e. someone may have multiple devices). Still, that’s quite impressive.
Also, 100 million of the 300 million total will be third party devices, so they will be Internet of Things (IoT) and other smart gadgets. That still leaves a long way to go, but as you can see the adoption is growing quickly.
But how come Huawei added 20 million devices in less than a week? The company hasn’t announced a breakdown of new HarmonyOS devices vs. converts from Android, but our guess is that most of those 20 million are older devices switching to Harmony.
The OS was supported on 65 Huawei and Honor devices in early August and that number reached “nearly 100” at the end of the month. And by supported we mean that the software is ready, not necessarily that it has rolled out to users.
www.gsmarena.com
Huawei set an ambitious goal for HarmonyOS 2.0 – to reach 300 million devices by the end of the year. That’s a big number, but doesn’t sound impossible as the new OS is expanding quickly: it was at 10 million users in early June, 70 million at the end of August and days later it has shot up by another 20 million users.
That brings the total to 90 million. Okay, we should clear some things up. First, these numbers actually count the devices running HarmonyOS, which may not correspond to users one to one (i.e. someone may have multiple devices). Still, that’s quite impressive.
Also, 100 million of the 300 million total will be third party devices, so they will be Internet of Things (IoT) and other smart gadgets. That still leaves a long way to go, but as you can see the adoption is growing quickly.
But how come Huawei added 20 million devices in less than a week? The company hasn’t announced a breakdown of new HarmonyOS devices vs. converts from Android, but our guess is that most of those 20 million are older devices switching to Harmony.
The OS was supported on 65 Huawei and Honor devices in early August and that number reached “nearly 100” at the end of the month. And by supported we mean that the software is ready, not necessarily that it has rolled out to users.
HarmonyOS 2.0 reaches 90 million users, 8 new users are added every second
This number is a mix of new devices sold (with Harmony out of the box) and old ones that switched away from Android. Huawei set an ambitious goal for...
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100 million devices have been updated to HarmonyOS 2.0
Ten days ago Huawei’s HarmonyOS 2.0 reached 90 million users, now the company has reached another milestone – 100 million devices have been updated to the in-house OS. These devices formerly ran Android, but their owners chose to leave that behind.
Huawei is currently recruiting beta testers for the 6th wave of Android-to-Harmony updates. It is these updates that cause the number of Harmon users to jump up so suddenly. The company plans to transition 100 or so devices, a process that will continue into 2022.
Currently the total is 106, of which 75 are phones like the P40, Mate 40 and Mate 30 series. Older flagships like the P20 and Mate 10 series as well as the nova 5i and 4e recently joined the party. Huawei is adding more models to the public beta test while running an internal test for yet more devices.
www.gsmarena.com
Ten days ago Huawei’s HarmonyOS 2.0 reached 90 million users, now the company has reached another milestone – 100 million devices have been updated to the in-house OS. These devices formerly ran Android, but their owners chose to leave that behind.
Huawei is currently recruiting beta testers for the 6th wave of Android-to-Harmony updates. It is these updates that cause the number of Harmon users to jump up so suddenly. The company plans to transition 100 or so devices, a process that will continue into 2022.
Currently the total is 106, of which 75 are phones like the P40, Mate 40 and Mate 30 series. Older flagships like the P20 and Mate 10 series as well as the nova 5i and 4e recently joined the party. Huawei is adding more models to the public beta test while running an internal test for yet more devices.
100 million devices have been updated to HarmonyOS 2.0
Huawei still has a backlog to go through, so it keeps rolling out public beta tests to older devices. Ten days ago Huawei’s HarmonyOS 2.0 reached 90...
