Weibo starts recognizing HarmonyOS installed devices as HarmonyOS Device

Today, the Chinese microblogging site – Weibo, started recognizing the Hongmeng OS AKA HarmonyOS installed device as a HarmonyOS Device. It means that if any user shares any post on Weibo with a device with the HarmonyOS then Weibo will display the device as a HarmonyOS device for that particular post, as it does for Android and iOS.

HarmonyOS:

HarmonyOS is Huawei’s self-developed micro-kernel-based distributed operating system, which is mainly designed to reduce dependency on Android. However, it took 5-7 years and a huge amount of money in the development.

HarmonyOS 2.0 Beta:

In December 2020, Huawei announced the HarmonyOS 2.0 mobile developer beta program in mainland China and simultaneously begun the recruitment of some high-end devices for HarmonyOS 2.0 dev closed beta testing.

After the completion of initial device registration for HarmonyOS 2.0 beta, the company started releasing HarmonyOS 2.0 dev beta software version via OTA update.

In the meantime, in April, the Chinese tech giant has started the first phase of the HarmonyOS 2.0 public developer beta testing for 19 devices and also recently opened the second phase of testing slots for 7 mid-range devices.

Huawei Plans:

According to the information, Huawei has plans to upgrade 300 million devices over HarmonyOS 2.0 including old, new, and also third-party devices. However, more than 300,000 Huawei smartphones already received HarmonyOS 2.0 dev beta builds so far.

(Via – ithome)