Recently Huawei has disclosed EMUI 10, new software that will be bundled with the new Huawei Android smartphones. Many older devices from the past two years will have the opportunity to upgrade the same.

EMUI is a user interface that will sit on the Android 10 platform with new changes and enhanced user experience for Honor and Huawei smartphones. The company announced that worldwide users of Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro would be the first to put their hands on the new EMUI 10 with immediate effect.

Compatible devices that will receive the EMUI 10 update

The most common question on everybody’s mind probably will be, “Can I get the new update?” or “Is my smartphone compatible?” and similar other.

Here is a complete list of all the compatible Honor and Huawei devices that will officially get the update of the new software.

Huawei Mate-series

Mate 20, 20 Pro, 20 Lite, 20 X (both 4G & 5G), 10, 10 Pro, Porsche Design Mate 10 & RS, Mate X

Huawei P-series

P30, P30 Pro, P 30 Lite, P20, P20 Pro, P Smart 2019, Smart+ 2019, Smart Z

Huawei Nova-series

Nova 5, 5 Pro, 5T, 5i, 4, 4e

Other Huawei devices

Y9 Prime 2019, Y7 Pro 2019, Y6 2019, Y9 2019, Enjoy 8+, Y7, Y7 Pro 2019, Y7 Prime 2019, MediaPad M6 10.8, MediaPad M6 8.4, Enjoy 9S, Maimang 8, Maimang 7, Enjoy 10+

Honor devices

Honor 9X, 9x Pro, 20, 20 Pro, 20 Lite or 20i, View10 or V10, View20 or V20, Honor 10, 10 GT, 10 Lite, 10 Youth Edition, Note 10, 8X, 8C, Magic 2, 8A

That was quite a long list of supported devices that will run the EMUI 10. Probably your device might be on the list.

Huawei has made some changes and improvements as compared to EMUI 9.0. Let’s explore all the features in detail.

New magazine style UI

The magazine-style user interface design in the new EMUI 10. This interface will organize the screen in such a way that it will look like a magazine with clear pecking order headlines, lists, and content.

In a magazine, you will find the tiles are enormous and bold that takes up a fine portion in the top section. The same is the scenario here with the new UI. Such layout can be found everywhere, like the settings menu, contacts, calendar, or any other installed apps.

They are designed to have a well-spaced look, clean interface that is uniform and binding together in a subtle pattern. You will feel less confined than before. The same feature is applied to the drop-down menu that loads from the top screen.

The setting tiles are completely redesigned. They have turned them into a grid of circle icons pretty much similar to the icons you will find on Google Pixel.

When the quick setting is dragged down to the button, you will find the date and time taking the top half of the screen and act as a headline with controls and toggles all streamlined, making it easy for your thumb to reach.

The minimalist and clean approach can be seen in the settings list where the company has reduced the number of setting options. On opening a contact card, you will get a pastel color at the top.

While taking photos using a smartphone camera, you might have looked at the interface of the app, which is a faked leather-textured at the bottom panel. It is replaced now with a cleaner white and black UI.

Morandi Color

The company took inspiration from George Morandi, an Italian artist well known for muting colors is his life paintings. You will see those resembling in this new UI. The new theme added a 2-layer color scheme at the top or information part and the bottom of the interactive part of the screen display.

This new color scheme is applied to the top part. Overall, 6 Morandi colors are integrated into the gallery, notepad, contact details, and other elements.

The inclusion of these color schemes in the UI will make the overall experience more elegant.

Dark theme

A system-wide dark mode is quite natural these days, and the software will have the option to toggle to a dark theme. Once the dark mode is activated, it will fill through all the stock installed apps with the UX design.

All the background will turn black, as it will switch off the individual pixels to save battery. The titles or headlines goes into a light grey shade and makes a contrast without going bright that might be uncomfortable to eyes.

The Morandi-inspired color pastels go into a much dark shade. Hence, instead of pinks, greens, and oranges, you will get a dark shade of brown and grey with hints of orange, green, and blue.

Apart from looking realistic, dark mode serves an actual benefit to the eyes. Your eyes will feel relaxed as you no longer need to look at the bright white screen that contains a lot of blue light. The blue light will cause strain on your eyes.

As said earlier, the dark theme will increase your battery life too. So it’s definitely a win-win for you.

Natural animations

The natural movements of the animations and the new fluidity is another excellent element the company has put its focus on. It is observed when you close an app and return to the home screen by a swipe up from the base panel.

While you are swiping that app away, it tends to change the path and the speed of the moving app in that direction and then blurs while the screen springs back to the app icon sitting on the screen. Altogether you will feel so smooth and fluid.

Another subtle animation you will notice while tapping on the screen or launching an app. Take a close look as you are about to launch the app by tapping. A modest spring animation will appear as if you were pressing a real button.

You will feel that you have pushed the button, and the app launches as soon as you release the icon. Similar things you will observe while selecting a photo from the gallery app. Although this functionality is quite excellent, it is something very pleasing once you observe it.

Camera interface

Huawei may produce some of the best camera phones. Still, many users have complained about its camera interface, which is not very intuitive. With EMUI 10, the company has made a lot of visible changes to the camera interface that makes it quite innovative.

The camera app interface is clean with categorized menus and base-bar shooting modes. You will definitely love the latest zoom slider, which is unique and looks good. In the aperture mode, you will find the presence of a slider that helps you to select the desired number for the photo.

Additionally, you will find 11 brand new filters and includes some new filters in monochrome mode. In a nutshell, the camera features in EMUI 10 are very easy to use with all the latest features that were not present in early versions.

A colorful always-on display

For a long time, the always-on feature has been a part of different versions of EMUI. However, it was not that advanced, and you could not even customize it except for scheduling. With the introduction of the new UI, you can personalize always-on display to a new level.

Now you can have the date, time, notifications, battery status, colorful wallpapers, and clock widgets on the always-on display itself. The icons are beautifully designed with gradient colors and look stunning, raising the overall look of the device.

It is one of the best features in this new UI, and you should definitely put your hands in it.

Interdevice connections

Samsung might be killing the smartphone-PC experience with DeX technology. Still, Huawei is not that far from giving a similar experience to the users. You can get the PC experience with the help of the Matebook laptop.

Now with the EMUI 10, you can connect the phone to the laptop and operate tasks or apps without any hurdle. This feature is still unavailable on Windows laptops.

Apart from that, the new UI brings improvement to wireless projection. This feature allows you to open any apps, documents, manage files, and many more just by wirelessly connecting with TVs, PCs, or monitors.

The new EROFS file system

The two popular file systems widely adopted by all the leading smartphone manufacturers are the ext4 and F2FS file system. Huawei joined the bandwagon by developing its file system called EROFS. The launching of EMUI 10 will transform the file systems of the major flagships by switching to the EROFS file system, resulting in better performance.

The company claims that the new file system will improve disk performance, efficient cache reading, and speed. EROFS will enable faster storage on the device.

Bottom-line

EMUI 10 has matured itself in every manner, and now it’s much more than an Android skin. One thing for sure, you will love the experience of the new EMUI 10.

More about the Operating system here.

Also, read about the MIUI how it is getting better.