Are you still interested in buying a Huawei smartphone in Canada?

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a recent executive order that placed several companies on an 'Entity Listing.' This list includes Huawei, a Shenzhen, People's republic of china-based smartphone manufacturer and telecommunication equipment providers.

We offer a detailed explainer regarding the state of affairs here.

Notwithstanding, in brusque, Huawei smartphones are now blocked from U.Southward. services, which means Google — a U.Southward.-based visitor — is pulling its business organisation from Huawei smartphones. This means these devices will lose access to the Google Play Shop.

For people with a Huawei smartphone, Google is no longer responsible for whatever app updates, and it will be more difficult for People's republic of china-based companies to provide security updates or Android upgrades.

Notwithstanding, for those looking to buy a new Huawei phone (say later this yr or next year), their state of affairs will be different. These devices will likely run a different operating system and if non, they volition characteristic an Android Os based on Google's Android Open Source Projection, which will cause it to lack many of the functionalities we've go to know and love.

Fifty-fifty though information technology would exist based on the AOSP with EMUI (in Huawei'due south case) on overtop it will lack a lot of app support. Though at that place's always android application packages (APK) that users can install.

Huawei is developing its own operating system, however, information technology's unclear exactly when the Bone will come out and will probable non exist a viable Android or iOS competitor. It'due south also unclear if the Bone will be based on the AOSP. It will also lack U.S.-based apps such as Facebook, Netflix, Chrome and Uber.

So nosotros're curious: would you yet consider buying a time to come Huawei smartphone given they won't have access to the Google Play Store? Or, will you accept to wait to come across what Huawei'southward future OS will be similar?

Correction 05/28/2019: ZTE is non part of the U.S. governments entity listing. MobileSyrup has updated the above story to reflect this.