Honor is currently negotiating with Google to recover its Android license, says the CEO of the Chinese company. Independent of Huawei, the Chinese brand is indeed free to collaborate with American firms. The View 40 should also be the first smartphone to benefit from this new partnership.
Freed from Huawei, Honor should be able to preinstall Google's services and applications, including the essential Play Store, on its smartphones. Recently, the young Chinese brand has also announced a new smartphone in China, the Honor V40 . It is rumored that the international version of the smartphone, the View 40, will embed the services of Google.
HONOR SHOULD PREINSTALL THE PLAY STORE ON THE VIEW 40, IT IS CONFIRMED
George Zhao hopes that the negotiations between Honor and Google will be successful very soon. Concretely, it is very likely that the View 40 will arrive on the European market with Google applications and services preinstalled . For now, it is not known when the terminal will be launched in Europe.
“Our main mission this year is to make flagship phones that can compete with Apple and Huawei in China,” said George Zhao, half-heartedly confirming the arrival of a whole new line of Honor smartphones . Unlike devices sold under the Huawei era, these new phones will be powered by a Snapdragon SoC designed by Qualcomm . Independent of its parent company, Honor can no longer rely on chipsets developed by HiSilicon, the division that produced Huawei chips. Unsurprisingly, these smartphones will be compatible with the 5G network.
As a reminder, Huawei sold Honor to a Chinese consortium of 40 companies last November. This maneuver allows Honor to escape the sanctions decreed by Donald Trump in 2019 . Either way, Huawei could soon be freed from the embargo . Recently elected, Joe Biden is reportedly considering lifting restrictions on the Chinese group.
Source: South China Morning Post