Huawei reportedly launching its own Google Maps replacement in October

Huawei's slow untethering of itself from a reliance on Google, and specifically on Google's Android mobile operating system, is sort of underway now -- "sort of" being the key phrase since it's still not clear if Huawei will stay cut off from Google indefinitely. But that's also why the company has gone ahead and worked up a homegrown OS that it says it can bring to its handsets eventually, if needed, as a replacement for Android. Meanwhile, after having finally unveiled that OS in recent days, ...