Actually for some time, Huawei has already licensed a French phone brand called Wiko to make rebranded Huawei models that come with gms... u can find a Wiko store on Aliexpress but it doesn't seem like it's turning out very well judging from their sales there...
Wiko is relatively unknown so no surprise their phones doesn't attract much sales even if it's rebranded Huawei.
It's not just rebranded Huawei... it's rebranded Huawei with proper google apps... that's the other main selling point here and just like u said... there are many Huawei users who would jump on the chance to continue using Huawei with proper google apps and this is the next best thing, isn't it? But for some reason, it doesn't seem to be doing too well... who knows right? It could be the marketing side that din do a good job or smth?
I mean that Honor standing a higher chance as it used to be a Huawei subbrand so people might recognise the Honor brand more than other 'authorised licensed brand'.
But dun forget... before the US sanctions against Huawei took place... Honor was only the budget/affordable sub-brand of Huawei... it was only after the latter went Google-less that Honor had a chance to "shine" and produce their very own flagship series of phones... not least thanks to google. But I believe Huawei and Honor are now very separate, independent entities and gone are the days when one was under the other. So no matter how much Huawei users associate Honor with Huawei to this day... the two will never be related in any way again... or at least for a good long time...
All local set Honor phones come with GMS and Google playstore. I saw a seller/shop already start to sell local set Honor 90... another phone shop mymobilehouse is still taking pre-orders for it.... along with Honor 90 Lite...
Yes... Too bad cannot use Huawei service centre.
