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OpenKirin's ROMs now support Honor 8, Honor Note 8, Huawei P9/P9 Plus, and Huawei Mate 8
Team OpenKirin has brought unofficial LineageOS 15.1 based on Android 8.1 Oreo to the Honor 8, Honor Note 8, Huawei P9, Huawei P9 Plus, and Huawei Mate 8.
LineageOS is the most popular custom ROM for Android devices. It's often used as a base for other custom ROMs such as Resurrection Remix. There are other ROMs like OmniROM that are also popular and may or may not be based on LineageOS. Thanks to the efforts of the OpenKirin project, unofficial LineageOS, Resurrection Remix, and OmniROM builds are now available on the Honor 8, Honor Note 8, Huawei P9/Huawei P9 Plus, and Huawei Mate 8.
Honor 8, Huawei P9, Huawei Mate 8, and more receive Android Oreo with EMUI 8
Huawei has just released Android Oreo based EMUI 8 for Honor 8, Huawei P9, Mate 8 and 4 other devices. Keep in mind that update availability is limited.
Huawei is one of the few companies that consistently update their devices and fight to fix the state of the Android fragmentation. The list of Huawei and Honor devices which will get Android 8.0 Oreo with EMUI 8.0 was announced back in January. Today, Huawei keeping their promise and making Android Oreo-based EMUI 8 available those 7 devices. It is worth noting that these devices received an Android Oreo-based EMUI 8.0 beta update in China back in May. These devices include the Honor 8, Huawei P9, Huawei Mate 8, and more. The full list is below:
Huawei P9 and P9 Plus will get Android Oreo with EMUI 8 according to Product Manager
A Product Manager from Huawei has stated on the company's official forum that the Huawei P9 and the P9 Plus will get Android 8.0 Oreo with EMUI 8.
In the Android world, it is rare to see devices being updated with new Android software versions beyond two years. Huawei has a mixed track record with Android version updates. The company has committed to releasing Android Oreo for its older flagship smartphones, but the speed of updates has been slow for international variants.
Huawei P9 and P9 Plus Receiving Update with 3D Panorama Camera Mode
Huawei conintues to add new features to the aging Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus. A recent over-the-air update brought panorama mode to the phones' camera app.
Huawei announced the Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus in April 2016, and they've since been succeeded by the Huawei P10 and the Huawei P10 Plus. The P9 and P9 Plus are getting to the point in their lifecycles where you might expect software updates to slow to a trickle, but Huawei continues to enhance them with new features. Recently, an over-the-air update added a 3D panorama mode to the Huawei Camera app.
Huawei Announces Which Devices will get EMUI 8.0 with Android Oreo
In a post on Chinese social media website Weibo, Huawei has announced which phones are slated to receive an update to the company's Android Oreo-based EMUI 8.0 firmware.
It's always exciting when your phone gets a software update, and it's something that Android enthusiasts look forward to with great anticipation. Huawei debuted the newest version of its in-house Android skin, Emotion UI (EMUI) 8.0, alongside the Mate 10 series in late 2017, and since then, folks in the community have been wondering about when their phones might get it. So far, we've seen it roll out to some Huawei and Honor phones, but there hasn't been much communication from Huawei. That changed this week, thankfully, with a post from the company on Chinese social network Weibo detailing which devices will get the Android Oreo-based EMUI 8.0 update.