Huawei Mate 30 May Be Forced To Start Without Google Applications And Services

According to a report published by Reuters today, Huawei's next series of Mate 30 phones may have to avoid Google applications as a result of the commercial ban imposed by the US government. UU. While the phone should still be able to run Android, given the free and open availability of the software, a deeper integration with Google applications and services such as Play Store and YouTube will be lacking if an exemption cannot be ensured.

In the report, "a Google spokesman told Reuters that the Mate 30 cannot be sold with the licensed version of Android and the associated Google applications and services due to a ban on sales to Huawei in the United States." Huawei company executives also told Reuters that the company may have to "move on" with the phone, even if it cannot access the applications.

Although Huawei was granted a 90-day suspension of the general effects of the Entity List ban, individual licenses requested by companies to sell US products to Huawei had not been granted earlier this month. According to Reuters, the accumulation of licenses has not yet been approved.

In total, this means that Google cannot license the use of its GMS applications and services to Huawei for the Mate 30. All those Google applications that we are used to on Android phones such as Play Store, Google Maps, Chrome and YouTube are not will include if that happens. Huawei will also lose access to the "licensed" version of Android, which means it will depend on the publicly available AOSP software and probably will not have access to new versions or beta software before launch.

Unless a license or exemption of some kind cannot be secured, the closest that most of us can expect to a normal Android experience would be to download the applications and services required by ourselves; That is not a terribly complicated process, but it is beyond most consumers. That lack of expected applications and services may be sufficient for tank sales for the Mate 30, hitting the company where it is already damaged.

Reuters says the Mate 30 is expected to be revealed in Munich on September 18, although an accurate release date for the phone is not known. That window still reduces the time left to fight or appeal the decision. Other hardware included in the phone, such as the chipset / SoC, will comply with the US government ban. UU.

A spokesman for Huawei explained to Reuters that while it would prefer to use Android in the future, the company is still actively working for other contingencies. "Huawei will continue to use the Android operating system and ecosystem if the US government allows us to do so. Otherwise, we will continue to develop our own operating system and ecosystem." But, it is still early for Huawei internal HarmonyOS, and the next Mate 30 will have to depend on Android, Google applications or not.