preface

Back ten years ago, there were only two choices for speakers for everyone. One was an active computer speaker, and the other was a high-power speaker driven by a power amplifier. People's understanding of speakers was limited to sound quality. In the past ten years, while continuing to evaluate the sound quality of various speakers, we suddenly found that with the development of technology, we have many different speakers around us, including Bluetooth speakers, plug-in speakers, and speakers that can connect to WIFI... Technology has completely broken our previous understanding of speakers, and speakers are closer to our lives while providing better sound quality, It is more convenient for our entertainment needs, but have you seen a speaker that can listen to music, watch movies, play games, and shop online? There is such a speaker in real life, Xiaojia smart speaker.

Outside Observation

If you don't get this product, you will never know what kind of speaker it is. Well, let's first interpret it from its name. Xiaojia touch screen smart speaker, first, it is a speaker, second, it has a touch screen, which can be interactive choice, third, it is intelligent. What kind of product is it? Let's open the box and have a look.

Xiaojia's packaging is white. On the printing of the box, I saw the touch screen, the tile UI, and the speaker. It's really a touch screen smart speaker.

The specific configuration of this speaker can be seen on the side of the package. The speaker unit is 5W, RK3128 quad core processor, 7-inch touch screen, 1024 * 600 resolution, Android 5.1 system, supports Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11b/g/n wireless network, the front-end camera is 3 million pixels, 8G memory, and supports HDMI video output. This configuration is not like a speaker, but rather like a 7-inch tablet configuration. Does this speaker integrate the functions of the tablet?

"Let her represent my love" seems to indicate that this is a very intimate product.

Open the box, this is Xiaojia's whole family. One power supply, one manual, one data cable, one mainframe, and there is a remote control. Can you still control it?

7-inch touch screen in the middle ， Two 5W loudspeakers with a proprietary sound chamber and waveguide design on both sides. From the appearance, Xiaojia's design has broken away from the conventional speaker button type interaction system, and the more user-friendly audio and video integrated design makes this speaker more like a combination of flat panel and speakers.

The overall design is black and white. Although the screen has reached 7 inches, the design of the black edges around the screen is somewhat large, which affects the visual experience of the screen. The slightly bulky shape affects the convenience of the speakers. The appearance design of the speakers is less scientific.

The speaker is designed with three physical ammonium keys, the switch on key and the volume key. The three keys can achieve simple interactive functions. Different from most speaker operations, for Xiaojia with touch screen and remote control, these three ammonium keys do not play a much role in actual applications, which does not represent a design failure, The change of interaction mode also reflects Xiaojia designers' expectations of the market from different aspects.

As Xiaojia's volume sales are large, it is increased; It is convenient to add Xiaojia. A recessed handle is designed on the back of Xiaojia, which feels good.

Behind Xiaojia, the speaker provides you with a variety of connectors, including power interface, line output, HDMI, micro usb, Micro SD, and reset button. Line output represents that in addition to Xiaojia's own speakers, it also supports external sound source devices; HDMI video output brings us the possibility of connecting larger displays; Micro SD supports a memory card of up to 64G. Because Xiaojia's memory is not large, the design of Micro SD brings a great expansion space for the speaker's memory.

Three blue anti slip pads are designed at the bottom of Xiaojia. The anti slip effect is very good in the actual test. The sticker in the middle indicates the battery capacity of this speaker. The battery I received is 2000mAh. The battery capacity is really small. In the actual test, the endurance is average. Unfortunately, Xiaojia does not support U-port charging, Therefore, when going out, you can't use the mobile power for its endurance. At the bottom, Xiaojia also designed a microphone hole through which voice interaction can be realized. Although this is not an innovation, it is the first time to use it on a speaker 。

Performance

If we subdivide Xiaojia touch-screen smart speakers, we can completely regard it as a combination of speakers and tablets. Xiaojia touch-screen smart speakers integrate a 7-inch touch-screen. In terms of system UI, Xiaojia touch-screen smart speakers use a magnetic desktop. At first glance, it looks like a Windows phone, but the icon is much larger, The color matching of the system desktop is very similar to that of the Windows phone. The desktop provides music, video, voice, weather, news, radio, reading and other modules. The overall desktop architecture and design is almost flat based Windows 8.

In addition to Xiaojia's customized UI, Xiaojia also provides a native desktop 5.1 system. Users who are not accustomed to Xiaojia's UI can directly switch to the native desktop 5.1 system through the switching function on the desktop.

Xiaojia uses the K3128 quad core processor. The K3128 is a low-cost quad core chip launched at the end of 2014. Based on the A7 architecture, it has a good reputation in terms of power consumption and speed. In terms of storage and memory, Xiaojia has adopted the 1G+8G scheme. Today, 2G storage is the mainstream, and the configuration of 1G storage is obviously awkward. Of course, if you look at the positioning of Xiaojia's smart speakers, 1G storage+K3128 is enough to bring a good interactive experience, but 8G storage is too small, and a high-definition film has at least one or two gigabytes. So if you want to take Xiaojia on a trip, you can only install one or two films and dozens of mp3s. Fortunately, Xiaojia supports up to 64G Micro SD memory card can use external memory card to supplement internal shortage.

Although Xiaojia has brought us some regrets in terms of hardware, it is touching that Xiaojia has customized an infrared remote control for users. Black and white color matching, reasonably distributed function keys, small and light hand feel, we can complete most operations through the remote control, remote control adds color to Xiaojia, and the actual experience is more convenient. It is OK to listen to and cut songs remotely. It's so refreshing.

Xiaojia's remote control makes this speaker more controllable, but Xiaojia brings users more convenience than that. Xiaojia has designed a smart voice recognition application for users. It can open and switch applications by recognizing voice. In the actual experience, the recognition rate is quite high. It is also very convenient to open this voice recognition application. You can find this application by long pressing the small circle in the middle of the bottom of the screen and in the notification bar. It's really good to operate after speaking.

Experience

As a speaker, Xiaojia's sound quality is good, Xiaojia Two 5W loudspeakers with a proprietary sound chamber and waveguide design. Due to the limitation of the quality of the sound generating unit of the speaker, in the actual experience, Xiaojia's mid-range and treble sound performance is acceptable, but the bass sound is very ordinary. However, Xiaojia also provides a sound output interface. When connecting high-quality speakers or earphones through audio cables, the sound quality of Xiaojia HIFI shows up. Xiaojia has a good analytical power on music. In terms of sound tuning, Xiaojia has adopted a more public oriented scheme, which makes high, middle and low sounds very pleasing.

Xiaojia's high-definition video output brings Xiaojia a different audio-visual experience. If you download the live TV APP and connect to the TV via HDMI, Xiaojia will become a TV box. With a handsome remote control, it will be a box with good configuration.

Because of its own Android system, Xiaojia's functions are not limited to listening to music, watching movies, playing games, shopping, reading books. Xiaojia can also do what the tablet can do, which is Xiaojia's distinctive feature.

It has to be said that Xiaojia has also provided an application for children's entertainment teaching, which can be quickly used by children. The teaching and entertainment are very good, which also makes Xiaojia suitable for all ages and enriches Xiaojia's user population.

summary

Xiaojia touch screen smart speakers not only meet the basic needs for music, but also have functions such as reading, shopping, games, video and audio. Through Android system, Xiaojia applications can be expanded. The rich and colorful functional applications and HIFI audio quality experience allow you to watch news while listening to music, read while listening to music, and shop while listening to music, Technology has brought us more integrated enjoyment. Xiaojia has also completely subverted the concept of traditional speakers. Different interactive experiences let us see the direction of future sound development. More intelligent and integrated development ideas will also make the future road of sound colorful.

Admittedly, as a leader in this direction, Xiaojia's design is still a little immature, and the screen resolution and speaker unit constraints make Xiaojia's experience imperfect, but this does not affect the surprise that Xiaojia brings. What we expect is that Xiaojia's future will be more perfect, and more and better "Xiaojia touch screen smart speakers" will appear on the road opened by Xiaojia.