


It’s designed so you can keep watch over misbehaving children, errant senior citizens, annoying pets, and easily lost baggage. The AI Cube is joined at IFA 2018 by the Huawei Locator, a location tracker with a battery that provides 60 days of standby and 15 days of actual tracking using various GPS systems, Assisted GPS, and global roaming. On the top you’ll find volume keys and a mute button, and the area surrounding the controls glows when the speaker is active. The device supports Cat.6 LTE at speeds up to 300Mbps though, and has 802.11AC dual-band Wi-Fi, along with an an Ethernet port under the speaker.
#Cube flip phone portable
We understand the need for portable Bluetooth speakers, but not the need for portable smart speakers - especially when they still need to be plugged into a wall socket.

This doesn’t really make it portable though, as we were told it doesn’t have a battery. If the name has confused you, prepare to furrow your brow further, because the AI Cube has 4G LTE enabled with a SIM card. Huawei’s own Histen audio technology - usually seen on Huawei and Honor phones - is included, along with four microphones and far-field voice recognition technology so you can speak to Alexa from across the room.
#Cube flip phone driver
A 15-watt mono driver with an aluminum diaphragm is matched with passive radiators to generate the sound, but we only heard Alexa speak during our brief time with the speaker, so we cannot comment on its ability as a music player. Huawei indicated it added its own artificial intelligence expertise in some form to Alexa on the AI Cube too, although in what capacity isn’t clear.Ībout twice the size of a Google Home, the AI Cube stands tall on a table, and comes with either grey or red cloth covering the speaker array at the base of the unit. Why not Google Assistant? Huawei was cagey about its reasons, but this isn’t the first time Amazon and Huawei have collaborated Alexa appeared in the form of an app to the Huawei Mate 10 Pro smartphone. Huawei added its own artificial intelligence expertise (in some form) to Alexa.
