Everything else might sound like Huawei admitting defeat on the phone front, but in this case, everything else seems more like Huawei fighting battles it can actually win outside China, and with its answer to Android no less – meet HarmonyOS 2.0. Originally named Hongmeng, HarmonyOS version zero was announced in August 2019 by a defiant Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's consumer business group. Yu made big promises of cross-device integration, from TVs to wearables, smartphones to smartglasses. According to Yu, HarmonyOS was ready to be rolled out over the air to Android devices – and it was perfect timing. After all, the Google ban was just kicking in, and the company’s latest flagship phone, the Mate 30 Pro, was a casualty of that fact.