

HarmonyOS has been deployed for IoT applications and televisions, but at the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2020, Huawei confirmed HarmonyOS 2.0 beta for smartwatches and TVs was coming and a beta for smartphones was launched in December 2020. HarmonyOS was unveiled in August 2019, expected to be a replacement for Android, but that wasn't to be the case. But it wasn't the first we'd heard of Huawei's plans as there was talk of it in March 2019. Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's device business, said at the time that there was a plan B, but they would rather work with partners like Google and Microsoft - something that the company still maintains and does, to a certain extent.


