AGENCIES: Hong Kong (CNN Business)Huawei’s new phone is about to go on sale, but it won’t come with YouTube, Gmail or Google Maps.
The Chinese company will launch its latest smartphone, the Mate 30, in Munich, Germany, later this month. It will be Huawei’s first smartphone series to hit the market since being put on a trade blacklist by the United States, which cut off its access to Google (GOOGL) apps and services for new products.
The world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker and No. 2 smartphone brand has been pressured by a US-led campaign against its business.
In May, Washington placed Huawei on a list banning US companies from selling it tech and software. That meant Huawei couldn’t do business with key suppliers like Intel (INTC), Micron(MICR) or Qualcomm (QCOM) or software partners like Google and Facebook (FB).
Huawei anticipated that crackdown and stockpiled supplies, but it couldn’t hoard software. The company had secured Google licenses for several smartphones before it was placed on the US blacklist. But the Mate 30 series wasn’t one of them.
The Mate 30 launch was first reported by Reuters.
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