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I personally am a sucker for Chinese Designed UIs, they’re really well polished and thoroughly skinned for Android, and Harmony OS (no matter what Huawei says about it, I’m still inclined to believe it’s Android) is no exception to that. The ecosystem stuff MrWhoseTheBoss showcased on Huawei products seemed pretty well done, and it made me think how good an ecosystem like Samsung’s could’ve been.
It’s proprietary though, and you can’t really get it on anything but Huawei phones. Unfortunately, these aren’t the golden days of custom roms anymore where people are porting Flyme onto their Redmi Note 5 Pros anymore :(
If it wasn’t for the obvious gripes I have about Huawei, I would probably have no problem using it, alas, I am just fine with using a custom ROM like RisingOS on my Pixel 6a anyway.
I agree - I also really enjoy the polished look of modern chinese UIs, certainly more than whatever Google is trying with Material U.
This is in my opinion one of the great achievments of Android, the fact that manufacturers can change so many aspects of a phones UI. Not like with Windows Laptops for example where each and every one looks and behaves the same.
I'd be curious if you can still sideload the Playstore and Play Services. I have a Huawei Mate 9 Pro and Honor V8, both on their chinese firmware and its a matter of downloading the Play Framework, Play Services, Google Account Service and the Playstore itsself as an APK to get a working playstore.
I have no idea how that's done. It's probably a nightmare not having playstore.
Although now that I think of it, you have things like apkmirror so I guess it's not so bad.
It doesn't matter what they call it. I still wouldn't consider their phones, and for once, it has nothing to do with American politics. I just don't think they make good phones, at least for the European market
Well, yes, I have never tried any Huawei phones myself. So I don't have an opinion on how their phones are. But this OS really seemed cool to me when I saw it. Idk how much time has it been active, maybe I'm a bit late?
I think China can fuck off, and fuck Huawei.
Fuck the surveillance in the os, the phone themselves are pretty good.