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December 19, 2018 — EMUI 9 now accessible for the Huawei P20 Professional, Mate 10, and extra

Initially of November, Huawei introduced that EMUI 9.0 (its Android interface that is primarily based on Pie) would see a worldwide rollout on November 10. That day got here and went with nothing to point out for, and now over a month later from that unique date, it seems to be like EMUI 9 is lastly prepared for showtime.

It's time to experience #EMUI 9.0 on your favorite #HUAWEI device. If you own one of these devices, EMUI 9.0 will be with you very soon! Stay tuned.#HigherIntelligence #HUAWEIMate10 #HUAWEIMate10Pro #HUAWEIP20#HUAWEIP20Pro #HonorPlay #HonorView10 #Honor10 pic.twitter.com/UOeFVd8UPU

— EMUI (@HuaweiEMUI) 18 Aralık 2018

The official EMUI Twitter account shared the above tweet early yesterday morning, asserting that the brand new software program is lastly prepared for a collection of its newest telephones.

Per the tweet, you must count on an replace to EMUI 9.0/Android Pie for the next telephones "very quickly":

• Huawei Mate 10
• Huawei Mate 10 Professional
• Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design
• Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design
• Huawei P20
• Huawe P20 Professional
• Huawei P20 Lite
• Honor Play
• Honor View 10
• Honor 10

November 27, 2018 — Android 9 Pie now rolling out to the Nokia 7.1

The Nokia 7.1 is among the greatest mid-range telephones in the marketplace proper now, and imagine it or not, it is about to get even higher.

New day, and a new serving of Pie coming right up. Nokia 7.1 now on Android 9. ???????? pic.twitter.com/ZPupm6TAmR

— Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) 27 Kasım 2018

Right now, Juho Sarvikas (the Chief Product Officer of Nokia's guardian firm, HMD International) introduced on Twitter that Android 9 Pie is now rolling out to Nokia 7.1 handsets across the globe.

Sarvikas notes that it is a "phased rollout", and that "some markets with longer technical approval cycles will observe as quickly as potential."

The total roundup

Did you hear? Android Pie is a factor now. And we all know that everybody will need it and need it as quickly as potential. That is the way it works and that is how we're wired. We wish updates, we would like them to be spectacular and we would like them proper now.

The fact of the state of affairs is a bit completely different. Most telephones made within the final 18 months will see Android Pie, however a few of them will solely get up to date once we see the primary developer preview for Android Q (Quince Jelly or gtfo, Google!) come alongside. It is so much simpler for producers to replace their telephones to a more moderen model, nevertheless it's nonetheless not any higher. That is one other article for an additional time, although. This one is the place I suppose which telephones will get up to date someday within the subsequent 12 months.

Predicting something Android-related is 10% science and 90% interpretation.

It is not as simple as you suppose and plenty of sudsy chilly drinks value of thought goes into my guesses each 12 months. About one-third of them are no-brainers, however among the others are principally the identical odds as a coin flip. It looks like producers solely care about a couple of fashions that get lots of press time. However I do should toot my very own hat (or one thing) and say I've a fairly good observe file. Luck or talent? You resolve. (It's very talent.)

Let's break it down by the most important producers of the telephones we love and make a couple of predictions. Remeber, these are simply predictions and never any official phrase on something from any firm until in any other case famous.

• Google
• Android Beta Program Companions
• Samsung
• LG
• Huawei
• Motorola
• OnePlus
• Nokia
• HTC
• Sony

Nonetheless ready for Oreo? Examine to see whether or not your cellphone will likely be upgraded!

Google

I all the time begin with Google as a result of it is easy and I will get it proper each time. That is what I would like on the high of the web page. I say it is easy as a result of Google has already instructed us which telephones get up to date and which will not.

• The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have already been up to date to Pie.
• The Pixel and Pixel XL have already been up to date to Android Pie.
• Whereas not really from Google, any Android One telephones manufactured since October 2017 will even be up to date to Pie "later this fall."

And that is it. Previous to the Pixel, Google promised two years of full help and three years of safety updates for telephones they promote underneath their very own model. The Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X are nearly three years previous. Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu, Adios, Good Bye. They had been nice telephones.

Android Beta Program Companions

For the primary time ever different corporations have joined Google in supporting the Android Beta Program. When it was began for Android Pie (then recognized merely as P) the next telephones joined Google's Pixel and Pixel 2 household in supporting it:

• Sony Xperia XZ2
• Xiaomi Mi Combine 2S
• Nokia 7 Plus
• Oppo R15 Professional
• Vivo X21
• OnePlus 6
• Important PH‑1

Meaning that each one of those telephones ought to see a full-on replace to Android Pie within the very close to future. The truth is, the Important PH-1 is noticed its replace on the identical time the Pixel and Pixel 2 did.

Samsung

Samsung makes extra fashions of a single flagship line just like the Galaxy S annually than Google has made in whole, nevertheless it's additionally fairly simple to know which telephones Samsung will replace as a result of they're predictable. Samsung gives 4 "premium" fashions annually. like 2018's Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, the Galaxy S9 Lively that everyone knows is coming, and the Galaxy Notice 9. Even when Samsung offered 15 completely different fashions of the Galaxy S6, they had been all handled the identical when it got here to anticipating an replace.

When to count on it's simply as predictable, and it'll occur a few 12 months from the date this was first revealed (March 2018). Some fashions in Europe will see it first, a few month later it's going to present up some place else, and as soon as Samsung is happy it is not going to completely wreck a few gazillion telephones they'll give it the inexperienced gentle. Add in no matter time your service wants and the ultimate result's nearly a 12 months from its preliminary launch.

• The Galaxy S9 and S9+ (and any S9 Lively that comes sooner or later) will likely be up to date to Android Pie.
• The Galaxy Notice 9 will likely be up to date to Android Pie.
• The Galaxy S8 and S8+, and the Galaxy S8 Lively, will likely be up to date to Android Pie.
• The Galaxy Notice 8 will likely be up to date to Android Pie.

Here is the place it will get attention-grabbing. there are a handful of different Galaxy telephones which have an enormous regional fanbase. In India, for instance, the Galaxy J fashions are large hits as a result of they provide many of the identical expertise you discover in a Galaxy S at a cheaper price. Samsung will give them the identical remedy the Galaxy S and Notice traces obtain. That is not essentially the most attention-grabbing half, although. That might be the seemingly random telephones that Samsung decides to replace. We do not know why we see this yearly (Provider requests? Developer favorites? Aliens?) we identical to seeing it. And all of us want we noticed extra of it.

LG

LG has all the time been a wildcard after I write this publish yearly. Like Samsung, there are a couple of "vital" fashions that get all of the press protection and loads of different extra cheap fashions that almost all of us aren't speaking about.

LG additionally talked about some streamlining within the launch cycle, which hopefully provides the event groups time to get an replace out the door and have or not it's a superb replace.

• The LG G7 ThinQ will likely be up to date to Android Pie.
• The LG V30 (together with the V30S or no matter fashions we now have seen or will see) will likely be up to date to Android Pie.
• The LG V20 will likely be up to date to Android Pie.
• The LG G6 will see Android Pie.

Older fashions just like the G5 and V10 are completed seeing any consideration and will not see any updates. LG makes a handful of telephones that are not fairly flagship materials, and we all know it's prepared to spend the money and time on updating a few of them even when your service is not and also you by no means see it. Meaning nothing is a given.

I additionally suppose LG consolidating issues and releasing telephones once they suppose it is time for a brand new mannequin fairly than by taking a look at a calendar will make a distinction right here and result in longer help.

Huawei

Huawei is hard to learn. It hasn't deserted the Asian method of doing smartphones like LG and Samsung have for his or her U.S. divisions and generally which means the issues the corporate does may be puzzling to these of us used to the Western mind-set. Simply after I suppose I've found out precisely which telephones are the corporate's flagship fashions that may get the lion's share of money and time spent, they alter all of it up. That is a superb factor.

One thing made Huawei change the way in which it redistributes and maintains telephones working the EMUI working system (Huawei's model of Android) in 2017 and I believe that is going to be mirrored in the case of Android P updates.

Per an replace from the corporate on December 18, the next telephones are actually being up to date to EMUI 9.0/Pie around the globe:

• Huawei Mate 10
• Huawei Mate 10 Professional
• Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design
• Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design
• Huawei P20
• Huawei P20 Professional
• Honor 10
• Honor View 10
• Honor Play