With Google Maps unavailable, Huawei turns to another mapping, navigation, and traffic provider - Android

Since the middle of last May, Huawei has been on the U.S. Commerce Department's entity list which means that the manufacturer is banned from accessing its U.S. supply chain. Perhaps the biggest loss for Huawei has been its inability to license Google Mobile Services and Google Play Services for Android. As a result, Huawei phones from last year's Mate 30 series onward must use an open-source version of Android. Google apps like Search, Gmail, Drive, the Play Store, Maps and others cannot be used. In China, where most Google apps are banned, this is no big deal. But Huawei's international sales ...