Today, Huawei's saber-rattling reached a new volume with the announcement of "HarmonyOS," Huawei's home-grown operating system.

At the "Huawei Developer Conference 2019," Huawei gave a Chinese-language presentation on HarmonyOS, which included only a vague overview of the OS and no screenshots or demos.

HarmonyOS isn't quite targeting smartphones yet, and the OS will first debut on the "Honor Smart Screen" (which sounds like an Echo Show or Google Home Hub) and Huawei TVs.

Huawei said an expansion to smartphones could happen sometime over the next three years, but for now, it wants to stick with Android.

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As for what HarmonyOS actually is, the company described it as "a microkernel-based OS, distributed OS for all scenarios."