Huawei Technologies' launch of its fully self-developed mobile operating system next year will focus on the Chinese market, as attempts to push the Android-free platform overseas face challenges, according to analysts.

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday launched its first smartphone equipped with a fully homegrown operating system, a key test in the firm's fight to challenge the dominance of Western juggernauts. Apple's iOS and Google's Android are currently used in the vast majority of mobile phones,

Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.

Chinese tech giant Huawei this week unveiled its first smartphone equipped with a fully homegrown operating system, a key test in the firm's fight to challenge the dominance of Western juggernauts. Apple's iOS and Google's Android are currently used in the vast majority of mobile phones,

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday unveiled its first smartphone equipped with a fully homegrown operating system, a key test in the firm's fight to challenge the dominance of Western juggernauts.

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.