Visitors looking at Huawei's new Mate 70 mobile phone inside a shop at the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing. — AFP
Huawei Technologies Co will from next year strip its smartphones and tablets of Google’s open-source Android and move devices to homegrown software, broadcasting its ambitions to pivot away from US technology.
The company’s new flagship phone, the Mate 70, will debut HarmonyOS Next, the iteration of its operating system that does away with remnants of Android in favour of entirely indigenous tech. Announced at a live-streamed event on Tuesday, the new devices fuel Huawei’s campaign to reclaim China’s premium tier from Apple Inc and build an ecosystem without the involvement of major US tech providers.
