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At the same time as Huawei launched the new Mate 70 and Mate X6 phones in China, Huawei announced that its new Harmony OS Next operating system no longer contains code from Android.
The first version of Harmony OS was released in 2019 as a result of US sanctions against Huawei, but until now the system included open source code originally developed for Android.
That changes with Harmony OS Next, a major new version of Huawei’s operating system. As Engadget reports, it is said to offer up to 40% higher performance than its predecessor.
The Mate 70 and Mate
This article originally appeared in our sister publication M3 and was translated and adapted from Swedish.