Huawei might be planning to mass pre-install up to 70 apps for their smartphones this year

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Prior to the Huawei Mate 30 series release last year, it was most unfortunate that Huawei got caught in the trade war. The company is still not clear out of being able to use Google Mobile Services (GMS) yet, so they have been trying different ways to survive without it with their own Huawei Mobile Service. Despite this, international countries out of China still relies on GMS a lot, so what is Plan B?

Well, according to sources by WinFuture. They said that Huawei is actually planning to have a mass pre-installation of popular apps for their future phones this year. In fact, it could very well go up to around 70 pre-installed apps but that could vary depending on the country or region. It's an intriguing strategy, but since most of the popular apps belong to Google Play, most of them should be alternative to the apps that don't rely on GMS such as TomTom to replace Google Maps.

One such case that we noticed is the Huawei Nova 7i which will be coming to Malaysia on 14 February 2020. From their PR news, we noted that the company has pre-installed a feature that allows various filters to appear while taking a selfie, same goes to having a built-in video feature called MeeTime. "And thus users do not need to download a separate app to enjoy its feature", as quoted from the source.

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A screenshot of the Nova 7i PR news

Besides that, Huawei is also planning to launch a new Huawei Video service which will be unveiled in March. Huawei also have their own AppGallery, an alternative to the Google Play Store, but at this moment, they have not come up with the necessary apps for us such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and more. 

Lastly, the source also said that there are at least 8 new models planned for this year, including the next Huawei P40 series. Personally, I would prefer them to develop the apps on AppGallery so we don't need to deal with the amount of bloatware. 

Of course, we should take this news with a grain of salt. But what do you folks think? Let us know in the comments at the post. Until then, stay tuned for more Huawei news at TechNave.com.