BEIJING – Soon after the US government put Huawei on a trade blacklist, the Chinese company filed to trademark its in-house Hongmeng mobile operating system (OS) and even started testing it in China. Now, Huawei’s founder has said in an interview that Hongmeng OS is ‘very likely’ faster than Google’s Android and Apple’s macOS.
The Huawei chief also revealed that Hongmeng OS is designed to be more versatile as it can run on a wide range of devices such as smartphones, routers, and data centres among others. However, he did underline that a possible departure from Android will be a major blow.
Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, recently sat for an interview with French Magazine Le Point and talked about a wide range of topics. When quizzed whether Huawei’s own Hongmeng OS is faster than Google’s Android and Apple’s macOS, his answer was “very likely”. The Huawei chief, who recently admitted to buying iPhone handsets for family members, added that the home-grown Hongmeng OS was designed to be more versatile than rival operating systems and can run on a wide range of devices. While he did not specify how big of a speed advantage Hongmeng OS has over Android and macOS, his claim does add some fuel to reports that Huawei’s solution is around 60 percent faster than Android.
SOURCE: gadgets.ndtv.com
