Honor Play, Honor 10, View 10 Users in India Now Receiving EMUI 9.0 Beta Based on Android 9.0 Pie

As of now, only the Honor Play, Honor 10, and the Honor View 10 will be eligible to receive the Android 9 Beta update. If you are interested in trying out the beta update, you can head over to the source link provided at the end of this article and register. You should then receive download links and instructions to install EMUI 9.0, straight from Honor.

Be advised, since this is the beta update, you will come across bugs, app crashes, and other issues. Sign up only if you are prepared to deal with such gremlins. The final public update that is most likely to be stable might take some more time to arrive in India. In fact, you may have to wait until the end of this year to get the stable version of the Android 9.0 Pie based EMUI 9.0 on the supported devices.

State of Android Updates

Smartphone companies are now focusing on providing software updates faster and on time. In the past few years, smartphone buyers have been looking at the software aspect of the smartphones as well, while making purchasing decisions. Interestingly, consumers are increasingly choosing phones from brands with history of providing faster software updates. Therefore, more and more OEMs are now trying to push the latest software updates on time. For example, Nokia, Motorola, and OnePlus are some of the OEMs that tend to provide frequent updates.

Android software updates usually take longer because there are just too many phones in the market. In comparison, iOS updates for Apple devices, which are only available in a few variants, are much faster. This is one of the main reasons why most iPhones are currently on the latest version of iOS. Meanwhile, on the Android side, only 0.1 percent of devices run the latest Android 9.0 Pie OS.