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Xiaomi takes the foldable fight to Samsung with thinner Mix flagship

18 August 2022 07:00

Chinese consumer tech giant Xiaomi has thrown down the folding smartphone gauntlet with the Mix Fold 2, which shapes up a good deal slimmer than the Galaxy Fold4 Samsung launched last week and also comes with a bigger battery.

The Mix Fold 2 is built around the company's custom "micro waterdrop" hinge that's reported to make use of large hidden spaces on both sides to enable a slim folded-out form factor, The New Atlas reports.   

Xiaomi has reduced the number of hinge components to just 87, and it benefits from a metal injection molded alloy construction with dual hinge plates fashioned from carbon fibre and features a recessed centre.  

The handset rocks smartphone mode dimensions of 6.36 x 2.9 x 0.44 in (161.6 x 73.9 x 11.2 mm), which makes it a bigger prospect than the Fold4, but also a thinner one.

The outer display is a 6.56-inch AMOLED screen made from Samsung's E5 material, comes in at 2,520 x 1,080 resolution in 21:9 aspect, and has a 120-Hz refresh rate and 240-Hz touch response. There's 10-bit colour depth as well, along with support for HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, and users benefit from the brightness of 1,000 nits and 8,000,000:1 contrast. The display is also topped in scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass Victus.

Xiaomi goes for a thin profile of 0.21 in (5.4 mm) when folded out to its mini-tablet mode – compared to the Fold4's 0.24 in (6.3 mm) – and offers up an 8.02-inch OLED display using Samsung's flexible ultra-thin Eco glass with LTPO 2.0 backplane technology.

Resolution is reported to be 2,160 x 1,914 pixels, an adaptive refresh rate runs between 1 Hz and 120 Hz, the company has replaced the polarizer with an ultra-thin colour filter and employed a black matrix material to reduce screen reflections for a bump in light transmittance of 33% while also reducing power draw by some 25%. The inner display matches the outer's 10-bit colour depth, as well as its support for Dolby Vision and HDR10+.

The Mix Fold 2 runs the company's MIUI Fold 13 operating platform based on Android 12. Inside is the mobile platform of choice for flagship Android phones, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, for processing speeds up to 3.2 GHz. The chipset is supported by up to 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 1 TB of UFS 3.1 storage.

There's a 4,500-mAh battery for the promise of a full day's usage when in folded-out mini-tablet mode, or even longer if mostly using the outer display. It has been coated in a relatively large boron nitride film to dissipate heat and can be topped up using a 67-W wired fast charger.

Xiaomi has also crammed in a large-area cooling system that's reported to result in a "50% improvement in thermal conductivity compare to typical VCs."

The foldable's three rear cameras tap into Leica imagery and optics know-how and stack up as a 50-megapixel main built around a Sony IMX766 image sensor and F1.8 aperture lens with optical image stabilization, a 13-MP ultra-wide and an 8-MP telephoto. There's a choice of two Leica photographic styles, plus Dolby Vision HDR video recording. And the Mix Fold 2 also sports a 20-MP selfie cam hole-punched in the outer display.

Rounding out the given specs are dual speakers with sound by Harman Kardon and support for immersive Dolby Atmos and Hi-Res Audio.

The Mix Fold 2 tips the scales at 9.2 oz (262 g) – a smidge lighter than the Fold4 – and will go on sale in mainland China from August 16 in black or gold for a starting price of RMB 8,999 (about US$1,330).

There's no word on more widespread availability at this time.

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