Why Widevine: Widevine is an industry standard to protect content as it's transferred over the internet and played back on devices. It uses a combination of CENC encryption, licensing key exchange, and streaming quality.
It has 3 Levels of security, which decides what quality of content can be streamed on apps that use them (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+):
Here's a list of phones that support Widevine L1 certification:
Nokia:
PS: Having Widevine L1 alone doesnt guarantee that the app will stream HD video even in high internet, as Amazon and Netflix are known to use certain methods to stop devices from streaming HD video even knowing that the phone supports L1
Notes:
* OnePlus 5 and 5T also support Widevine L1, but for that, the devices have to be sent to OnePlus as there is no OTA update to do that. OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T receive update to play Netflix & Amazon Prime Video HD, but there's a catch
# Coming Soon via software update
It has 3 Levels of security, which decides what quality of content can be streamed on apps that use them (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+):
- L1: Any quality upto and inclusive of 1080p
- L2: Any quality upto and inclusive of 720p
- L3: Any quality upto and inclusive of 540p
Here's a list of phones that support Widevine L1 certification:
Nokia:
- Nokia 6 (Certain Markets)
- Nokia 6.1 plus
- Nokia 7 plus
- Nokia 7.1
- Nokia 7.2
- Nokia 8 (Certain Markets): For Pie, the phone must be on February 2019 build.
- Nokia 8 Sirocco
- Nokia 8.1
- Nokia 9 Pureview
- Poco F1
- (Redmi K20) #
- Redmi K20 Pro
- Redmi Note 7
- Redmi Note 7 Pro
- Mi A3
- Mi 9
- OnePlus 5*
- OnePlus 5T*
- OnePlus 6
- OnePlus 6T
- OnePlus 6T McLaren
- OnePlus 7
- OnePlus 7 Pro
- OnePlus 7T
- OnePlus 7T Pro
- OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren
- Vivo V17 Pro
- Vivo V15 Pro
- Vivo U10
- Vivo U20
- Asus 6Z
- Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2
- Asus Zenfone 5Z
- Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1
- Moto G7
- Moto G7 Plus
- Motorola One Power
- Motorola One Vision
- Oppo Reno
- Oppo Reno 10x Zoom
- Pixel 2
- Pixel 2 XL
- Pixel 3
- Pixel 3 XL
- Pixel 3a
- Pixel 3a XL
- Galaxy A10, A10s
- Galaxy A20, A20e, A20s
- Galaxy A30, A30S
- Galaxy A40
- Galaxy A50, A50S
- Galaxy A60
- Galaxy A70, A70S
- Galaxy A80
- Galaxy A90
- Galaxy A8 2018
- Galaxy J6
- Galaxy J7 Prime
- Galaxy M10
- Galaxy M20
- Galaxy M30
- Galaxy M40
- Galaxy Tab 10.1
- Galaxy View 2 (SM-T927A)
- Huawei Mate 20 Pro
- Huawei P20 Pro
- Huawei P30
- Huawei P30 Pro
- Huawei P Smart+ (INE-LX1)
- Huawei MediaPad M5 10 (CMR-AL09, CMR-W09, CMR-AL19, CMR-W19)
- Huawei MediaPad M5 10 Lite (HDL-AL09, HDL-W09)
- Huawei MediaPad T5 10 AGS2-L09, AGS2-W09, AGS2-W19, AGS2-L03)
- Honor Play
- Honor WaterPlay 8
- Razer Phone 2
PS: Having Widevine L1 alone doesnt guarantee that the app will stream HD video even in high internet, as Amazon and Netflix are known to use certain methods to stop devices from streaming HD video even knowing that the phone supports L1
Notes:
* OnePlus 5 and 5T also support Widevine L1, but for that, the devices have to be sent to OnePlus as there is no OTA update to do that. OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T receive update to play Netflix & Amazon Prime Video HD, but there's a catch
# Coming Soon via software update
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