Xiaomi Corporation

Xiaomi Corporation
Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing.

Though not really know as a musical instrument maker, never mind a Ukulele maker, in the beginning of 2017 Xiaomi released its first version of a Ukulele, the Populele S1 This was a Concert scale Ukulele with a special plastic fretboard that had LEDs under it, and a bluetooth connector so it could connect to a smartphone app which made the LEDs work and show the novice player where to put their fingers to play a song. (It also had a USB connector to charge the internal batteries but strongly no piezo pickup or other method of amplifying the output?). By the end of the year they had moved from the S1 to a U1 with a change of woods and a new design.

In April 2019 Xiaomi launched the Populele U2 range, still Concert scale but featuring a number of different designs and made from T700 composite carbon fibre and ASA resin. The designs include a kind of Pineapple in a number of colours and a traditional figure 8 model with a cat headstock and sound hole; all still with the LED backed plastic fretboard.