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Russian BQ phone maker is banned from Google’s GMS, could use Huawei HarmonyOS?
It’s not new for us to see sanctions on a smartphone maker, and recently a Russian smartphone maker – BQ has been banned from using the core Android environment – Google Mobile Services (GMS). However, a report suggests that the BQ could turn towards Huawei HarmonyOS operating system after the continuation of Google services.
News coming from Sputnik shows that the Russian phone maker – BQ’s general manager – Vladimir Buznov has recently received a letter from Google that U.S. law prohibits the provision of services to Russia. This letter also presents the latest halt in services including both software and hardware.
That’s not the only part of this story that has hit hard in visions, as the report allegedly mentioned that BQ is already testing Huawei HarmonyOS and new BQ smartphones with HarmonyOS are likely to launch in the second of this year without Google services.
This is quite a statement published in the report, however, we don’t have any confirmation in this regard from Huawei.
Old device:
Buzanov said that the company’s GMS-certified phones will continue to work as usual and there’s could be no issues in new devices launching in the future using the Android operating system.
Google’s Suspension:
Google has issued a notice to developers in Russia to suspend Play Store and its services in Russia for app and games. The in-app purchases and subscriptions will also be suspended, and Android phone users in Russia will no longer be able to make software purchases or subscriptions through the Play Store.
Huawei:
Related to BQ, Huawei has also been sanctioned by the U.S., which prohibits the company from doing business with American firms. Due to these actions, Huawei also cannot use Google Mobile Services (GMS) and had to introduce the HarmonyOS operating system.
At HDC 2019, the first version of this operating system came into its presence and the company initially installed it in smart TVs. HDC 2020 brought us the mobile version of this software that was launched specifically for Chinese consumers.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
