Although Philips TV is not a brand with particularly outstanding sales in China, it has always been famous and has a good reputation. Although it was acquired by Guanjie early and its production location is basically in China, the R&D center has always been in Europe, at least in terms of mid-to-high-end products, it is considered a pure overseas bloodline. Moreover, Philips TV is well-known overseas as Sony and LG, and is known as the "three best in picture quality" together with Sony and Panasonic in Europe.
However, Philips will also sell high-end TVs in China, but the focus is still on Europe. So when we look at China and Asia, Philips' new TVs are always launched later, often one year later than in Europe. For example, Europe launched a 7-series OLED TV early this year, and the highest model of Philips OLED in China is the 6-series model, which is last year. However, Mini LED TVs. Philips was launched earlier in China than overseas this year, which makes people feel a bit strange. Maybe Philips thinks Mini LED TVs are more sold in China?
However, for Chinese people, it is actually not difficult to buy Philips OLED TVs. After all, Philips TV factory is in China, and from time to time, some defective products or foreign trade machines will flow into abnormal channels, and we can also buy the latest Philips high-end TVs in the seafood market. For example, I bought Philips' high-end OLED TV 55OLED804 in 2019, and it has been three years since then.
For the author, in addition to the good picture quality and strong functions of Philips' OLED TV, the biggest feature is that the firmware is updated very quickly, and Philips has never been favored by one or the other, and can use all the functions used by old TVs. For example, the author's TV has been updated with the firmware many times, and now Philips is even about to push the firmware of Android 11 for these old TVs. Compared with the Android magic-modified TVs of domestic manufacturers, the underlying system has never been updated, Philips is very conscientious.
Philips has officially announced that it will push Android 11’s TV native system for TVs in 2019 and 2020, and these TVs have been using Android 9 system before. Although it is a bit difficult to update to the latest Android 12 native TV system, it is actually better than most domestic TVs. And interestingly, Philips skipped Android 10 this time and directly updated Android 11, probably because Android 10 has no changes in its functions compared to Android 9.
Judging from the characteristics of Android 11, although it is also a small update, it does add some features. For example, Gboard TV keyboard with voice to text and predictive input functions, HDMI ALLM (automatic low latency mode) is supported in applications, and more support for game controllers. On Android 11 TVs, users can directly use Nintendo Switch Pro controller , whether in wired mode or wireless Bluetooth mode.
The underlying system updates pushed by Philips this time are mainly concentrated on the models in 2019 and 2020, that is, models with tailspinned 4 and 5, including high-end OLED TVs, mid-to-high-end LCD TVs, and even mid-to-low-end LCD TVs like 7304, which is indeed the conscience of the industry. As for whether these TVs will be updated to Android 12 in the future, it is not clear at present, but the possibility remains.
We don’t know if Philips TV from the country will update the underlying Android system, but it is certain that users who purchase Philips foreign trade TVs in 2019 and 2020 should be able to update on Android 11. But Philips also said that updating TVs around the world is a relatively long process, and we estimate that it will take several months to push them to every suitable Philips TV around the world, and this update does not seem to be downloaded. Some European users have updated to the latest system through wireless networks. It is estimated that users in other regions will receive push updates in the future. If you have nothing to do, just take a look at the software update.
