As report­ed by a number of smartp­hone expert­sHuawei’s newly launched Mate 30 devices have lost their access to manually install Google’s Android apps, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Wu wrote in the post a widespread method to install Google Services on newly released Huawei devices relies on undocumented Huawei specific mobile device management application programming interface or MDM APIs. “The system framework in Huawei’s operating system has a “backdoor” that allows permitted apps to flag some user apps as system apps despite the fact that it does not actually exist on any read-only partitions,” Wu said. Huawei to launch 5G at Africa Cup of NationsThis process lets the Mate 30 phones to run popular apps like Google Maps and Gmail that otherwise would not be permitted, Bloomberg reported. Google and Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.

Source: The Express Tribune October 02, 2019 09:11 UTC