Huawei plans high-end phone launch under cloud of Google ban

NEW YORK: Huawei Technologies plans to forge ahead with the launch of new high-end smartphones in Europe even though it may not be able to offer Google's official Android operating system and widely used apps such as Google Maps, company executives told Reuters.

A Google spokesman told Reuters the Mate 30 cannot be sold with licensed Google apps and services due to the US ban on sales to Huawei. A temporary reprieve that the US government announced last week does not apply to new products such as the Mate 30, the spokesman said. "Huawei will continue to use the Android OS and ecosystem if the US government allows us to do so," Huawei spokesman Joe Kelly told Reuters."Otherwise, we will continue to develop our own operating system and ecosystem."NO GOOGLE, NO SALES?

Huawei earlier this month announced its own mobile operating system, dubbed Harmony. But analysts are skeptical that it is yet a viable alternative to Android. The brains of the Mate 30 line, the Kirin 990 chipset, will be formally unveiled on Sep 6 by Richard Yu, Huawei’s top consumer executive, when he gives the opening keynote address at the IFA consumer tech fair in Berlin.

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