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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: 2) by captain normal on Monday September 14 2020, @04:41AM (3 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Monday September 14 2020, @04:41AM (#1050630)

    Interesting...what phone and portal do you use? I'd sure like something like that (if it didn't cost too much).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @06:09AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @06:09AM (#1050644)

    I imagine it's an iPhone. I switched from Android to iOS last month, and while I do hugely miss F-Droid and having a proper browser with proper adblocking, it was refreshing to see that almost everything is removable (apart from Health for some reason). You can even disable Siri without the system constantly nagging you to use it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @09:45AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @09:45AM (#1050678)

      Almost everything also costs real money. This choice is rather dangerous one.

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday September 14 2020, @12:12PM

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Monday September 14 2020, @12:12PM (#1050698) Journal

      Yep.

      To block ads, download Firefox and tell it to disable images. It's not just images that don't get downloaded - no stupid auto play videos. No web bugs. No social media sharing icons.

      So web sites load faster and you don't kill your mobile data plan. No more looking for wifi.

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