Honor would like to inherit Huawei and conquer the top of the smartphone market. With the Magic 4 Pro, the Chinese company also has a real high-end smartphone in its range, but it has one small flaw: the short update guarantee. This is now at least a little improved.
Honor improves update guarantee for a smartphone
Many manufacturers of Android smartphones give an update guarantee. Google with its Pixel phones anyway. There are three new Android versions and five years of security updates. Samsung is better and even promises four new Android versions and five years of security updates for new models. Honor was already behind when the Magic 4 Pro was introduced. There should only be two years of updates. For a cell phone that costs 1,099 euros (see Amazon), this is of course not enough.
When we asked, Honor assured that the update guarantee should be revised. That has now happened. We have received the following message:
At HONOR, our mission is to bring the best products to our customers. The software experience is an important part of the customer experience with our products – accordingly, we also aim for the highest quality there. We want our customers to be able to use their HONOR devices safely and comfortably for a long time. Accordingly, we are currently revising our policy on software updates. The first device under the new update policy is the HONOR Magic4 Pro, which will receive at least two major Android software updates and at least four years of security updates. We continue to work on revising our update policy and will update you as new information becomes available.
At least for the Honor Magic 4 Pro it will at least Android 13 and 14, as well as four years of security updates. That’s fine because it’s an improvement on the previous regime, but the competition is a lot further along. A high-end smartphone should at least have three new Android versions and four years of security updates. Samsung even trumps that by a year. So there is no way around it.