Android 7.0 Nougat, EMUI 5.0 rolling out now for the Honor 8

February 10, 2017

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Android 7.0 Nougat, EMUI 5.0 rolling out now for the Honor 8 3

The latest device to receive a major software update for Android 7.0 Nougat is the Honor 8, which was released throughout the world last summer.

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A spokesperson for the Honor brand told Talk Android back in December that a software update for the Honor 8 including Nougat and EMUI 5.0 would arrive by February. Now it's February and today is the day.

Owners of the Honor 8 are currently seeing a notification appear prompting them to update to the most recent version of Android and Huawei's in-house software.

Here's what the changelog looks like:

@JustHerrick @TalkAndroid Update to 5.1 on my #Honor8 pic.twitter.com/zblTcqkXN8

— Jeena (@JeenaR1967) February 10, 2017

The software update, as you can tell in the screenshot, is hefty. It's estimated that you'll need 2.27GB for the new build (FRD-L04C567B360). to get cozy on the device. There's a lot going on here between both Android and EMUI getting overhauled.

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Born and raised in New Jersey, Justin is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he studied marketing with a focus on digital marketing. He's very talkative and enjoys discussing anything from technology and sports to video games and television. As for Justin's current device rotation, he carries around the Google Pixel and Nexus 9. In the rare case that his phone or tablet is not in his hand, he is either flicking through cards on his Moto 360 (2015) or typing away on the Microsoft Surface Book. Justin is patiently waiting for the day that Google replicates the Galaxy Nexus with modern day specifications.