Not only Huawei: Many Android smartphones receive HarmonyOS updates
HarmonyOS is Huawei’s great hope in the fight against Google’s Android. But not only the own Android smartphones will receive an update to the new operating system. HarmonyOS is also available for the models of the former subsidiary Honor.
Huawei: Honor smartphones get HarmonyOS
Before Honor became independent from Huawei because of the US ban, the two companies belonged together. Many owners of Honor phones are of course now wondering whether it might be for that upgrade your own device to HarmonyOS will give. In fact, Huawei will also provide Honor devices with the new operating system (source: GizChina). The following Honor smartphones will now have access to the beta version, at least in China:
- Honor X10
- Honor 30S
- Honor-X10 Max
- Honor 30 Youth Edition
- Honor Play4
But that’s only a small fraction of the Honor smartphones and tablets that HarmonyOS will receive. Huawei will provide the Android alternative for many other Honor devices. Below is a List of the models that HarmonyOS will receive (Source: HuaweiCentral):
In the 4th quarter of 2021:
- Honor 30
- Honor 30 Pro
- Honor 30 Pro +
- Honor 30S
- Honor V30
- Honor V30 Pro
- Honor V20
- Honor Magic 2
- Honor 20
- Honor 20 Pro
- Honor X10
- Honor X10 Max
- Honor Tablet 6
- Honor Tablet X6
- Honor Play 4 Pro
- Honor 30 Youth Edition
- Honor Play 4
In the first half of 2022:
- Honor V10
- Honor 10
- Honor Play
- Honor 20S
- Honor Play4T Pro
- Honor 9X
- Honor 9X Pro
- Honor 8X
- Honor 10 Youth Edition
- Honor 20i
- Honor 9
- Honor V9
- Honor Play 3
- Honor Note 10
- Honor Tablet 5 (8 inch)
- Honor Tablet 5 (10.1 inch)
So it is current still tested in China, In the coming months the final updates for the Honor devices should be made available worldwide.
in the Video you see the new HarmonyOS devices from Huawei:
P50 Pro: Huawei has to prove itself
While Huawei is working on the final implementation of HarmonyOS for older smartphones and tablets, a few days ago the group presented the P50 Pro, the first high-end mobile phone that is directly equipped with the new operating system. So now it remains to be seen whether Huawei really made a good Android alternative and the many advantages come true.