Ever since reports surfaced that Huawei was working on its own operating system called Harmony OS (also known as HongMeng OS), rumors were swirling that the company would eventually replace Android with it. Huawei eventually denied that the operating system was not intended for smartphones. Of course, this was before the Huawei ban was issued by the Trump administration. Huawei officially announced it in August last year.
A new report from MyDrivers quoted an interview with Wang Chenglu, Head of Software Development at Huawei Consumer Business Group. In this interview, the issue of how EMUI 11 and HongMeng OS were addressed was explained, to which Huawei exec explained that EMUI 11 uses the same framework as HongMeng, as well as the system planner “and other changes”.
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This means that the latest version of EMUI based on Android 11 is already a transitional version preparing devices and consumers to adopt the first public version of HongMeng OS. HongMeng OS 2.0 beta comes first for TVs, cars, watches, while mobile devices starting with EMUI 11 will be the first to get HongMeng OS 2.0 OTA.
Based on a timeline from earlier this month, the first batch of phones to get the Harmony / HongMeng OS are those powered by the Kirin 9000 as the Huawei Mate 40 series, then the Kirin 990 5G and eventually entry-level Kirin 810 devices. You can find that report here.
