Huawei to launch new mobile operating system in fight for survival

SHENZHEN: Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei will launch a homegrown new mobile operating system on Wednesday as it fights for survival in the smartphone arena after the US blocked it from using Android.

Aside from the geopolitics, no company has successfully taken on the mobile OS duopoly now dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS systems, a battleground littered with the likes of flame-outs including Blackberry, Microsoft's Windows Phone and the Amazon Fire device.The world's largest supplier of telecom base station equipment and other networking gear, Huawei entered the handset business in 2003, using Android.

Analysts say Huawei's most immediate challenge is in apps - convincing enough developers to reprogramme their applications and other content to work with Harmony OS so that consumers will continue to buy Huawei phones.Being cut off from Android effectively prevents Huawei offering phone users popular features such as Google's browser, its maps function and a range of other top apps available through the system.

Huawei's troubles have prompted a major business shake-up at the company, which was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, the former People's Liberation Army engineer who still acts as CEO.

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