On October 26th, Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi 14 series, the world’s first to feature the Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform. This series of smartphones offers a whole new level of all-encompassing flagship experiences.
The Xiaomi 14 series smartphones stand as the world’s first to feature the innovative ESA micro-actuator, a result of Xiaomi’s collaboration with AAC. Additionally, these phones are equipped with dual Super Linear Speakers for stereo sound, four compact high-performance microphones, and a robust aluminum alloy frame. These technological and hardware enhancements truly provide a remarkable user experience.
Dual Speakers with Stereo Sound and Privacy Leak-Proof Receiver for Immersive Audio Playback and Enhanced Call Privacy
To ensure high-quality stereo sound, AAC has enhanced the Xiaomi 14 series with two high-performance Super Linear Speakers.
Image source: Xiaomi 14 series launch event
The Xiaomi 14 series delivers an impressive audio experience thanks to its SLS1115K speaker at the bottom that features a 0.65 mm excursion and a frequency range from 600 Hz to 12,000 Hz. With incredibly low distortion, this speaker enriches the Xiaomi 14 series’ audio output, offering users clear and powerful sound. Users can enjoy a detailed, vibrant, and immersive audio experience.
The Xiaomi 14 Pro not only features the SLS1115K speaker at the bottom but also incorporates an independent privacy leak-proof receiver from AAC at the top. This built-in receiver prevents sound leakage during calls, ensuring private and confidential conversations.
The Third-Generation Actuator Technology Platform: Revolutionizing Haptic Sensations
The Xiaomi 14 smartphones mark a revolutionary step as the world’s first devices to integrate the ESA micro-actuator technology, which resulted from a collaboration between Xiaomi and AAC. Unlike the previous models, this actuator has been upgraded with AAC’s third-generation actuator technology platform. Its internal structure has been strengthened with a 14% increase in its size and a 26.8% boost in vibration intensity. These advancements empower this actuator with an enhanced driving force, enabling more efficient activation and deactivation. Moreover, the actuator delivers more intense vibrations and a more realistic haptic experience.
In the Xiaomi 14 Pro, the CyberEngine ESA1016 from AAC elevates the phone’s performance to new heights. This actuator delivers a high transient vibration volume of up to 3.85 Gpp and covers a wide frequency range from 50 Hz to 500 Hz. This allows the actuator to provide robust haptic feedback and detailed haptic sensations. Users can thus enjoy an unimaginably natural and captivating haptic experience.
Thanks to the RichTap® haptic solution, the Xiaomi 14 series smartphones can adapt to the most extensive haptic ecosystems in the industry, delivering an immersive haptic experience in most scenarios. Users can enjoy thousands of high-quality haptic effects when playing games, watching videos, typing, browsing social media platforms, or using Xiaomi’s HyperOS on their smartphones.
Exceptional Audio Clarity in Video Shooting: An Industry-Leading 4-Mic Array with Automatic Sound Focus
The Xiaomi 14 series smartphones mark Xiaomi’s first use of 4-microphone arrays. This series is equipped with four compact, high-performance analog microphones supplied by AAC. The microphone chips are AAC’s in-house products, known for their high signal-to-noise ratios.
The 4-microphone array, regarded as a top-tier industry design, significantly enhances audio quality during video recording. Compared to the standard 3-microphone array, the 4-microphone array can precisely capture diverse sounds, ensuring instant noise reduction and clear calls. It is not only suitable for audio and video calling but also meets the requirement of mid- and far-field sound pickup for voice communication in noisy environments, such as gaming and teleconferencing.
Additionally, in everyday video shooting, the Xiaomi 14 series takes the user experience up a notch with AUDIO ZOOM technology. This feature allows the phones to focus on the sounds of what appears in the video. When filming a distant scene, users can use their phone to directionally pick up distant sounds while reducing unwanted noises from other directions. This makes it possible to record immersive audio and ensures that the sound in the video is crystal clear.
Durable and Aesthetically Pleasing High-Strength Aluminum Alloy Frame
AAC provides the Xiaomi 14 smartphones with frame components made from meticulously processed high-strength aluminum alloy. Though challenging to work with, this material significantly enhances the phones’ durability. These phones also boast a sleek design with a glossy finish, giving them a premium and luxurious feel.
AAC employs an enhanced nano-injection molding solution for these frame components, which have been certified for the highest level of IP68 dust and water resistance.
Moreover, AAC has successfully integrated essential components into the Xiaomi 14 smartphones in a limited space, such as audio systems, antennas, near-field communication, wireless charging features, and mechanics. By utilizing an integrated module solution that incorporates techniques such as injection molding, functional integration and assembly, and structural adhesive bonding, the Xiaomi 14 series smartphones can be efficiently mass-produced.
AAC’s modular integration services are both adaptable and efficient, catering to specific assembly requirements. By streamlining product assembly processes for clients, these services enhance production efficiency and reduce assembly-related costs. This, in turn, improves the cost-effectiveness of end products, empowering clients to enhance their products’ competitive advantage.