Two months ago, Huawei officially announced its smart screen strategy, which has become the focus of attention of the industry and users. On the evening of September 19, Huawei Smart Screen finally unveiled its mystery in the spotlight. As an important part of the large-screen end of Huawei's 1 8 N strategy, Huawei Smart Screen has attracted a lot of attention, and everyone hailed it as Industry reaper. Next, we will conduct an in-depth experience from four dimensions, namely appearance design, system experience, content resources, and audio and video performance, to see if it can fulfill the role of a large-screen smart center under its smart screen thinking logic.
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Appearance design: The innovative base Xiaoyi Xuan Screen’s ingenious work is positioned as high-end
The Huawei smart screen I experienced this time is a 65-inch version. At first glance, the overall appearance gives people the impression that it is very consistent. How do you understand this word? Simply put, it makes people feel that it is more like a whole, rather than an assembled machine. After thinking for a while, this plays a role. The finishing touch is actually the base.
Huawei Smart Screen Base
With current TVs, especially smart TVs in recent years, two base brackets have almost become standard. To talk about the difference, that is, different materials and different shapes. That’s it. Although this kind of carrying method is stable, it will inevitably make people feel aesthetic fatigue after watching it too much. The central base of Huawei's smart screen is full of thoughtfulness and high-end style, and the workmanship of this base is also very good. It has been processed by nickel plating, silicon dioxide, titanium pentoxide and other processes, and the surface is fine and textured. .
Huawei Smart Screen Xiaoyi Xuan Screen
There is a Xiaoyi Xuan screen on the upper part of the base, which uses a magic light design to provide diverse visual feedback when the user interacts with the machine. 70 The RBG light array arrangement provides more than 16 million color changing possibilities. In our actual experience, playing music, voice wake-up, etc. are our more common scenarios. When performing such operations, Xiaoyi Xuan screen There will be different feedback effects.
Huawei Smart Screen has extremely narrow black borders
The front adopts a full-screen design, the visible black borders are extremely narrow, the rounded corners are also very pleasing, and the thickness of the body is also achieved It is extremely thin. There is currently no exact data, but according to the author's comparative measurements, it is probably consistent with the thickness of the iPhone X.
Huawei Smart Screen is slim and thin
Huawei Smart Screen is also equipped with a lifting camera called AI Eye. How many new functions can the addition of this AI Eye help us achieve? We will introduce it in detail in the follow-up system experience session. What is worth mentioning here in terms of appearance is that this camera automatically lifts and lowers according to the operations you perform. When not in use, it is hidden on the top of the fuselage. , it will pop up only when needed, which not only maintains the overall consistency, but also eliminates the worry of privacy leakage.
Huawei Smart Screen Lifting AI Eyes
The bottom part of the fuselage is an integrated sound bar, which uses CNC machining technology to polish 13,440 sound bars on the aluminum alloy The hole is not only beautiful, but also perfectly adapted to the sound effect. The one-piece package design makes the entire sound bar more delicate and refined. The built-in 81 audio unit solution can achieve 6 independently controllable audio channels and professional bass woofer. 1 passive radiator truly realizes 5.1 professional sound effects, which can bring better detailed expression to users. We will also experience the specific sound quality effects in detail below.
Huawei Smart Screen back sound unit Huawei Smart Screen Sound bar
In terms of interfaces, Huawei Smart Screen is equipped with USB3.01, HDMI3 (including an ARC), video input, network input, and SPDIF As well as the antenna interface, the interface is quite rich, which is convenient for users to expand and use later.
Huawei Smart Screen Side Interface
The remote control comes with two standard versions, a touch screen version and a regular version. The touch screen version has a touch area above the remote control that supports sliding. A variety of operating gestures such as , single point, and pressing are convenient for users to operate. The author has practical experience and the sliding response is also very sensitive.
Huawei Smart Screen is equipped with dual remote controls (left: touch screen version, right: regular version)
Huawei Smart Screen Voice Assistant Xiaoyi
In addition, the mobile APP The terminal can also generate a remote control interface, which can pop up by default when the phone screen is off, which is very convenient.
The mobile phone can also control the Huawei smart screen
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System experience: AI smart eyes, one-touch screen projection and breaking the dimensional wall rely on these two
System experience is the top priority of this evaluation. Huawei’s smart screen is equipped with self-developed technology and brings many practical large-screen interactive functions. Let’s introduce them in detail one by one.
Huawei Smart Screen UI Interface
First, let’s look at the system UI interface, which is divided into multiple modules and shortcut methods such as entertainment screen, all applications, smart life, and family message board. The overall setup logic is clear, and there is almost no learning cost for users to get started.
Huawei Smart Screen Video Call
First of all, let’s take a look at the new large-screen interactive experience brought by the Smart Eye mentioned above. The addition of Smart Eye first enables video calls, and Huawei The resolution of smart screen video calling is as high as 1920×1080, and it supports large screen calling large screen, large screen calling mobile phone, and mobile phone calling large screen. For example, if you want to video chat with your family when you are on a business trip or traveling, you can call the smart screen at home directly through your mobile phone at any time. Have video conversations with family members.
Huawei Smart Screen Camera Function
Huawei Smart Screen’s unique smart portrait lock technology allows the camera to intelligently identify portraits without moving, so that people are always displayed on the screen middle position.
Huawei Smart Screen Portrait Lock Technology
Smart Eye also provides intelligent low-light technology, which can also see clearly in dark light environments. When there is no light in the living room, the camera will intelligently supplement the light, clearly capture images under normal light. In our actual experience, with the curtains lowered, after experiencing a short period of darkness, Huawei Smart Screen not only presented clear and bright portraits through intelligent light, but also responded very quickly, and this The process does not require the user to perform any secondary operations at all, and is completed without any awareness.
Huawei Smart Screen Intelligent Low-Light Technology
Smart Eye can also become your personal fitness butler. Huawei Smart Screen’s unique AI fitness APP has built-in AI fitness APP developed in cooperation between Huawei and Beijing Sport University. Professional fitness courses, currently developed 10 sets of dozens of fitness videos, and will continue to cooperate in development in the future to provide more professional fitness courses. The highlight is that it has unique intelligent body joint recognition technology. When your movements are not in place, the system will correct it through voice reminders. Friends who love fitness no longer have to worry about non-standard postures.
Huawei Smart Screen AI Fitness Function
Smart Eyes can also help you take care of your children, do you believe it? It has a built-in AI Kids mode, which is different from the ordinary children’s mode in the industry. Huawei Smart Screen's AI Kids incorporates AI features that can intelligently identify children and alert them when they are watching movies too close to the screen. It also has a dedicated low-blue light eye protection function. It has also graded children's content, and parents can set the viewing time. The system also has functions such as reminders for watching movies at close range and reminders for improper sitting postures, making it a considerate kid's king.
Huawei Smart Screen Children’s Mode
The author also discovered an interesting point, that is, leaving the children’s mode requires answering a math question, and some children may use voice assistants to answer it problem, but Huawei Smart Screen obviously understands that weird children cannot use the voice assistant when exiting the child mode, which deserves praise.
Huawei smart screen parent confirmation function
If AI smart eyes provide more possibilities for large-screen interaction, then Huawei's one-touch screen projection and other functions will make the interaction between large and small screens The boundaries become blurred because the connection between them is so convenient.
First, let’s talk about the connection method. What is our traditional screen mirroring connection method? Generally, you need to download a screen mirroring APP, and then use the same WiFi network environment to achieve screen mirroring. This may require re-downloading the software, updating the software, and synchronizing it. After a multi-step operation of account, permission authorization, and entering WiFi password, your enthusiasm for screen casting will probably be squeezed out.
Huawei Smart Screen Screen Casting
What innovations does Huawei have on smart screens? The answer is just a tap! There is no need to download any APP for mobile phones and large screens. Just touch the NFC component built into the remote control with your mobile phone, and you can easily cast your mobile phone content to the large screen and watch videos. , look at pictures, and play games, you can share them more quickly. What’s even more exciting is that Huawei’s smart screen can dynamically identify the user’s different operating scenarios. For example, Miracast mirroring is used on ordinary desktops and when most applications are running. Cast screen.
Huawei smart screen mirroring TV series
Huawei smart screen mirroring computer mode
Huawei smart screen mobile phone screen mirroring adaptive
Huawei Smart screen mirroring to play games
However, in certain scenarios, such as playing Huawei videos, viewing pictures, etc., you can dynamically switch to DLNA screen mirroring, allowing users to play games without being aware of it. Give users a reasonable screencasting experience. In addition, Huawei video screencasting also supports breakpoint resumption, um, it’s so delicious!
Huawei smart screen controls large screens
Smart screen control supports mobile phones Intuitively displaying a large screen, you can switch channels, select movies, search movies, and even do some system parameter settings through the touch of your mobile phone. It not only supports local area network, but also supports remote control of the screen (the mobile phone can be used as a touch screen). If you are in a remote location Parents complain that the newly purchased large screen at home cannot be used. Smart screen control allows you to control the operation of the large screen at home remotely from your mobile phone, helping the elderly at home watch the programs they like.
With the family cloud photo album function of Huawei Smart Screen, when we take beautiful photos, we can put them in the shared photo album so that our parents can see you while watching TV. No matter how far apart they are, parents can still feel that they are accompanying their children as they grow.
Huawei smart screens and mobile phones can enjoy an extremely fast sharing experience that is a hundred times faster than Bluetooth. Huawei Share wireless transmission speed can reach 30MB/S, and it only takes 20 seconds to transfer 600M photos.
Some other small functions of screencasting are also worth mentioning. Applications, pictures, and videos are adaptive. When is the vertical screen experience good and when is it time to use horizontal screen? You don’t need to set it yourself, it understands you. ;Smart screen sound transmission keeps the picture on the big screen and transmits the sound to the mobile phone or headphones without disturbing the rest of the family late at night. Is it too troublesome to input text with the remote control? Typing on the mobile smart screen APP can be synchronized to the big screen, no longer Don’t be afraid of losing your hands
Huawei Smart Screen Input Method Screencast
In addition to screencasting, smart home is also a key area of ??Huawei’s layout. In other words, the entire 1 8 N strategy of smart home In the system, the smart screen is the center. In the smart home section, you can bind smart home products based on Huawei Hi-Link system, and the smart home section provides exclusive areas for different products, where you can view some important information, such as You can check the air quality in the house through the purifier, check the environment and conversations outside the door through the smart doorbell, and check the drinking water status report through the water purifier.
Huawei Smart Screen Console Lamp
We experienced the operation of using Huawei Smart Screen to control the desk lamp. The overall response was quick and sensitive, and the working mode of the desk lamp can also be further operated. It can be said that in Huawei Driven by smart screens, the entire Huawei Hi-Link system will gradually be integrated into consumers' daily lives.
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Content resources: The four major platforms all have exclusive audio as a highlight
What hardware manufacturers lack most is content resources. This is also a common problem of many TV manufacturers. There is a shortage of own resources and content, and then they have to be constrained by resources.
Huawei Smart Screen's solution is a bit crude, which is to embrace them all and package them together. From the previous UI interface, we can see that in addition to regular TV series, movies, and variety show menu bars, Huawei Smart Screen directly integrates major content partners. The menu bar has been added, and some popular drama series from third-party resource platforms have also been promoted on the first screen.
Huawei Smart Screen Entertainment Screen Home Page Interface
In the current era of the proliferation of smart TVs, it has become a norm to be unable to move forward without a membership. As everyone becomes more and more aware of content payment , reasonable purchase of content membership VIP is bound to be the general trend. In this part, Huawei Smart Screen has launched a package approach, packaging the four resource platforms of Huawei Video, Cool Meow, Mango, and Aurora TV into a super diamond membership. Of course, users It can also be purchased separately. Based on the high degree of integration of Huawei Smart Screen in the menu bar, it is also very cost-effective to purchase a membership based on your own needs.
Huawei Smart Screen Content Resources
With the help of so many content providers, Huawei Smart Screen content resources are quite rich. In terms of education, it has introduced such content resources as New Oriental and Xueer Platforms such as Sisi and Hujiang Online School have many true 4K movies, not only in resolution, but also in 4K from shooting to display. In addition, it has nearly a thousand HDR 10 videos with sublimated detail performance. In addition, Huawei’s smart screen is the first large screen to support listening. It has tens of millions of music libraries, lossless music, and audio content, forming a comprehensive collection of three major categories of audio content: music radio and audio. line-up.
Huawei Smart Screen Audio Resources
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Audio and video performance: Quantum dots add pure color and custom modeling helps the sound quality soar
First of all Let's look at the image quality. It is reported that Huawei's smart screen uses quantum dot light source, which can present purer colors, full color gamut display, NTSC reaches 100, uses HiSilicon self-developed chips, dual-core A53 dual-core A73 architecture, and the main frequency reaches 1.7GHZ , equipped with a brilliant image quality engine, and also has independent AI computing capabilities. In order to verify its image quality strength, we conducted actual image quality tests on 4K benchmark, 4K still pictures, 4K streaming video, 4K standard video, 4K HDR video, etc. How does Huawei’s smart screen perform?
Huawei smart screen benchmark test
4K picture test: We selected 7 sets of 4K pictures with different contents to analyze their image quality performance. It can be seen that with the blessing of quantum dot technology, Huawei smart screen has better color performance The performance is excellent, especially in the third and seventh groups of multi-color pictures, the color transition is smooth and soft, giving people an overall artistic picture quality. Overall, the color adjustment of Huawei smart screen is more pleasing.
Huawei Smart Screen 4K Picture Test
4K Video Test: In the ordinary 4K video test, we selected several more representative pictures, from which we can see the Huawei Smart Screen When playing this video, the overall color details are rich, such as the bouncing makeup powder, the fine lines on the forehead, the texture of peacock feathers, etc., which are all very accurately restored. Generally speaking, in the 4K video test session, Huawei smart screen performance Relatively outstanding.
Huawei Smart Screen 4K Video Test
4K Streaming Video: In reality, consumers who download 4K content for viewing are still relatively small. Everyone often watches 4K content based on large It is a streaming media service on the screen, so we also intercepted some 4K pictures of the popular drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" for analysis. During the playback process, the picture transition was very smooth, thanks to the blessing of Huawei's unique smart screen algorithm. This allows even high-speed motion pictures to be performed without frame loss. In terms of detail performance, the level of refinement brought by a true 4K screen is very user-friendly.
Huawei Smart Screen 4K HDR Video Test
4K HDR Video Test: In the 4K HDR video test, we selected the "Party Nightclub" video with a fast scene change. See Huawei Smart Screen Whether the screen can present more dark field details is also a test of the processor's processing power. During the entire playback process, you can see that the details of the character's face, wrists, and body appear normally, and the bright environment does not cover up smoke, Details such as powder are presented normally, and the color transition is natural, and some light and shadow textures are presented. Thanks to the fine adjustment of the image quality, the overall contrast is very high, so more hidden content is presented.
Finally, let’s look at the sound quality. Above we briefly introduced the audio hardware of Huawei smart screens. In fact, the key to the sound quality performance of Huawei smart screens is the algorithm. Huawei Histen uses the latest advanced audio processing algorithms, combined with psychoacoustic models. and auditory perception model, which can present better sound quality performance.
Sound field modeling of Huawei smart screen
The author also experienced the sound field modeling of Huawei smart screen. A specific pink noise wave was emitted through the audio unit, with the purpose of making the sound wave The room produces a reflection effect, and then the large-screen MIC collects the reflected sound waves. After being processed by the main chip, a simulated room model is established, and then the optimal audio parameters suitable for this model are automatically matched. It can be said that the sound field construction of Huawei smart screen The model makes the sound quality performance more personalized and meets the current consumer needs.
After sound field modeling and adjustment, we experienced the classic audition audio from Tsai Chin’s "The Ferry". After modeling and adjustment, the overall sound quality was purer, combined with the sound field of the current room. environment, showing the best sound quality, with rich bass, transparent midrange, and not harsh treble. It can be said to be a very outstanding presence in TV sound bars today, and Huawei smart screen also supports sound quality exclusive mode, directional sound, Functions such as vocal enhancement and intelligent noise reduction are also very responsive to consumers’ pain points.