Alongside the Mi 5X smartphone and MIUI 9, Xiaomi has launched their take on a smart speaker, the Mi AI Speaker. Xiaomi also stated that it will have a library of content for the speaker including music, audio books, children's stories, and live radio. Xiaomi boasts of its superb audio quality, and the speaker itself is voice-controlled via a six-microphone array, allowing for 360 degree audio sensing. The Mi AI Speaker is priced at CNY 299 (~Php2.2k), but there is no information yet on international availability. Xiaomi, China's popular smartphone brand has just released their own version of the Apple TV called the Xiaomi Box - an Android-based settop box that comes with Apple's Airplay feature. The Xiaomi Box runs on a heavily customized Android OS with support for 720p and 1080p video outputs and can stream online video contents from sources like Sohu, PPTV, Tencent, Sina, Funshion, Netease, and iFeng for free. As for the hardware, the Xiaomi Box has a curved polycarbonate body that houses the Cortex-A9 800MHz processor, 1GB of RAM, HDMI Out, Ethernet jack, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Micro-USB port with On-The-Go (OTG) support, and Power Socket. Watch the Xiaomi Box in action in the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKLeqv_GQw8 The Xiaomi Box will go on sale this December in China with a price tag of 399 Yuan ($64) or approximately Php2,700. Read more in our articles including "Xiaomi launches Mi AI Speaker, their take on a smart speaker" and "Xiaomi Box with Airplay feature announced in China".
