Huawei rolls out its own operating system to smartphones

Huawei is launching its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system on its handsets (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Huawei has launched its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system on its handsets as it adapts to having lost access to Google mobile services two years ago after the US put the Chinese telecommunications company on a trade blacklist.

The Shenzhen-based company announced that about 100 Huawei smartphone models will use its proprietary HarmonyOS system, and that the operating system will also be available on certain tablets and smart screens in the fourth quarter of the year.