Huawei Honor 7 EU devices getting Android 6.0 Marshmallow update

Huawei has also started rolling the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to the Huawei Honor 7 units in the EU. Huawei EU division shared this news on their Twitter handler. The Marshmallow update is available OTA (Over-The-Air) to the units in EU and will be available in stages in the country. The company has also said that the Marshmallow update download link will be available from end of the next week. The update was originally expected by the end of the February and has arrived after a couple of weeks from the original release date.

Finally folks. The Marshmallow update for Honor 7 is out from today forward via OTA. #honor #forthebrave pic.twitter.com/H33b0FNxL2

— HonorEU (@HonorEU) March 25, 2016

The Android Marshmallow update comes with new features and enhancements. The features it brings includes Google Now on Tap feature, new Chrome feature that will change the Web experience for Android users, the all new Android Pay feature, new fingerprint APIs for developers to add into their owned apps, new Silent feature for sound and vibrate mode, Do Not Disturb mode to block all sounds or only alarms and notifications and Doze battery saver feature.

To recall, the Honor 7 was launched in October last year with features like a 5.2-inch full-HD display with 1080×1920 pixel resolution. It is powered by the 64-bit octa-core Kirin 935 processor (four Cortex-A53 cores at 2.2GHz + four Cortex-A53 at 1.5GHz) with 3GB of RAM and ARM’s Mali-T628 GPU. It runs EMUI 3.1 skinned on top of Android and comes with a microSD card slot with expandable storage capacity up to 128GB.

It features a 20-megapixel rear camera with phase detection autofocus, a Sony IMX230 sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 6-lens module, dual-LED flash and sapphire glass protection. It also has an 8-megapixel front-facing wide-angle fixed focus camera with a f/2.4 aperture and a front-facing flash. it also has a fingerprint sensor below the rear camera that can read fingerprints in just 0.5 seconds. Connectivity options includes NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS/ A-GPS and 4G LTE.  It measures 143.2×71.9×8.5mm and weights 157 grams. It is backed by a 3100mAh battery with quick charging feature that can charge the phone from 0% to full within 1 hour 25 minutes and zero to 50 percent in 30 minutes.