In recent years, folding screen smartphones have frequently appeared in people’s vision, and the folding technology has gradually matured and perfected. After Huawei released the first Huawei Mate X foldable smartphone, all major smartphone manufacturers have been ready to launch their own models. For example, Xiaomi has exposed its own folding patents that have attracted a lot of attention. They want to see what Xiaomi’s folding phones look like. Today, we got renders of a Xiaomi foldable smartphone. The phone is very good in terms of design and hardware. It does not lose to the Huawei Mate X2.
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Folding Solution
We can see that the folding technology of this new Xiaomi foldable smartphone does not adopt the internal folding design of Huawei Mate X2, but chooses the external folding solution. Unlike the inner folding design, the outer folding design smartphone has higher requirements on the screen and craftsmanship. Of course, the experience will be better. The screen size of the machine is 6.2 inches in the folded state, which is similar to that of a traditional smartphone. However, in the unfolded state, the screen size is 9.6 inches and the screen resolution is 2K high-definition pixels. In addition, the machine’s screen uses an OLED foldable screen provided by Samsung, with a 120Hz refresh rate.
Screen
The screen of this new Xiaomi foldable smartphone in the folded state adopts a true full-screen design, without any hardware on the screen, including the front lens. Of course, this does not mean that the camera has been removed. The front and rear camera functions are integrated, which greatly reduces the occupation rate of the internal space of the fuselage, and reserves more for the realization of other features. At the same time, compared with Huawei Mate X2’s internal folding dual-screen design, it has lower power consumption and better battery life.
Camera
In terms of photography, this new Xiaomi foldable smartphone does not have multiple cameras. Тhe machine comes with only three cameras on the frame on the back of the fuselage. There is also an LED flash unit as well as a button to control the folding and unfolding state. Since the beginning of the 100-megapixel era of Xiaomi CC9, more and more smartphone brands have begun to carry lenses with more than 100MP resolution. According to the data, the main camera of this new Xiaomi phone is as high as 108MO, and the other two are 28MP and 12MP, respectively. It supports PDAF phase focusing technology and OIS technology. It supports ultra-wide-angle shooting, panoramic mode, super night shooting, and 100x super zoom shooting functions.
With over 100MP resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, these functions have extremely high requirements on the configuration. If the performance is not strong enough, it will not be able to drive it. This new Xiaomi foldable smartphone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor chip. The latter integrates a 5G baseband, which supports SA and NSA dual-mode 5G networks. The phone supports 12GB RAM and 512GB of storage space.
Other features of Xiaomi foldable smartphone
On the back of the fuselage, it uses Corning Gorilla Glass to handle the hinges, and the middle frame is made of metal to ensure the quality of the whole machine. In addition, the aircraft sports a 7500mAh battery, which supports 120W super-fast charging, and has superb battery life.
Generally speaking, this new Xiaomi folding concept phone is more reasonable than Huawei Mate X2 in terms of appearance, and of course it is more beautiful. In the core configuration and technology, it reflects Xiaomi’s strength and determination, and can bring a brand new experience to consumers.