At the Huawei HDC 2020 in September this year, Huawei released HarmonyOS 2.0, a distributed operating system for all scenarios, and announced that it will release a beta version of smartphones for developers at the end of the year. Dr. Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei’s consumer business software department, said that the current progress is very smooth, the research and development are ready, and the release is expected in December as scheduled.
According to Wang Chenglu, the developer beta version of Huawei’s HarmonyOS for smartphones is expected to be released on December 18, and the upgrade channel will be opened for some phone users from January to February next year. After several months of verification, the upgrade will be rolled out to all users. Wang Chenglu previously stated that over 90% of the current phones on the market can be upgraded.
At this year’s Huawei Developer Conference, Richard Yu also announced the open-source roadmap for the HarmonyOS: on September 10th, it will be open-sourced for terminal devices with 128KB-128MB of memory; next April, it will be open-sourced for terminal devices with 128MB-4GB of memory; and next October, it will be open-sourced for all devices with more than 4GB of memory.