There will be new Q10 and Q5. Final names yet to be determined.
Both products will be based on a new Hisilicon Hi3798C V200 SoC, with much upgraded performance compared to HI3798C in Q5/Q10 4K3D. We expect overall performance to exceed anything currently found in Android boxes.
Himedia give launch date as March. Realistically we expect to have stock in April. We should be the first retailer in Europe to have stock. We'll start taking pre-orders when we have a reliable stock arrival date.
Core features from Q5/Q10 4K3D such as
3D-ISO, 7.1 HD-Audio remain.
Significant upgrades include:
CPU (now quad ARM A53), GPU (now quad Mali-720), 10bit colour depth support, dual Gigabit Ethernet, 192/24bit audio, and added 4K60 support.The Himedia/Hisilicion video processing engine that gave the Q5/Q10 4K3D
unrivalled image quality is upgraded to version 2.0 with support for 4K60. The new products additionally support Dolby Vision processing. We expect them to have the same or better image quality as Q5/Q10 4K3D.
This is pure speculation but we think it likely that a wrapper solution will be used for Kodi in order to offer all the above features at launch.
The only official piece of media made available from Himedia to date is this spec sheet for the new Q10:
Himedia Q5 Next Generation / V200Himedia Q10 Next Generation / V200
