The Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro Plus, and Mate 70 RS will also be offered with Huawei’s HarmonyOS 4.3, which first launched in August 2019 as an alternative to Google’s Android OS and is still compatible with Android’s extensive app library.

Huawei just launched the Mate X6 and Mate 70, likely the company's very last smartphones that will still run Android.

When Richard Yu Chengdong spoke at the launch of Huawei’s Mate 70 range of handsets in Shenzhen on Tuesday, he was more focused on the HarmonyOS Next operating system than any great leaps forward in chip tech.