Huawei pins hopes on HarmonyOS
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Chinese giant launches its own smartphone and connected device operating system after the US blocked access to key Google Android tech. Will China be a big enough market for it to become established? Plus, how machine learning is helping to improve the monitoring of Parkinson’s Disease symptoms. And the debate over plans by the National Health Service in England to open patients’ local medical records to researchers and planners. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC senior tech reporter Zoe Kleinman. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Huawei smart watch running HarmonyOS with the company logo behind it, Credit: Huawei)
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| 0:55.6 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week, China's Huawei launches a mobile operating system to rival Google's Android and Apple's iOS. |
| 1:04.2 | But can it succeed outside Asia? |
| 1:07.3 | And we've two great stories about health and tech. |
| 1:11.3 | Can AI help in the monitoring of people with Parkinson's disease? |
| 1:15.5 | I join a trial to find out. |
| 1:18.1 | And the National Health Service in England has plans to share the medical data of millions of people with researchers. |
| 1:25.0 | We'll hear the views of a scientist who think this is a great idea and a privacy |
| 1:29.2 | expert who's deeply dubious about it. Joining me this week is BBC senior tech reporters Zoe Klein |
| 1:35.4 | and Zoe. I can tell from your social media feed, you've had a pretty busy week. I've been busy |
| 1:41.2 | juggling breaking tech news and children on half term, Roaring. |
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