Huawei MATE 30 PRO has received an extremely hard blow today, after Google officially confirmed that the phone, and the other models in the series, cannot be launched with licensed Android, but neither can its applications. Although last week the USA extended a period of partial exemption from the sanctions imposed on Huawei in the USA, they do not allow the launch of the Huawei MATE 30 PRO with licensed Android, that is any official version, separate from the AOSP ones.
Huawei MATE 30 PRO cannot have Google's official applications either, i.e. Maps, Chrome, Youtube, Drive, etc., and this is because in order to include them in the phone, Huawei needs a license from Google, including for Android. EVERYTHING I have told you so far about the IMPOSSIBILITY of launching the Huawei MATE 30 PRO with Android, under the current US sanctions, is 100% true, and Google's confirmation hits Huawei even harder.
Google: Huawei MATE 30 PRO CANNOT BE Launched with Android
Google does not exclude the possibility that the Huawei MATE 30 PRO will have the Android version from the Open Source Project integrated, but it comes without the news from Android 10, and without its applications, which everyone needs. Huawei MATE 30 PRO can be launched with Harmony OS, the replacement operating system prepared by Huawei, but of course absolutely no one wants it, and no one wants the applications that replace those of Google.
A Google spokesperson told Reuters that the Mate 30 cannot be sold with authorized Google apps and services due to the United States ban on selling to Huawei. A temporary exception the US government announced last week does not apply to new products such as the Mate 30, the spokesperson said.”
Without Android, the Huawei MATE 30 PRO will have absolutely no chance of success beyond China, and that's because, in the end, what matters to customers is what they can do with their phones, and Google says they won't be able to do much. Even if the Huawei MATE 30 PRO will have the best cameras, the best performance, the best battery, without Android it is equal to zero, and only now are we seeing the true impact of the US sanctions.
Huawei MATE 30 PRO is rumored to have an official presentation for September 19, and it can be done with Android 10 demonstrated, but the launch in stores globally cannot take place with Google software.
