Huawei-owned Honor takes on TVs with the Honor Vision-- a smart TV powered by the company's Android alternative, HarmonyOS, and packing smartphone-level hardware inside a slim 55-inch 4K IPS panel.
HarmonyOS is obviously the Huawei attempt to reduce dependence on Android (after all, Google did suspend its Android license back in May), although the company insists it has been working on the software for over 2 years. It is technically designed to run on anything from tablets and PCs to wearables, but Huawei says the initial focus is on "smart screens" such as the Honor Vision.
Moving on to the TV, the Honor Vision comes in two flavours, regular and Pro. Both are 55-inch 4K HDR TVs with a 4K IPS panel featuring 400 nits peak brightness, 178-degree viewing angles and TUV Rheinland certification for blue light protection. Inside is the Honghu 818, an octa-core chipset allowing for image processing features such as Motion Estimate and Motion Compensation (MEMC), Super-Resolution (SR), Noise Reduction (NR), Dynamic Contrast Improvement (DCI), Auto Colour Management (ACM) and Local Dimming (LD). A HiSilicon Hi1103 chip takes care of connectivity with support for 2.5GHz, 5Hz dual-band and 160MHz support for download speeds of up to 1.7Gbps.
While the two Honor Vision models feature the same panel and run on the same silicon, the Pro adds an adjustable pop-up camera and x6 far-field microphones, allowing for video call, facial recognition, body tracking and posture detection capabilities, as well as x6 10W speakers (the regular models has x4).
The Honor Vision is set to hit the Chinese market from August 2019. Huawei gives no word whether it will be available in European territories.
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