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<\/a><\/div><\/div>Faced with sanctions that means it can’t make use of Google’s version of Android, what is a phone manufacturer to do but create their own replacement. Sitting on the sidelines we all want Huawei to innovate and create something completely new – after all it couldn’t be worse than Android, which is bloated, confusing and under threat from Oracle, from a programmer’s point of view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we sit back and fantasize about operating systems that might be. We even indulged my fantasy with the idea that it might be their existing IoT operating system ArkOS – Huawei journeying through the feud<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well I have to admit that I think I’m wrong. I also think all those other speculations about Sailfish and FirefoxOS are also wrong. Android has too tight a grasp on the end user market to risk breaking rank. So we sort of know that the Android replacement will be called Hongmeng which according to Wikipedia is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “a word play, translated as “Mists-of-Chaos”, “Vast Obscurity”, “Big Concealment”, “Vital Principle”, “Natural Energy” and “Big Goose Dummy”<\/em><\/p>Wikipedia<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Well there you are – draw your own conclusions…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hongmeng is a closed source operating system under development by Huawei since 2012 towards their future products. To date and despite speculation, the company has not yet publicly designated an official name on the release of the operating system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Huawei, since June 2019, has been treating EMUI<\/a> as an operating system, sparking rumours about Hongmeng OS final naming. It is not known whether or not Hongmeng OS will be based on AOSP<\/a>. However, international trade lawyer Kevin Wolf explained that Huawei would not be allowed to use AOSP, since a considerable part of AOSP is made by Google, which is a US company, and thus, AOSP is subject to US trade regulations . Well is it ?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China Daily<\/a> also reports that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The agency-only institutional brokerage firm Rosenblatt Securities said in a smartphone supply chain report that Huawei has allegedly shipped 1 million smartphones with its self-developed “HongMeng” operating system onboard for testing.”<\/p>China Daily<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n One million is a lot of phones and it also suggests HongMeng is more than vapourware – or should that be mistware. It also says:<\/p> On 24 May 2019, Huawei registered \u201cHongmeng OS\u201d as a patented trademark in China for active validity until 13 May 2029. That same day, Huawei registered the following trademarks with the European Union Intellectual Property Office<\/a> and in the respective offices of member states: <\/p>\n\n\n\n It has been reported that Hongmeng OS will be called as such in China\n while being called Ark OS elsewhere. Some media outlets have reported \nthe version outside China will be called Oak OS, but it is possibly a \nmispronunciation of Ark OS as Huawei has registered the trademark as Ark\n OS.[<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the report, Huawei’s in-house software is said to be compatible with all Android applications and has “increased security functions to protect personal data”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2019\/06\/huawei-hongmeng-os.jpg\")
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