The Honor Smart Screen equipped with Hongmeng system is officially on sale. Is it worth buying?

Honor Smart Screen is officially on sale

The Honor Smart Screen, which had been in the pre-order status before, was officially on sale at 10:08 this morning.

The first Honor Smart Screen equipped with Huawei's self-developed Hongmeng system has finally been released. How the "smart screen" will subvert traditional TVs, whether the debut of the Hongmeng system will be a blockbuster, or whether there will be startup ads, etc., have all been solved. So, is the Honor Smart Screen priced at 3,799 yuan/4,799 yuan worth buying?

01 What is a smart screen?

02 What is the Honor Smart Screen like?

So what is the Honor Smart Screen like? We can find the reasons why Honor recommends the Smart Screen on its official website or e-commerce interface: the world's first device equipped with Huawei's Harmony OS, Honghu 818 smart chip, magic picture quality engine, magic interaction between large and small screens, joint control of smart home, and intelligent voice interaction.

The main selling point of the Honor Smart Screen is that it is equipped with Huawei's Harmony OS and Huawei's self-developed Honghu 818 smart chip.

First of all, the smart screen TV equipped with the Hongmeng system can be fully connected with mobile phones, realizing end-to-end data interconnection between mobile phones, computers, TVs and other Huawei devices. Yu Chengdong introduced the Hongmeng system to everyone. "Hongmeng OS connects everything and opens up a huge trillion-level market. Choosing Hongmeng is choosing the future." It can be said that the Hongmeng operating system Harmony OS is the most competitive operation to realize the closed loop of Huawei's ecosystem.

Huawei's self-developed Honghu 818 smart chip is also worthy of praise. The Honghu 818 smart chip uses A73 + A53 dual-architecture 4-core CPU and 4-core G51 GPU. It has multi-task memory access scheduling technology that leads the industry in bandwidth effective utilization by more than 50%, allowing the Honor Smart Screen to respond quickly and run smoothly. This chip also integrates the Magic Picture Quality Engine and Huawei Histen sound optimization technology, which brings the ultimate audio and video presentation capabilities to the Honor Smart Screen on the premise of hard power.

I will not elaborate on other selling points of Honor Smart Screen, such as Magic Picture Quality Engine, Magic Interaction between Large and Small Screens, and Joint Control of Smart Home. Our friends have already conducted an in-depth analysis of Honor Smart Screen:

Basic quality experience: Honor Smart Screen Basic quality experience: Honghu 818+ seven unique skills of picture quality

System and interactive experience: Hongmeng first experience: Honor Smart Screen builds a new ecosystem through cross-system interaction

03 So is the Honor Smart Screen worth buying?

Let's first take a look at the level of products at the same price

Judging from the price and size alone, we searched for the top 5 products in the 3,500-4,000 yuan range/4,500-5,000 yuan range on JD.com to compare with the Honor Smart Screen and Honor Smart Screen PRO.

JD.com top 5 sales rankings in the 3500-4000 yuan range

JD.com top 5 sales rankings in the 4500-5000 yuan range

Compared with these established players that have already established a market position, the Honor Smart Screen, which is only available in 55-inch size, does not seem to have an advantage in terms of price and size, whether it is 3,799 yuan or 4,799 yuan. Moreover, traditional TV manufacturers such as Hisense, TCL, and Sharp have a good level of maturity in controlling product quality and performance after a long period of technological accumulation.

So the Honor Smart Screen is not worth buying?

Modern people's dependence on TV has weakened, and the time they are on TV has been decreasing. Most of the time, they are playing with mobile phones, watching Pads, and using PCs. The core problem is that the traditional value of TV is constantly depreciating. The personality of Honor Smart Screen as a "super-screen smartphone in the living room" makes up for this shortcoming of traditional TV. The device and screen are interconnected without restrictions, the interactive function is even more powerful, the open source OS integrates a large number of applications, and the AIoT ecosystem connects the details of life. This is the reason why Honor Smart Screen can write a bold and colorful stroke in the history of TV product evolution.

Compared with other TV products that quickly jump on the bandwagon and claim to be smart screens, Honor Smart Screen has two core advantages. The first is the open source Hongmeng OS. Yu Chengdong once stated at HDC 2019 that it only takes 1 to 2 days to port any Android APP to the Hongmeng system. The extremely low threshold is expected to trigger a massive emergence of compatible APPs.

The second is that with the support of Huawei's huge ecological strategy, the action of seizing the entrance to AIoT has the opportunity to achieve the effect of latecomer first. The ideal situation is still to benefit from the open source characteristics of Hongmeng OS, provide a barrier-free access point for all-scenario devices, expand the entire ecosystem, and more importantly, bring users a truly large ecosystem that can be implemented.

The 55-inch version is priced at 4,799 yuan and is positioned in the mid-to-high-end market. Judging from our actual test performance, the Honor Smart Screen is worth the price.

Judging from the 7-10 years of use, 5G has arrived and everything is connected. The value of Honor Smart Screen will continue to explode in the next 2-3 years, and it is the best choice for users who are currently updating and upgrading.

Therefore, we think the Honor Smart Screen is worth owning.

Finally, I would like to add that the Honor Smart Screen has no advertisements when it is turned on. Compared with the practice of smart TV products on the market that generally embed startup advertisements, the Honor Smart Screen's instant turn-on and play format is definitely more user-friendly.