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China's Huawei unveils 'milestone' smartphone with homegrown OS

Customers experience the newly released Mate70 series mobile phone at a Huawei store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on November 26, 2024.[AFP]

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.

Apple's iOS and Google's Android are currently used in the vast majority of mobile phones, but Huawei is looking to change that with its newest Mate 70 devices, which run on the company's own HarmonyOS Next.

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