Honor began accepting pre-orders in the Middle East region on Augsales started on September 1. The record for highest smartphone livestream, which was verified by Guinness World Records, was achieved despite the weather balloon's failure to reach the 30,000-metre (98,000 ft) goal. On September 5, the phone was placed in a weather balloon at Swedish Space Corporation's Esrange Space Center and carried 18,425 metres (60,449 ft) into the air.
Honor 8's launch in Sweden included a world record attempt to complete the highest smartphone livestream. The sapphire blue model was exclusive to Best Buy for the first 60 days of the phone's availability in the United States. Honor sells the phone directly to customers and select online retailers such as and Best Buy, rather than through wireless carriers. The "unlocked" phone is compatible with GSM networks ( AT&T and T-Mobile). on August 16, becoming the first flagship model (and second overall, following the Honor 5X earlier in 2016) marketed by Honor in the country. Honor hosted launch events in San Francisco and Paris in August 2016 to debut the Honor 8 in the United States and Europe, respectively. Honor confirmed more than 5 million registrations, or indications of interest, within four days of the phone's launch in China. Registrations were accepted until July 18 sales began on July 19. The final firmware update, which included Android Oreo was released September 2018. However, in 2018, Huawei announced that the Honor 8 will be getting the Android Oreo update. According to Honor, the Honor 8 was not supposed to receive Android Oreo due to hardware limitations. On February 11, 2017, Honor began to officially roll out EMUI 5, which is based on Android Nougat, to the Honor 8. The Honor 8 launched with Android Marshmallow with Honor's Emotion UI interface (EMUI 4.0). In November 2016, Honor announced that sakura pink, which was initially available only in China, would be sold in Europe.
In the United States, Honor 8 is available in midnight black, sapphire blue, and pearl white. Some hardware versions are only available in select colors. In China, Honor 8 is available in the following colors: midnight black, sapphire blue, sunrise gold, sakura pink, and pearl white. It has an aluminum bezel, metal trim, and glass back. Users can also tap their knuckles on the screen to take screenshots or recordings, or draw letters to open specific applications. In addition to scanning fingerprints, the fingerprint sensor serves as a customizable "smart button", enabling users to open apps or scroll up or down the screen. Other features include an earpiece with built-in notification LED, a fingerprint sensor on the phone's back side, an infrared port allowing the phone to act as a universal remote, dual SIM-card support in select versions, a USB 2.0 with Type-C interface connector, and QuickCharge support. The Honor 8 also has a forward-facing 8MP camera. The camera app has a "Wide Aperture" mode, among others, which allows users to adjust the focus and depth of field after a photograph has been taken. The two resulting images are then merged. One of the rear cameras has a lens to capture details, and the other has an RGB sensor to record color data. The phone's dual 12 megapixel (MP) camera setup is flush to the phone's reverse glass panel. It has a 5.2-inch (13 cm), 2.5D glass liquid-crystal display (LCD) with 1080×1920 pixel resolution and "multilayer optical filming" to catch and reflect light. The phone comes with 32 or 64 gigabytes (GB) of storage and 4 GB LPDDR4 RAM. It has an eight-core HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor, a Mali-T880 MP4 GPU, and a 3000 mAh (typical) battery. It is also officially available for Huawei V9.The Honor 8 is a smartphone made by Honor, a sub-brand of the Huawei Group, as part of the Huawei Honor series. We has v already seen Huawei rolling out Oreo Beta program and and available for Mate 9 (Pro). This has been tested working on the Huawei Honor 9 STF-L09C432 variant. We have included the active download link and also put up the details on how to install Oreo on Huawei Honor 9.
There might be some glitch but we can expect a fixed build from the developer side. Like most of the custom build ROMs, this might not have all the features working perfectly. This update will move the firmware build number to STF-LO9 8.0.0.321(C900log) for the global variants of Honor 9. This ROM is based on EMUI 8 and comes with latest Huawei UX, and Oreo goodies. In that context, now Android Oreo for Huawei Honor 9 is being deployed and available for download, all thanks to developer OldDroid. While the official versions are still coming steadily, custom ROMs are subbing for it quite well. Later part of 2017 saw a rollout of Android O to various devices and rising demand for the same.
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