The story of HarmonyOS smartphone testing began on December 16, 2020. At this date, Huawei announced HarmonyOS 2.0 Developer beta testing for a number of old flagships. Initially, HarmonyOS become available in the testing range of Huawei developers and industry partners. The HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta testing slots for models from Huawei P40, Mate 30, and MatePad Pro series devices.

Post recruitment, Huawei selected and processed the developer beta applications and sent the first HarmonyOS 2.0 developer beta OTA update to select testers.

Since beta testing is a staged process, Huawei conducted and released several betas builds to developers. After three months of internal beta flight, in April, the company expanded HarmonyOS beta testing for more devices such as Mate 40 series, Mate X2, and others, labeled under HarmonyOS 2.0 developer open beta.

In the following month, mid-range smartphones – Huawei Nova 6, Nova 7, and Nova 8 lineups also joined the second phase beta activity in the second round of the Developer Open beta.

After 6 months of trials and developer testing, Huawei finally made up its mind of sending HarmonyOS on the consumer version of smartphones and it began on June 2.

On June 2, Huawei officially launched HarmonyOS for smartphone devices, a brand new operating system and a successor of EMUI software system, which was based on Android.

HarmonyOS is surely interesting, isn’t it? But the key interesting thing is, which devices will get HarmonyOS software update and when will it start to rollout? Well, Huawei has shared its official roadmap of upgrading old devices with its operating system and it’s detailed below.

This rollout plan has blown my mind as it covers devices that go up to the year 2016, and it’s absolutely insane and beyond my words. This is surely exciting news for the Huawei consumers and it reflects that Huawei wants to change all of the Huawei devices (launched in the past) on HarmonyOS.

Here, you can check all of the information about the HarmonyOS upgrade plan, timeline, and rollout devices.

Devices that will get HarmonyOS from June 2, 2021:

• Huawei Mate 40
• Huawei Mate 40 Pro
• Huawei Mate 40 Pro+
• Huawei Mate 40 RS Porsche Design
• Huawei Mate 40E
• Huawei Mate X2
• Huawei P40
• Huawei P40 4G
• Huawei P40 Pro
• Huawei P40 Pro Plus
• Huawei Mate 30 Pro 4G
• Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G
• Huawei Mate 30E Pro 5G
• Huawei Mate 30 RS Porsche Design
• Huawei Mate 30 4G
• Huawei Mate 30 5G
• Huawei MatePad Pro WiFi
• Huawei MatePad Pro 5G

Devices that will get HarmonyOS from the third quarter of 2021:

• Huawei Mate Xs
• Huawei Mate 20
• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
• Huawei Mate 20 RS Porsche Design
• Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G
• Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G Lohas Edition
• Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G Vitality Edition
• Huawei Nova 8
• Huawei Nova 8 Pro
• Huawei Nova 8 Pro 4G
• Huawei Nova 7 5G
• Huawei Nova 7 Pro 5G
• Huawei Nova 6
• Huawei Nova 6 5G
• Huawei Nova 6 SE
• Huawei MatePad 10.8 inches
• Huawei MatePad 10.4 inches
• Huawei MatePad 5G 10.4 inches

Devices that will get HarmonyOS from the fourth quarter of 2021:

• Huawei Smart Screen V 55 2021
• Huawei Smart Screen V 65 2021
• Huawei Smart Screen V 75 2021
• Huawei Smart Screen V 85 2021
• Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 55
• Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65
• Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 75
• Huawei Smart Screen S 55
• Huawei Smart Screen S 65
• Huawei Smart Screen S 75
• Huawei Smart Screen X 65
• Huawei P30
• Huawei Mate 20 X 4G
• Huawei Mate 20 X 5G
• Huawei Mate X
• Huawei P30 Pro
• Huawei Nova 5 Pro
• Huawei Enjoy 20 Pro 5G
• Huawei Enjoy Z 5G
• Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus 5G
• Huawei Maimang 9
• Huawei MediaPad M6 10.8-inch
• Huawei MediaPad M6 8.4-inch
• Huawei MediaPad M6 Turbo Edition
• Huawei Enjoy Tablet 2

Devices that will get HarmonyOS from the first half of 2022:

• Huawei Mate 10
• Huawei Mate 10 Pro
• Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design
• Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design
• Huawei P20 Pro
• Huawei P20
• Huawei Nova 4
• Huawei Nova 3
• Huawei Nova 5i Pro
• Huawei Nova 5z
• Huawei Nova 5
• Huawei Nova 4e
• Huawei Maimang 8
• Huawei Enjoy 9S
• Huawei Nova 5i
• Huawei Enjoy 10 Plus
• Huawei Mate 9
• Huawei Mate 9 Pro
• Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design
• Huawei P10
• Huawei P10 Plus
• Huawei Nova 2s
• Huawei Enjoy 10
• Huawei Enjoy 10s
• Huawei Enjoy 9 Plus
• Huawei Nova 3i
• Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 inches
• Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4 inches
• Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro 10.8 inches
• Huawei MediaPad M5 Youth Edition 10.8 inches
• Huawei MediaPad M5 Youth Edition 8 inches
• Huawei Enjoy Tablet
• Huawei Smart Screen V55i
• Huawei Smart Screen V65i
• Huawei Smart Screen V 65
• Huawei Smart Screen V 65 2019
• Huawei Smart Screen V 76 2019

Note:

1. This plan will first apply to the Chinese models
2. This list could be updated
3. Global Huawei models could differ from the Chinese model
4. Rollout time for global models could be different

China’s ITC or software market level is far behind the US software market. This difference is really big and cant’ be balanced with a single attempt. Many Chinese companies with domestic technologies like Huawei have been squashed by the U.S.

The global chip shortage issue isn’t hidden from any industry and smartphone chips have become the main weakness in the industry. Expertise is still finding the solutions to the problems. However, chip shortage isn’t the only problem, the imposed US sanctions can make the domestic software market and technologies extinct at any time.

Software Market Status:

Moving ahead to the software industry that generally refers to the operating system, including OS, databases, middleware, and programming languages are also stuck. Where the server system is dominating by Linux, the smartphone industry has been captured by American firms such as Apple and Google.

As a matter of fact, a Baidu report reveals that Windows operating system for computers accounts for 89.79% of the market in the Mainland. Furthermore, the macOS of Apple has 6.225% shares in the Chinese market. Same with the other software business like databases, middleware, and programming languages, is ruled by the forging companies.

If we discuss in the figures, Oracle has the major share of the Chinese market for database services. Domestic consumers pay millions of amounts as a service charge. Certainly, it’s a big share for small domestic companies that pays more than half the amount for rental services.

The advancement in cloud computing, 5G, and AI (artificial intelligence) widens the application scope for IoT devices. These are future-oriented technologies that will soon incorporate into any network services. Additionally, Huawei’s “Kunpeng Computing Industry Development White Paper” mentioned, the global computing industry investment will reach 1.14 trillion USD in the next three years.

Not to mention, China is the world’s largest commuting industry with its huge populations and tech companies. If its software market remains weak, there is no room to grow the computing industry.

Besides, the ratio of domestic software and independent intellectual property rights in China is only single digits, which is about 5% or 6%. Other fields may not be the same, but in software, the number is certainly small. There can be two possible situations, first, the future development space is large, and second is the companies that are working in this industry are small.

Market Competition:

Big names such as Microsoft have great influence, even if they focus on a single industry, domestic companies can’t compete against them. After Red Hat, which writes Linux systems, is acquired by IBM, the annual sales are billions of US dollars. Besides, Oracle’s annual revenue registered around ten million USD in the database industry.

Competing against the companies with this much earning and resources is actually difficult for startup companies or small businesses. This low corporate revenue flow will lead to insufficient investment in all aspects. The major companies are reluctant to engage in the research and development of primary software such as operating systems and databases.

Why Domestic Talent isn’t Participating?

The reason is simple, there is a severe shortage of basic software talents in China. Although Chinese academic produces millions of graduates each year, they are mainly engaged in Internet application software, including games, etc. There are only a few thousand people who are willing to work for the development of the underlying operating system.

Moreover, some universities even remove the required courses of operating systems and turn them into elective courses. Now the problem has matured so gravely resulting in no investment, no market, insufficient investment, and gaps in personnel training, and more. The talents are not only missing out on opportunities for the development of the digital economy but there are also welcoming noteworthy risks.

Huawei HarmonyOS needs Domestic Support:

Being one of the shining software companies in China, Huawei and Euler have joined hands with the industry to promote the development of the domestic basic software ecosystem. Speaking of the resources of the company, it has series of Kirin chips, about 180,000 employees, thousands of software engineers, and top 100 software and information technology services.

However, after the US put the company in its entity list, Google withdrawal its support, and the company brought the HarmonyOS operating system. At present, the company has released the HarmonyOS 2.0 that nearly installed over 100 million devices. Meanwhile, the company announces the installation of this software in 300 million devices by the next year.

As of now, HarmonyOS operating system has 5,000 partners of 90 companies, also has other basic software projects-openEuler established in 2019. But, both – HarmonyOS and Euler are in the developing stage, there is more work to do in the coming years. For more stabilization of the company’s software, Huawei is looking for regions and industries that are least controlled by the US.

The company believes that HarmonyOS operating system and other domestic software must to deep-rooted in China as well as in the global market. With the support of domestic talents, the company and the domestic software will soon get recognition in the global market.

Huawei has opened the seventh batch HarmonyOS 2.0 closed test recruitment for devices including the Huawei P10, Mate 9, Nova 3, and MediaPad M5 tablet. However, the Chinese tech maker has also opened the HarmonyOS 2.0 public beta for 15 Huawei models.

With this new announcement, the corresponding Huawei devices are now eligible to get the final build of the HarmonyOS 2.0 operating system and proceed towards a stable release. However, Huawei may make any changes in the software, if it found any issues in the software and seed it to the users.

Devices:

1. P20
2. P20 Pro
3. Mate 10
4. Mate 10 Pro
5. Mate 10 Porsche Design
6. Mate RS Porsche Design
7. Nova 4
8. Enjoy 10S
9. Enjoy 10 Plus
10. Honor 9X
11. Honor 9X Pro
12. Honor 20S
13. Honor 10
14. Honor V10
15. Honor Play4T Pro

HarmonyOS Public beta:

According to the information, the testing slots are now expanded and unlimited users can participate in the HarmonyOS testing activity for the above-mentioned Huawei devices.

Most of these smartphone owners still run EMUI software systems (Android) and the global users have no clue of what the company is thinking about their devices. However, we believe that there may be a plan that will come sooner or later.

HarmonyOS:

HarmonyOS 2.0 for smartphones was launched on June 2, 2021. This new mobile operating system comes with brand new features that are designed to enhance the software user interface with brand new features such as service widgets, control panel, easy-to-use super device, connected device management.

There is plenty of hardware acceleration and improvement that comes with HarmonyOS 2.0 that makes it stand above the existing EMUI user interface.

Following the launch, HarmonyOS has progressed rapidly. At the recent Office product launch conference, Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO – Richard Yu announced 100 million HarmonyOS 2.0 installation in smartphones and mentioned that the Chinese tech maker will continue to unravel HarmonyOS in different devices to expand its reach among consumers.

Adding to this, Huawei, for the first time, launched HarmonyOS for the industry with the launch of HarmonyOS Mine. A new operating system designed for the Coal mining business.