{"id":4219,"date":"2025-12-10T18:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/cantata-haptique-rs90-universal-remote-review-not-yet-great\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:27:15","slug":"cantata-haptique-rs90-universal-remote-review-not-yet-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/cantata-haptique-rs90-universal-remote-review-not-yet-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantata Haptique RS90 Universal Remote Review: Not Yet Great"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When Logitech signaled<\/span> the end of the universal remote era by announcing the death<\/a> of its Harmony product line in April 2021, I was sad to see it go. Though it had dominated the universal remote market for most of the preceding 20 years, Logitech\u2019s Harmony had become a relic. As streaming eclipsed physical media, as affordable smart TVs with built-in apps proliferated, and as HDMI-CEC became a ubiquitous way for devices to talk to each other, the need for a programmable, universal infrared remote gradually dissipated. Even the addition of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to Harmony\u2019s control toolbox couldn\u2019t save it from rapidly declining sales.<\/p>\n

Still, many folks have held on to their legacy IR devices and have added newer, Bluetooth, and networked gadgets to their smart homes. For them, a true, whole-home remote that doesn\u2019t cost a fortune or require a professional integrator would be enthusiastically welcomed.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the elevator pitch for the Cantata Haptique RS90 universal remote (\u20ac349\/$406): Based on an Android platform, the RS90 promises to do everything a top-of-the-line Harmony could do, plus far more, including voice commands\u2014a feature Logitech never successfully implemented.<\/p>\n

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In theory, the RS90 should be the last remote you\u2019ll ever need. In reality, it\u2019s a beautiful piece of hardware that has a long way to go if it ever wishes to assume the universal remote throne that Logitech abandoned.<\/p>\n

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A New Friend<\/h2>\n

Even though my own Harmony Elite had been gathering dust for more than a year, my inner geek celebrated the arrival of a new generation of universal remotes.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t hurt that the Haptique RS90 is very easy on the eyes. It eschews the usual button-festooned glossy plastic baton in favor of a sleek, angled aluminum chassis. The bottom portion sports a simple (and backlit) 24-button keypad, while the top features a 3.1-inch color touchscreen and an IR emitter. It looks like Bang & Olufsen\u2019s ahead-of-its-time 1991 Beolink 7000 remote, but reimagined for today\u2019s devices.<\/p>\n

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Under the hood, the RS90 packs smartphone levels of computational firepower: an ARM Octacore processor with 3 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage, and both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. It has a built-in mic and speaker and comes with a charging cradle to keep its internal battery topped up when not in use. A custom version of Android 12 runs the whole show, with Cantata\u2019s software as the default experience. Canata plans to release a fancier version known as the RS90x that uses an OLED screen, has more internal storage, and possesses a fingerprint reader and, crucially, an IR receiver (something the RS90 notably lacks).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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