Honor is preparing to release the first line of smartphones with Google services after parting with Huawei

The Chinese brand of the Honor smartphones, which previously owned by Huawei, is preparing to release the Honor 50 Android Smartphones line, which will receive Google services - from 2019 to install them on Huawei and Honor smartphones have prohibited US sanctions.

The other day, Honor reported that the new line will include smartphones Honor 50, Honor 50 Pro and Honor 50 Pro+, and the presentation of the devices will be held in June. Images of new smartphones have already got into the network. It is also known that the devices will receive Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G (Honor 50) and Snapdragon 888 (Honor 50 Pro and Honor 50 Pro+) processors, which also means Honor from the action of US sanctions.

The message that the Google services appeared on the smartphones, as expected to be installed in the microblog of the German division of Honor, but then was deleted, but this information was confirmed by two sources of the Kommersant publication.

Recall that due to US sanctions, Huawei previously lost the opportunity to install Google services on its new smartphones, and then the US authorities banned companies that use American equipment or software, supply Huawei semiconductors to produce devices. Last fall, rumors appeared in the media about Huawei plans to sell Honor, and in November, Huawei officially announced the sale of Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology. Then it was noted that the transaction, as a result of which Huawei will cease to have any relation to the Honor business, will allow you to circumvent sanctions restrictions and ensure the survival of the company. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but, according to some reports, it amounted to more than $ 15 billion.

The sanctions hit the business of Huawei and Honor outside China, where the Android smartphones were already produced without Google services. For example, according to the results of the first quarter of 2020, according to Svyaznoye, the Honor brand was the leader of the Russian market in kind with a share of 26%, and in the first quarter of 2021, the share of Honor fell to 9%, and the total supply of Huawei and Honor devices to Russia in January-March this year fell to 3.3% of the market with 38% of the year. previously.

The leading analyst Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin also confirmed that Google services will be installed on the new Honor devices. "For Chinese companies, as well as Samsung, this is bad news, since against the backdrop of a deficit competition will exacerbate, and Honor will offer its devices at competitive prices and even with discounts in excess of that," he said.

According to Murtazin, by the end of this year, Honor will be able to conquer 5-7% of the market in kind.