OPPO has officially teased its smart TV launch for the very first time. The company mentioned about it in an infographic posted on Weibo celebrating its one-year anniversary of 5G journey in China. However, we have been hearing leaks about the OPPO smart TV from December last year.
Even before making smartphones, the company used to sell premium audio products that included headphones and DACs. Earlier this month, the company entered the wearable market by launching the OPPO Band and OPPO Watch in China. Coming to TVs, it’s a completely new vertical for OPPO.
OPPO Smart TV could launch very soon in China
However, its sister brand Realme recently launched two Android smart TVs in India. Unlike Realme which launched smart TVs with stock Android TV OS, OPPO has to build its own operating system for the smart TVs. All the other products mentioned along with the TV in the infographic are now officially released in China.
The announcement comes just after the launch of the Reno 4 series. OPPO launched the Reno 4 and Reno 4 Pro smartphones in China on June 5th. These are one of the slimmest 5G smartphones available in the market. The Reno 4 and Reno 4 Pro measures 7.8mm and 7.6mm in thickness respectively.
Smart TV will be key for OPPO’s IoT portfolio
Also, there is no information on whether the TV will be sold outside of China. We should be hearing more details about the OPPO smart TV in the coming weeks. Earlier, OPPO’s Vice President Liu Bo mentioned the company’s plans for launching smart TVs to build a complete portfolio of IoT devices.
He also said the first OPPO smart TV will be launching in China in the second half of this year. With OPPO’s entrance into the TV market, Vivo will be the only other major Chinese smartphone brand left out in selling TVs.
Xiaomi is already a major smart TV brand in China and India. A couple of months back, Huawei unveiled its first ever OLED smart TV: the Huawei Vision Smart TV X65. It came with a pop-up camera out of the box for making video calls. With the expansion of 5G, smart TVs will likely be the hub for all the smaller IoT devices.
Recently, OPPO also announced new partnerships in Europe. These deals should help the brand grow rapidly. It seems the company is going after Huawei’s market share in the European market. The lack of Google services on Huawei smartphones is seriously affecting its smartphone business in Europe.

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