Design – All plastic with rubber base, it’s really well built so no worries in this aspect.
The top mesh looks awesome because punch holes in the mesh increase in size from center to edge ,also the holes are not exactly adjacent to each other, this gives the speaker a very interesting flower kind off look. Refer to pictures to see what I’m talking about.

Sound Quality – This isn’t my first small speaker, I’ve tried another 3 watt speaker from a brand named We Cool and that speaker had abominable sound quality, lot of distortion and clipping of volume. I’m glad to say that this speaker is in a whole other league compared to that, mostly because xiaomi has applied it’s technological prowess into these speakers.
Generally, size of speaker is directly proportional to it’s performance, so if a speaker is small in size you need to use other tools like digital signal processing to make sure the small speaker doesn’t get overwhelmed by all the frequencies it needs to reproduce. In this case, Xiaomi has focused on tonal accuracy and low distortion even at maximum volume, in short they have made sure that vocals, acoustic instruments and drum beats sound the best regardless of genre of music being played. Bass is appropriate for its size, please keep in mind that this speaker is really small in size and don’t expect too much in the bass department, moving on, the said processing makes this speaker sound excellent and handle all kind of music effortlessly. So for sound quality (keeping its size and price in mind) I would say that its really good.

I’ll update my review on battery life and range after I’ve tested them for a week, for now, I would surely recommend them.

Update – battery life is average (5-6 hours) when played at 70% volume, it’s bad when played at full volume(1-2 hours), if you are buying this speaker for personal listening then you’ll be fine.