The new Fuchsia OS from Google is another software operating system for smartphones. Google developers are working on this firmware improvement and stability which is a capability-based operating system. It first became popular to the people when the project appeared on GitHub in 2016. This is also an open-source based project just like the Android. The license is based on the BSD 3 clause, MIT, Apache 2.0 and written in C++, Dart, Go, LLVM, Python, Rust, Swift programming languages. It is based on ARM64, x86-x64 platform.
Huawei begins testing Fuchsia OS on Honor Play
Recently, the leaked reports claim that Huawei begins the Fuchsia OS testing on the Honor Play smartphones for future improvements and possibilities. The device is powered by Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 970 SoC and Mali GPU. If you’re a software customization or developing enthusiast then you will definitely like Google’s Android. The developers are successfully able to boot the kernel source of Zircon’s Fuchsia OS in the Honor Play device reportedly.
So, there is a possibility to run Fuchsia OS with the Kirin 970 chip or higher processor smartphones in the future. Now the Honor Play is the first commercial smartphone to run Fuchsia OS. We can expect Huawei to be the first company to release a new firmware based smartphone or any device in near future very soon. However, Google has mentioned that it could take a few years yet to release this OS officially after testing on Huawei and Pixelbook devices. Maybe in the coming few years, Google can deliver a highly customizable, polished, and refined operating system than Android.
According to the Honor Play device and Kirin 970 or higher processor, some other devices also expected to become compatible with Fuchsia in future. Here is the device list:
- Huawei Mate 10
- Huawei Mate 10 Pro
- Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design
- Huawei P20
- Huawei P20 Pro
- Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design
- Honor V10 (Honor View 10)
- Honor 10
- Huawei Nova 3
- Honor Note 10
