Huawei’s Honor sub brand has announced that owners of the Honor 8 will get a guaranteed 2 years worth of updates for their phone.
While we love that Chinese brands are becoming more international and are building better phones than ever, we are still kind of wound up by poor support by some brands.
What’s strange is that the smaller companies like UMi, Ulefone etc are all releasing updates for their phones quite frequently, but then when you move to the really big players like ZTE or Huawei, updates only come once every blue moon.
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Lack of updates worries consumers as they don’t want to buy a new phone only for it to go past its sell by date in a matter of months, which is why Honor’s latest announcement is great news.
The sub brand has promised that their Honor 8 phone will receive at least 2 years worth of updates meaning that buying the phone is going to be a better investment than before.
The announcement does’t mean we will see frequent updates every month or few months though, and it doesn’t necessarily mean the Honor 8 will be update to the latest version of Android each year, but the fact the company are willing to back a device for so long is encouraging.
And you still believe what Huawei said after all those past years of their lousy support ?
2 years software updates translated below :
1st update is the original firmware when you bought Huawei smartphone.
2nd update is 2 years after that,
That’s all folks, game over then for your expensive Huawei Honor LOL.
Huawei has been pretty good with updates for the Honor Brand. The 5X received 4 updates in the US. That’s not as good as say Xiaomi but it’s a lot better than a lot of phone brands that receive none.
Well, the best and most reliable update service you can get is from the open community, that’s why I only buy phones that have strong community support like the Nexus line or OnePlus phones.
Really? What were those updates exactly? Mine has seen one update and that was to M, had to manually install that one. Mine is still on the May 2016 security update. Yep 2016, not 2017.