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Google’s temporary license to work with Huawei has expired, which may be bad news for the OEM’s older phones – Notebookcheck.net

Google applied for a temporary general license (TGL) in order to keep older Huawei devices compatible with its Android app ecosystem even after this OEM was placed on the US administration’s Entity List in May 2019. However, this TGL has now expired, leaving …

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The US government consigned Huawei to its Entity List on May 16, 2019. This, in essence, meant that its Android phones were to lose access to important software update such as new security patches. However, in practice, this only affected devices released to the market on or after the date in question, as Google secured a TGL that enabled it to send material, these patches included, to devices that had been available beforehand.
This license expired, on August 13, 2020, however, and the Mountai…

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