Huawei recently added HERE WeGo to its AppGallery to ensure that customers buying its phones after the US ban will not miss out on Google Maps services.

The US ban means that Huawei cannot trade with many tech companies in the country anymore. These companies include Google which is a leading software maker for Android devices.

Huawei’s phones released after the ban were subsequently cut off from using the tech giants software. Since then, Huawei has been trying to survive without Google.

One of its first moves was launching its own operating software called HarmonyOS in 2019. It has also since designed its own store, for applications, that it named AppGallery.

The company claimed in February 2020 that its application store is the third-largest after Google and Apple’s own. It had said it had 400 million daily users at the time.

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Despite these moves, it is harder to break free from Google than it seemed at the time of the ban. Huawei recognises that it needs something to replace Google’s all-seeing Maps app.

In January 2020, the smartphone giants had been on the verge of replacing it with TomTom’s app. Now, according to a 9to5Google article, Huawei has turned to HERE WeGo to replace Google Maps.

HERE WeGo is a free app that makes city navigation effortless whether users need a taxi, public transportation or they are driving. The referenced article adds:

“The app also has information on public transit in over 1300 cities including some of the biggest in the US (NYC, San Francisco, etc). Offline maps are also available in over 100 countries.”

Nokia originally designed Here Maps as a mapping software application for Windows Phone and later for the World Wide Web in 2013 as a revamped version of Nokia Maps.

Now it has come to stay on Huawei’s AppGallery. Meanwhile, Huawei’s CEO, Ren Zhengfei recently acknowledged that the company has three centuries before it can catch up with Google. He also mentioned that there is no animosity between both companies.

The same sentiment is expressed by Google who already applied for a special license to resume working with the Chinese telecommunications giants.

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