Huawei India company has begun rolling out its Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for the Honor 7 smartphone. The company announced this in a post on Facebook.

The smartphone maker put out a post on its official Facebook page and also has a strange note at the bottom asking users to register with their details for their respective OTA updates. Registering for the update requires one to provide their handset's IMEI number and current software version. According to Huawei, the update will hit the device within 24 to 48 hours after the registration.

According to the same, Honor 7 smartphone owners can expect an OTA update notification on their handsets with 24-48 hours of submitting the form. For now it isn’t clear as to which new features Huawei will deliver to with its Android 6.0 Marshmallow update. As for the regular stuff, that is expected to be in there, there Google’s Now on Tap search assistant, better app permissions, app linking, native fingerprint support for the Honor 7’s fingerprint scanner along with performance and battery life improvements.

The Huawei Honor 7 sports a 5.2-inch full-HD (1080x1920p) display with Gorilla Glass protection. It's powered by a 2.2GHz Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 935 processor, Mali-T628 GPU and 3GB of RAM. It comes with 16GB storage expandable up to 128GB via microSD card. There have been reports Huawei Honor 8 direct use Android 6.1 or Android 7.0 system.

The Huawei Honor 7 features a 20MP camera with a Sony sensor and dual-LED flash and an 8MP front facing camera. In terms of connectivity, the single-sim phone supports 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS. It packs a 3100mAh battery and also sports an Infrared port.