Hongmeng OS 2.0 is about to be launched, and the mobile developer Beta version will be released on December 16

On December 14, Wang Chenglu, President of Huawei's Consumer Business Software Department, announced on Weibo that the Hongmeng OS 2.0 mobile developer Beta version will be released in Beijing on December 16.

He wrote on Weibo: "HarmonyOS is growing rapidly along the roadmap we announced at HDC, and has reached a new milestone in the blink of an eye. On December 16, I will release the HarmonyOS 2.0 mobile developer Beta version in Beijing. We welcome partners and developer friends to explore and create together."

As early as September 10, at the Huawei 2020 Developer Conference, Huawei Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong said: "The mobile phone version will be released in December 2020, and Huawei smartphones will be fully upgraded to support Hongmeng 2.0 next year."

Wang Chenglu said that from a purely technical perspective, Hongmeng OS had already met the conditions for use on mobile phones in September. The reason why it was not applied was "on the one hand, it takes time to solve the application ecosystem problem, and on the other hand, it takes into account the cooperative relationship with Google."

In the past five years, Huawei's software team has basically completed the "overall replacement" of the core parts of the Android system, so it is a natural thing to upgrade Android's EMUI with the Hongmeng OS system today.

Wang Chenglu revealed that EMUI 11 will be the first model to be upgraded to Hongmeng OS. In January and February next year, some mobile phone users will be allowed to upgrade to Hongmeng OS. The initial upgrade will be verified for a few months, and then the upgrade will be fully released.

Ren Zhengfei and Yu Chengdong have repeatedly stated that Hongmeng is not just a mobile phone system, but a "future-oriented" operating system, a microkernel-based distributed operating system for all scenarios.

Adapting to smartphones is only the first step taken by Huawei. In the future, it will also adapt to multiple terminal devices such as tablets, computers, smart cars, wearable devices, etc. The ultimate goal is to achieve a strategic layout for 5G.

As Wang Chenglu said, "HarmonyOS is growing rapidly along the roadmap we announced at HDC."

Despite some bumps along the way, Huawei is already at the forefront of the world in 5G deployment.