ISSUE 44 • ANDROID ADVISOR 43REVIEWSoftware
As you’d hope from a brand new Android phone, the
Mate 10 Pro comes with Android 8.0 Oreo and this is
overlaid with Huawei’s EMUI interface.
EMUI is one of the most iOS-like Android interfaces
out there and this makes it ideal if you’re jumping ship
from an iPhone. The default layout is to show all apps
in a grid, but you can change this for the traditional
app drawer in the settings.
From the home screen you can drag down to get
a search bar to find apps, music or other media.
The previous version was EMUI 6, but in order to
match Android, this has now been bumped up to EMUI
8.0 for the Mate 10. You won’t notice too many major
changes, since these are lurking behind the scenes.
EMUI 8 is great to use, although it does take a bit of
adjusting if you’re used to plain Android. What’s nice