Huawei will provide firmware updates for all Honor phones released before April 1 2021

Now that Huawei sold off its Honor brand, the company was able to become an independent smartphone brand and will once again release smartphone pre-installed with Google Services. With the company departing from its parent company Huawei, Honor explains exactly how firmware updates will be fulfilled going forward.

Honor Finland confirms to i>SuomiMobiili that Huawei will be handling firmware updates to all Honor devices released before April 1 2021 throughout the rest of their life cycles. That means that Honor will be solely responsible to handle its firmware updates for devices it releases after April 1. This means that firmware updates for the new Honor 50 series will be solely handled by Honor. This date is significant since Honor exited Huawei between March and April.

Honor promises to continue to support older devices in Finland, as much as possible, before being referred to Huawei support.

If an consumer is in touch with us, we always help [them] as far as we can before directing [them] to Huawei customer service. We continue to help with matters related to the use of smartphones[…] The intention is to serve both old and new HONOR consumers as well as possible.” – Suvi Surenkin, Honor Marketing Director for Finland and The Baltics.

In addition, Huawei has confirmed that it will continue supporting high-end Honor devices with monthly updates and more affordable devices on a quarterly basis.

Huawei confirms the Honor 20, 20 Pro, and View 20 will get monthly updates. Meanwhile, Huawei will support the following devices with quarterly security updates through the end of their product cycles:

• Honor 30
• Honor 30 Pro +
• Honor 30i
• Honor 30S
• Honor View 30 Pro
• Honor 20e
• Honor 20i
• Honor 20S
• Honor 20 Lite
• Honor 10i
• Honor 9A
• Honor 9C
• Honor 9S
• Honor 10X
• Honor 9X lite
• Honor 10X lite
• Honor 9X Pro
• Honor 8A
• Honor 8S
• Honor 8A Pro

It’s worth noting that while Huawei may continue to support Honor devices, it does not guarantee that these devices will receive full Android version upgrades, whether that’s Android 11 or Harmony OS. We're glad to hear that the phones will at least be updated with security patches.

Source (Finnish)