Honor 8x Officially Gets Android 9.0

_brumpost.comThe new upgrade to Android 9.0 has lots of improvements. One thing I noticed first was the notch and then the recent apps and then the notification area. Other insignificant things that took longer to realise had changed includes highlighting and moving between texts and so forth.

The new upgrade makes the device feel new and functions faster mad better than the previous version.

It now includes the Huawei Share which is a wireless file sharing system that places your contents right on your PC.

The software works when both your Huawei/Honor device that has the Huawei share software rus on the same WiFi network as your PC. This feature was first noticed when I tried to move a file to my phone via the USB cable.

But never forget that the Honor 8x doesn’t come with the USB Type-C which isn’t very cool but the Honor Play has USB Type-C.

The upgrade is available on all Honor devices that were released last year also on some Huawei smartphones that came with the Android 8.0 and EMUI 8.0.


The Honor 8X experience over the last 4 months since we last reviewed the smartphone had been great. The user interface is great and the speed of the device is very great.

Playing powerful games on it like PUBG, Gangstar Vegas, Asphat or Need for Speed and Mortal Kombat X all worked fine without any lag on the device.

One thing of concern was how the software closes some apps on the background when you leave them for too long. For example, whenever you switch between app let’s say you were browsing on the Microsoft Edge and then move to Gallery to check a picture before coming back, the app is likely to be starting out from then beginning closing all your tab unless you set Edge to recover tabs whenever app shuts unrequested.

The Honor 8X experience over the last 4 months since we last reviewed the smartphone had been great. The user interface is great and the speed of the device is very great.

Playing powerful games on it like PUBG, Gangstar Vegas, Asphat or Need for Speed and Mortal Kombat X all worked fine without any lag on the device.

One thing of concern was how the software closes some apps on the background when you leave them for too long. For example, whenever you switch between app let’s say you were browsing on the Microsoft Edge and then move to Gallery to check a picture before coming back, the app is likely to be starting out from then beginning closing all your tab unless you set Edge to recover tabs whenever app shuts unrequested.

New features

Scrollshot and Screenshots
This is a feature which enables you to take an entire screen as a screenshot. This can be done in 3 swipe directions.

Normally holding down the “Volume Down” button and the “Power button” basically takes screenshot of an interface.

The new EMUI 9.0 slows you to do more when you do this. After taking screenshots, you can immediately swipe up (the screenshot take forms up in an animated screen on the left bottom side of the screen.) to share the screenshot with your friends via Huawei share UI which includes Bluetooth, and others.

Swiping left just keeps the screenshot and swiping down activates the “Scrollshot” which automatically starts a scrolling interface whereby the current screen is being captured continuously and saved as a single picture. It’s great right especially when you have a really long page screen you’d like to screenshot. Instead of taking screenshots one after the other, the Scrollshot takes the entire screen for you.

New Gallery app
The gallery app had never been good looking especially on the older EMUI 8 that was shipped with the Honor 8x.

The new gallery app isn’t better though but slightly different than the previous version.

The new one now utilises grid user interface unlike the list view in the previous version.

Notch and Notification center
The notification center now has good separators which is very obvious. Each app notifications can be clearly distinguished between one another.

Also, the curves on the edge of the design of the notification area is now way reduced.

Also noticed is the notch which shows when you swipe down to access the notification center despite turning off the notch.

The new upgrade had changed that and now, the notch is gone for good.

New camera features
Good Food, Documents and HiVision the new things I noticed in the camera application apart from the app trying to lecture me about every feature I was already accustomed to for example, there is always this photo comparison that details what each feature does.

Since a camera is an hardware that is boosted by the software to function well, there shouldn’t be too much expectations with the Honor 8x 20 MP and 2 MP dual rear cameras or thr 16 MP front facing camera.

The new features of course did some values to the quality of pictures taken but not really going to make it work as though it was a Huawei P30 Po camera.

How do you get the upgrade

Go to settings by swiping down to access the notification area, then click on the settings button represented by an Icon Cog at the top right of the screen.

Head to System which is located down below on the settings screen page.

Then click on About Phone or Software Update.

Click on check for updates. When there is an update there is a Download update Button which when clicked asks you to download the update using Wi-Fi.

The size of the update is about 3.41 GB and it saves on the device memory not external memory like the Micro SD card.

When you’re done, the system asks you to install the update which restarts your device and makes the necessary changes.

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