The new Huawei flagship P40 series was launched earlier this year with a slightly upgraded version of its custom Android 10-based skin called EMUI 10.1. Soon after the launch, the company shared an EMUI 10.1 update roadmap detailing the beta release timeline for older Huawei and Honor smartphones.
Several Huawei devices have received the beta update since then. The company has also released a stable EMUI 10.1 update for the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro and the Mate 30 series globally. We can confirm that our mate 30 devices have received the update. The update is very heavy and will require 4.33 GB of your data, so we recommend you use a stable WiFi connection to download. The company has now shared a list of all Huawei and Honor devices that are scheduled to receive the EMUI 10.1/Magic UI 3.1 global update this year.
Here are all the Huawei and Honor devices that will be updated to EMUI 10.1/Magic UI 3.1:
- Huawei P30
- Huawei P30 Pro
- Huawei Mate 20
- Huawei Mate 20 Pro (*Porsche design Huawei Mate 20 RS)
- Huawei Mate 20 X
- Huawei Mate 20 X 5G
- Huawei Nova 5T
- Huawei Mate Xs
- Huawei P40 Lite
- Huawei Nova 7i
- Huawei Mate 30
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro
- Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G
- Huawei MatePad Pro
- Huawei MediaPad M6 10.8″
- Honor View30 Pro
- Honor 20
- Honor 20 Pro
- Honor View20
What EMUI 10.1 brings on the table
The EMUI 10.1 update will introduce a couple of new features to the aforementioned devices. These include a new preloaded app called “MeeTime”, which is a video/audio calling app similar to FaceTime on iOS and Google Duo. This is a geographically restricted app for now. Huawei claims that it offers the best resolution in poor network bandwidth situations and features like background changing, screen sharing, and tablet support.
Furthermore, the EMUI 10.1 update will bring useful features like multi-screen collaboration, new fingerprint animations, and cross-device photo gallery to the aforementioned devices.
The update also includes Huawei’s alternative to the Google Assistant, called Celia. The voice assistant can help you with regular daily tasks, such as initiating phone calls and texts, setting up reminders and calendar appointments, start voice recording, translate sentences, play music, videos, toggle devices settings, and flashlight, and search for information on the web. The voice assistant will not be available in certain regions. It has already rolled out on the Huawei P40 series and will soon make its way over to older devices with the EMUI 10.1 update.
The company is already rolling out the global stable update to a few devices, we expect the remaining devices to receive the update in the coming months
