Huawei Losing Access To (Parts Of) Android
Will be very interesting to see how this plays out:Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use open source version
Huawei has some very good mobile phone hardware but Android without GMail, the Play Store etc will be a very hard sell to customers in the west. Typical, I was thinking of getting a Honor Play soon too... I've just bought one. But it seems current phones won't be affected as per Google's statement on Twitter. Even so, it puts doubt in my mind...I have a iPhone 5s at the moment but looking for a bigger screen at a reasonable price and the Honor is at a price I could afford. Trump trying to single handedly shut down an entire company I didn't read it quite like that.Sure enough it seems that the existing installed version of Android will be fine - it is future ones which may be blocked or limited in some way.
So current phones may not be able to update to the next version of Android when it is released.
Not sure how I feel about this.One the one hand China have brought it upon themselves as they do have a history of interfering with companies and their cyber espionage activities are quite significant.But on the other hand I don't like the idea that the USA can set out to destroy a private company.
Cheers,
Nigel I was tempted to ask a search engine if iphone, android and microsoft phones are used to spy on their users, but already know the result.
I'm not saying this story smells strong of competition and bullsh*t, but.......... I'm sure they are.The concern with Huawei is that the Chinese government has leaned on them to include deliberate backdoors in the hardware/firmware design.Not sure how well founded this supscison is but I would be surprised if the USA acted in this way with no evidence at all.
Cheers,
Nigel As a current Honor 10 owner this news is so frustrating! Was looking forward to the big launch of the Honor 20 in London tomorrow but now it seems kind of pointless.
Google responded on Twitter earlier regarding current owners of Huawei phones - Android on Twitter Seems to me the emphasis should be on the word existing... I wonder how it pans out for new purchases? If I dumped my iPhone and bought the Honor 20 (As I was thinking of doing) would I still get full Google functionality like Gmail, pictures etc?