All final Huawei products to utilize self-developed HarmonyOS next year amid U.S. ban

With the exception of handsets, tablets and computers, all other terminal Huawei products will be equipped with the self-developed HarmonyOS next year, and will be promoted simultaneously at home and abroad amid the Chinese company's U.S. ban, source close to Huawei confirmed with the Global Times.

HarmonyOS will become open source in August next year, the Chinese newspaper Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported, citing Wang Chenglu, president of the Huawei consumer business group's software division.

Huawei has been under the spotlight due to a U.S. ban which has since May restricted it from buying technology or parts from U.S. companies, including Google's Android services. In response, the Chinese tech giant released its self-developed HarmonyOS in August.

According to media reports, the latest Huawei Mate 30 smartphone has abandoned all U.S.-made parts.

Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei said in a recent media interview that Huawei could solve its supply problem without the U.S., and that the U.S.' entity list would only harm its own companies.

Wang also introduced the latest generation of Huawei's handset operation system, EMUI 10, which was developed based on Android and can enable multi-screen collaboration among other functions, according to the report.