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We learned from HUAWEI that, in this month, November 2014, there will be a significant OTA, featuring dual Android systems. It is possible that you can keep the original EMUI 3.0 and another customized Android system. Further news to be released by HUAWEI soon.
Note: this feature may only be available for the Chinese MT7-TL10 and MT7-TL00 versions.

Wow, im sure huawei was inspired by lenovo vibe z2 pro's dual system: vibe ui and google stock android.

@getmobilephone Very interesting! Where do you get this info? Can't find anything about this.

ml_taz said:
@getmobilephone Very interesting! Where do you get this info? Can't find anything about this.
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If you have this phone already (Chinese version exclusive, we heard), you will notice the OTA push soon.

Wow i hope it will, another reason that i maybe going for the Mate 7 afterall

wimmetje said:
Wow i hope it will, another reason that i maybe going for the Mate 7 afterall
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Find some colleagues (5+) and put a group order with us.

Honor 6 and 6+ wont get EMUI 5 - Nougat update

Saw an update from Honor India.
It has been mentioned that Honor 6 and 6+ won't get updated to Nougat.
Source: https://club.hihonor.com/in/techsupport.251/official-emui-5-0-android-n-update.11083

Cant we ask for emui 5 update based on marshmallow?Emui 4 looks so dull compared to the refreshed 5.I mean,why not,even the 2012 xiaomi mi 2 got updated to the latest miui 8(I think based on 5.1.1) .I guess we can make a petition or something to get the older gen devices updated to emui 5,based on marshmallow(that applies to honor 6,6+,4C,4X,probably also mate 7,etc.

Not surprising ...
Our phones doesn't meet the Google requirements for NOUGAT
****ing VULKAN api !!!
You can make a 1 billion signed petition, it's a required api that's not aviable for our Kirin CPU, Huawei can't release official nougat for us ....
Yes, we can make a unoficial ROM ! ... without Android 7 kernel source... lol
Despite Huawei published EMUI 4 source code (very late ... OK), there is only 3 usable custom ROMs for us (Modaco, KangVIP & MIUI) and only one for 6 plus PE-TL10 (outdated Modaco) ... I stopped dreaming about my device support ... I wait my 13th month and bye bye Huawei

Arghtefact said:
Not surprising ...
Our phones doesn't meet the Google requirements for NOUGAT
****ing VULKAN api !!!
You can make a 1 billion signed petition, it's a required api that's not aviable for our Kirin CPU, Huawei can't release official nougat for us ....
Yes, we can make a unoficial ROM ! ... without Android 7 kernel source... lol
Despite Huawei published EMUI 4 source code (very late ... OK), there is only 3 usable custom ROMs for us (Modaco, KangVIP & MIUI) and only one for 6 plus PE-TL10 (outdated Modaco) ... I stopped dreaming about my device support ... I wait my 13th month and bye bye Huawei
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F*ck the vulcan api,Honor 7 has the same sh1tty mali-t624mp4 gpu that doesnt support it too but it will get nougat(its officially confirmed!),so its up to huawei(the actual reason is that 6,6+,4c and 4x already got 2 os updates?).For real,lets make a petition with request for emui 5 based on at least marshmallow or complete source(for all devices that are confirmed not to get emui 5 based on 7.0,so we can get as many signatures as possible).I didnt spend 250 euros 3 months ago to get stuck on that ugly ios knockoff emui 4.0 forever.

MaRtYy01 said:
.I guess we can make a petition or something to get the older gen devices updated to emui 5,based on marshmallow(that applies to honor 6,6+,4C,4X,probably also mate 7,etc.
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Whatever they decided is gonna stay same. You can have millions of people in petition. Still they will have some facts supporting their decision. So nothing will change.

vsriram92 said:
Whatever they decided is gonna stay same. You can have millions of people in petition. Still they will have some facts supporting their decision. So nothing will change.
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What kind of facts?Update to emui 5 based on marshmallow seems right to me,considering that the phone already got 2 main updates.If huawei wants to be truly one of the top brands in the world improving their software support wouldnt be a bad decisison.

MaRtYy01 said:
What kind of facts?Update to emui 5 based on marshmallow seems right to me,considering that the phone already got 2 main updates.If huawei wants to be truly one of the top brands in the world improving their software support wouldnt be a bad decisison.
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Giving VoLTE update itself is not confirmed for Honor 6 and 6+. Then how can we expect EMUI 5 ?
Seems that Huawei is satisfied on what it is currently.

vsriram92 said:
Giving VoLTE update itself is not confirmed for Honor 6 and 6+. Then how can we expect EMUI 5 ?
Seems that Huawei is satisfied on what it is currently.
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Wait really?I thought VoLTE is confirmed since kirin 920 supports it,also I read somewhere in the indian honor forum than they are working on volte update.
I think they need to make a change at some point.Honor 6 deserves to get emui 5,it was a huuuge step forward from honor 3 and its hardware is still powerful today.Also huawei announced that it wants to surpass apple's share in the phone market in the next 2 years.

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Wait really?I thought VoLTE is confirmed since kirin 920 supports it,also I read somewhere in the indian honor forum than they are working on volte update.
I think they need to make a change at some point.Honor 6 deserves to get emui 5,it was a huuuge step forward from honor 3 and its hardware is still powerful today.Also huawei announced that it wants to surpass apple's share in the phone market in the next 2 years.
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VoLTE is supported by processor. But still they are busy with their newer devices. They will consider 6 and 6+ once they get free.

I read on an xda post about nougat not necessarily needing Vulcan api

That's sad...

goldfinv said:
I read on an xda post about nougat not necessarily needing Vulcan api
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Yes. But it is not confirmed by Honor.
Honor 7 is also in the same dilemma state of Honor 6 after the latest announcement.
But Honor 6 has completed its 2 years support. So even if they think of giving the update, it will be the last priority.

The solution? It's easy to enter facebook and speak with Honor in your chat and ask if honor6 / 6 + will receive emui 5.0, and wait for your response.
https://es-es.facebook.com/HonorEurope/
https://www.facebook.com/honorglobal/

PeKeT said:
The solution? It's easy to enter facebook and speak with Honor in your chat and ask if honor6 / 6 + will receive emui 5.0, and wait for your response.
https://es-es.facebook.com/HonorEurope/
https://www.facebook.com/honorglobal/
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Solution is custom ROMs...

vsriram92 said:
Yes. But it is not confirmed by Honor.
Honor 7 is also in the same dilemma state of Honor 6 after the latest announcement.
But Honor 6 has completed its 2 years support. So even if they think of giving the update, it will be the last priority.
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honor confirmed honor 5c,5x, honor 7,8 will be receiving update but no update for honor 4c,4x,6 and 6+

vsriram92 said:
Solution is custom ROMs...
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If we had any.We dont even have custom rom based on emui 4.1,what about 5?!
Maybe somebody should try porting from honor 7?Might work since gpu is same.

goldfinv said:
I read on an xda post about nougat not necessarily needing Vulcan api
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But it needs to be compatible with some Open GL and Open CL version it seems.
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Wait really?I thought VoLTE is confirmed since kirin 920 supports it,also I read somewhere in the indian honor forum than they are working on volte update.
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But currently Honor 6 supports the following LTE bands: LTE-FDD Band 1, Band 3, Band 7, Band 20, LTE-TDD Band 38.
The Bands used by Indian Carriers are entirely different. Only one carrier (JIO) supports Band 3 that too not supported in few states.
So for a not so supportive LTE mobile, they won't bring VoLTE as per my knowledge.

Decided to buy honor 8,but

I'm a k Indian user and I want to clear icy few things before buying it..
I'm buying the honor 8 because of the emui5(crazy but yes)
So I have a few questions..
1. Since I'm from india, will I have a dual sim support?
2. Since the processor is kirin, will there be bugless custom builds?
Much help will be much appreciated... Thanks

It depends where you buy your Honor 8.ones sold via Vmall India and authorised dealers in Intake not dual sim... If you want a dual sim import via China or European Vmall store but make sure the radio bands support your network/networks

Nyssa1104 said:
It depends where you buy your Honor 8.ones sold via Vmall India and authorised dealers in Intake not dual sim... If you want a dual sim import via China or European Vmall store but make sure the radio bands support your network/networks
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do you think i will get an unlocked phone if i do import, and even if its not, will it support volte bands in here?

thilak devraj said:
I'm buying the honor 8 because of the emui5(crazy but yes)
So I have a few questions..
1. Since I'm from india, will I have a dual sim support?
2. Since the processor is kirin, will there be bugless custom builds?
Much help will be much appreciated... Thanks
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Unless you import dual sim variant, you can't get dual sim support. And you need to pay import duties which might cost further higher.
Regarding the EMUI updates, as of now VoLTE for Honor 5X is done only for INDIA. So Indian version will get faster updates compared to others in my opinion.
Regarding the custom builds, As it is a Kirin processor it is difficult to get through.
You can check the Honor 7 forums about the custom builds they have. So that you can get better idea for Honor 8 in the future.
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do you think i will get an unlocked phone if i do import, and even if its not, will it support volte bands in here?
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As of now India has Band 3, 5 and Band 40 LTE.
Mostly imported devices will support Band 3.
Mobile Network Support:
JIO supports all 3 bands. (Bihar, Jharkahnd, Jammu, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh don't have Band 3 support)
Airtel and Aircel has only Band 40 support.
If the imported mobile supports any of the bands of your mobile network, then it will support LTE.

vsriram92 said:
Unless you import dual sim variant, you can't get dual sim support. And you need to pay import duties which might cost further higher.
Regarding the EMUI updates, as of now VoLTE for Honor 5X is done only for INDIA. So Indian version will get faster updates compared to others in my opinion.
Regarding the custom builds, As it is a Kirin processor it is difficult to get through.
You can check the Honor 7 forums about the custom builds they have. So that you can get better idea for Honor 8 in the future.
As of now India has Band 3, 5 and Band 40 LTE.
Mostly imported devices will support Band 3.
Mobile Network Support:
JIO supports all 3 bands. (Bihar, Jharkahnd, Jammu, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh don't have Band 3 support)
Airtel and Aircel has only Band 40 support.
If the imported mobile supports any of the bands of your mobile network, then it will support LTE.
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this was very helpfull..

thilak devraj said:
this was very helpfull..
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Also in case of Honor 5X, I think No other country got VoLTE update rather than India. So think better on which is important.
I decided that dual SIM is important and so switched from Honor 7 to 5X. It depends on your priority on what you need.
Also you can try one plus 3T which is gonna release soon with better RAM and custom ROM support (Unless you prefer camera).

vsriram92 said:
Also in case of Honor 5X, I think No other country got VoLTE update rather than India. So think better on which is important.
I decided that dual SIM is important and so switched from Honor 7 to 5X. It depends on your priority on what you need.
Also you can try one plus 3T which is gonna release soon with better RAM and custom ROM support (Unless you prefer camera).
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yeah, i would have stick with the honor 5x, but it seems there will be no nougat update, neither the custom roms are stable,
one plus 3t is better but idk y iam so attracted to honors lol

thilak devraj said:
yeah, i would have stick with the honor 5x, but it seems there will be no nougat update, neither the custom roms are stable,
one plus 3t is better but idk y iam so attracted to honors lol
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Then Honor 8 is the right choice unless you are less attractive to custom ROM.

vsriram92 said:
Then Honor 8 is the right choice unless you are less attractive to custom ROM.
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custom roms attracts me more..:laugh:

thilak devraj said:
custom roms attracts me more..:laugh:
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Custom ROM vs Honor Brand Name...
OP3T vs Honor 8...
You should decide...

vsriram92 said:
Custom ROM vs Honor Brand Name...
OP3T vs Honor 8...
You should decide...
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takes a hell lot of time from me..

thilak devraj said:
takes a hell lot of time from me..
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OP3T is more expensive though.
Sent from my honor 5X using XDA Labs

adriansticoid said:
OP3T is more expensive though.
Sent from my honor 5X using XDA Labs
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yep, 50 bucks more

thilak devraj said:
yep, 50 bucks more
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But the custom roms which we have for the honor8 are already very stable the only Thing is the Missing fps cuz of missing kernel drive Information from honor. But there is hope after the partnership xda -> honor.
Its few months old so we will see. Im normaly a flashaholic but emui is sick and i like the honor 8. Best Phone so Far i ever had.
(Sorry for Capital letters but im writing on the Phone i dont want to correct anything german keyboard )

xontec said:
But the custom roms which we have for the honor8 are already very stable the only Thing is the Missing fps cuz of missing kernel drive Information from honor. But there is hope after the partnership xda -> honor.
Its few months old so we will see. Im normaly a flashaholic but emui is sick and i like the honor 8. Best Phone so Far i ever had.
(Sorry for Capital letters but im writing on the Phone i dont want to correct anything german keyboard )
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yes and i too trust in honor for the sources, i d k y they are making so late..

thilak devraj said:
yes and i too trust in honor for the sources, i d k y they are making so late..
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Yes i did the same and i bought it and i Love it!
Maybe it takes so Long cuz theyre working hard on emui5 who knows..
But they have to rls the sources or they will break the open source rulse and laws...

thilak devraj said:
yep, 50 bucks more
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IMO it's worth it.
Sent from my honor 5X using XDA Labs

adriansticoid said:
IMO it's worth it.
Sent from my honor 5X using XDA Labs
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totally

xontec said:
Yes i did the same and i bought it and i Love it!
Maybe it takes so Long cuz theyre working hard on emui5 who knows..
But they have to rls the sources or they will break the open source rulse and laws...
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but the honor 8 alredy has emui5, beta of course , but releasing a stable version after a beta, insnt much of a work, and neither releasing the sources takes a lot of time..

Honor 8 is a great smartphone. Fast. Faster than Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. Check this out http://bit.ly/2gFIMVR. Please dont forget to subscribe

EMUI 5.1 is coming on 26-Feb-17 in MWC2017

Excited,, !! me too, although what is gonna be in the new release is still mystery
News Source

SSyar said:
Excited,, !! me too, although what is gonna be in the new release is still mystery
News Source
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Fingers crossed for double tap to wake.

vyper4 said:
Fingers crossed for double tap to wake.
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We have double tap wake on emui 5
Go to widgets actions..

VenuGopalu said:
We have double tap wake on emui 5
Go to widgets actions..
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Where is that option? Can you pos a screenshot. Tnx

vyper4 said:
Fingers crossed for double tap to wake.
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If rooted you can try this
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/general/enable-double-tap-to-wake-t3312676
I want to see in new emui:
-equalizer in music player
-also double tap to wake or lock
-style of status bar latout to choose (shortcuts or notifications/new shortcuts plus notif.) Old style of emui or new, the same with recents apps menu
-more actions when hold on app in menu
VenuGopalu said:
We have double tap wake on emui 5
Go to widgets actions..
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I think you dont know what he meant.
We have just a widget to fast lock our phone.
Double tap to lock gives you option to unlock/wake up the phone even if phone sleeps.

Exciting but I'm pretty sure it won't come to Honor 8!

hoseth0711 said:
Exciting but I'm pretty sure it won't come to Honor 8!
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I hope you are wrong.
Honor 8 officialy have 2 years support, said by Huawei.

Any info on the changes yet?

WYPIERDAALAAC said:
I think you dont know what he meant.
We have just a widget to fast lock our phone.
Double tap to lock gives you option to unlock/wake up the phone even if phone sleeps.
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Exactly.

Transform your photos into video in just a few taps using Highlights. Powered by GoPro Quik in EMUI5.1

EMUI 5.1 will fine tune and optimise the software as you interact. The more you use, the finer it gets.

SSyar said:
EMUI 5.1 will fine tune and optimise the software as you interact. The more you use, the finer it gets.
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Is this really coming to our honor 8 ?
It does make sense that if EMUI 5.1 is coming out then the Honor 8 would be on the update list.
Hope we ain't got to wait for ages
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs

johnhux7 said:
Is this really coming to our honor 8 ?
It does make sense that if EMUI 5.1 is coming out then the Honor 8 would be on the update list.
Hope we ain't got to wait for ages
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EMUI 5.1 has came out officially on Huawei P10 today,,, it is just yet to be confirmed when or whether will it get to Honor 8

SSyar said:
EMUI 5.1 has came out officially on Huawei P10 today,,, it is just yet to be confirmed when or whether will it get to Honor 8
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Fingers crossed.
It will be out of order if we don't get it.
They promised two years of updates
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs

johnhux7 said:
Fingers crossed.
It will be out of order if we don't get it.
They promised two years of updates
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??????

I think we will get it, but not before this summer

This emui 5.1 is utter crap. Plus getting updates once in few months, well it wouldn't be surprising of they don't update phones to 5.1. They abaddoned p8 flagship after 1 year and honor 7.

Coolyou said:
This emui 5.1 is utter crap. Plus getting updates once in few months, well it wouldn't be surprising of they don't update phones to 5.1. They abaddoned p8 flagship after 1 year and honor 7.
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I have emailed the guys at Honor to ask the question and get a proper answer.
Better that way then us all just guessing.
I will post soon as I get an answer
John
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs

This is the list of phones Huawei says they are going to update to 5.1
Huawei Mate 9
Huawei Mate 8
Huawei P9
Huawei P9 Plus
Huawei Glory V8
Huawei Glory 5C
Huawei Glory 6X
Huawei G9 Plus
If this changes and they do decide to update the honor 8 I wouldn't count on it anytime soon. I mean we just got EMUI 5 update so I'd say if we do get it, it will probably be at least 6 months or more before we will see anything.

droidboy29 said:
This is the list of phones Huawei says they are going to update to 5.1
Huawei Mate 9
Huawei Mate 8
Huawei P9
Huawei P9 Plus
Huawei Glory V8
Huawei Glory 5C
Huawei Glory 6X
Huawei G9 Plus
If this changes and they do decide to update the honor 8 I wouldn't count on it anytime soon. I mean we just got EMUI 5 update so I'd say if we do get it, it will probably be at least 6 months or more before we will see anything.
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This can't be accurate. Where did you get this information? Huawei promissed that Honor is getting updates for 2 years. Breaking this promise would be outrageous. I'm expecting to see 5.1 before summer.

Honor 8 getting Android P (9.0)?

According to this article, it showed a list of phones that are going to be updated to Android P (9.0). Starting with Google, Sony, and Samsung's phones, you could see that under Huawei the Honor 8 is listed there. Not sure if it is true/official but I just thought I'd share it here for you guys to see for yourselves: https://droidshock.com/list-devices-will-get-android-9-0-update/

We were listed twice! It's bound to happen now.

Ascertion said:
We were listed twice! It's bound to happen now.
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Lool I didn't notice that

xsacter said:
According to this article, it showed a list of phones that are going to be updated to Android P (9.0). Starting with Google, Sony, and Samsung's phones, you could see that under Huawei the Honor 8 is listed there. Not sure if it is true/official but I just thought I'd share it here for you guys to see for yourselves: https://droidshock.com/list-devices-will-get-android-9-0-update/
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What's this website's source? I really doubt we'll get P since Honor was kinda unsure about updating to Oreo to begin with.

Ahahahahahaha what? We're still unsure about Oreo how could this site think about Android P? This will never happen. If Honor release Android 8.1 will be the last major update for our device...on the other side, with treble support we could upgrade by custom roms =)

timwelter said:
What's this website's source? I really doubt we'll get P since Honor was kinda unsure about updating to Oreo to begin with.
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Well it says developer preview so I'm assuming maybe they got it from Google? I'm honestly not 100% sure as I was scrolling through G+ and saw this article

Honor 7 didnt even get Nougat, this list makes no sense.

We'll get Android versions till the end of time. Jesus. We have not even got Oreo yet.

Giuskiller said:
Ahahahahahaha what? We're still unsure about Oreo how could this site think about Android P? This will never happen. If Honor release Android 8.1 will be the last major update for our device...on the other side, with treble support we could upgrade by custom roms =)
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Well at least Oreo is official, so we do have that. Treble support is definitely a plus especially for Honor 8.

xsacter said:
Well at least Oreo is official, so we do have that. Treble support is definitely a plus especially for Honor 8.
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No it's not official ?
Huawei said they'd give us EMUI 8.0. This could also be based on Nougat while incorporating all the new features present in EMUI 8.0
Like what Xiaomi does to their older devices.
Pray for Oreo, treble will do this device good.

zoroarctic said:
No it's not official ?
Huawei said they'd give us EMUI 8.0. This could also be based on Nougat while incorporating all the new features present in EMUI 8.0
Like what Xiaomi does to their older devices.
Pray for Oreo, treble will do this device good.
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It is official. Multiple Honor sources have confirmed it.

timwelter said:
It is official. Multiple Honor sources have confirmed it.
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All of them have confirmed EMUI 8.0, not Oreo. Honor India had released a statement saying the phone wouldn't be getting Oreo. I do hope this turns out to be false and we actually get Oreo though.
https://www.xda-developers.com/honor-7x-honor-8-emui-8-q2-2018-honor-france/

zoroarctic said:
All of them have confirmed EMUI 8.0, not Oreo. Honor India had released a statement saying the phone wouldn't be getting Oreo. I do hope this turns out to be false and we actually get Oreo though.
https://www.xda-developers.com/honor-7x-honor-8-emui-8-q2-2018-honor-france/
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Honor confirmed that H8 will get Oreo at the MWC in Barcelona.
Source:
https://www.inside-handy.de/news/47790-honor-8-bekommt-android-8-oreo

Here we go again...

zoroarctic said:
No it's not official ?
Huawei said they'd give us EMUI 8.0. This could also be based on Nougat while incorporating all the new features present in EMUI 8.0
Like what Xiaomi does to their older devices.
Pray for Oreo, treble will do this device good.
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Yeah I just hope we do get treble support. We need ROM's for this device and it's unfortunate there aren't many since this phone has plenty of power.

it`s 99% fake. Probably this is list of phones updating to 8.0. There is no new devices such as p20, p20 pro e.t.c.

ilya1805 said:
it`s 99% fake. Probably this is list of phones updating to 8.0. There is no new devices such as p20, p20 pro e.t.c.
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I didn't read the article but there sure is a Huawei P20 & P20 Pro.

No, H8 will not get Android P, no way.

zoroarctic said:
No it's not official ?
Huawei said they'd give us EMUI 8.0. This could also be based on Nougat while incorporating all the new features present in EMUI 8.0
Like what Xiaomi does to their older devices.
Pray for Oreo, treble will do this device good.
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No they said, the one doesnt work without the other.
EMUI 8 comes with Android 8.x

Gardriel said:
No they said, the one doesnt work without the other.
EMUI 8 comes with Android 8.x
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Uhhh, yes it does. Huawei's initial said that they were developing a customized EMUI for the 8's and it would be named EMUI 8 to keep the version numbers consistent across devices. Whether they've decided to change those plans no one knows because not one person has quoted any report that is from a reliable source and I'm not talking about those script readers in customer service.