The company is still facing challenges for an overseas rollout. HarmonyOS Next is a new operating system by Huawei, and for the first time ever it is

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.

Huawei just launched the Mate X6 and Mate 70, likely the company's very last smartphones that will still run Android.

Huawei Technologies kept a lid on what, if any, chip advancements sit inside its Mate 70 series smartphones during a launch event on Tuesday, as the tech giant looks to take a bigger bite out of Apple's market share in China.

With launch of its Mate 70 and foldable Mate X6 smartphones, Huawei unveiled its latest mobile OS that it says no longer uses any Android open-source code, Bloomberg reported. HarmonyOS Next was supposedly built entirely in-house as part of Huawei's plans to do build a platform entirely free of major US tech sources,

Huawei has announced that its next phone will use HarmonyOS Next, marking the company's progression beyond Android. Huawei has had restricted access to US technology products for the past five years and the new OS marks the beginning of a new chapter.