The specifications are mid-range if we look at the SoC and the cameras, but here the special attention is focused on the sound, and the device offers unique things.
Moondrop presented its first smartphone, the MIAD 01 and in China it can already be ordered for HUF 127,000 and 2,499 yuan. THE GSMArena understands that the device will be available for $399 globally from Moondrop’s partners online and in stores.
The new MIAD 01 device focuses on audio capabilities, everything else is secondary. By default, it has two analog connectors, a 3.5 mm (with 2 Vrms output) and a 4.4 mm (with 4 Vrms output) ensuring symmetrical signal transmission, these are located on the top of the device’s frame.
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A Cirrus Logic MasterHiFi DAC works inside the device housing, its type was not specified by Moondrop, but it can be assumed based on the product description that it is the CS43198. With this, the dynamic range is 132 dB, and the SINAD (Signal to Noise And Distortion, the ratio of the performance of the useful signal and noise and distortions — harmonics and intermodulation components —) is 118 dB. But even this is not the end of the sound-focused functions, because there is a dedicated, six-layer gold-plated audio circuit, for which a separate LDO power supply is installed in the phone. One Audio Center through an application called hardware-level DAC volume control in one hundred levels, but this program can also be used for dynamic DSP control. LDAC audio codec is supported for wireless audio transmission.
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Moondrop bought the SoC from MediaTek, the Dimensity 7050 with an octa-core CPU and Arm Mali-G68 MC4 GPU. The MIAD 01 comes in one package with 12 GB of LPDDR4x memory and 256 GB of UFS 3.1 storage, the latter of which can be expanded up to 2 TB via microSD. The built-in battery is capable of 5000 mAh, 33 watt USB-PD charging via the USB 3.0 (5 Gbps) Type-C connector. The device weighs 202 grams and is 9.15 mm thick, which puts it towards the average in terms of size. There is no information about wireless charging, it is probably not supported.
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The display is a 6.7-inch OLED panel with slightly curved edges. It is capable of 120 Hz refresh and 1920 Hz PWM dimming, and its resolution is FHD (1080 x 2460 pixels). There is only a 32-megapixel selfie camera on the front, and a 64-megapixel camera with an 8-megapixel secondary sensor is located on the back. There is an LED flash next to them, and the NFC chip is located near them and under the back cover.
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The device runs a 64-bit Android 13 system, without advertising or data collection, according to the brand’s promise. The phone can accept two nanoSIMs or one nanoSIM and one microSD and supports the following international frequency bands:
- GSM: B2/3/5/8
- WCDMA: B1/2/4/5/8
- LTE: B1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/17/20/28(A+B)/38/40/41/66
- 5G: N1/3/5/7/8/20/28/41/77/78
In addition to the phone, customers will receive a Type-C cable and a SIM card in the box. The international release date is not yet known.
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