Moondrop MIAD 01 launched in China, available April 25
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- AnonD-1188105
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- 03 Feb 2025
ligis, 05 Aug 2024The sound performance is quite powerful (tested with 4.4 ba... morehow are you finding the os? any irks or quirks?
i have a few things from moondrop already so the 01 (or hopefully 02) will be nice to get in future.
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- Nekomimi
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- 07 Aug 2024
ligis, 05 Aug 2024The sound performance is quite powerful (tested with 4.4 ba... moreThank you for your great comment. I owned lg g8x and lg v60 before and i gave both of those phone to my younger siblings and now i own vivo v27, honor x7b 5g and mi10t pro. I really miss those detachable second screen and that Quad dac built into those LG phone. I guess i will sell my vivo and xiaomi phone to get this audio oriented phone to please my ear.
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- ligis
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- 05 Aug 2024
Nekomimi, 05 Aug 2024Hi there sir, would you mind sharing your thoughts about th... moreThe sound performance is quite powerful (tested with 4.4 balanced output), all the while battery has a very good longevity as well. If you are looking primarily for a digital audio player with phone functionality, this is a very good choice, no need to wait for a second generation at all.
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- Nekomimi
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- 05 Aug 2024
Deanie, 24 Jun 2024Moondrop MIAD Mine is arriving Monday. Yay! As an ... moreHi there sir, would you mind sharing your thoughts about this phone? I have been dying to get one of this but i told myself to wait for the 2nd generation of this phone.
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- Anonymous
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- 14 Jul 2024
Kudos to this company to try something like this, bringing in audio quality into mobile phones was a long lost art with end of LG.
Nobody should say BT headphones are alternative to wired, they could go side-by-side keeping he choice alive instead of being greedy.
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- Deanie
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- 24 Jun 2024
Moondrop MIAD
Mine is arriving Monday.
Yay!
As an avid owner of 2x LG G6 (both bought in Seoul from SK Telecom with the HiFi Quad DAC years ago, literally) and 3x LG G7 (including the higher storage version, in magenta, brand new, received yesterday), I totally get the concept of Phone + good DAC + 3.5mm output). They all perform admirably and at a level much higher than eg the FiiO KA1, HiBy FC1 or 3).
This new MIAD 01 takes that to the next level with balanced output 4.4mm as well as 3.5mm, plus a great screen for the price and fairly decent performance from the Mediatek U7050 CPU (inc. 5G support), 12Gb RAM, 256Gb storage. On top of that a battery that's almost 2x the size of my 3 LG G7.
I do think this device deserves to be successful.
As a mobile tech reviewer, stage and studio musician / producer over 25 years, and sometimes pro audio (not consumer) tester and reviewer - this is a device that builds on the best the LG G7 can provide (except for flagship, at the time, SD845 chip) and smokes it with 4.4mm balanced output and better battery life.
As I said at the beginning, my MIAD is arriving in the next 10 hours and my thoughts might change. But as a concept, I do hope Moondrop has a big success here that will hopefully spawn other brands to take the idea forward just as Microsoft did with the OG Gen1 Surface.
It's also worth pointing out that both the screen tech (120Hz AMOLED at 6.7") and the CPU beat any DAP on the market including any A&K DAP with terrible screen, questionable battery, poor storage performance and a terrible 5 years old SD 660 or 665 CPU midrange chip that is blown out of the water by the 7050 in the MIAD (plus 12Gb of very fast RAM)...
... what I'm saying is that on any reasonable technical measure (beyond internal shielding, Op Amps etc) the MIAD makes a USD3,000+ A&K DAP mostly redundant, plus you only need to carry 1 device.
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- Anonymous
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- 27 May 2024
Anonymous, 26 May 2024where can i buy this? i'm in the uk but don't m... morehifigo still has some in stock
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- Anonymous
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- 26 May 2024
where can i buy this?
i'm in the uk but don't mind chinese rom if it's available.
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- Mihai
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- 22 May 2024
Hopefully they have success with it and they follow up with something with a decent camera.
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- BR Noob
- Kxa
- 19 May 2024
blacknail, 10 May 2024GSM Arena, we definitely need a review of this phone :]Yes, we do!
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- Anonymous
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- 04 May 2024
i seriously woud've gotten this without a single thought if i had money lmao, the high quality audio and usb 3.1 is unheard of in this price range
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- Nexus Penguin
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- 03 May 2024
Hi,
How can you compare this to the Zenfone 11 Ultra ?
The Moondrop sells for 400 dollars.
The Zenfone Ultra for 2.5 the price.
Of course the Zenfone should be superioor in almost every aspect.
Except maybe the audio rendering ?
Still, for the price, this phone, for me, is really something I'd consider.
Why ?
Because I have no real needs : a phone to make calls (go figure... I consider this is still the first scope of a phone !), use as GPS when I'm on the way and have a nice calendar app to know when I have "appointments". I play only occasioanlly and that is about all I do with a phone...
But I also carry a DAP around when I'm on the way... Having a single device that will fill both needs isz something I would definitely consider.
Especially now that I broke my glass display on my beloved Xiaomi mi 11 pro :-(
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- TomfromTexas
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- 30 Apr 2024
i wonder how this miad-01 compares w/asus zenfone 11 ultra ?
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- superiorlabfly12
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- 30 Apr 2024
I agree with everything you said. If this came out earlier I would've gotten it over this Sony Xperia 1V. I love the phone but I feel guilty getting it because it was so expensive.
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- raditz594
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- 30 Apr 2024
Anonymous, 30 Apr 2024Brother if you had an actual job that required sensitive da... moreTrue...
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- Same network
- KId
- 30 Apr 2024
Anonymous, 30 Apr 2024Brother if you had an actual job that required sensitive da... morebut connecting to same network on two different devices one for sensitive work and one for entertainment still a risky business, just because you separated work device from Entertainment doesn't mean they won't overlap with one another at some point like a friend joining a game on entertainment device build a point Against you even if you didn't share it .
so yeah there's no speration of work and entertainment in today's era ,this is one big lie that using different devices can protect you, No ,they mostly create more risk than protecting, so protect yourself all together and avoid this endeavor.
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- Anonymous
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- 30 Apr 2024
raditz594, 25 Apr 2024Some of us have jobs where we don't want the intellect... moreBrother if you had an actual job that required sensitive data to be stored on your phone you should well know by now that those companies 100% of the time will give you a work phone specifically for that.
Same goes for laptops or any other media device.
These phones are purely for entertainment purposes.