China's Huawei unveils smartphone with homegrown OS

American sanctions are speeding China towards self-reliance in tech - hardware and software. And the US won't have backdoors in Chinese operating systems. Western tech also offered Chinese dissidents access to the outside world. Politicians don't take much notice of critics, but they should have listened to geeks explaining the unintended consequences here. A massive own goal by the US.

WIth no option to turn off the camera or microphone, I heard...

I'm in - nothing says "trust us" like a CCP-backed device that comes preloaded with spyware, a direct line to Beijing, and a lifetime subscription to censorship updates!

Seriously, why not just mail your private data to the Chinese government yourself and cut out the middleman? But hey, if you're into government overreach and digital surveillance disguised as "innovation," this phone is practically tailor made for you.

nothing unexpected at all.

Plus all the "spying on you" software is absolutely free and fully PRC compliant so the government knows everything you do, say and text.

A big "no thanks" to Chinese tech.

Peter14...

Plus all the "spying on you" software is absolutely free and fully PRC compliant so the government knows everything you do, say and text.

You think the CCP is interested in your browsing history? Be careful, it can lead to blindness.. wink.

GBR48

"A massive home goal for the U.S.A."

That's about right. Trump's sanctions are not going to cause them sleepless nights. They've still got a lot of planet to sell to. Africa, India, the Philippines, etc.

And what's the betting that in a few years time, they overtake iOS and Andrex.

You think the CCP is interested in your browsing history? Be careful, it can lead to blindness.. wink.

CCP is interested in everyones browsing history as evidenced by its total control of the internet in China. Thinking otherwise is only fooling yourself. Be careful, in China it can lead to disappearance or death.. truly.

Of course only guessing, but it's also probably again only the 847th Unix derivative OS, a slightly changed copy of something long existing elsewhere, since the '70s. When I was young and still behind the Iron curtain, we also worked with 'own developments' of MS-DOS, dBASE or on big mainframe IBM computers. Those were all 99.9% clones from Western technology originals, just with another name like CP/M, Redabas or ESER and a few internal commando strings, character tables or syntaxes renamed.