Google will cease to provide some services to smartphones manufactured by Huawei, a move that could dent the Chinese phone-maker’s business outside its native country. Google has suspended any business with Huawei that requires the transfer of proprietary hardware, software or technical services, Reuters first reported Sunday. Huawei will only be able to use the public version of Android and will not have access to Google apps and services, according to the Wall Street Journal. In practice, existing Huawei smartphones will largely continue to function as normal, though the devices may lose artificial intelligence capabilities and other protocols that rely on Google infrastructure, per WSJ. Future Huawei phones running on Android will lose access to the Google Play Store, Gmail, YouTube and other popular Google apps. “For users of our services, Google Play and the security protections from Google Play Protect will continue to function on existing Huawei devices,” a Google […]
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