The Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro Plus, and Mate 70 RS will also be offered with Huawei’s HarmonyOS 4.3, which first launched in August 2019 as an alternative to Google’s Android OS and is still compatible with Android’s extensive app library.

The Huawei Mate 70 family has landed, as Huawei announced four phones here. All of them run HarmonyOS NEXT Android-free operating system.

Huawei has fully developed its own operating system to compete with Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, a first for a Chinese company.

Huawei launched its new flagship phones Mate 70 and Mate 70 Pro at a high-profile event in Shenzhen on Tuesday.

Huawei has expanded its smartphone lineup with the introduction of the Mate 70 series, featuring four distinct models: the Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro+, and Mate 70 Ultimate Design.

BEIJING: Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday (Nov 26) launched its first smartphone equipped with a fully homegrown operating system (OS), a key test in the firm's fight to challenge the dominance of Western juggernauts.

With launch of its Mate 70 and foldable Mate X6 smartphones, Huawei unveiled its latest mobile OS that it says no longer uses any Android open-source code, Bloomberg reported. HarmonyOS Next was supposedly built entirely in-house as part of Huawei's plans to do build a platform entirely free of major US tech sources,

Huawei has announced that its next phone will use HarmonyOS Next, marking the company's progression beyond Android. Huawei has had restricted access to US technology products for the past five years and the new OS marks the beginning of a new chapter.