Xiaomi Announces its First Foldable Device, the Mi Mix Fold

After nearly two years of drought, Xiaomi has again resurrected its Mi Mix series with the company's offset folding smartphone — the Mi Mix Fold. Unlike the last year'due south Mi Mix Blastoff, which was a little experimental and never fabricated information technology to the market, the Mi Mix Fold is a mainstream folding smartphone with its blueprint inspired by Samsung Galaxy Fold.

Mi Mix Fold Features and Specifications

The Mi Mix Fold has a dual-screen pattern like the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The outer screen is a 6.52-inch AMOLED brandish with a 90Hz refresh rate. The inner screen is an viii.01-inch OLED panel with 2480×1860 resolution and 600 nits brightness. This display boasts support for Dolby Vision HDR and HDR 10+ content. Xiaomi says that the device should be able to withstand 200,000 folds and unfolds. Interestingly, at that place'south no front end photographic camera on the inner brandish of the folding smartphone.

Powering the Mi Mix Fold is the superlative-of-the-line Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, which is coupled with either 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage or 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The smartphone packs in a 5020mAh bombardment with back up for 65W fast wired charging. Xiaomi says the Fold should be charged from 0 to a full 100 pct in but under 40 minutes.

Xiaomi is also boasting about the Fold's audio capabilities. The smartphone has a quad Harman Kardon-tuned speaker setup. On the dorsum of the Fold is Xiaomi's first photographic camera with liquid lens applied science. Liquid lens engineering science allows a telephoto lens to capture the subject field as close as a distance of 3cm, subsequently allowing for an optical zoom of 3x, or 30x hybrid zoom. The principal camera on the smartphone is Samsung's HMX 108-megapixel sensor and a 13-megapixel ultrawide shooter.

Interestingly, Xiaomi relies on its own Surge C1 ISP for the Mi Mix Fold'south camera, instead of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888's ISP.

Mi Mix Fold Price and Availability

In a true Xiaomi style, the Mi Mix Fold will currently only be available in China. The smartphone is available to pre-social club starting today, with the shipping starting on April 16th. The base variant of the Fold, which has 12GB RAM and 256GB of storage, is priced at 9,999 Yuan (~ $ane,521). The xvi/512 variant of the device volition retail for 12,999 Yuan (~ $i,978).

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