All new Honor[1] smartphones will now reportedly come with FullView Display (18:9 display). Huawei has recently launched several smartphones in the budget, mid-range, and premium segments, and most of them feature the FullView Display. But now, as it appears, the company may completely ditch the screens with 16:9 aspect ratio and adopt the 18:9 displays.
According to a well-known tipster Roland Quandt, Honor is migrating its complete smartphone lineup[2] to the new aspect ratio displays. In a tweet on Wednesday, Quandt cited Honor Germany as saying, "there will be no new Honor phones that do not have a FullView display (18:9 ratio) from this point on." Honor already has several smartphones in its lineup that feature the FullView display, including recently launched handsets like Honor 9 Lite[3], Honor 7X[4], Honor View 10[5], and Honor 9i[6], among others.
Quandt has also noted[7] that Honor will start rolling out the EMUI 8[8] Android Oreo-based update in February to selected smartphones. The EMUI 8 update is expected to come to Honor 8 Pro[9] and Honor 9[10] starting this month. However, the Honor 7X smartphone users will have to wait till the second quarter of this year for the same. Also, the EMUI 8 update may come to Honor 8[11] soon, but apparently won't be based on Android 8.0 Oreo[12]. Honor Germany has reportedly said that it "will have 'a surprise' in this regard [Oreo for Honor 8] in the near future". An earlier report had also mentioned that the company will provide the Android Oreo experience on Honor 8 by porting its EMUI...