The most attentive have already realized in a concrete sense that something is changing and, about the family of P40 and Mate 30 devices, the first signals referred to are beginning to be identified.
The first official steps from Android to HarmonyOS are scheduled for the first half of 2021. The company is preparing its software man hand including some changes that will lead to the definitive transition, first in beta form and then transform it into stable.
Going into the details, some owners of the aforementioned smartphones, have noticed that with the latest cumulative update of MIUI 11 they exist differences such as to make the transition concrete. Which ones?
When you turn on your smartphone, the model name appears with Powered by Android at the bottom. The operating system name is represented by a font to which Google owns the rights. Now Huawei has modified it with a very simple and generalist font that is not infringed, so as not to use registered trademarks without authorization (Trump docet).
And more. If you visit the settings, and then find the phone information, there would be changes related to the security patches, also provided by Google in the first instance. Before there was the month of membership with the year, now a string with the level of the patches written and nothing more.
In short, Huawei is already preparing the ground in such a way as to facilitate the transition. It does so in small steps to adapt the new HarmonyOS to your needs and inevitably break away from Android addiction. We do not know if all the smartphones affected by the two-year life cycle of updates will be affected or will be a few specific models. But it shouldn't be long before you get a clear idea of Huawei.
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