‘Hongmeng’ is the code name of Huawei’s upcoming proprietary operating system

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You must probably by now know that Huawei will no longer receive direct software support from Google. This means that the company needs to have an alternate operating system to power its future devices.

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Fortunately, the company has since 2012 been working on its own mobile operating system as a backup option to the Android OS.

The OS is codenamed ‘HongMeng’ and the name could also serve as the official name of the OS once it becomes available. ‘HongMeng‘ can be loosely translated to connote ‘a great beginning/start’.

It’s however probable that the software will be renamed and officially go by as ‘Huawei OS’.

It’s also reported that Huawei has been using the software internally on some of its devices. The OS will be used on Huawei smartphones as well as on its PC products.

The most common pain point with proprietary software is compatibility issues. However, word is that the OS is fully compatible with existing Android apps.

Huawei is not the first smartphone company to develop an in-house OS. Samsung has a couple of smartphones running Tizen, a mobile OS owned by the South Korean tech giant.

It will be interesting to see how ‘Hongmeng’ will perform and whether Huawei will be able to leverage its hold on the massive Chinese smartphone market to fasten the adoption of the OS.

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