Last year, Huawei released its flagship P30 Pro smartphone, which came with Android 9 Pie. The US government threw a wrench in the Chinese company’s plans though, by imposing trade restrictions that meant Huawei wouldn’t be able to use the American-made components or software that it had come to rely upon. But since the P30 Pro was released before Huawei was put on the “Entity List,” the company is able to re-release the phone with Android 10 pre-loaded. The phone, called the P30 Pro New Edition, will be out on June 1st -- at least in Germany -- and will cost €749 (about $815) for the 256GB model. The company hasn’t announced availability for other European or North American markets yet.
While Huawei has released more phones since the P30 Pro, those models haven’t included Google’s own version of Android. Rather, they use AOSP, which is based on Android’s source code, but excludes Google’s own features and apps. Drastically lower sales numbers indicate that the change could be a big turnoff for users, so it seems that the company is hoping that the tradeoff between older hardware and newer software will be a happy medium.