Honor 10GT, Honor Play, V10 Begin Receiving Android 9 Pie through EMUI 9 Update

If you own the Honor 10 GT, Honor Play, or the Honor V10, then you can sign up to receive the EMUI 9.0 stable update. Honor is currently accepting about 20,000 users for each device. The latest EMUI 9.0 update brings several new improvements and features to the supported devices. It adds new nature based sound effects, improves system performance, includes new UI elements, visual changes, and much more. According to Honor, the new software will improve app launch speeds by up to 47 percent. The update will also be more focused on AI use cases, which include, landmark recognition, auto scene recognition in camera, faster translation, and more.

How to Get Android 9 Pie Update

To get the EMUI 9 stable update based on Android 9.0 Pie, you will have to perform a few simple tasks. First, download the Member Service app from the Application store. The app is quite likely to be already installed on your device. In the app, select the ‘Services’ option and tap on ‘Upgrade Testing’ option. Anyone with the eligible devices can download the update. However, only 20,000 spots are available, so you will have to be quick. The slots are given on a first come first served basis. Once all the slots are full, you will not be able to try out the stable update. It is possible that Honor may open up more slots in the future, but we aren’t sure about that. This limited user testing is done to find out if any bugs are present in the stable update. Once this test is over, all eligible users will be able to download and install the software.

This is a great move by Honor, and will certainly make the customers happy. Other OEMs are also working on bringing Android 9.0 Pie to their smartphones. Companies such as Nokia, OnePlus, Huawei, and Motorola, have already released the stable update for some of its high-end devices.