14 DAY TRIAL // Not a single day without someone acting against Huawei after the Chinese tech giant was banned from working with American companies.
Google, which has already blocked Huawei from using its proprietary apps, like the Google Play Store, Gmail, and Google Maps, as well as the licensed version of Android, has recently removed Huawei models from the Android Q beta program as well.
In other words, Huawei users can no longer try out the next version of Android, and without public testing, there’s a chance the Chinese company might not be able to push the stable update to users. If the beta version of Android Q is blocked on Huawei phones, this could very well be a sign that the stable version might also never make it to these devices.
The new US restrictions allow Huawei to continue to provide software updates to existing devices, but the company being kicked out of the Android Q beta program means it can no longer optimize this release for its devices.
Huawei users not getting any other beta update
Owners of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, which was until recently included in the Android Q beta testing, wouldn’t get any updates, so their own options are to continue running the most recent beta build or to return to the latest stable Android release.
While Huawei has remained tight-lipped on its device being banned from running Android Q beta, the company is believed to be working on an Android replacement already. The operating system is built entirely in-house and still runs Android apps, albeit it remains to be seen if it can serve as a full replacement to Google’s licensed version.
For now, there’s a chance that not a lot of Huawei users are affected by this decision to lock the company out of the Android Q beta program. The Chinese tech firm previous offered access to devs using a registered email address on the Google Play store, and despite no figures being released, the number of testers is likely very small.