Lenovo shows the second generation of smart TV S9 at the GTC Conference

Absrtact: Recently, Lenovo has shown the second generation of smart TV S9 at the GTC conference in San Jose, US, which is named Terminator. It should be noted that this is Lenovo's third launch of new products, but within Lenovo, the launch of the production

Lenovo recently unveiled the second generation of smart TV S9 at San Jose's GTC conference, which was named "Terminator". It should be noted that this is Lenovo's third launch of new products, but within Lenovo, the launch of the product defined as the second generation. By contrast, we found that the two generations of products are different in many ways, mainly focused on 9 points.

1, screen suppliers have changed

On the first generation of Lenovo TV, the sharp screen was used as a selling point for Lenovo TV. And in Lenovo's next generation of products, the screen was replaced by the Chi Mei from Taiwan, China. Lenovo's explanation for this is: in order to better 4K display effect.

2, the plant has changed

The first generation of Lenovo TV by the Crown Jie Foundry, a little bit of water to test the meaning. A new generation of Lenovo television was assembled by Sharp's Nanjing factory. It is important to note that while Lenovo's vision of a sharp factory has not been achieved, the two sides have maintained good relations of cooperation.

3, remote control change is a bright spot

The first generation of Lenovo TV remote control has more than 30 buttons, is a traditional TV remote control compromise product. The next generation of Lenovo TV remote control using the "one-touch" design, the only button on the remote control button for voice control, the user simply press the "Voice button" can be directly controlled TV.

4, the module can be upgraded is a big bright spot

The first generation of Lenovo TV, in addition to the intelligent modules, and ordinary television is not very different. The next generation of Lenovo TV is Lenovo's first upgradeable smart TV. In the new generation of Lenovo TV interface, Lenovo provides the current mainstream of all interfaces, in addition to the "Smart Upgrade card" slot. With Lenovo Smard Card module, the user can upgrade the TV configuration. The Smard card is about the same size as a deck of cards, with a micro USB http://product.it.sohu.com/list/subcate_682_1.html interface and a microSD slot on one end. The other end is a dedicated 70-pin interface.

5, Multicore becomes Lenovo's new selling point

Lenovo's new generation of TV boasts more than 200 cores, which are made up of Nvidia and MTK. Among them, MTK provides 2 core CPU +2 core GPU, for TV screen processing, ordinary network video playback functions. Nvidia's Tegra K1 chips, which include 4-core CPUs and 192-core GPU, are used for large game renderings. It should be noted that the previous generation of Lenovo TV used a Qualcomm chip.

6, for consumers to choose the color changeable

The next generation of Lenovo Smart TV offers six colors of total consumer choice, including yellow, red, blue, black, green and white six. Xun Wen, Lenovo's general manager, said that television was called the Black Power because it was usually black and Lenovo was changing the phenomenon. The first generation of smart TV is All black.

7, the TV's main function has changed

A new generation of Lenovo TV game as an important selling point, S9 provides a handle remote control, users play a large game can be directly controlled by the handle. Lenovo's main feature in the previous generation was video, Lenovo and the company set up a joint venture with a large number of sources, but there was little publicity about the game.

8, the operating system and interface were upgraded

Lenovo's new generation of intelligent television, using Nvidia Tegra K1 chip, while pre-installed with the Android 4.2.2 System (card after the upgrade to Android 4.4). On the previous generation of Lenovo Smart TV, the Android 4.0 was used. In addition, the new Smart TV interface has also changed, more than the previous generation of product new game interface. The previous generation had only 3 interfaces, namely on demand, App Store and TV.

9, more flexible selling price way

The new generation of Lenovo Smart TV's price is composed of two parts, of which Terminator S9 price has not yet been announced, (a message is 6000 yuan), and Smard card is less than 1000 yuan. Xun Wen to Sohu it revealed that users can buy separately, decide whether to buy Smard card. In the previous generation, Lenovo was a pricing strategy, with users paying only for a single product.