Huawei may be building a custom Kirin OS for the Honor Play

Peter, 30 May 2018

The invite for the Honor Play unveiling promised a “groundbreaking experience”, but didn’t elaborate. And there were vague mentions of “4D gaming”, but again with no further details. Newly surfaced images suggest that at least part of the innovation behind all these promises may be a custom OS by Huawei.

Dubbed Kirin OS, it will be based on Linux. When talking about Honor Play’s innovation, Huawei’s chairman used the metaphor “flying in the sky” to illustrate the speed of the phone, perhaps due to the custom-tuned OS.

Huawei may be building a custom Kirin OS for the Honor Play

This isn't the first time we've heard such rumors, they date back to at least 2015. Then they popped up again in 2016. Back then it seemed like a defensive move in case Google gave Huawei the cold shoulder. Yet, given ZTE's fate, Google might not be Huawei's biggest worry anymore.

Now, these images could well be faked, but there are plenty of custom operating systems out there, so it's not unlikely that they are real either. Plus, in China as long as a phone runs WeChat, the underlying OS doesn’t matter. And WeChat is on Huawei's global app store.

The Play will be unveiled on June 6, so we’ll know for sure next week.

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Maybe this is their second plan. Still curious about why most of these special phones are only released on China.

  • Kangal
  • 31 May 2018
  • uCX

Let's hope they partner with Chandra Rathakrishnan and use the Operating System from the JooJoo tablet and Grid4.4 OS. xD

Hmm, is this the Plan B they have been discussing about?

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