Huawei's in-house Harmony OS[1] and all its cross-platform prowess and "Android alternative" perceived reputation will be coming to Europe. Just not on a phone. In fact, Vincent Pang, Huawei Senior VP already made it pretty clear that Harmony OS won't be coming to a smartphone this year at all[2]. So, TV's and potentially smart wearables[3] running the platform is all we can hope for in the immediate future. Remember, Harmony OS is a huge and timely undertaking. Plus, one that will arguably fair better in the current tech climate if it lays low for a bit, so to say.
Still, beyond Harmony OS itself and the various smartphone prospects it may or may not hold, there is the Honor Vision smart TV[4] itself to look forward to on The Old Continent - a pretty impressive piece of kit. More important still, a potential trendsetter for a new wave of increasingly more "smartphone-like" TV's as feature-rich hubs for a connected home.
As a quick reminder, the Honor Vision TV comes in a vanilla and a Pro flavour. The difference between the two being the smart retractable camera on the Pro, six 10W speakers, instead of four and different internal storage - 16GB and 32GB, respectively. Both feature 4K Quantum Dot (VA) panels, courtesy of Samsung. Initially, European markets will be able to choose between a 65-inch and a 75-inch variant, with 55-inch and 85-inch ones coming later.
Honor Vision 55-inch smart TV
At the heart of the Honor Vision TV lies an octa-core Honghu 818, with some smartphone-level performance figures to boast, as well as advanced image processing technologies including Motion Estimate and Motion Compensation (MEMC), High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR), Super-Resolution (SR), Noise Reduction (NR), Dynamic Contrast Improvement (DCI), Auto Color Management (ACM) and Local Dimming (LD). Also on board is the HiSilicon Hi1103 chipset, which 2.4GHz, 5Hz dual-band and 160MHz bandwidth support for peek download rates up to 1.7Gbps. A lot more than what you would typically find on a smart TV.
The Vision TV even gets a dedicated HiSilicon Hi3516DV300 NPU for its built-in camera, enabling some interesting Ai capture features, mostly to be leveraged for video calls. Thanks to Harmony OS and HiLink, the Vision TV can also act as a central hub for your IoT connected home.
There is no real info on pricing or a time frame for Europe availability yet. It also remains to be seen whether both the Pro and the regular models will be entering the market. Perhaps more important still from a service standpoint, Huawei or rather Honor, in this case, needs to clarify its plans and intentions and potentially capabilities for various Western-friendly service integrations into Harmony OS. In the wake of the whole US and Google fiasco, software services really can't be taken for granted.
References
- ^ Harmony OS (www.gsmarena.com)
- ^ Harmony OS won't be coming to a smartphone this year at all (www.gsmarena.com)
- ^ smart wearables (www.gsmarena.com)
- ^ Honor Vision smart TV (www.gsmarena.com)
- ^ Source (https://ift.tt/lZ4kEL)
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