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Huawei's HarmonyOS 2.0 Beta Released

posted by martyb on Sunday September 13 2020, @11:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the write-apps-for-harmon[e]y dept.

takyon writes:

HarmonyOS 2.0 Beta Released, HarmonyOS Devices Coming in 2021

Due to geopolitical tensions, Huawei cannot rely on Google Android operating system over the long term, and in May 2019 we reported HongMeng OS may become Huawei's OS alternative to Android. HongMeng (鸿蒙) OS will finally be called HarmonyOS outside of China, and we recently reported Huawei was trying to attract more developers with monetary incentives to brings more apps to HMS (Huawei Mobile Services).

We now have a more clear timeline with the company's recent release of HarmonyOS 2.0 beta that's currently available for smart home applications, smartwatches, and head-on-displays, and will become available for smartphones in December 2020.

Previously: Huawei Announces HarmonyOS, a Smartphone OS and Android Alternative

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 14 2020, @02:49AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 14 2020, @02:49AM (#1050605) Journal

    I really wish they had the money to get something with some more CPU grunt in there, say a Snapdragon 632 or so. I'd love a machine with that, 4 GiB memory, 64 GiB of UFS storage, and an HD or FHD screen that was open and would run Linux or *BSD.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 14 2020, @03:12AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Monday September 14 2020, @03:12AM (#1050612) Journal

    Not counting the PineTime, Pine has picked Allwinner or Rockchip for all of their devices as far as I can tell. One advantage in picking the A64 is that it's the same chip as in the Pine A64 and PineTab. So if they start announcing powerful new SBCs, one of them might have the chip they would use in a new phone.

    They already upped RAM from 2 GiB to 3 GiB with the "Convergence Edition". 4+ would be next for a PinePhone 2.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Vocal Minority on Monday September 14 2020, @04:38AM

    by The Vocal Minority (2765) on Monday September 14 2020, @04:38AM (#1050629) Journal

    I would settle for just having a decent OS for it :/

  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday September 15 2020, @03:02PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Tuesday September 15 2020, @03:02PM (#1051325) Homepage Journal

    Has there been any news about the Purism phone? All I've heard here is news about how the Pinephone is almost working.