Apple and Google have been working together and have actively taken part in the coronavirus exposure notification initiative – which was also previously termed as contract tracing. The latest news though suggests that this feature will be making its way to most of Huawei’s handsets. In accordance with what TechRadar has had to say, the Chinese manufacturer made the announcement that a large number of the company’s smartphones released before the imposition of the US trade ban will be able to run the exposure notification API.
Unfortunately enough for many users though, as a direct consequence of the ban, the phones released by the Chinese company after May of last year will not be able to support exposure notification. This category of phones includes both the Huawei P40 and the Huawei Mate 30 series.
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While Huawei hasn’t specifically mentioned the phones that will be able to support API – any such devices will in fact need to support Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) functionality. While it isn’t always crystal clear as to which handsets support BLE, they might run Android 4.3 or newer – and so this presents as one possible identifier.
Regardless of this though, the one sure way to see whether or not your Huawei device is compatible or not is by seeing whether or not you get the option for the update. Indeed any such users will see the update when the exposure notification system goes live – this of course is likely to take place in the next couple of months!
It is expected that both Google and Apple – in a combined effort, will release the API framework just next month – and so we can hope that the public release won’t linger on for too long before eventually being released.
