Whether you can use Google’s family bucket is still the fate of success.
Europe is Huawei’s second largest market after China, but this market is facing challenges because Huawei cannot be pre-installed with Google’s family bucket due to US sanctions. In accordance with Ren Zhengfei’s idea of “adhering to the terminal’s overseas sales unshakable”, Huawei has sent an invitation letter to the French media, saying that it will hold a new product launch conference on October 17th and launch a new series of smartphones.
This is a new step for Huawei to retain the European market. Last month, Huawei just released the new smartphones Mate 30 and Mate 30 pro in Munich, Germany, which received a rather regrettable evaluation from European media. The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that this is the best cell phone in the world, but no one will buy it. According to the Le Monde, Mate 30 is a “ghost cell phone” from China.
The reason is one – Huawei mobile phones can’t pre-install Google’s family bucket. A series of essential applications for overseas users such as Google Maps, Gmail, Google Play, and YouTube are not available. While some overseas media, such as 9to5Google, have found a way to manually install them themselves, there are potential issues with installing and using Google apps in this way, and users are responsible for it. This has added a psychological threshold to many European consumers.
Recent Zheng Fei said in an interview that if Google products are not available, Huawei’s terminal sales in Europe may reduce revenues by more than $10 billion.
French media Frandroid guessed that Huawei’s new machine, which is about to land in Europe on the 17th, is still not expected to pre-install Google’s family bucket, but this situation may change soon. The New York Times reported on October 9 that the Trump administration plans to issue a license in the near future to allow some US companies to supply Huawei with “insensitive goods.” It is still uncertain whether the cooperation between Google and Huawei is within the scope of the exemption. .
In addition, there are different voices that make more optimistic predictions. Tencent Technology quoted an unnamed person as saying that Huawei’s invitation letter was the same as Huawei’s nova 5, and the new machine might be a derivative version of Huawei’s nova 5T. Huawei nova 5T, which is about to enter the European market, is not subject to US sanctions. It can pre-install and use Google’s mobile services and applications, so the new machine is also expected to use Google apps.
There is also a point of view in the invitation. There is a shining spot in the upper right corner of the phone. The big probability is to imply the position of the camera. Frandroid speculates that the new model will use a boring screen design similar to the Samsung S10, and the boring position will be in the upper right corner. But before this, Huawei and Glory have always claimed to dig Kong An in the upper left corner.The lens has a better view and this change is amazing.
Finally, Frandroid said that this new machine is likely to be pre-installed with the open source version of the Android system, just like the Huawei Mate 30 series, rather than the recently released self-developed system. Previously, Huawei has applied Hongmeng OS to the glory and wisdom screen, but has not yet launched a smartphone equipped with Hongmeng OS. Ren Zhengfei said in an interview this week that “it doesn’t take two to three years to make Hongmeng an operating system comparable to Apple’s system.” But also said, “We still insist on friendly cooperation with Google and hope that the US government can approve it.
Title map and map source: Huawei/Frandroid