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Huawei officially announced its latest flagship smartphones on Thursday, both lacking 5G capabilities due to ongoing US sanctions.
The handsets – the P50 and P50 Pro – max out at 4G/LTE, putting them behind rival higher-end devices.
They also both run Huawei’s HarmonyOS 2, which is the open-source Linux kernel and core of Android wrapped in Huawei s proprietary mobile apps and software store. Though this OS does run Android apps, it does not come with Google s proprietary suite of Play, Gmail, etc.
This is all because under the previous White House administration, the US government s Department of Commerce placed Huawei and dozens of its subsidiaries and affiliates on a so-called Entity List that made it difficult, if not impossible, for American organizations to do business with the Chinese mega-corp. Said organizations need special permission from Uncle Sam, permission that is rarely granted.
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