Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 review: The product strength that will last for ten years

As the IoT market continues to boom, the century-old terminal of television is also beginning to usher in a new spring. For example, in the past year, we have not only seen many new forces in television, but also new smart TVs equipped with functions such as cameras, voice assistants, and 24/7 online functions.

Since the standards of the IoT industry have not yet been finalized, the functions of smart TVs are likely to undergo a drastic transformation. However, Huawei does not think so. When launching the Huawei Smart Screen S series at the end of 2020, Yu Chengdong said: "As the future home IoT control center, smart interaction center, cross-screen experience center and audio-visual entertainment center, we will continue to upgrade the Huawei Smart Screen. Huawei Smart Screen is always new and will not be outdated in ten years."

In contrast, the first batch of Internet TVs released around 2010 have largely failed to keep up with the trend of the times. In the more intense industry transformation period of IoT, what confidence does Yu Chengdong have to shout out the slogan of Huawei Smart Screen S series "ten years without obsolescence"? Today, we will take a look at a product like Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 to find out.

96.65% screen-to-body ratio brings a shocking experience

Although the "movie watching" product orientation of smart TVs has largely restricted the development of the appearance of smart TVs, the appearance of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 still has its own style.

The front of the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 adopts a three-sided borderless design, which makes the screen-to-body ratio reach an astonishing 96.65%. At the same time, the base of the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 also adopts the "hidden concept" and is equipped with a metal ice skate base design structure. The combination of these two design advantages gives the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 a sci-fi feeling that the TV is a "screen".

It is worth noting that, unlike the pop-up cameras on previous Huawei smart screen products, the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 is equipped with a magnetically connected 13-megapixel "AI Smart Eye". This flexible "AI Smart Eye" not only allows users to freely adjust the shooting angle, but can also be disassembled with one click when the user does not need it to protect privacy. It is a model of the perfect combination of function and use.

Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 has also paid no attention to the back of the fuselage, which most users do not pay too much attention to. Instead, it adopts a flagship-level integrated design to avoid the bloated look of traditional TVs that are "light in front and fat in the back". This small detail actually reflects Huawei's product philosophy - even if users do not pay too much attention to it, it still needs to be perfect.

Flagship audio and video hardware makes the living room comparable to a cinema

Although Huawei has repeatedly claimed that the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 is "futuristic", as a TV, we cannot ignore the "sound and picture" performance of the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65. After all, the most realistic demand for many consumers to buy a TV is to watch movies.

From the perspective of hardware parameters, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 can be called a "heaping material demon". In terms of display, it is equipped with a 4K LCD screen with a resolution of 92% DCI-P3 wide color gamut and supports an ultra-high refresh rate of 120Hz. In terms of sound quality, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 is equipped with HUAWEI Sound smart speakers, and supports DTS decoding and Dolby decoding.

Of course, just like the dialectical relationship between ingredients and cooking skills, powerful hardware and technical foundations do not necessarily mean that the TV will have amazing sound and picture performance. Therefore, we directly tested the sound and picture capabilities of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65.

First, in order to test the resolution of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65, we open the standard "4K TV resolution test chart". It can be found that Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 can not only display the smallest text in the upper left corner of the picture, but also ensure that the color blocks below do not show obvious dispersion, presenting a very sharp look and feel.

Thanks to the ultra-high DCI-P3 wide color gamut, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 can also display the highlights and shadows with extremely strong contrast in a balanced manner under standard 4K landscape images. This also demonstrates the depth of Huawei's tuning skills for the Smart Screen S Pro 65 screen.

It is worth noting that since it is equipped with the Honghu smart chip, the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 also supports technologies such as MEMC fast and smooth, precise image processing, and dynamic contrast enhancement.

According to our tests, when watching football matches, Hollywood movies and other content with large-scale sports scenes, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 can bring clearer and smoother viewing experience.

Friends who are familiar with Huawei terminals know that Huawei has always had a high pursuit of product sound quality. This has been vividly demonstrated in products such as the Smart Screen V series and Huawei Sound. I thought that the speaker design of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 would directly follow the previous generation of products, but unexpectedly, Huawei has taken the sound quality of Smart Screen S Pro 65 to a higher level.

Equipped with 4 x 10W high-power, 1L large-cavity horn-type patented speakers, the sound from Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 is extremely strong and has a wide range when watching movies or listening to music. Thanks to this, when watching a movie directly opposite Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65, you will feel the shock of cinema-level sound.

The Internet of Everything connects the boundaries of large and small screens

The reason why Huawei gave its own TV the title of "smart" is not only to find a future anchor in the smart TV market, but more importantly, it is because the smart screen does have a revolutionary interactive solution similar to a "smartphone".

Although all manufacturers have seen the general trend of the Internet of Everything, from the perspective of specific use, smartphones still firmly attract users. The "China Mobile Internet 2020 Half-Year Report" released by QuestMobile shows that in June 2020, the average daily power-on time of Chinese smartphones reached 6.1 hours.

The reason for this is that, in addition to the portability of smartphones, to a large extent, it is actually due to the strong appeal of the prosperous content of the mobile Internet to users.

Seeing this contradiction, Huawei has endowed the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 with extremely strong "distributed features" - enhancing the connection between the large and small screens in terms of terminals, content, and interaction.

For example, in the same WiFi environment, we only need to connect the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 and the Huawei mobile phone, and then the mobile phone App can control the smart screen in real time. At the same time, we can also let the Huawei mobile phone and the remote control of the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 touch lightly to project the phone's screen to the Huawei Smart Screen in real time.

Following this line of thought, although smart TVs currently do not have outstanding short video content, since Huawei phones can directly cast short videos to the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65, this is actually equivalent to broadening the content boundaries of smart TVs in disguise.

On the other hand, thanks to the simultaneously built Huawei HiLink smart home ecosystem, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 can also become the user's home hub, directly viewing and controlling smart home devices.

Wang Chenglu, President of Huawei Consumer BG Software Department, previously stated that it is expected that more than 40 mainstream brands and more than 100 million devices will be integrated into Huawei HiLink smart home ecosystem in 2021. This will obviously greatly enhance the product competitiveness of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 in the Internet of Everything.

Aggregated content library covering all age groups

Similar to the radical construction at the functional level, as a TV, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 has not ignored the changes at the content level. In traditional cognition, smart TVs seem to be only suitable for playing movies or music, but because it has broken away from the inherent cognition of the industry at the hardware and concept levels, the content library of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 is also full of surprises.

Overall, the content of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 has two major advantages: one is the large quantity, and the other is the wide range of functions.

First of all, from the perspective of quantity, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 has content in dimensions such as film and television, music, and sports, which can meet the needs of users of different age groups for different content.

It is worth noting that in the face of the online education boom under the epidemic, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 has also added online education-related content. When using it, we only need to open the "Education Center" of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 to see learning materials from preschool to high school. Considering that the content on the large screen is more immersive and does not require children to watch closely, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 is likely to become a 24-hour online "tutor" in the future.

On the other hand, since the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 is equipped with a lot of new hardware for the TV industry, the boundaries of its content library have also been broadened.

For example, the "AI Fitness" function of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 can collect the user's fitness movements and exercise status in real time through the camera, and give feedback and guidance on the screen to help users exercise easily at home.

Combining the content library of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65, although the smart screen products are still strengthening the large-screen experience in terms of terminals and publicity, in fact, the smart screen has jumped out of the inherent content track of smart TVs and explored new content formats. This has a very positive significance for smart TVs to capture a wider range of users in the future.

Conclusion: Products from the future can only last for “ten years”

As mentioned at the beginning, although the entire smart TV industry has seen the general trend of IoT, on the product side, we can only see adaptive large-screen products - that is, the products are added with functions according to the pain points of consumers. But the problem is that the products created by this product concept cannot meet the long-term usage needs of users, and on the other hand, they are easily impacted by the latest products.

In contrast, after seeing the industry trends, Huawei did not build products based on the industry's inertial cognition, but had a deeper insight into the development trends of the industry, and "pre-emptively" added functions that may appear in a few years, such as the interconnection of large and small screens, detachable cameras, educational content, etc. mentioned above, to the Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65.

In this way, Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65 not only greatly meets the expectations of consumers, but also has the guiding significance of "large-screen version of iPhone" to a certain extent. From these two aspects, Yu Chengdong's "Huawei Smart Screen, often used and always new, ten years without outdated" has actually become the best annotation of Huawei Smart Screen S Pro 65.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.