Google Adds the Mate 20 Pro Back to its Android Q Beta List
The US ban on Huawei has been a wild-ride so far, but things seem to be getting crazier by the day. After earlierrevoking Huawei’s Android license, and thenremoving the Huawei Mate 20 Profrom its official list of devices that can run the Android Q beta, Google seems to have had a change of mind, and has added theMate 20 Proback to the list of devices that can run the Android Q beta.
The change is live on the Android Q betawebsite, and you can go see it for yourself. The Mate 20 Pro joins back the likes of the Essential Phone, the ZenFone 5Z, Nokia 8.1, LG G8, and others.
It’s unclear whether this change is due to the 90 day reprieve that the US gave Huawei on its ban, or whether the Chinese giant and the US have worked out a deal but haven’t made any announcements yet. The latter is slightly unlikely, because a deal like that would be a big win for Huawei, and the company should’ve made an announcement about it. Yesterday, Huawei was also added back to the list of members of the SD Association, and the WiFi Alliance.
The ban on Huawei has so far seen the company lose its Android license, itslaptops being droppedfrom the official Microsoft store,ARM cutting tieswith the company and all of its subsidiaries, and a lot more. Even mobile networks started refunding pre-orders for Huawei phones.
The Huawei Ban doesn’t look like it’ll see an end anytime soon, even as Huawei has said that it’ll fight the US ban in court, and will alsoroll out its proprietary OS in 2019or 2020.
Akshay Gangwar
Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.
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