Huawei Announces HMS Eco System for New Smartphones

Faizel Patel – 12/12/2019

Chinese mobile company Huawei has announced that their new smartphones will be pre-installed with the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem, which is an alternative to consumers.

Vice President of Huawei Consumer Business Group, Middle East & Africa Likun Zhao says they want to ensure that users will have a familiar and seamless experience when using their smartphones.

“We need to keep offering a premium user experience if we want to be the preferred brand. Huawei’s success is due to our user-centric approach in everything we do.”

Zhao says they have been working on the development of HMS for quite a while, and are now satisfied that it is an interface that our users will recognise and find easy to navigate.

What is HMS?

HMS is a collection of applications and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). It core consists of certain kits that can be used by developers to create apps, which can then be added to the Huawei AppGallery.

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