Tech bloggers have Sororityposted screenshots of Huawei’s new HarmonyOS NEXT interfaces for phones and notebooks on the Chinese social platform Weibo, as the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2024 approaches. The leak is being seen as a signal that the HDC, scheduled for June 21-23, will see the debut of the beta version of Huawei’s self-developed operating system HarmonyOS NEXT for developers. The Chinese tech giant is aiming to expand its HarmonyOS ecosystem to include 5,000 native apps by the end of 2024, with a long-term goal of reaching 500,000. Currently, more than 4,000 apps are integrated. The consumer version of HarmonyOS NEXT is expected to enter into the market in the fourth quarter of this year. [IThome, in Chinese]
