Streaming has become the most popular way to consume content. Smart TVs and streaming devices play an important role in the rising popularity of OTT platforms. A recent report on TV and video streaming devices across 27 major countries by Strategy Analytics reveals that Samsung not only leads in streaming device market share in these regions but its operating system Tizen, a gateway to streaming services also top the chart.

Though this report was published on September 2, it is worth noting that it is for Q1 2020.

Streaming Devices

According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung was the leading streaming device brand in the first quarter of 2020 in 27 major countries with 14% of devices in use. Whereas, second and third positions were held by Sony and LG with 12% and 8% market share respectively.

Further, Hisense, TCL, and Amazon tied at fourth position with 5% market share each, followed by Nintendo and Microsoft at fifth position with 4%.

Interestingly, in sixth place with 3%, there were a total of seven brands such as Skyworth, Google, Vizio, Sharp, Roku, Philips, and Xiaomi. Also, with 2% in seventh place, there were four brands like Apple, Changhong, Panasonic, and Konka.

Whereas, the ninth position was captured by Haier, Toshiba, and Insignia with a 1% share. The remaining 9% was held by others category, which includes brands with negligible market share.

EDITOR’S PICK: Samsung to raise smartphone shipments to 300 million units in 2021, as Huawei shipments decline

Streaming Platforms

Talking about streaming platforms, once again, Samsung lead in these 27 markets with 11% share with its Tizen OS. But the second position was held by platforms of both LG and Sony namely WebOS and Sony Playstation with 7% share each.

Roku TV OS and Fire OS tied at third position with 5% market share, followed by Android TV and Microsoft Xbox in the fourth place with 4% share.

Google Chromecast came at fifth position with 3% share while Apple tvOS and Firefox OS clashed with each other in the sixth place with 2% market share. The remaining 49% was occupied by platforms in the others category.

Takeaways

One thing is obvious from this report that the leading streaming device manufacturers also top the chart in streaming platforms if they have any. Also, a plethora of TV manufacturers gained some share in the devices category. Most of them use Android TV but still, Google’s streaming platform only accounted for 4%.

Anyway, this report only includes data from 27 major countries. Even though, the number of active devices in these regions is an astonishing figure at 1.14 billion.

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As more and more complain that smartphone batteries are not durable, which is in reality the struggle between life and beauty. If battery size is increased, style is marginalized and if style is kept in consideration the battery has to be thin. But if a balance between life and beauty can be stricken than such phone would definitely get attention.

Changhong in fourth quarter of the last year introduced Changhong Z9 with 5,000mAh battery with thickness of 9mm. But it could not garnered much response. Now the subsequent edition of eight-core Extreme Edition are available below 1,000 yuan($160).

Changhong phone dimensions are 158x81x8.99mm. Changhong Z9 is hardware and software optimizable. It may come with low power quad-core MTK6589T, 1GB RAM+16GB ROM. It has 5.5-inches screen with 8MP Camera, with a support of WCDMA+GSM dual SIM support.

The enhanced version of Z9 has price of 1200-1400 yuan. It carries 2GB RAM + 32GB Memory and 1080P screen. The eight-core Extreme Edition of Z9 is available at 1700 yuan. All three versions of Changhong Z9 are worth your money.

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ChangHong is the one of electronic manufacturer from China and now they also entering smartphone market, on last September, Changhong has unveiled their HoPhone Z9/Z9S, the phones is comes with large battery capacity.

And now they unveiled their new smartphone that upgrade version from the Z9S, the new model is ChangHong Honphone Z9H, this phone is also called as Z9 Extreme Edition.

The new ChangHong HonPhone Z9H is comes with 1,7GHz MT6592 processor, replace the previous processor that only has 1,2GHz with MT6589T. Z9H is also supports for TD-SCDMA + WCDMA dual 3G network compatible with China Mobile / China Unicom 2G network. And the interesting is the HonPhone Z9H is poweredby 5,000 mAh battery capacity.

The phone is packs with 5.5-inch HD screen size, support for 13 megapixel camera and custom operating system, the phone is also  support for USB-OTG function, gravity sensor, distance sensor and other common light sensor.

The ChangHong HonPhone Z9H is offers with 2,499 yuan or around $400 USD, and this package is comes with USB OTG cable and 10,000 mAh battery packs as separate extra power.

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This year, ChangHong is revealed the four series smartphone to the market, one of the interesting products is HonPhone C888. Because this phone is powered by 5,000 mAh battery capacity.

ChangHong trademark maybe not too familiar for most country, but ChangHong is popular electronic product in Asian market, and now they also entering the phone market since Android is more popular.

The HonPhone C888 is the one of ChangHong smartphone products, interestingly, this phone is offers a nice design and larg battery capacity, with 5,000 mAh battery, the user can used those phone for whole day activity withaour worry to lacks of power.

The user can using this phone as long as 27 hour of talk time, 430 hour of standby time. The phone is comes with 5 inch screen size with qHD display, sports for 1GB of ROM and 4GB o interna; storage. Powered by 1.2Ghz quad-core processor.

This phone is also running by Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system but there is no information about the price yet, it’s seems will be offered with a thousand yuan.

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MediaTek is now becoming the new “hype” for smarpthone manufacturer, since MediaTek has already release their new MT6592 true octa-core smartphone, and one of Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Changhong is now releas the new flagship smartphone, Changhong HONPhone H1 that powered by MT6592 chipset.

The interesting about the Changhong HONPhone H1 is the 3,400 mAh large capacity baterry, this battery is larger than the LG G Pro Lite and Lenovo P770, and this phone is also has a back cover that packs with 7,000 mAh backup battery so this phone has totally 10,500 mAh battery capacity, this is the largest battery capacity for smartphone device on the market today.

The HONPhone H1 is packs with 5,5 inch screen size IPS screen display (1920 x 1080 pixel resolution) In addition to powered by MT6592 quad-core processor, this phone is also coupled with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

The phone is also has dual camera, 8 megapixel front-facing camera and 13 megapixel rear facing camera with Flash LED light. Support for USB OTG, Micro USB 2.0, GPS, MicroSD card slot for expansion the storage, Bluetooth connectivity, and working with GSM, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA network, this phone will works with China Mobile and China Unicom provider.

The phone is running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system, and covered with exclusive gold color cover and white cover with gold strip elements that’s make the HONPhone H1 looking pricey.

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Changhong, a global electronics manufacturer from China, has officially launched the Smart TV 4K UHD (Ultra High Definition) UD85C9000i for the first time in Indonesia. The new 4K UHD UD85C9000i Smart TV is powered by the Android operating system as well as U-MAX OS and supports thousands of applications, including exclusive apps from Changhong.

The new television technology that carries 4K UHD (Ultra High Definition) display which is capable of producing much more crisp and clear with 3840 x 2160 pixel resolution, four times greater than 1080p Full High Definition TV on the market today. This TV uses LCD panel that can present the Open Type which claimed more natural colors, higher contrast and brightness levels are more comfortable on the eyes.

Other excellent features that are owned by Changhong 4K UHD SmartTV that powered by Cortex A9 dual core processor, and graphics reinforced by four core 3D GPU to produce a smooth 3-dimensional effect. The UD85C9000i Smart TV is also equipped with 802.11b/g/n WiFi standard. Through existing wireless connection, users can also take advantage of features DLNA/Miracast, sharing media content both songs and videos from mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) via WiFi.

As the center of a variety of interactions, the new Changhong Smart TV is powered by the Android 4.2 operating system and also U-MAX OS developed by Changhong. Both of these operating systems support of thousands applications, both from Google Play Store and U-MAX OS exclusively. Not only that, the existing operating system supports the operation of the TV without the need of a touch, the user can give the voice command since the TV has Smart Talk features. Using the characteristics, the user can browse the web, changing the channel by a voice command.

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The one of Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Changhong has been unveiled the Changhong Z3 Android smartphone that packs with the 3200 mAh battery capacity, and six month later, CHanghong has been release the new Android phone with extremley large battery capacity, the new Changhong Z9 is now comes with 5000 mAh battery capacity.

The new Changhong Z9 is now available for only 2499 yuan price or arouond $408 USD price tag, this phone has alraeady available in some mall in China.

The new Changhong Z9 has high powere battery that can standby for very long time in one charge, since this phone is packs with 5000 mAh battery capacity but the thickness of the body is very slim, the perfect balance between thin body and endurance. According to official data showed, Changhong Z9 measurements for size 141.9 x 74.2 x 8.9mm, less than 9 mm in thickness can be comparable to the thin part of the products as a selling point.

This phone is also support for dual-card dual stanby through WCDMA + GSM dual mode. The rear body has a beautiful brushed texture border, most of the middle frame brushed metal effect adds to the whole texture, and a black, gray, red, blue and other colors to choose from.

5000 mA battery + low-power quad-core platform
Z9 endurance course the main selling point, the phone built with up to 5000 mA battery capacity, battery using high-density cathode active material to build, plus imported batteries, to provide protection for the safe use. In addition This new Changhong Z9 also chose low-power MTK6589 quad-core processor, but after the upgrade MT6589T quad-core, give full play to the advantages of a large battery 5000 mA to achieve longer battery life.

5.5 inches large screen
In addition to ultra-long standby, this phone is also has unibody design, Changhong Z9 is equipped with a 5.5 inches large screen, with a wide viewing angle IPS technology, combined with full lamination process OGS screen give a more power-saving effect, the resolution is the mainstream of 1280 x 720 pixel

Changhong Z9 packs with 1GB of RAM  and 16 GB of internal memory, expandable to 32G, the camera is packs with 1,3 megapixel front facing camera and 8 megapixel rear camera combinations. System has been customized for the Android version 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system, built-in rechargeable maintenance, intelligent power-saving mode and other functions, in addition to a variety of somatosensory operation to join, such as electronic compass, distance, gravity and other commonly used sensors are supported.

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The high interest of the world’s major producers of the concept of a mini tablet smartphone market lately, is said to have made ​​one of the leading manufacturers of Chinese origin to be motivated to do the same. The one of Chinese electronic manufacturer, Changhong is ready to introducing their phablet device, called Changhong HONPhone V10.

Recently, Changhong which reportedly has been rolled out its latest Android phablet is called Changhong HONPhone V10.

The Phablet based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is equipped with a 5.3-inch IPS display qHD 960 × 540 pixels and a thickness of just 3mm.

Meanwhile, to optimize the performance of existing systems, Changhong’s HONPhone V10 would seem to involve collaboration reliability support MediaTek MT6577 dual core processor with 512MB RAM.

This phone support Dual SIM and Dual Stand by, the user can facilitate practical in certain divert-call in same time. The HONPhone already equipped with 8 megapixel rear camera and 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, phablet has also been equipped with 4GB of ROM, microSD slot and a 2550mAh battery capacity.

For the Chinese market, Changhong HONPhone V10 reportedly priced at $160 USD.

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