On September 3, the new Xiaoai
touch-screen speaker was launched. We are talking about the Redmi Xiaoai
Touch-Screen Speaker Pro 8-Inch, which costs 499 yuan (US$ 73). It will go on sale
on September 9. This is Xiaomi’s first Xiaoai touch screen speaker with a
built-in battery. It comes with a built-in 4700mAh large-capacity lithium
battery and has a long battery life of about 4.5 hours. There is also a handle
for carrying wherever you want. For example, in the kitchen, you can play
instructional videos about making dishes. So you don’t have to worry about
using your smartphone to check the recipes while cooking.
Compared with the predecessor ‘Redmi
Xiaoai Touch Screen Speaker 8’, the Pro version has been upgraded and polished
in product details: built-in large-capacity lithium battery, memory increase
from 1GB to 2GB, Wi-Fi network changed from 2.4G single-band network to 2.4G/5G
dual-band WiFi. The Redmi Xiaoai touch-screen speaker Pro 8-inch features an
IPS screen, which uses a fully laminated panel with a resolution of 1280×800
and a maximum viewing angle of about 178°.
As you guess, the display is a
touchscreen. This allows you to use it as a control center of smart home. Say,
you can select the color temperature of the table lamp, link the smart
doorbell, check the Mijia camera monitoring and camera calls, etc. However, for
Chinese, its biggest highlight is the Xiaoai support. So with a single
sentence, you can do a lot things. Say, you can avoid the annoying steps of
configuring the smart home appliances and do that with a single command.
Redmi Xiaoai Touch Screen Speaker Pro
8-inch also supports full-scene video calls. No SIM card and smartphone number
are required. Everything is done through you Xiaomi account. This smart speaker
provides a child mode for children. It supports child face recognition. When
the Xiao Ai speaker recognizes that the user is a child, it automatically
enters the child mode.
In the children mode, Xiao Ai’s feedback
sounds are cute children’s voices, and the interface and icons also turn into a
cute animation styles. The audio-visual content played by calling Xiao Ai are
all filtered and graded resource content suitable for children.
Child mode has an application lock, which
can be set to disable certain applications. At the same time, it has a video
anti-addiction function with a customizable time to prevent children from
watching the video for a long time. You can also turn on the blue light eye
protection mode to reduce the blue light in the display to protect eyesight.
At the same time, the distance protection
function can also be turned on in the child mode. When the camera detects that
the face is less than 30cm from the screen for more than 10 seconds, it will
send out a voice and screen notification to remind the child that the viewing
distance is too close.