HarmonyOS 2.0

According to Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei's consumer business software division, HarmonyOS 2.0 is currently making good progress and development is ready to go, with the release expected to take place in December as scheduled.

The devices with Kirin 9000 chipset will be the first batch to be compatible with HarmonyOS and those with Kirin 990 5G chip will be the second batch, according to famous Weibo digital blogger.

In early 2018, Ren Zhengfei went to Huawei's Beijing Research Institute just to hear reports from each of the Consumer BG business lines.

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has added support for Huawei's HarmonyOS 2.0 and the Didi app is supported in the watch with HarmonyOS, according to a Weibo blogger. 

Baidu Maps has provided support for the Huawei HarmonyOS 2.0, allowing navigation information to flow seamlessly from the phone to the watch.

Huawei HiSilicon and partners have created the HiSpark series of development kits, including hardware development boards, SDK packages, reference engineering, documentation.

Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei's consumer business software division, said today that more than 20 product categories and a total of 12 million third-party products have supported HarmonyOS so far.

Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS 2.0 at its developer conference, and now the operating system's official website is live, along with source code downloads.

Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS 2.0 at its developer conference today and announced that the system will become open source, with a Beta version for developers for smartphones at the end of the year.

Huawei has invested more than 100 million RMB in HarmonyOS to improve its experience, and it's now up to 70-80% of Android, according to Huawei's consumer business CEO Richard Yu.