EMUI 10 will not arrive on Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro. Huawei has just confirmed that it had no intention of deploying the update on these more than three-year-old models despite information from the firm that suggested otherwise.
Huawei continues to roll outEMUI 10 on its older smartphones, but unlike a brand message that announced the update on the Mate 9 series a few days ago, it will ultimately not be entitled to preferential treatment. Yet in early February, Huawei wrote this in a post on its Instagram account spotted by the Huawei Central website. "We are actively developing and testing the EMUI10 update for the Huawei Mate 9."
The firm is now talking about a mistake. The response was "automatically generated on Instagram and does not come from an official Representative of Huawei," the company told Huawei Central. In other words, it has no intention of deviating from its emUI 10 and Android 10 deployment program announced several months ago. The Mate 9 and 9 Pro were not part of it.
The oldest of the Mate series to be entitled to EMUI 10 is therefore that of the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro who have not yet exhausted their cartridges. Launched under EMUI 8 (Android 8 Oreo), they have only been updated once with Android 9 Pie. Knowing that Huawei is rolling out two major updates to its smartphones, the owners of a Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro were wrong to have given way to a glimmer of hope, both models having gone from EMUI 5 (Android 7 Nougat) to EMUI 8 and then EMUI 9.
Huawei is still running its program as advertised. In recent months, many of the brand's models have received the EMUI 10 update, which has already reached more than 50 million users worldwide.
Source: Huawei Central