Today, in an email to Android Authority, Huawei South Africa confirmed that it will release at least two new smartphones by the end of this year that will feature a fully-licensed version of Android.

Google wants to clear things up for Huawei device users: Google’s apps and services cannot be preloaded on new Huawei devices and are not available due to U.S. government restrictions. If users try to ...

Google's Mobile Services (GMS) are unavailable on Huawei and Honor smartphones that launched last 2019 up to the present year, but an unofficial installer may help regain those back. The Google ban on ...

Some Huawei and HONOR smartphones have started flagging the Google app as a virus. Users across Reddit, Google Support, and various other forums, have started reporting the issue, and sharing ...

One of the prevailing international storylines in the smartphone industry over the past few months has been the US government's ban of Huawei devices, which has forced Huawei to look beyond Android ...

The US is a major player in the tech space, owning some of the biggest tech brands, such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple. It’s hard to imagine mobile devices without partnering with ...

Huawei has stopped sidestepping the unavoidable question – no Google, what next? After suggesting it could (eventually) make its own smartphone operating system, built on Harmony OS in 2019, Huawei is ...

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