And in the U.K., the largest mobile phone network has excluded Huawei phones from its 5G launch. But reports suggested that talk of a Huawei OS Android alternative, at least in the short term, was unrealistic. Android Authority summed it up perfectly, "ARM is the lifeblood of the smartphone market, as it’s responsible for the inner workings of the vast majority of smartphones. That’s ARM technology right there... Huawei has seemingly lost the very technology it requires to actually make a modern smartphone." Two of the U.K.'s largest mobile phone networks, EE and Vodafone, have stripped Huawei phones from its 5G launch plans.

Source: Forbes May 23, 2019 01:57 UTC