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Honor 8 Pro Starts Receiving Face Unlock Update in India

Honor 8 Pro Starts Receiving Face Unlock Update in India

By Sumit Chakraborty | Updated: 4 May 2018 11:40 IST

Highlights

Users will receive the OTA update "very shortly"
It brings Face Unlock and hide notification feature
The latest firmware also adds Android March security update

Honor 8 Pro is finally getting the Face Unlock feature in its latest update in India. Earlier this year, Huawei sub-brand Honor had rolled out Android 8.0 Oreo for the smartphone alongside the Honor 9, but the feature was not a part of that update. However, the company has now informed that an over-the-air (OTA) update will bring facial recognition to the mid-range smartphone in India. Notably, the update had started to roll out in other regions in April itself.

Through its official Twitter account, Honor India confirmed that the update is rolling out to Honor 8 Pro as version B320. Replying to a user, the company tweeted, "We would like to inform you that our team has started to roll out the face unlock feature with B320 update for Honor 8 Pro. However, the update is rolling out in small batches." It added that users will receive the OTA update for Face Unlock on the Honor 8 Pro "very shortly." It recommended users to take a back up of their data before upgrading their handsets.

A Twitter user reports the update is 627MB in size, and adds AR Lens, a Paytm-specific fingerprint shortcut feature that brings up the app's bar code scanner, Idea VoLTE call support, and the April Android security update.

As the latest update will be rolled out via OTA, the Honor 8 Pro users should receive get the download notification in a few days. Alternatively, users can look for a manual update by going to Settings > System > System updates.

Just to recap the specifications, the Honor 8 Pro sports a 5.7-inch QHD (1440x2560 pixels) LCD display. The phone is powered by a HiSilicon Kirin 960 SoC, coupled with 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 128 inbuilt storage. It comes with a dual rear camera setup that consists of two 12-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel sensor for selfies. The smartphone was launched in India last year, priced at Rs. 29,999.

Honor 8 Pro

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Design
Display
Software
Performance
Battery Life
Camera
Value for Money

Good
Good camera performance
Good battery life
Lots of storage space
Excellent value for money

Bad
Display saturation can’t be changed

Read detailed Honor 8 Pro review

Display 5.70-inch

Processor HiSilicon Kirin 960

Front Camera 8-megapixel

Rear Camera 12-megapixel

RAM 6GB

Storage 128GB

Battery Capacity 4000mAh

OS Android 7.0

Resolution 1440x2560 pixels

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