According to the Global Network reported on March 28, the Russian side has begun to consider the use of other systems in response to the decision of Google to stop running Android systems in Russia, of which the Hongmeng system has become the focus of attention of all parties. According to the Russian Satellite News Agency reported on March 27, due to the continuous economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia, Google has decided to stop certifying the smartphones of Russian BQ companies that run Android management systems in order to cooperate with the policies of the White House. As an important mobile phone company in Russia, the company is testing the Hongmeng operating system developed by Huawei in order to find an alternative. In response, Huawei said that there are no plans to launch mobile phones equipped with HarmonyOS overseas.
According to Vladimir Buzanov, general manager of BQ Russia, in an interview with the media, they have received a formal notice from Google in the United States that U.S. law has prohibited the provision of related services to Russia, including export, re-export, and the provision of U.S.-origin software and technology to Russia. For the decision of Google in the United States, Buzanov said that all certified devices will continue to operate, but new mobile devices equipped with Android will not be able to work properly.
Because mobile phones are a consumable, unsustainable mobile phones only have a life expectancy of one or two years, and durable mobile phones are difficult to exceed five years, so the Russian people have a strong need for replacement. In order to cope with this situation, BQ executives said that they are testing Huawei's Hongmeng operating system, because there is news that new smartphones equipped with Hongmeng operating system may be released in the second half of 2022, which may be an epoch-making new product.
According to the Securities Times reported on March 27, for the Russian BQ company can not continue android smartphones, began to test the Hongmeng system mobile phone. Huawei responded to reporters that by the end of 2021, 220 million Huawei devices around the world have been equipped with the HarmonyOS system. Huawei is very grateful for everyone's attention and expectations for the HarmonyOS system, but the company currently has no plans to launch mobile phones equipped with HarmonyOS overseas. Huawei's response undoubtedly put Russian BQ into trouble.
In fact, combined with Huawei's objective situation, under the continuous chip sanctions of the Us White House, Huawei's mobile phone sales have been worrying, and Huawei's sales and proportion in the mobile phone market in the previous years have ranked first in the world, leaving Apple a big cut. But by 2021, Huawei's mobile phones have fallen out of the top five of the mobile phone sales list. Huawei is currently struggling to develop, it is not appropriate to intervene in the geopolitical dispute between Russia and the United States for the time being, and it should be taoguang and obscure, and first solve the problem of chip source.
It is reported that with the continuous escalation of the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine, many Western countries and civil society groups have begun to impose sanctions on Russia in various forms, from the current trend, the scope of sanctions is not only economic, financial, scientific and technological and airspace aspects, after the European Union banned the Russian Tchaikovsky Musical Troupe to perform in Europe, a large number of Russian pets were abandoned. Now European and American countries have begun to boycott Russian food and culture, and the United States has begun to attack the computer and mobile phone fields. This invisibly reminds other great powers that they must solve the problem of chips and computer processors themselves, and actively promote their own national culture, and only in times of war can they see through all this.