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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
(Score: 4, Funny) by isocelated on Sunday September 13 2020, @11:43PM (8 children)
The spyware comes preinstalled right?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Monday September 14 2020, @12:05AM (7 children)
Then the vendors do shitty things like pre-installing other crap like Facebook and marking them as system as well:
And there's built in obsolescence because vendor updates don't last long.
I like my phone - no Google', no YouTube, no Chrome, no Google Maps, no Google Translate, no Gmail. Don't need google, don't want google.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday September 14 2020, @04:41AM (3 children)
Interesting...what phone and portal do you use? I'd sure like something like that (if it didn't cost too much).
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @06:09AM (2 children)
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
Almost everything also costs real money. This choice is rather dangerous one.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday September 14 2020, @12:12PM
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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @04:27PM (2 children)
I agree, anyone that cares about privacy is better off with an Apple product. But that cuts out huge portions of the population. The privacy-respecting smartphone answer for someone making $11 per hour shouldn't be, "You are fucked, sorry."
In 1985 people and companies would have paid millions for hardware we routinely throw out today. Yet there are no good options, at least that I've seen, for cheap, reliable, privacy-respecting smart phones.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday September 14 2020, @05:36PM (1 child)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @09:17PM
Again, I agree that makes it the best option consumers have. But it's still absurd that $25 hardware should be fine, if the software was right.