At a launch event in Shanghai, China yesterday, Huawei launched a few products, including Huawei Sound X smart speaker which has been co-developed by Huawei along with Devialet, a French-audio company.
Now, comments from the company’s executive indicates that Huawei is quite confident about the success of this speaker in China. Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business has claimed that the sales of Huawei Sound X will “certainly be more than Apple HomePad” in China.
While the Huawei Sound X is priced at 1,999 yuan, the Apple HomePod costs 2,299 yuan in China. The smart speaker from Huawei is currently up for pre-orders in the company’s home market with a deposit of 100 yuan and will start shipping from 5th December.
As for the features, the Sound X comes with two 3.5” subwoofers (60W in total) and uses SAM bass enhancement technology and is claimed to be the first smart speaker with a Hi-Res certification. As per the company, the bass can dive to an ultralow frequency of 40Hz, allowing you to feel the bass effect with your entire body.
It offer sound intensity of 93 decibels and Huawei says that even at such a high volume, sounds are not distorted because the speaker uses Devialet’s Push-Push acoustic design. The Push-Push design has two symmetrical woofers installed in a confined space and cancels out noise generated at a high volume by using the back-wave thrust.
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The speaker also comes with six evenly distributed 1.5” 8W mid-range speakers alongside the subwoofers which are tuned using Huawei’s Histen sound algorithm. The Sound X also has spatial awareness, so it adjusts sound output depending on where it is placed.
The company has placed microphones around the speaker that can pick up your voice from up to 5 meters away. The combination of the 1.5GHz MediaTek MT8518 quad-core processor and anti-interference signal processing technology ensures that your commands are picked up even in a noisy environment. It comes with 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage. It supports dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, and has a power rating of 24V 2.7A.
The Huawei Sound X also has NFC support and if your phone too has NFC, all you have to do is touch it against the NFC icon on the speaker. The speaker can also be paired with another unit for a dual-speaker stereo mode. It can be used to control compatible smart home products. Huawei’s HiLink technology works with products from Midea, Gree, TCL, Haier, Skyworth, Bosch, Siemens and more.
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