On December 24, Xiaomi released a new entry-level phone in Beijing. — Xiaomi Play. The Mi Play is a new category of Xiaomi phones. What makes it new is that it provides regular phone hardware with an unlimited data plan, which explains a different price/performance ratio than before.

Below we take a look at this new category of mobile phone.

First, Xiaomi Play has injection molding PC, composite plate double version, the relevant suppliers guess

Xiaomi Play is Xiaomi's first use of water drop screen design of smart phones, but also Xiaomi's first attempt to unlimited traffic of smart phones.

In terms of appearance, the rear cover of Xiaomi Play uses a gradual color fuselage design, which is also the first model using the immersion process. Provide dream blue, twilight gold two high appearance level streamer gradient color and black three color options.

Photo: Xiaomi Play high appearance level appearance, picture from the official website

Xiaomi Play high appearance level back cover flowery color, showing a glass-like crystal texture, but the actual material is plastic, and three kinds of color matching models use two different plastic shell processing technology, of which the black using PC injection molding imitation glass spraying process, Two gradient color is the use of composite plate dyeing process.

Dye process, compared with printing and spraying gradient process, dye process color saturation is high, the gradient effect is natural and delicate, even using a magnifying glass can not see any particles.

According to reports, millet Play black selection of PC raw materials from Dongguan Aoneng, the material has high toughness, high transparency, high hardness and other characteristics, processing surface hardness of up to 3H, suitable for mobile phone plastic shell imitation glass 3D molding, in the low-end models compared to the glass back cover more cost-effective.

And the plastic shell suppliers are relatively more, want to know friends can click: In 2018, the top 30 mobile phone plastic shell processing

For the two kinds of plastic back cover suppliers of Xiaomi Play, Xiao Bian boldly guessed that the Xiaomi Play composite sheet back cover suppliers may be Zhongchen, Huicheng, etc., and the injection molded PC back cover may be Xinwang Da, Tongda, etc.

Two, 2019 plastic shell share or up to 70%, the two processes coexist

2018 composite sheet yield climb, new machines frequent, injection PC also with better cost-effective, mass production, a great back-up frame. And according to industry forecasts, the plastic shell mobile phone market share in 2019 May reach 70%, as the two mainstream processing processes of mobile phone plastic shell, injection glass and composite plate promising, so we think that 2019 will be a year of 3D composite plate and injection molded shell. The release of millet Play also makes us more sure that the plastic shell process will coexist of two routes next year.

The two processes coexisting in 2019 will also use different decorative processes on different price models. It is understood that the high-end models of injection molding imitation glass are decorated with film processing, and the low-end models are sprayed; Composite plate high-end models with PVD coating, low-end with the immersion process. Of course, the injection molding process will not be limited to PC polycarbonate, while the decorative process may also be innovative.

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