Petal Maps will be the replacement of Google Maps for Huawei mobiles

With the arrival of the Huawei Mate 40 Pro, Huawei has taken the opportunity to update data on its HMS or Huawei Mobile Services. That own version of Google services that their new mobiles cannot have due to Trump's veto and the geoeconomic war between China and the United States. Well, there are interesting news, and that is that Huawei wants to eliminate the barriers and problems that this whole situation is creating for its mobile users. That's why they launch their own map platform, although still in a beta or development state.

So, starting today, Petal Maps begins its journey in beta or test version. A platform that includes both 2D and 3D maps, to cover a spectrum similar to that seen in Google Maps, where there are also silhouettes of buildings and streets to make them more recognizable in your query.

At the moment we know that Petal Maps will also have traffic density information, which will not only help to know which parts are congested , but also to automatically choose between different routes to try to avoid traffic jams or traffic jams.

Huawei maps will cover and be available in more than 140 countries and in more than 70 languages In addition, this platform will be fully integrated with the functionalities of Huawei mobiles, as expected.Which means, in terminals like the Huawei Mate 40 Pro, being able to control it with gestures thanks to its depth sensor (located next to the selfie camera). A comfortable and safer utility to interact with the mobile and these maps when driving, for example.

Other news from HMS and AppGallery

Huawei has not sat idly by when faced with the problem of not having access to Google services. They have also boosted their tool Petal Search with which to search for applications, news and content that they do not have in their growing AppGallery, Huawei's official application store. So now users can take a screenshot of an app and use it to search Petal Search, finding the app it belongs to for download, if available.

The search by photo in this tool also applies to products to find stores and compare prices without searching for terms on the Internet. And the same goes for portraits and photos of famous people, music bands, actors, books and any content recognizable by this tool.

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Along with all this, Huawei has announced a remodeling of its AppGallery The application store will now have a more vertical design, browsing up and down and not so much in lateral sections. All this emphasizing well the differences between applications and games. Although the interesting thing comes from the editorial selection. And it is that the important thing will be to find quality applications and tools, and not so much to show a lot of variety on the screen. Or at least that's how Huawei has transferred it.

By the way, from Huawei they affirm that the growth of the AppGallery continues unstoppable.A 360% more year-over-year growth in unique users in Europe alone Developer benefits are also up, and even downloads. So much so that those responsible for this section affirm that there are not only downloads from Huawei phones, but also from other Android phones that have decided to download AppGallery to take advantage of its offers and available applications.

Of course, it continues to be a store with significant shortcomings in terms of the most used applications in markets such as Spanish. And also in games. To try to replace it, Huawei has a system of wishlist with which to make requests to the team behind this platform to try to add all these applications that still Are not avaliables.