One in the eye for US sanctions Huawei has announced its new Mate 70 series smartphone lineup, which will be the first to feature the company's new HarmonyOS Next operating system that doesn't rely on Google's Android services and won't run any Android apps.

As many of you know by now, Huawei announced its home-baked OS recently. HarmonyOS NEXT. Well, Huawei’s exec just announced that the company plans to hit 100,000 HarmonyOS NEXT apps in 2025. HarmonyOS NEXT is Huawei’s Android-free OS.

The Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro Plus, and Mate 70 RS will also be offered with Huawei’s HarmonyOS 4.3, which first launched in August 2019 as an alternative to Google’s Android OS and is still compatible with Android’s extensive app library.