Huawei is struggling to maintain its smartphone business after the ban imposed by the US government. The company suffered attacks on hardware and software. The latest victim was the Kirin chipset division.
Now the company needs to reinvent itself to continue competing in the high-end segment. In order to protect the work done, as well as reduce concerns, Huawei decided to sell its Honor smartphone brand to the Chinese group in November last year.
Honor as a separate brand has already introduced the Honor V40, but it was still being developed under the leadership of Huawei. Future phones will have their own Honor identity and as new branding the company may have business with US-related companies.
A couple of days ago there were rumors that future Honor phones will come with Google Play services. After the ban, Huawei had to develop its own mobile services Huawei and AppGallery to give users access to Android applications.
Now the company can't even update its phones to Android 11 and will soon have to switch to HarmonyOS. As for Honor phones, the brand's upcoming smartphones are likely to come with Android 11 out of the box. The package will contain the entire set of Google applications.
Honor and Google are already in talks, and the Global Honor V40 could be the first device to benefit
According to Honor CEO George Zhao, the company has no reason not to work with Google again. Since it's free to do business with American companies or companies that use American technology, Honor already has deals with several companies.
The brand has already confirmed that it is working with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and MediaTek for future devices. The name Google is not on this list yet. However, in an interview with the South China Morning Post, the company's CEO said that the two companies are already in talks.
We're curious to see if the new deal will benefit the Honor V40. The device was released in China without Google services. However, the deal with Google could mean that the Global variant will be able to get Google Apps. This could change the history of the brand in global markets that are heavily dependent on Google services. In fact, Honor is likely to fill the demand for Huawei smartphones with Google apps.
