Honor already has its presence in the Indian market and yesterday, the company launched a few new products in the market, including Honor 9X smartphone, Honor Band 5i fitness tracker, Honor Magic Watch 2, and wireless earphones.

Now, the company is looking to further expand its product categories in India. In line with this, Honor is set to launch its laptops and smart TV in the Indian market by the end of this quarter, i.e. Q1 2020 or in early next quarter, i.e. Q2 2020.

During an interview at the sidelines of Honor 9X event, Charles Peng, President of Honor India, said: “We are bringing our laptops to India maybe at the end of the Q1 or by beginning of Q2. We are working with the HQ team to meet the demands of the Indian market. Maybe some of them would be the ones that are already launched in China and maybe some would be designed for the Indian market.”

While the company has confirmed that it will soon bring the Honor MagicBook laptops in the Indian market, which model will come first has not been disclosed yet. However, it has been revealed that initially, it will go on sale through online channel only.

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In August last year, Honor launched its first smart TV in its home market, dubbed Honor Vision. The same TV set to introduced in the Indian market in October last year during the Indian Mobile Congress in New Delhi.

The highlight of the Honor Vision TV is that it is the first commercially available product to run on the company’s own custom operating system HarmonyOS. Now, the company has confirmed that it will be available for purchase in India and the timeline stated for the same is similar to the one for the Honor MagicBook laptops.

Charles Peng says that the company is currently working with content partners such as Hotstar and Netflix to bring relevant content on the Honor Vision right at the time of its official launch in India.

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Recent reports have revealed that Huawei’s sub-brand Honor is prepping up to launch the Honor 9X series of smartphones in India. Today, Honor India President, Charles Peng confirmed in an interview with the Press Trust of India that the company plans to bring the Honor 9X to India by the end of 2019. 

The Chinese electronics giant also plans to introduce the Internet of Things or IoT in the country. According to Peng’s official statement at the time of launch, “We are going to introduce the Honor 9X in India by the end of the year. The smartphone uses the Android OS”.Since Honor launched the Honor 9X series back in July 2019, the smartphone is likely to feature the Google Play Store and related apps.

Apart from smartphones, Honor India further plans to introduce the Honor Vision smart TV in India by the first quarter of 2020. Honor 9X users will be able to access the Honor TV with the smartphone. Furthermore, Honor is currently in discussion with a number of leading entertainment companies in India to support the Honor Vision when it launches in the subcontinent.

Honor 9X Specifications and Features

The Honor 9X flaunts a notch-less 6.59-inch full HD+ LCD display with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels and 391ppi pixel density. The device is powered by the octa-core Kirin 810 SoC with up to 6 GB of RAM and up to 128 GB of internal storage. The storage can be further expanded up to 512GB with a microSD card.

The Honor 9X features a 48-megapixel primary camera with an aperture rating of f/1.8 along with a 2-megapixel depth sensor. The secondary camera is a 15-megapixel unit with an aperture rating of f/2.2. The device draws power from a 4,000 mAh battery and runs on the Android 9.0 Pie-based EMUI 9.1.1. Connectivity options include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, USB Type-C and a 3.5mm AUX port. The smartphone features a side-mounted fingerprint scanner and face detect in terms of security. It measures 163.11 x 77.2 x 8.8mm and weighs 206 grams. 

There is no official word on the pricing of Honor 9X for India. Also, there is no confirmation on whether India will be receiving the Honor 9X Pro smartphone. 

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In August this year, during Huawei Developers Conference in China, the company unveiled its much-anticipated Honor Vision Smart TVs which are running the company’s own HarmonyOS, touted as the replacement for Android.

Now, just a couple of months after its official launch, the Chinese giant is all set to launch the Honor Vision and Honor Vision Pro Smart TVs in the Indian market. The company has sent out media invites for a launch event in New Delhi on 14th October.

In the launch invite, the company mentions “Join us at the India Mobile Congress, as we unveil world’s first pop-up camera smart TV Honor Vision.” While the company doesn’t explicitly mention Pro variant, addition of words “pop-up camera” confirms that given that the Vision Pro is the only model to have a camera sensor.

Both the models of Honor Vision comes with 55-inch 4K HDR displays with NTSC 85% wide color gamut, 360nit brightness and wide viewing angles. There are 8 interchangeable display configs, including standard, soft, cinema, sports, children, games, pictures and bright, which should make things simpler for the average consumer.

On top of that, the display also has German TUV Rheinland low blue eye protection. The display is contained within a three-sided, borderless frame, with an impressive screen-to-body ratio of 94 percent.

The chassis is also nice and thin at 6.9mm, with a diamond textured “beauty back” and colourful breathing lights for aesthetic. Honor also touts their seamless 3D arc full metal bent middle frame, which should allegedly improve stability and durability.

Honor claims that its newly launched HarmonyOS will enable users to integrate their devices better, and the company plans to do this through a feature called Magic Link and their own AI assistant, YOYO. However, we don’t expect to see the company’s own voice assistant in the Indian market.

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In terms of specs, it is powered by the new Honghu 818 SoC which features a quad-core CPU, with two A53 cores and two A73 cores, paired with a 4-core Mali-G51 GPU. It supports 8K@30fps and 4K@120fps super video decoding. In graphics decoding, the chip supports 64MP image decoding ahead of time.

The Huawei Vision has eight speakers, one subwoofer and one refractor to make for an intelligent sound system that provides a professional 5.1 sound effect. It also has intelligent sound field modelling and beam control.

It comes with several useful features such as One-Hop projection which allows users to project what is on their phone on to the display with a single touch to the remote. There is also Intelligent Live Control which allows you to control the device with your smartphone while Huawei Share allows you to easily send files like pictures to the TV.

The touch remote controller connects via Bluetooth 5.0 and comes with USB Type-C port at the bottom for charging. The company says that you only have to charge it once in 3 months. The remote has a power button, a smart key, and volume control keys. There’s a circular touchpad at the top and a dedicated microphone button flanked on the left by the Return key and on the right by the Menu key.

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Huawei launched its new Honor Vision smart screen in China with much fanfare early last month. It was also the first device to feature the company’s self-developed HarmonyOS. While the initial release was limited to China, it looks like Huawei has plans to release its smart screens internationally as well.

Five Huawei smart screens (HEGE, OSCA-550, OSCA-550A, OSCA-550X, and OSCA-550AX) were recently spotted on the Bluetooth SIG website. Usually, products that come up on Bluetooth SIG don’t take long to launch in the market. Considering this, we can speculate that Huawei is planning to launch the Honor Vision or at least new Honor Vision like smart screen devices internationally pretty soon.

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Bluetooth SIG confirms that these smart screen devices are running EMUI HomeVision 9.0.0.13. We are unsure whether this is a UI on top of HarmonyOS or Android. But given how Honor’s first smart screen was called the Honor Vision (see the similarity with HomeVision OS?), it’s possible that these are the international variants of the product.

It’s likely that we’ll get the see these newly certified Honor smart screen models at IFA  2019 that kicks off on September 6 at Berlin. If you recall, Huawei has an event scheduled on the same day at 4:30 PM local time. Alongside the launch of the new Kirin 990 chipset, we could also hear more about Huawei Honor Vision’s international release.

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