The Chinese brand Xiaomi is still on its slow way to becoming one of the most important companies in the industry. With an effort to innovate and offer low price solutions while keeping the great quality and design that are proper of the brand. Xiaomi never lets its customers down and with the Xiaomi Mi Speaker 2 they made that more than clear. It’s a speaker with Bluetooth 4.1, with an autonomy that can last for 7 hours, a free hands function and a beautiful cylindrical design.
Design and Materials
Xiaomi is renowned for making quality products at an affordable price. For a couple of years now, they’ve been giving us products that excel at functions, versatility, and design. Although it’s not the first time they release a Bluetooth speaker, they really improved the benefits and design to make the user’s auditive experience way better.
The managing and the design of this gadget are intimately related, since you have to turn around the upper part to control the volume, pretty much like HiFi device. Indeed, a very intuitive product so that anyone can use it, its simplicity and design made it win the “iF Product Design Award 2016”
The cylinder consists on an upper part made out of metal, this part is where the speaker is located and it also has a void area to provide the best acoustic possible. The upper part has a rotating design for the metallic part, it has a rugged texture so that we can hold it with more ease and the top area is covered with cloth to prevent the pass of any elements that could damage the speaker. The lower part is made out of thermoplastic (PC + ABS) so that the device can absorb the hits, that’s a material that is often used in the automobilist industry. The rubber base allows the speaker to have a better balance on any surface. On the front, we have a notification LED, the serigraphy of the volume control (+ and -) and on the back we have the micro-USB port for charging the device.
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