Huawei’s sub-brand Honor is all set to launch its first Smart TV in India pretty soon. Honor spokesperson told The Mobile Indian that Honor is looking to introduce the Honor Vision TV series in the Indian market.
The spokeperson said, “since it is based on a new operating system, we are currently testing it out. Once the testing is concluded, we will launch the Smart TV in India.” One can also expect the company to add some India-centric features on the upcoming Honor Smart TV.
To recall, the company introduced Honor Vision TV and Vision TV Pro in China during Huawei Developer Conference 2019. This is the smart TV that runs on the latest HarmonyOS, which is an alternative to the Android ecosystem. The Honor Vision TV and Vision TV Pro will be available for asking prices of 3,799 yuan (approx. Rs 38,200) and 4799 yuan (approx. Rs 48,300) respectively from August 15 in China.
The Honor Vision TV and Vision TV Pro come with a 55-inch display that has a 4K resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, 400nits brightness and 178-degree viewing angle. Both TVs are powered by the28mm-based Honghu 818 quad-core intelligent Chipset with two Cortex-A53, two Cortex-A53 cores and 600MHz Mali-G51MP4 GPU. It has 2GB of RAM, 16GB storage on the Honor Vision TV and 32GB storage on the Vision TV Pro.
The front panel comes with TUV Rheinland certification for protection against blue light. The display is housed inside a metal frame and offers a screen-to-body ratio of 94 per cent. It equips Motion Estimate and Motion Compensation, High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR), Super-Resolution, Noise Reduction, Dynamic Contrast Improvement, Auto Color Management and Local Dimming.
The Pro model comes with a 1080p pop-up camera which can be used for video calls. There’s a HiSilicon Hi1103 Wi-Fi chip with support for 160MHz bandwidth, 2.4G/5GHz dual-frequency and offering download speeds of up to 1.7Gbps. Other connectivity options include three HDMI ports, one USB 3 port, an AV port, DTMB, s/PDIF and ethernet. The TVs are bundled with a remote and can be used with a smartphone as well.