Xiaomi’s folding phone has been revealed in a teaser video from the company. Xiaomi co-founder and president Lin Bin has posted a nearly minute-long video to Weibo today, detailing the double folding phone. Both sides of the device can be folded backwards to transform it from a tablet form factor into more of a compact phone. Unlike other foldable phones we’ve seen recently, this certainly looks a more practical use for the technology.
Xiaomi doesn’t provide many details about its foldable phone, but Bin reveals the device in the video is simply an engineering model. Bin does note Xiaomi has conquered “a series of technical problems such as flexible folding screen technology, four-wheel drive folding shaft technology, flexible cover technology, and MIUI adaptation.” Xiaomi appears to have adapted its MIUI software for the foldable phone, and a video is seen playing on the device before it converts from tablet to phone mode.
Xiaomi’s folding phone leaked earlier this month, and it’s set to compete against devices like Samsung’s folding phone prototype and Chinese company Royole’s folding device. Huawei is also reportedly planning to launch a foldable device, and Lenovo has previously teased that it was working on bendable phones. Xiaomi hasn’t revealed when we’ll learn more details about its foldable phone, but given Mobile World Congress starts in a month we’re likely to hear a lot more about foldable devices very soon.
Comments
Just can’t get over what the guy’s wearing!
Nice concept tho.
By Ruthless7 on 01.23.19 4:23am
This is why you undo your jacket when seated.
By Indefinite Implosion on 01.23.19 8:07am
Do you know Chinese New Year is around the corner?
By valley_nomad on 01.23.19 3:48pm
This comment reminded me about I don’t care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing
By GubbyMan on 01.24.19 3:24pm
Where’s the camera?
By RobertAndrews on 01.23.19 4:24am
Isn’t everything built-in behind the display these days… camera, fingerprint sensor, flood illuminator, IR blaster, etc, etc,?
By Ruthless7 on 01.23.19 4:26am
Where are you living in, 2020?
By SkeleCrafter on 01.23.19 6:03am
It’s amazing how my brain still sees that year as some far off future.
By BausFight on 01.23.19 10:49am
By SkeleCrafter on 01.24.19 6:27am
2020 isn’t an answer to "where are you living", it’s an answer to "when are you living?"
By danakin on 01.23.19 12:13pm
Unless like the rest of us immortals you see time as a physical dimension the same way you mortals see three dimensions.
By aardWolf on 01.23.19 1:13pm
You should get out more.
By cubbance on 01.23.19 5:24pm
Samsung demo’d an Under-display camera back in October last year .. but they buried it as soon as they decided to go the cheap route with the Galaxy S10 and didn’t release it. Apparently there is some hostility within Samsung against the Samsung Display sucking up R&D budget. Doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s like they sat on foldable displays since 2010.
https://gadgetmatch.com/samsung-new-phones-under-screen-camera-fingerprint-sensor-sound-on-display-2019/
By nullcodes on 01.23.19 8:09am
They did not bury anything, you made up that narrative on your own.
A couple months ago they presented us with the next generations of Infinity displays. Infinity-O is the punch hole, Infinity-V and Infinity-U are notches shaped liked those letters, and New Infinity has the camera behind the glass.
By The Artgineer on 01.23.19 9:04am
Your link goes to a speculation piece, and not from a very bright source I might add. Using the screen as a speaker has been demo’d a few times and is in fact a reality. The article you linked to didn’t even know about that.
LG, Sony and even Google all have the technology.
By Patrick Crumpler on 01.23.19 9:25am
Not yet but maybe soon. Since this is a prototype perhaps it is! I predict ugly notches and hole punches are not long for this world and are going to look very dated in the next 2-3 years.
By jonomacd on 01.23.19 12:42pm
one is surely over his shoulder
By Mr.Mulderfox on 01.23.19 4:59am
Behind his shoulder.
By I'll take the blue pill. Cheers. on 01.23.19 9:55am
Too late to delete. Just seen this has been done already.
By I'll take the blue pill. Cheers. on 01.23.19 9:56am
Chinese OEM FTW!
By Mr.Mulderfox on 01.23.19 4:24am
Dude… I just had my alarms not ring for two days straight on my OnePlus 6T after the December security update, checked unotification, the app simply never woke up. https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/alarm-problem.987229/#post-19854971
That along with blinking network indicators, random flashes of 100% brightness after unlocking while I’m in bed, and numerous other annoyances that I simply never had to deal with on the Pixel… means I’m never doing this again, unless their gorgeous hardware makes me break again.
By Oldarney on 01.23.19 10:25am
Agreed, for all the plaudits OnePlus and the 6T get, my six weeks with it had a lot of shoddy software moments that I never experienced on previous phones. Went to the Moto G6 Plus instead, much better stability and usability.
By aelfin on 01.23.19 7:07pm
Currently I’m running a Pixel 2 XL, but I don’t feel the OP6 was behind in SW at all (except in the camera processing department), and actually ahead in several of the customization options.
By Elkhantar on 01.24.19 7:26am
Tbh I’ve never felt the need to change the colour of my text or anything, so for me customisation is a moot point; it doesn’t add to usability, it just allows me to make a worse hash job of cohesive UI design than professionals can do.
OP removed Google Now and replace it with the Never Settle screen, which I also had zero use for. The software would regularly (once a week or so) crap out or act in unexpected ways, not respond or glitch into something else.
At least with the Moto I have proximity wake, notification peek, flip to do not disturb, auto-detect driving mode switch, and a couple other bits I can’t recall, that actually add to better usage of my phone.
By aelfin on 01.24.19 7:37pm
That’s odd, I’ve only heard the opposite.
By Doge Man on 01.23.19 8:01pm