Huawei has no plans to launch a smartphone running on both Windows and Android, despite the firm’s CMO previously indicating that such a device would be launched in the US during Q2 2014.

“Huawei Consumer Business Group adopts an open approach towards mobile operating systems to provide a range of choices for consumers,” the company said in a statement to FierceWireless. “However, most of our products are based on Android OS, [and] at this stage there are no plans to launch a dual-OS smartphone in the near future.”

However, in an earlier interview with TrustedReviews, CMO Shao Yang was reported as saying that a dual-OS smartphone would offer customers a “useful extra option”.

Yang did add, however, that while Huawei was committed to Windows Phone devices, it was a lower priority than Android.

Following the revelation that Huawei was not pursing a dual-OS smartphone after all, WBXbox dug out an interview with Yang at this year’s MWC. It showed just how strong the CMO’s reservations are about Windows Phone.

For one thing, he said, Windows Phone licensing fees meant the cost of phones are 10 per cent higher than those running on Android. Secondly, argued Yang, the Windows Phone ecosystem is not as developed as Android’s.

And thirdly, claimed the CMO, the Microsoft platform is not as open for innovation.  As a result, said Yang, manufacturers find it difficult to differentiate their Windows Phone devices from one another.