Huawei Smart Screen S series: Everything you need to know

On December 21st, Huawei’s new product launch conference for smart TVs in the whole house which was held in Dongguan, Guangdong, and the Huawei smart screen S series was officially released. This series is a new member of Huawei’s smart screen family, with a total of 6 models with three screen sizes of 55, 65, and 75 inches.

Based on the distributed capabilities of the HarmonyOS, a more complete ecosystem, and continuous updates, the Huawei Smart Screen S series breaks through the limitations of traditional TV hardware and software upgrades, and truly realizes “usually always new”, with a price starting at 3299 yuan.

Compared with traditional TV manufacturers through version upgrades to fix problems, Huawei’s smart screen’s “usually often new” concept means that through upgrades, new features, new scenarios, and new UIs are brought in phases, making consumers feel After a period of time, I had a “brand new” smart screen, which completely subverted people’s impression of TV unchanged for N years.

“Huawei smart screens, as the home IoT control center, smart interaction center, multi-screen experience center, and audio-visual entertainment center, we will continue to upgrade. Huawei smart screens are often used and new, and they are not out of date for ten years .” Huawei Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong said at the press conference.

AI smart eyes and smooth communication make “playing a TV” a trend

Huawei Smart Screen S series is equipped with a magnetic AI eye, supports 1920*1080 resolution video calls, supports large screen calls to large screens, large screens to mobile phones, mobile phones to large screens, innovatively equipped with a smooth communication transfer function, and In the local area network, the smooth connection of the mobile phone can be quickly transferred to the smart screen.

At the same time, support for smooth communication between smart screens and Huawei children’s watches (currently supported model: Huawei smart children’s watches 4X), and support for voice calls, so that the elderly and children can also chat without barriers. And it supports super-division processing of the video images returned by the children’s watch, and the SD second becomes HD, and the video call is clearer.

It is worth mentioning that the Huawei Smart Screen S series also supports free 4-party 45-minute video calls. After 45 minutes, you can choose to call again an unlimited number of times. Users can join multi-party video calls through multiple devices such as smart screens, mobile phones, and PCs, which is convenient and quick.

In addition, Huawei’s smart screen S series has also added a remote housekeeping function. When the screen is off or on, the phone can remotely call the smart screen camera to view the situation at home.

120Hz superb image quality upgrade to interpret family movie watching experience

The upgrade of audio-visual entertainment functions is a highlight of Huawei’s smart screen S series. It is not only equipped with a 120Hz high refresh rate screen that is rarely configured for products in the same price range (55 inches are not supported temporarily, please follow the official website for details), and has 92% DCI-P3 has a wide color gamut and has obtained Rheinland low blue light and no flicker certification for dual eye protection.

The unique Honghu image quality engine can also improve image quality in terms of fluency, color performance, layering, clarity, etc. through fast and smooth, brilliant color display technology, dynamic contrast enhancement technology, and sharp image processing technology. , So that the picture is clearer and smoother, the color is more natural and full, and the contrast is more vivid and vivid.

In terms of audio, the Huawei Smart Screen S series adopts four*10W speaker unit solution, equipped with a 1L independent large sound cavity, including 2 10W full-range speakers and 2 10W tweeters, and the two high frequencies use the unique patented technology. The high frequency and human voice can be enhanced by 8dB, and the dialogue between characters will be heard more clearly when watching a movie.

At the same time, the virtual sound field expansion technology patent can break through the physical limitations of the speakers, virtualize the left and right surround channels on the left and right sides, and broaden the sound field, greatly improving the immersion of watching movies.

It is worth mentioning that, unlike traditional TVs that always apply a set of standard video and audio output effects, Huawei Smart Screen S series can intelligently judge the content currently being broadcast, and automatically adjust the audio and image quality to the optimal level according to the needs of the scene. It is equipped to make the hardware capabilities more fully utilized. For example, if the currently playing video is a movie, the image quality mode and sound effect mode will automatically switch to “Cinema Mode”.

It’s a professional TV, but also an excellent entertainment big screen

In addition to the optimization and upgrading of audio and image quality, the Huawei Smart Screen S series also opened up a new field of smart screen entertainment, equipped with distributed games and smart screen K song functions.

Among them, distributed games support the use of mobile phones to replace gamepads. When playing racing games, users can control them by calling the mobile phone’s touch screen and gravity sensor or gyroscope. The game runs on a smart screen and the screen is clearer and smoother.

At the same time, Huawei Smart Screen S series cooperated with National K Song to develop new functions of Smart Screen K Song, which supports scanning code, song search, double chorus, intelligent scoring, singing mode, teaching mode, song recording, etc. and also supports Mobile phone sharing, you can exchange K song records and other information with the mobile phone’s Quanmin K song APP.

Multi-screen, multi-device, easy interaction, and convenient control at your fingertips

Based on the distributed capabilities of the Harmony system, the Huawei Smart Screen S series has also added many innovative selling points to the cross-screen experience. For example, on the basis of supporting one-touch screen projection and dual-phone projection, the new mirroring screen privacy protection function is added. When the mobile phone mirrors the screen, it can shield the mobile phone’s status bar, notification bar, call reminder, and other information to improve user privacy protection.

The Huawei Smart Screen S series also supports distributed connections with other devices, bringing a new upgrade to the multi-screen experience. For example, after connecting with the camera of Huawei Smart Selection, it can realize the ability of cry detection and automatic window reminder (the first-market version is not supported, and the subsequent OTA upgrade is supported).

After connecting the video doorbell, users can observe the situation outside the door through the smart screen even if they are sitting in the living room, and at the same time carry out voice conversations (the first release version is not supported, and the subsequent OTA upgrade is supported).

In terms of smart control screens, Huawei’s smart screen S series can realize the intuitive display of large screens on the mobile phone side, which can switch channels, select movies, search movies, and even set some system parameters through the touch of the mobile phone.

At the same time, based on the inconvenience of large-screen text input, the Huawei Smart Screen S series has added a mobile phone input auxiliary function. After this function is turned on, if the smart screen detects that text needs to be input, the phone will pop up an input auxiliary notification reminder to let the big screen Screen text input is more efficient and convenient.

Whole house smart home joint control, your intimate smart housekeeper

The smart screen has far-field sound pickup capabilities and a large screen, which is the control center of the smart home. The homepage of the Huawei Smart Screen S series can display the status of smart home devices. The status display is dynamically updated with the status of the device. Click the icon of the smart home device to enter the details and control page of the smart home device. At the same time, it supports one-key remote control to reach the smart space. Real-time control of the home status of the whole house.

Huawei Smart Screen S series can also form a distributed sound system with more stereo surround effect with HUAWEI Sound, giving full play to the hardware capabilities of both to achieve sound effects comparable to home theaters.

Smart screens have various audio units for low, mid, and high frequencies, but their bass and surround effects are limited. Smart speakers have better woofers and support more flexible positioning. The distributed audio system allows various devices to “integrate”, Take their own strengths.

After the Huawei Smart Screen S series is equipped with two HUAWEI Sounds, the audio stream will be redistributed intelligently, changing to 3.1 channels in 2.0 seconds, and the large screen and speakers use Wi-Fi high-speed networking, which is more common in the industry. Bluetooth networking can achieve lower latency and lossless audio transmission, bringing an excellent listening experience.

In terms of price, Huawei Smart Screen S 55″ 60Hz starts at 3299 yuan, and will be available for pre-sale on December 21, 2020, on Huawei Mall and major e-commerce authorized platforms, and will be officially first sold on December 26.

Huawei Smart Screen S 65″ (price 4999 yuan), Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65″ (price 5699 yuan), Huawei Smart Screen S 75″ (price 6999 yuan), Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 75″ (price 7999 yuan) will be officially first sold on January 8, 2021.

In the same period, the Huawei Mate40 standard version (price starts at 4999 yuan) and the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 Pro ECG model (price 2688 yuan) will also be officially launched on December 21, 2020.