Although detailed information about the Huawei P50 smartphone line wasn’t revealed during the HarmonyOS 2.0 online launch event, Huawei did share a brief sneak peek of its upcoming “spring flagship.”
During the company’s HarmonyOS and New Products Launch live stream that took place today, the company revealed its plans for introducing its latest OS for smartphones and other smart devices which won’t rely on Android no doubt mainly due to the company’s current blacklisted status and promises to be more efficient for its customers in the long run.
As for the rest of the phone, all we have to go on so far is what Huawei executive Richard Yu said during the livestream: that it will have a “lightweight design” and an “iconic” design language. The P50 will likely ship with Huawei’s new HarmonyOS operating system built in, but it didn’t confirm it in video (or even show the display powered on, for that matter).
As for when it might release, the company said that it is “trying to figure out how to make this great product available to you.” That reads to me as Huawei like all tech companies right now — dealing with the impacts of a global semiconductor shortage. US sanctions placed on the company have slowed its production of in-house parts, which might also be causing supply strains around its Kirin processors. To that end, the MatePad Pro tablet it announced today has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor instead of one of Huawei’s own processors.
