Since Xiaomi announced Xiaomi MI MIX, it has enjoy great popularity among many media, its all ceramic body and top performance has been praised to the one of the coolest smartphone in 2016. In material, Xiaomi MI MIX uses all ceramic body including back, frame, even button, and it uses sleek and delicate zirconium microcrystalline ceramic material.
So is the Xiaomi mi mix with all metal ceramic design sturdy? Xiaomi company’s technical team has answered the question. In fact, Xiaomi released Xiaomi MI5 ceramic version on February 24 to use 3D ceramic design first. Xiaomi MI MIX uses microcrystalline zirconium ceramics art, 8.5 mohs hardness, second only to diamond and sapphire and it is more hard than common glass. Lei Jun has done the experiment on Xiaomi MI5 before, he uses keys, saw, and electric drill to test, but Xiaomi MI5 ceramic back cover is still new and bright.
The technical team from Xiaomi company claims that they have no much experience in such large scale and large factory to product all ceramic body smartphones, so the overall production is to take long time to release.The relative equipment, assembly line debugging, the raw material purchasing are all the big project. So the yield rate and production efficiency is also a big difficulty.
The biggest difficulty is out of control the yield rate, a batch of 5000, if there is a little mistake, all of these will fail.
So what’s the advantage of Xiaomi MI MIX to use microcrystalline zirconium ceramics.
First, it has noble texture, which belongs to the same level as noble sapphire (single crystal alumina) for gem grade materials.
Second, Color and lustre is fruity with very high refractive index and strong dispersion with good visual effect.
Third, it has low thermal conductivity like a jade, but more suitable for skin than metal and plastic.
Fourth, it has insulating material which will not block the signal,and not affect the antenna layout.
Fifth, it has good mechanical properties with anti-bending function, its mohs hardness is similar to sapphire which supports bending resistance, and wearing resistance.
Sixth, it has high dielectric constant, used for fingerprint sensor which can obtain more clear, sharper image.
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