Huawei’s latest devices have no access to Google’s Play Store, instead relying on its own store, called Huawei AppGallery. This means many crucial apps aren’t available. Now, an important arrival means one area with a big gap – navigation – suddenly has enough apps to make AppGallery a potent alternative.
This week, TomTom Go Navigation launched on AppGallery. This means it’s now available on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store as well as on Huawei phones.
September 5 update. This week saw the opening of the IFA electronics show which takes place in Berlin but is mostly online this year, At the opening day, Walter Ji, who is President of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, Europe, delivered a (virtual) keynote speech – you can see it here, it lasts 26 minutes.