Huawei will unveil its first phone with the HongMing operating system

Huawei will unveil its new operating system Hongming at its developers' conference, which opens on Friday, August 9, in Dongguan, China, which is expected to include the announcement of the first smartphone to use the new system.

Huawei has tested a smart phone equipped with its operating system called HongMing, which is likely to be sold by the end of this year, according to Global Times and the Chinese state media.

The introduction of a HongMing smart phone is an important step for Huawei, the world's second-largest smartphone maker, as US government actions threaten its access to Google's Android operating system.

Although the chairman of the company, Lang Hu said last week, when announcing the company's profits for the first half of 2019; the company preferred to use the Android operating system from Google for its own mobile devices, and pointed out that Hongming is part of "Huawei's long-term strategy" ; The Global Times confirmed on Sunday - citing unnamed sources - that there is a smart phone operating system Hongming is already working. The first device can be seen with the device Matt 30 Pro later this year, often in the fourth quarter, Huawei did not comment on Monday immediately on the Reuters report.

Huawei's executives described the Hongming system as an operating system designed for Internet products. The company said last month that HongMing's first major hardware will be its next line of HONER smart TVs.

Huawei has been at the center of geopolitical tension between the United States and China since May when President Donald Trump put the company on a "list of entities" that effectively blocked American suppliers from selling to the company.

Trump said the sanctions would ease, although other details remain unclear, threatening Huawei to lose access to regular updates on Android if policies remain in place.

However, Huawei's revenues in the first half of 2019 grew by 23%, partly due to strong domestic demand for its mobile phones.

While sales of smartphones overseas fell, shipments in China increased 31 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of June, according to the Kanalls research firm.