Huawei unveiled EMUI 10 at its developer conference in China last month. Now, the company has announced the update timeline for many of its devices. If you are wondering what new changes EMUI10 will bring this year, you are in the right place.
In this article, we have summarized the top 6 features of EMUI 10 that you should know about, before upgrading your smartphone. Furthermore, EMUI10 is based on Android 10, so you'll also have all the latest benefits of this version of Android.
The best features of EMUI 10
We are going to talk about different aspects of EMUI 10, ranging from visual changes to technical improvements in the background. We will also mention some salient features of EMUI10. We begin with the review of the new operating system brought to the Huawei user layer.
1. Dark mode on Android
In line with the industry trend, EMUI10 comes with a dark mode native. While Android 10 is equipped with dark mode, Huawei has taken it a bit further and refined it for comfortable viewing. The dark mode feature in EMUI 10 not only changes the color of the user interface to black, but also adjusts the contrast under variable light conditions.
It helps reduce stress significantly in all situations, making it more enjoyable to use your phone at night. Also, the dark mode in EMUI 10 affects the system-wide UI, so all system apps, settings, and the notification panel go dark with just one touch.
However, there is a slight difference in dark mode color scheme. While the settings page and system apps have true black tones that also help save battery life, the quick settings panel uses a dark but not completely black tone.
It can be a problem for some. However, the dark mode in EMUI10 is quite good.
2. Magazine layout
EMUI 10 doesn't look much different from previous versions of EMUI. However, the subtle changes to the app's UI, animation, and transition make it quite different and, frankly, a joy to use. From the get-go, EMUI 10 follows the aesthetic principles of a magazine.
More space with bigger headlines, easier navigation, bigger icons, and smooth transition like you're looking through a magazine.
Speaking of animations, the feeling when switching between applications or performing intensive tasks is quite smooth. In short, with EMUI10, you will have much better readability, accessibility, and navigation through the system.
Other than that, EMUI 10 brings a new system-wide color palette. Unlike saturated colors, use slightly muted colors to make the user interface aesthetically pleasing and consistent.
You will be able to see these subtle changes in icons, system apps, and user interface elements. The Android skin looks much more polished, cohesive, and the settings page is properly categorized with essential menus at the top. You will definitely love this update when it arrives soon.
3. Always on Display more personalized
Always on Display has been a part of previous versions of EMUI for a long time. However, it was quite basic and you couldn't customize it, just program it. With EMUI 10, you can customize to a whole new level.
You can have the time, date, battery status, notifications, clock widgets and colorful wallpaper on your screen. The icons are designed with gradient colors that look really cool and enhance the look of the device. I would say that the new Always on Display is one of the best features of EMUI and you should definitely give it a try.
4. Updated camera interface
While Huawei produces some of the best camera phones out there, many have complained that its camera interface is unintuitive and feature-laden. With EMUI 10, Huawei is making a lot of visual changes to the camera interface to make it more intuitive.
Now the interface is pretty clean with shooting modes on the bottom bar and categorized menus. It also has a new zoom slider which is pretty cool, but we would have loved for the slider to provide haptic feedback when zooming.
Aside from that, it also comes with an aperture mode slider that allows you to better manage manual mode. Plus, you also get 11 new filters, included in monochrome mode.
All in all, the new camera interface in EMUI 10 is easy to use and you will surely see an improvement.
5. Changes in the background
In addition to making a host of UI and visual changes, Huawei is also rolling out some groundbreaking changes to the core of Android. With EMUI 10, it brings many of those innovations to smartphones. Here are some of them.
In general, Android mobile phones they have an ART (Android Runtime) compiler that bridges the gap between apps and hardware to improve device performance. In simple terms, compilers translate human-readable code into machine language.
So we could say that the better the compiler is at translating the code, the better the efficiency and better performance. Huawei has developed its own compiler called Ark and it is said to have better efficiency than ART. And with EMUI 10, Huawei is using the Ark compiler in most of its flagship smartphones. You will have much better performance when dealing with third-party applications without burning up crucial resources.
The world of smartphones is divided between two main file systems: ext4 and F2FS. Now, Huawei has joined the party with its internal file system called EROFS. With EMUI10, all of its major flagships will switch to the EROFS file system, which should result in better performance.
Huawei claims that EROFS will offer improved disk performance, speed, and efficient read caching. In a nutshell, if you own a Huawei device, EMUI 10 will enable faster storage on your device and that is absolutely great.
Project Mainline is a major feature of Android 10 and it's also coming to EMUI 10. With the support of Project Mainline, you'll be able to get security updates much faster, directly from Google. You won't have to wait for your device manufacturer to release security updates. In this way, you will always be on the safer side. I love that Huawei is bringing the important aspects of Android 10 with EMUI 10.
6. Device Interoperability
While Samsung is taking the PC-smartphone experience by storm with Dex, Huawei is not far behind. You can almost get the desktop class experience if you have a Huawei Matebook laptop.
With EMUI 10, you can connect your smartphone to a Matebook and operate apps and tasks smoothly. While this feature is not available on all Windows laptops, we hope that EMUI 10 will pave the way for future improvements. Apart from that, EMUI 10 also brings improvements to wireless projection which was released with EMUI 9.
It lets you wirelessly connect to monitors, TVs and PCs, and from then on you can open apps, manage files and create documents on the big screen. Of course, the performance is not ideal, however, EMUI 10 has made a lot of changes to improve the overall experience.
EMUI 10 Best Features: Beauty and Brains
It will not be wrong to say that EMUI10 has matured by leaps and bounds. No longer just another Android user layer, EMUI has a foundation in its own right. As we go through the sections, we can see that he is taking UI design seriously and making major changes to make the experience as satisfying as possible.
You will definitely like the new changes in EMUI 10. If you liked our article, you can give us your opinion in the comments section.