Although the current Mobile World Congress has been announced to cancel, several companies in the industry still released new products this week, including China’s largest smartphone manufacturer and the world’s second largest mobile phone supplier-Huawei. On February 24th, Huawei’s consumer business held an online product and strategy launch conference with the theme of “Common Future” and released its new 5G folding screen phone HUAWEI Mate Xs to the world.  Since Huawei is still banned from cooperating with American technology companies, the Mate Xs, like the previous Mate 30 series, is not pre-installed with Google apps at the factory.

In addition, Huawei’s brand Glory also launched several new Android phones on Monday, including 5G flagship phones and mid-range phones, which also do not have Google apps pre-installed. A few days before Huawei and Honor released new products, Google also explained why Huawei phones do not have Google Apps. At the same time, speculation has suggested that Google may already be seeking official permission from the White House to work with Huawei again.

According to news, Huawei is preparing to invest billions of dollars to develop its own AppGallery store and applications, which will be pre-installed on Android phones and will be deployed on Google’s open source Android operating system. If successful, the move could seriously threaten Google and lead others to follow suit. At the same time, Huawei has partnered with other Chinese smartphone makers to build and deploy Google Play alternatives.

Reports from a number of different sources, including Finanzen in German and Spanish blog Marketing Director, claim that Google has asked the White House for approval to cooperate with Huawei. The former pointed out that Google’s Sameer Samat did not provide information on when the White House decided.

This seems to be the first time that Google has expressed interest in working with Huawei, but whether Google wants to get approval to install its applications on Huawei-made Android devices, or only provide the support required for Android AOSP, is unknown.

However, there have been recent reports that the Trump administration may be seeking more restrictions on Huawei. Google may just want to ensure that it can do business with China’s largest smartphone maker in the future, especially if the ban does not disappear soon.

What is certain is that the United States has issued a 45-day extension, allowing certain American companies to cooperate with Huawei. Following last year’s ban, the series of extensions expired on February 16.