Huawei is a step closer towards Android

On May 15, the U.S. signed an executive order thereby blocking any U.S. based company from selling or trading with China-based Huawei citing its Entity List’. Fast forward to today, there has been plenty of buzz around the Huawei’s in-house Hongmeng OS. Well, according to the latest update, Huawei is going through with its in-house OS by trademarking it across various countries.

Based on a report by BGR, Huawei is actually trademarking its Hongmeng OS in at least nine countries around the globe and Europe is counted as one of the continents covered in it as well. The Reuters suggests that Huawei is filing for trademarks in Peru, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada, and Cambodia among other countries. This actually strengthens Huawei’s CEO (consumer division) Richard Yu who stated how the tech giant has already been preparing an in-house operating system in case the United States decides to pull the plugs on various technologies and products it sources from the country.

Trump gave an ascent to the executive order that restricts any U.S. based company from trading with Huawei without any approval. Note that even if these companies seek approval, it is highly unlikely that the U.S. government will actually grant one citing the ongoing trade war between the two countries as well as the matter regarding national security due to Huawei’s 5G infrastructure that the U.S. thinks could infiltrate the privacy and security of the users in the country.

Post Huawei Ban, there are obviously many companies that had to cut off ties with Chinese giant Huawei including Google, Qualcomm, Micron, etc. Google resorted to pulling the plugs just days after the ban which meant that it wouldn’t be able to provide any updates or security patches for existing Huawei & Honor smartphones while future smartphones wouldn’t get Android at all.

However, Huawei made it clear that it still has an alternative when it comes to the operating system although how the company will work out the chipset and other components that are patented in the U.S. remains a bit of mystery.