Huawei non torna indietro e si prepara a dire addio a Google Android: presentata anche la prima beta della versione del nuovo sistema operativo HarmonyOS 2.0.
Il lento addio di Huawei ad Android, e a Google tutta, è ufficialmente iniziato anche su smartphone e tablet: come previsto dalla roadmap ufficializzata da Huawei già la scorsa estate, infatti, il gigante cinese dell’elettronica ha rilasciato la beta di HarmonyOS 2.0 per questi device.
That is, the new operating system for mobile devices, smart TVs, electric cars, home appliances and IoT devices through which Huawei plans to create a completely independent, global hardware and software ecosystem, following the "1+8+N" strategy: 1 smartphone, 8 categories of devices closely related to it (PCs, tablets, smart glasses, smartwatches, connected cars, wireless headphones) and an indefinite number of devices made compatible by another technology, called HiLink.
Harmony OS 2.0: here's the beta
During the Huawei Developer Day Beijing 2020, the company announced the official release of the first beta of HarmonyOS 2.0, intended only for software developers. Even though it is a beta, and moreover intended only for developers, it is already complete: it includes all the features of HarmonyOS, is compatible with over 15,000 APIs and also incorporates within it powerful tools such as the DevEco Studio simulator.
E, soprattutto, è la prima beta destinata agli smartphone grazie alla quale gli sviluppatori potranno provare su un cellulare Huawei reale, anche se non su tutti.
Harmony OS 2.0: gli smartphone che possono usarla subito
La lista degli smartphone e tablet che possono usare HarmonyOS 2.0 è ancora limitata ai top di gamma recenti:
- Huawei P40
- Huawei P40 Pro
- Huawei Mate 30
- Huawei Mate 30 5G
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G
- Huawei MatePad Pro
- Huawei MatePad Pro 5G
- Huawei MatePad Pro Wi-Fi
Anche questo era prevedibile, vista la roadmap di Huawei: entro fine 2020 HarmonyOS 2.0 (stable) will be released on the simplest devices and with a maximum of 128 MB of RAM (IoT devices), from April 2021 will arrive the version for more complex devices, up to 4 GB of RAM and only from October 2021, HarmonyOS 2.0 will arrive on devices with more than 4 GB of RAM.
The version of HarmonyOS 2.0 just released, therefore, is just the beta of the one that will be released, in stable version, in October 2021. In the meantime, Chinese developers can install and test it, and then return to Android with EMUI 11 if HarmonyOS is too unstable.