Honor launched the gaming-centric Honor Play smartphone in China in July this year. A month later, the smartphone made its way to the Indian market. The Honor Play currently runs on the Android 8.1 Oreo operating system with the EMUI 8.2 custom user-interface running on top. Earlier this week, Huawei confirmed that it would begin rolling out the Android Pie-based EMUI 9.0 update for select smartphones starting November 10. Ahead of the official rollout, the smartphone has been caught on Geekbench running on the latest Android Pie operating system.
Honor Play Caught Running on Android Pie Ahead of Official Rollout
The Honor Play COR-TL10 variant has made an appearance on the Geekbench benchmark database running on the latest Android 9 Pie operating system. In terms of benchmark performance, the smartphone scored 1,914 points in the single-core test and 6,763 points in the multi-core test. The Honor Play (review) achieves similar scores on Android 8.1 Oreo currently, so the Android Pie update does appear to be well-optimized for the device at this stage.
