The Honor Play offered some much-needed competition to the Poco F1 back in 2018, and Huawei is set to debut a spiritual successor to the phone—an Honor Play 4 Pro featuring the flagship Kirin 990 5G. That's all fine and dandy but the original Honor Play remains stuck on EMUI 9.1 without any prospects for an EMUI 10 update.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Kirin-990-powered-Honor-Play-4-Pro-on-the-cards-but-the-original-Honor-Play-remains-without-EMUI-10.466331.0.html
Huawei makes 3rd class products in case sub brand honor. Better to buy Samsung no need of Chinese smartphones.