Honor is all set to launch a new product line at the Huawei Developers Conference 2019 on 10th August — Honor Smart Screen, which is basically a smart TV line. Now, ahead of the launch, the company has revealed it has received more than 100,000 reservations online for the upcoming product.

The Honor Smart Screen’s product reservation page on JD.com had revealed that it will be available in two variants — a standard variant and a Pro variant. Both of these smart screens will feature a 55-inch panel.

Recently, at an event, Honor’s President, George Zhao had confirmed that Honor’s new smart screen will be powered by Honghu 818 chipset, which is developed by Huawei’s Hisilicon in partnership with Baidu. This is different from the Kirin lineup that powers Huawei and Honor smartphones and looks to be optimized specifically for smart screen products.

The Honghu 818’s computing power and decoding capability will ensure that Honor’s new smart screen offers excellent picture and sound quality. The new chipset supports HDR, super-resolution (SR), noise-reduction (NR), dynamic contrast improvement (DCI), automatic color management (ACM) and motion estimation motion compensation (MEMC) technologies to offer a high-end video experience.

It also integrates Huawei’s Histen sound quality optimization technology which is found on the company’s smartphones as well. The Honghu 818 also supports 8K@30fps and 4K@120fps video decoding and up to 64MP image decoding.

The Honor smart screen also features a pop-up camera which is likely going be used to capture pictures and make video calls. However, what makes it even more interesting is that it supports facial recognition, which could be one of the ways to secure the device.

It has already been confirmed that the Honor Smart Screen devices will be the first products to be powered by the HongMeng OS. Recently, we also got the first sneak peek at the user interface of the Honor Smart Screen powered by the HongMeng OS.

As per the company’s claims, the 55-inch Honor Smart Screen will be more than a regular TV. Zhao has said that Honor does not want to release a traditional TV and instead, it wants to accelerate the evolution of the TV industry with the help of innovation.

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Chinese tech giant Huawei is holding its Huawei Developer Conference 2019 (HDC 2019) at Songshan Lake, Dongguan from August 9th to 11th. We earlier reported that the company will announce EMUI 10 at this conference.

Now, the company has officially revealed that the newer version of its custom Android skin — EMUI 10 will be announced on 9th August. We expect this latest version of EMUI to come pre-installed with the upcoming Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro smartphones when they get launched later this year.

Since Android Q stable build is not expected to ship soon, the EMUI 10 custom interface could be based on Android 9 Pie operating system. However, there are some reports which suggest that it will be based on Android Q. So far, the Chinese giant has not revealed anything related to this new update and what EMUI 10 would bring to the table.

According to the rumors, EMUI 10 will feature a new design philosophy, or at least an updated version of the current design direction. It looks like the new UI will come with smoother animations and will offer better performance when playing videos and games. There’s support for video ringtones as well.

Even if the EMUI 10 is not based on Android Q, we could see many features of the upcoming major Android release be introduced with the newer version of EMUI such as notification bubbles, sharing shortcuts, and new privacy controls. We are also expecting new AI-related features focused on performance, gaming, and fluidity.

At this Huawei Developer Conference 2019, on 10th August, the company is also going to launch Honor Smart Screen, which is an all-new product category for Smart TVs from the company. It will be running Huawei’s in-house developed HongMeng OS, which is also set to go official during this conference.

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Huawei‘s holding a Huawei Developer Conference on the 9th of August 2019, and it might just be one of the most exciting ones to date. Huawei Developer Conference 2019 (or just HDC 2019 for short) will be held in Songshan Lake, Dongguan from August 9th to 11th. The conference will be divided into three segments, a keynote speech, a technical forum and Codelabs.

What makes this specific HDC so interesting is that it might give us our first glimpse at Huawei’s HongMeng OS. We’ve heard so much news about HongMeng OS, that it’s ludicrous how we’ve yet to see any clear leaks of it. The website also hints at a lot of 5G news, as well as a large focus on the Internet of Things. We expect to see all this during the keynote speech.

The technical forum will have a bigger focus on smart home, sports health, smart travel, EMUI, AR&VR, and Huawei Pay. It’s generally for all the things Huawei is already pushing forward just to keep things up update. Codelabs on the other hand is a place to get hands-on coding experience. Here you can learn about Huawei’s latest cutting-edge technologies, and share knowledge and insights with Huawei’s own technical experts across the country.

Overall, this year’s Huawei Developer Conference is shaping up to be one of the most important for the company. It’s fully possible that we won’t hear anything about HongMeng OS, but it’s far more likely that they’ll announce SOMETHING about it. We’re eager to learn more, but all we can really do for now is wait.

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