Xiaomi and BYD Electronic have long-standing roots of a strategic partnership in Contract manufacturing. Reports say that this joint venture has so far been able to churn out more than 30 phones. Today, the latter explains the important aspects of Xiaomi Mi 11’s mid-frame, the audio engravings, and the leather panel.
As per the report, Xiaomi has sent a letter of Thanks to BYD Electronic Company Ltd., for working together on the Xiaomi Mi 11 project. For the unware, BYD is a Chinese smartphone component maker and contract manufacturer for various companies including Xiaomi. Recently, both have jointly developed a laboratory in Huizhou Park that oversees the design, R&D of metal materials.
Coming back, BYD says Xiaomi Mi 11’s midframe is thicker than the predecessor, the Mi 10. Precisely, it is 1.82mm thick whereas the Xiaomi Mi 10 has a smaller 0.9mm midframe. Now, this should improve the overall structural integrity because thicker the frame is, more will be the tensile strength.
Moving on, BYD says that it has used a special laser engraving technology to imprint the “Audio by Harman Kardon” on the top of the device. The process, which is a first-ever for Xiaomi, ensures that it has fine lines, high accuracy, and matches the color of the frame. In case you don’t know Mi 11’s audio(speaker) is tuned by Harman Kardon.
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Apart from this, BYD has also played its part in designing the leather back panel. Xiaomi’s flagship device has two versions of leatherback- Smoky Purple, and Khakhi. From the first-ever teardown video, we can see that they are extremely flexible and have support cushions inside for rigidity. Accordingly, BYD has used high-precision radium to carve the characters on it and the camera layout.
Xiaomi has kept the design language of the layout very strict that the degree of deviation is just ±0.05mm. As for the leather variant, the report says that the gap between the skin around the camera and the mold is very small at 0.1mm. Good to see Xiaomi paying attention to little details and doesn’t want to settle for less.
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