Huawei’s journey through the twists and turns of the smartphone world appears to have hit a new point, with the company moving on from Android completely. In what has been a thrill ride of a decade, there’s something final about the latest news from the Chinese brand.

Huawei Technologies Co. said that from next year its new smartphones and tablets will run on an operating system stripped of Google’s open-source Android technology.

Huawei will run a completely separate self-developed operating system from next year, named HarmonyOS NEXT, on its devices.

With launch of its Mate 70 and foldable Mate X6 smartphones, Huawei unveiled its latest mobile OS that it says no longer uses any Android open-source code, Bloomberg reported. HarmonyOS Next was supposedly built entirely in-house as part of Huawei's plans to do build a platform entirely free of major US tech sources,

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday launched its first smartphone equipped with a fully homegrown operating system, a key test in the firm's fight to challenge the dominance of Western juggernauts. Apple's iOS and Google's Android are currently used in the vast majority of mobile phones,

The Chinese tech giant says all of its new devices in 2025 will be equipped with HarmonyOS Next, its home-grown Android rival Huawei Technologies' launch of its fully self-developed mobile operating system next year will focus on the Chinese market,

At an event held at Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday November 26, Huawei Technologies unveiled its new Mate 70 series and it is the first of their smartphones running its fully self-developed operating system,