Honor has already confirmed that the company will be hosting an official launch event named Honor Smart Life on 26th September. At the event, the brand is expected to announce a range of devices.

Among several devices, Honor has today confirmed through a new teaser poster that the brand is gearing up to launch its new Honor Vision X2 series of smart TVs in the market. It has also revealed some key features of the upcoming TV lineup.

The company confirms that the Honor Vision X2 series will come equipped with a 1.07 billion colors wide gamut, offering rich colors. Basically, Honor is talking about the display panel of the upcoming TV models.

Previously, the company had confirmed that it will be launching the Honor MagicBook V 14 laptop at the same event, which will be among the first to come pre-installed with the latest Windows 11 operating system. Now, Honor has confirmed thorugh a poster that the upcoming laptop will also feature a 5-megapixel dual-camera setup.

Along with this, the company is also expected to launch MagicBook 16/16 Pro at the same event next week. There are few other products getting launched at the event and a few of them are already up for pre-order in China, including a smart home camera, a massage gun, and an oral irrigator.

There’s another event from the brand scheduled to take place today in China where it is expected to announce an upgrade for the Magic3 series’ cameras. To know what’s up the company’s sleeves, we’ll have to wait for the official announcement.

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Honor has just announced that it will be hosting its Smart Life product launch conference on September 26. During this event, the company will announce various new smart devices and products.

The Chinese smartphone maker made the announcement earlier today (16th September 2021), with its official event slogan being “Pursue the Beauty with Wisdom, Connect Life with Technology.” Notably, the news of the September 26 Smart Life event also arrives after the previously announced Imaging Technology conference on September 22, which hints at possible upgrades for the Magic3 series’ camera system. Looking at the image poster shared by the company, we can see various smart products like laptops, TVs, tablets, and more.

In other words, we can expect to see the brand announce certain new products within those segment in the upcoming event later this month. Furthermore, while the company had announced the Honor Watch GS 3 in a launch event back in August, the smart wearable has yet to be officially released. So, we could also see the official launch of this smartwatch as well, which features 8 channel PPG sensor that uses an AI algorithm and AI Engine to accurately measure heart rate.

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Honor has scheduled a Smart Life product launch for this coming Monday (May 18). It is expected to announce a number of devices at this event including a smart TV. The features of this upcoming TV have been teased by the brand on Weibo for a few days now. The latest one confirms it to come with 6 mics.

Three days back, we reported the forthcoming Honor smart TV will feature MEMC technology, commonly known as motion smoothening and soap opera effect. Since then the brand has dropped three more teasers.

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The first one tells us the smart TV will come with ACM (Adaptive Contrast Management) technology. This will change the contrast and colors dynamically based on the content playing on the TV. Honor says it has professionally tuned the panel to output authentic live colors.

Further, the brand also confirmed its next smart TV to arrive with SR (Super Resolution) algorithm. This will enhance the low-quality content in real-time with better textures and details. In other words, it will upscale lower-resolution content to a higher resolution.

Lastly, today’s teaser reveals the upcoming Honor smart TV will sport 6 mics. These microphones will help users control the TV with their voice from longer distances. Thus, they will no longer need the remote control in their hands all the time to control the TV.

Based on the features teased by the brand so far, we believe this Honor smart TV will be positioned as a premium offering.

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Huawei has scheduled its annual developer’s conference, HDC 2019 in China this week where the company is expected to make a few big announcements, including the launch of its sub-brands new product lineup.

Honor Smart Screen, which is basically Smart TVs are all set to get launched on 10th August. As the launch date nears, more and more leaks related to the upcoming product keeps surfacing online. In the latest leak, we get a look at its user interface.

An image has been leaked online which shows the bottom half of television, which is believed to be the upcoming Honor Smart Screen. It also showcases the device’s welcome screen, giving us a sneak peek at its user interface.

This is also the first sneak peek at the Huawei’s upcoming HongMeng OS, which is developed in-house. It has already been confirmed that the Honor Smart Screen devices will be the first products to be powered by the HongMeng OS.

In the leaked image, we can see several functions listed on the left pane, including display settings, sound settings, connected devices, account management, about section, etc. On the right pane, there’s a section that checks for software updates.

A few users, who have already experienced this user interface claims that the upcoming Honor product is quite smart thanks to the AI Camera feature and the user experience is like never seen before.

Honor’s President, George Zhao has confirmed that Honor’s new smart screen will be powered by Honghu 818 chipset, 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.

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.

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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Last week, Huawei’s sub-brand Honor had confirmed that it will be soon entering into consumer electronics market with the release of ‘Honor Smart Screen’ TV. Honor India President Charles Peng has confirmed through an interview with PTI news agency that the company will be soon introducing its smart TV in India. He also revealed that the Honor 9X series of smartphones that have gone official recently in China will be also coming to India.

Peng said, “We recently announced the launch of a brand-new large-screen category, Smart Vision Smart TV. This indicates that the large-screen industry will enter the smart screen era from the traditional TV era. The first product of the new category will be officially released in early August and we might bring it to the Indian market soon.” He added, “We will launch newer products and establish an ecosystem of technologically advanced and high-quality devices in India.” 

Huawei’s sub-brand is also planning to bring Honor 8X successor to India. Peng stated, “We will launch the next X series phone in India soon. The phone is a successor to Honor 8X launched in India last year, which was a huge rage with the youth in India and has received an overwhelming response.”

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Last year, Honor had released Honor 8X smartphone in India. The next X series for India could be the Honor 9X and Honor 9X Pro smartphone. The Honor 9X and 9X Pro smartphones feature 6.59-inch IPS LCD display with notch-less design and full HD+ resolution. Both phones feature 7nm Kirin 810 chipset. The Honor 9X comes with up to 6 GB of RAM and up to 128 GB storage whereas the Pro edition features of up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of storage. The Honor 9X duo are fitted with side-mounted fingerprint scanners.

The Honor 9X and 9X Pro are packed with 4,000mAh batteries. Both phones are equipped with 16-megapixel pop-up selfie snappers. The Honor 9x has a 48-megapixel + 2-megapixel dual camera system. The Honor 9X Pro has 48-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel triple camera system. The Honor 9X has a starting price of 1,399 Yuan (~$203; Rs. 14,026) and 9X Pro’s base model costs 2,199 Yuan (~$319; ~Rs. 22,046).

Peng has further stated that India being second largest market after China for the company, it aims to gain 10 percent market share by next year. The company also wants to offer users with top notch after-sales service.

In May, the US government had imposed trade ban on Huawei which disallowed U.S. companies to work with the Chinese firm. Earlier this month, the ban was lifted with multiple restrictions. Peng said that regardless of the recent US ban, the restricted supplies from the U.S. won’t affect its smartphones.

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Recently, an executive of Huawei’s sub-brand Honor confirmed that the company is working on Smart TVs. Now, insiders aware of the development say that the first Smart TV from Huawei will come powered by the company’s own HongMeng OS.

As per the reports, Huawei will be launching its first Smart TV as early as August this year. The company is aiming its Smart TV product, which it likes to call “Smart Screens”, the hub for controlling all internet-connected devices at home.

The TV will also act as an entertainment as well as an information center for the families, claims Honor President George Zhao. While he took the stage recently to confirm the development of smart TVs, he didn’t reveal much about the features of the upcoming TV.

We’ve known about the HongMeng OS from Huawei from quite some time now. After the US government put Huawei in the “Entity List”, effectively banning US-based firms to do business with the Chinese giant, Huawei confirmed that it had been working on its own operating system and it’s ready to get launched.

As per the reports, the HongMeng OS is currently in the testing phase and is expected to get launched in the coming months. Recently, during an interview with French media, Huawei CEO confirmed that the HongMeng OS or Oak OS won’t be limited to smartphones and will run on a wide range of devices, including routers, network switches, tablets, computers and data centers.

Huawei is aiming to create a singular operating system for all of its products. The company’s CEO Ren Zhengfei also said that it’s very likely that HongMeng OS is faster than the Android and macOS. Earlier, it was reported that the upcoming operating system is about 60 percent faster than Android.

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Honor made some waves after officially announcing that the Honor TV yesterday. Honor President George Zhao made some pretty big claims, like how he wants to revolutionize the TV industry with the upcoming smart TV. In a recent interview, he further elaborated on his thoughts regarding the television industry and Honor‘s upcoming product.

According to George Zhao, the TV hardware industry is in dire need of R&D. He claims that the television was once the hub of information for families, but smartphones have since taken that spot, relegating televisions to purely entertainment purposes. The reason for this is supposedly the absolute lack of innovation that the TV industry has seen, especially in comparison to the huge strides made by the smartphone and computer industries.

Honor will not compete in price wars?

To this end, George Zhao also claims that the Honor TV will not be competing much in terms of pricing. Instead, Honor will be investing heavily on the R&D side of things to ensure that they can push out “the future of TV”, which he calls Smart Screens. Instead of going head to head with competitors in an already saturated market, he wants to expand the market with brand new high-end and innovative options to push the industry forward.

Honor also wants to avoid direct competition or conflict with already established TV companies. George Zhao tells us how Huawei had previously provided TV chips and software processing for the TV industry, as well as how those connections have helped them in the development of their own product. It makes sense that they wouldn’t want to sully that.

Perhaps most interesting is how the Honor President wants the TV to be the central hub of a household. He claims that the smart screen should become the emotional center of the family as an audio-visual entertainment center, information sharing center, control management center and multi-device interaction center. He also explains that the specs and features should reflect this, though we’re not sure what features he has in mind.

Regardless, it seems George Zhao is incredibly optimistic on the future of the TV industry, as well as extremely confident in his own product. According to the man, the TV industry has barely begun to evolve. He also throws in an interesting little tidbit, saying Huawei themselves may be joining in on the Smart TV market in the future. This is a lot to digest, but we’re confident Honor knows what they’re doing, and we look forward to seeing the results.

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At a recent Honor media meeting, Honor President George Zhao officially announced that Honor will be launching a brand new smart TV in the future. Just as we had theorized earlier, it seems like an Honor TV is coming soon. It’s pretty interesting to see the company finally dabble in a completely new market.

According to George Zhao, the company isn’t just looking to release just any smart TV. The company wants to be a true innovator and revolutionize the smart TV market. To this end, they’ve partnered up with China’s JingDong to bring about a new evolution of the product. Honor is calling it “Smart Screen TVs”, as a combination of smart TVs and internet TV. They’re even hyping it up as the future of television, which seems a bit optimistic.

From what we can gather from George Zhao’s announcement, it seems like Honor’s TV will be heavily integrated with other smart devices. He claims that he wants the television to be less of a media center, and more of a complete information center. We assume that means it will serve as a smart center for services, household items and sharing from phones.

If the previous poster is to be believed, it’s fully possible that the Honor TV is coming extremely soon. We’ll probably see it next to the other new devices, these being the Honor 9X and new Magicbook. It seems like Honor is being very ambitious with their new TV, and we have to question whether it’s wise. Still, we’re eager to see what comes out of it, so stay around on Gizmochina.com for further news on Honor, as well as all your Chinese tech news.

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Honor‘s been hitting the news quite frequently these past few days. Their upcoming launch is only 4 days away, and we’re still not sure what they have in store for us come the 15th. Today’s teaser adds to the mystery of what’s coming, claiming a brand new product is coming. Is this just the new Honor 9X, or could it be something completely new?

Going off of yesterday’s post, there’s a high chance that this brand new product is the new Honor Magicbook. We got a glimpse of the new device yesterday, and it certainly looks pretty ready for launch. The time is ripe for a brand new laptop from the company, seeing as the old one is starting to get a bit outdated.

On the other hand, it’s possible that we’ll see a brand new Honor TV. Huawei have already said in the past that they’re not interested in making TVs, but that doesn’t apply to Honor. We saw a TV in yesterday’s image, but it’s not exactly concrete evidence. It would fit the bill of being a completely brand new product launch though.

Of course, we’re definitely going to see Honor’s new 9X and 9X Pro. The main question is, what’s going to launch alongside those two devices? We’re eager to find out more, but all we can really do for now is wait for more information. In the meantime, stay tuned on Gizmochina.com for any news on the upcoming Honor product launch.

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Earlier today, Honor President Zhao Ming posted a photo of the Honor offices over on Weibo. Through this, we get our very first look at the latest version of the Honor Magicbook, and it has some extremely thin bezels this time around! Along with that, we’ve got another look at the Honor 9X, and also a possible look at an Honor TV!

First, let’s take a closer look at the brand new Honor Magicbook since it’s there are plenty of details to make out here. First off, we’ve got some new extremely thin bezels around the device’s display. There’s also no front camera in sight, which probably means we’ll be seeing Honor’s laptop pop-up camera make a grand return. As for specs, we can probably expect the Intel i5-8265U with an NVIDIA MX250 GPU, with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD.

Next up, there’s the Honor 9X that’s sitting on the table next to the Magicbook. We’ve already heard a lot about the Honor 9X, so the picture doesn’t really reveal all that much other than the twilight colour scheme. The Honor 9X is set to launch on the 23rd of July, and it’ll have some pretty hefty specs. You can find a full rundown of the specs over here.

Last but not least, we’ve got the blocked out and inconspicuous TV sitting in the corner. The fact that it’s blocked by a sticker could simply mean that it’s got sensitive information on it, but there’s also a chance it’s concealing a possible new Honor TV! While there’s nothing concrete about it, seeing an Honor TV could be really interesting in the future.

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After the success of Xiaomi in the smart TVs market, more and more smartphone manufacturers are now looking to expand their products portfolio by entering the Smart TV market. After OnePlus announced that it’ll soon be entering the smart TV market, Huawei is also joining the race.

While we earlier reported about TVs coming from Huawei and Honor and now, the latest report reveals that the Huawei TV could make its appearance pretty soon. It suggests that Huawei will be launching a 55-inch TV under its Honor brand.

A couple of months ago, we reported that Huawei is planning to launch two series for Smart TVs — one with Honor brand and another under the ‘Huawei AI Window’ lineup. The application for protecting the term ‘Huawei AI Window’ suggested that the television sets could be powered by some sort of artificial intelligence technology.

Huawei has already revealed that it is developing a new AI-based voice assistant that is intended for the global market. However, the said solution isn’t ready for deployment and it remains to be seen if its new AI voice assistant gets ready by the time the smart TV series arrives or the company chooses to opt for Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa for voice commands.

Previous reports suggest that Honor will launch its first smart TV in April while Huawei will launch its first TV in the second half of the year. Huawei’s smart TVs won’t be affordable ones like Xiaomi’s but mid-range and high-end ones but Honor-branded TVs are expected to be cheaper and available online only. There are also reports suggesting that Huawei already has a team of about 200 – 300 people for its TV division which is under its Internet of Things Department.

On the other hand, the OnePlus TV will come with an artificial intelligence assistant and will also have a way to seamlessly connect with the smartphone, enabling it to show reminders and traffic information among others. There will also be a built-in camera and the company will also have a solution for the concerns related to the home-privacy. It’ll receive software updates for over five years following its launch, to make it smarter and more connected.

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It’ll be interesting to see Huawei’s take on Smart TVs and how its products fares with the competitors, including Xiaomi and OnePlus, when it launches its own TV. It also remains to be seen how these smartphone brands handle their TV strategy, which could become a hub for all other IoT devices.

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Huawei, one of the leading smartphone manufacturer, is now reportedly planning to enter the television market. The China-based company has filed an application for reserve the term ‘Huawei AI Window’, associating the monicker with LCD panels and smart television sets.

This is contrasting when compared to the earlier reports that suggested that the company will launch smart TVs under its Honor brand. However, there’s a possibility that the company could be planning to launch two series — one with Honor brand and another under the ‘Huawei AI Window’ lineup.

The application for protecting the term ‘Huawei AI Window’ also suggests that the television sets could be powered by some sort of artificial intelligence technology. As for the software, it’s not clear if the company will rely on Google’s Android operating system or its own proprietary software.

Huawei has already revealed that it is currently developing a new AI-based voice assistant that is intended for the global market. However, the said solution isn’t ready for deployment. It remains to be seen if its new AI voice assistant gets ready by the time the smart TV series arrives or the company chooses to opt for Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa for voice commands.

The documentation related to the intellectual property filed by the company suggests that the Huawei’s smart TVs could be launched in about six months. However, there’s no concrete timeline available for the same. There’s also a possibility of learning more about the Huawei smart TVs at the Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas.

Meanwhile, another Chinese smartphone manufacturer is also set to enter the smart TVs market next year — OnePlus. A few months ago, OnePlus announced that it’ll be launching a OnePlus TV and Pete Lau, Founder & CEO of OnePlus, said that the company’s first TV will make its way to the market in 2019.

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The OnePlus TV will come with an artificial intelligence assistant and will also have a way to seamlessly connect with the smartphone, enabling it to show reminders and traffic information among others. There will be a built-in camera. In addition, Pete Lau says that the company will also have a solution for the concerns related to the home-privacy. It’ll receive software updates for over five years following its launch, to make it smarter and more connected.

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