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Huawei continues to be making telephones, even when the US-China commerce conflict places a lot of the stalwart Android element distributors in an advanced relationship with the Chinese language tech firm. Huawei’s new telephones are the flagship Huawei P60 Professional slab telephone and a flagship foldable, the Huawei Mate X3.
The commerce conflict makes these telephones distinctive on the earth of Android. First, it has a Qualcomm chip, however Huawei is not allowed to make use of the most recent know-how from Qualcomm, so the chip in each of those telephones is the “Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 4G Cell Platform.” Apart from being final yr’s chip, it is a particular, Huawei-only model of the chip that’s branded as “4G.” It has had the 5G bands stripped out of it—each mmWave and sub 6 GHz.
The opposite oddity is the dearth of Google Play apps internationally. Huawei is not allowed to ship the Google apps because of the export ban. Whereas that is regular in China (the place Google Play is not out there), internationally it means the telephone is lacking normal Google apps like YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, the Google Assistant, Docs, Search, Images, and different apps that make Android a aggressive shopper OS. As an alternative of the Google ecosystem, you may be getting the OS with Huawei Cell Companies, which incorporates the Huawei AppGallery, Huawei Petal Maps, the Huawei Assistant (which seems simply to be a search device and a few widgets, not a voice assistant), Huawei Pay, and Huawei apps for books, music, and video.
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