Xiaomi has just launched a new charging base for its XiaoAI Touchscreen Speaker Pro 8. The smart speaker was launched back in December 2019 and featured an 8 inch display. Now, the new charging base aims to add portability to the speaker.

For those unaware, the XiaoAI Touchscreen Speaker Pro 8 acted as an interactive smart speaker, which could essentially work as a hub for controlling other smart products at home. A notable inclusion was voice calls thanks to the addition of a camera. The smart speaker housed a 3 bass booster unit with 50.8mm speakers that had a high output and tuned professionally tuned by DTS, a known brand in the audio industry.

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While users could watch videos and more on the smart speaker, its function was limited to a socket and at homes. Now, the new charging base launched by Xiaomi would enable the XiaoAI speaker to be taken along in places where you can’t plug it in. The base is slim and connects to the smart speaker from the bottom. It powers the device throws a power cable and can also be charged separately.

It arrives in a similar color scheme as the speaker and also houses 5 LED indicators at the bottom, that reveals the remaining battery capacity. The battery is a large 10,000mAh lithium cell that allows for up to 5 hours of video playback at 50 percent volume and maximum brightness. While using it just as a speaker on a 50 percent volume level, the battery endurance rises to 12 hours. A switch on the side wakes the charging base up, so, if you’re interested in getting it for your XiaoAI Touchscreen Speaker Pro 8, you can buy it for 129 yuan (roughly 18 US Dollars).

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In February this year, Xiaomi launched its own version of the Google Hub – the XiaoAI smart touchscreen speaker. The design was the usual minimalist one but the quality is topnotch. The XiaoAI speaker has clinched two different international awards as a result of its amazing design.

The speaker was one of the winning products for the 2019 German Red Dot Design award announced on July 30. Again, the XiaoAI Touchscreen speaker also won the 2019 US Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) recently.

The XiaoAI touchscreen smart speaker is very much different from its predecessors in terms of the design as it comes with a touchscreen display. The device features a 4-inch display which has space for a custom digital clock. The display can also be used to select music and watch videos and a variety of apps can be installed on the device. it also comes with an alarm clock. The smart speaker will come with a large number of video resources as well as Tencent’s Q music library. The XiaoAI smart speaker can also be integrated with a host of smart home gadgets such as the smart cameras, smart doorbells and several others.

Unfortunately, Xiaomi is yet to integrate the English or any other language apart from Chinese into its smart assistant so this speaker is just useless to non-Chinese speakers. However, we believe the company has got plans to integrate other languages in the near future.

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