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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei will launch its first smart TV before end of this year, to enter the increasingly competitive smart TV market.
Shenzhen based Huawei is hiring people to build a TV project group and contact upstream panel makers. The group will study hardware and user interfaces. In contrast to Xiaomi, Huawei may lay its emphasis on positioning itself in 8K displays in the fifth generation communications era.
Huawei started to research the color TV market five years ago and recently got in touch with TV panel makers.
Huaweis first TV may have two versions, one 43 inch beginner level and one 65 inch targeting the high end consumers. The products will be released under Huaweis Honor brand in order to test the market.
After this launch, Huawei also plans to launch a higher end smart TV, running on its own Kirin operating system, which will be compatible with Android applications.
Huawei will henceforth target 5G applications to explore TV businesses as it is meaningless to develop 5G applications only for mobile terminals, since 5G has two applications in terminals: driverless cars and 8K displays.
Since a 5G wireless communication technology can meet the demand of 8K ultra high definition displays, and the company therefore projects huge potential for the 8K television market.
8K resolution is the highest ultra high TV resolution in digital television and cinematography, and denotes a 7,680 pixel horizontal resolution that forms an overall image dimension of 7680 × 4320, also known as 4320p.
Huawei is also thought to be planning to release its own smart speaker in the coming months.
