Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.

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.

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’s journey through the twists and turns of the smartphone world appears to have hit a new point, with the company moving on from Android completely. In what has been a thrill ride of a decade, there’s something final about the latest news from the Chinese brand.

With launch of its Mate 70 and foldable Mate X6 smartphones, Huawei unveiled its latest mobile OS that it says no longer uses any Android open-source code, Bloomberg reported. HarmonyOS Next was supposedly built entirely in-house as part of Huawei's plans to do build a platform entirely free of major US tech sources,

The Chinese tech giant says all of its new devices in 2025 will be equipped with HarmonyOS Next, its home-grown Android rival Huawei Technologies' launch of its fully self-developed mobile operating system next year will focus on the Chinese market,

Huawei launches Mate 70 series with HarmonyOS Next, aiming for 100,000 native apps in 2025. Mate 70 models feature Kirin 9100 chipset, priced lower than iPhone 16 in China. Huawei's move to HarmonyOS could bring more competition to smartphone software,