Unexpectedly: Honor Play will not receive an EMUI 10 shell with the Android 10 operating system

Huawei is already fully testing and updating its smartphones to the proprietary shell EMUI 10. Now there is

information that one of last year’s flagships will not receive it.

What is known

It's about the Honor Play smartphone, whichintroduced in 2018. According to the Indian division of Honor, the new product will not be updated to the current shell and will not receive the latest version of Android 10. The company explains this with hardware limitations, that is, “weak hardware”. This is very strange, because the smartphone has exactly the same characteristics as the Huawei P20 and Huawei Mate 10, which will definitely receive the update.

Thank you for reaching out to us. We regret to inform you that EMUI 10.0 / Android Q will not be available for your device due to hardware limitations as it requires higher hardware specifications for optimal performance. We appreciate your understanding and patience.

- Honor India (@HiHonorIndia) October 18, 2019

Recall that Honor Play has 6 installed.A 3-inch Full HD + display with a notch and an eight-core Kirin 970 processor paired with 4 GB of RAM and a GPU Turbo graphics accelerator. In addition, the Honor Play also has a dual camera of 16 megapixels + 2 megapixels and an energy-intensive 3750 mAh battery with support for fast charging via USB Type-C port.