Huawei Mate 30: Play Store in sight, the bootloader can be unlocked

More than a year after preventing its users from unlocking the bootloader from their smartphones, Huawei will finally backtrack.A good way to allow consumers to install the Google Play Store and Google mobile services absent on the Mate 30.

In the conflict between China and the United States, Huawei is a privileged target for the Trump administration.The manufacturer can no longer do business with American companies because of a moratorium decided by Washington.

APIs essential to the operation of many applications

Result, the Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro unveiled this Thursday by the manufacturer will be devoid of Google services.If they are well equipped with Android, this version is - as in China - not equipped with Google Play Store, Gmail, YouTube or Google Maps, to the chagrin of the Constructor.

Apart from the absence of the main Google applications, the lack of certification of the two smartphones will have the consequences of the more annoying problems for users.Not only will they not be able to access the main application store on Android, the Google Play Store, but even by going beyond APK files, their experience could be braked.Indeed, many developers use Google APIs - via Google Mobile Services - to integrate certain additional features into their applications.Without these Google Mobile Services, many APK files would therefore be unusable.

Huawei Mobile Services that may not be sufficient

In order to compensate for the absence of Google's mobile services, Huawei announced during her conference to work on his own services, logically called Huawei Mobile Services.Nevertheless, even if the manufacturer claims to have released a billion dollars budget to encourage developers to use its mobile services, it seems that American embargo also prevents American applications from using Huawei services.

In order to reassure consumers, a Huawei solution could be to unlock the bootloader.Prevented by Huawei since May 2018, this procedure would however allow everyone to modify the software of their smartphone and to install the mobile services of Google or a substitute like those of the Microg project.

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The bootloader can be unlocked on the Huawei Mate 30

If Huawei France did not know how to answer us this Thursday as to this possibility, the president of the product division of the group, Richard Yu, announced it.Questioned by the specialized site Anandtech, "he confirmed that users would have the possibility of unlocking the bootloader on the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro".

A solution that remains particularly complex for the general public, but that the technophiles will probably use if they in turn want to be able to take advantage of certain applications which are not available in the Huawei application store, App Gallery.This is the case, for example, of Uber, Netflix, Spotify or Slack.It remains to be seen if Huawei will communicate more extensively on this possibility, with a simplified guide, during the release of smartphones.

As a reminder, Huawei France has not yet announced a release date for the Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro, but announced "do everything to be available by the end of the year", whileallowing consumers to find their favorite applications.

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