Just look at this huge flip phone screen

Xiaomi has announced 2 caller folding phones for the Chinese market. The upgraded Mix Fold 4, which introduces h2o absorption for the archetypal time, and the Mix Flip, the company’s archetypal flip telephone foldable featuring a 4.01-inch screen surface surrounded by a astir non-existent bezel.

Xiaomi claims the caller Mix Flip has the largest outer show connected a flip-style folding smartphone. At 4.01 inches successful size, it’s conscionable somewhat larger than the four-inch surface connected the Motorola Razr Plus 2024 but overmuch bigger than the 3.4-inch outer surface connected the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6.

The Mix Flip’s 120Hz screen surface includes its ain earpiece and microphone, allowing the telephone to beryllium utilized to marque calls without having to unfastened it. However, contempt being large, a sizable portion of the Mix Flip’s outer surface is taken up by a brace of Leica-branded cameras. A 50-megapixel main camera with optical representation stabilization and a 50MP telephoto camera with 2 times optical zoom. Opening the Mix Flip reveals a 6.86-inch folding surface with the aforesaid refresh rate.

Powering the Mix Flip is simply a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor which tin beryllium paired with up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. A 4,780mAh artillery supports 67W accelerated charging with a USB-C cable, but Xiaomi hasn’t said if wireless charging is included.

The Mix Fold 4 features akin internals with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and up to 16GB of RAM with 1TB of storage. Like the Google Pixel Fold and earlier iterations of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, the caller Mix Fold 4 yet gets an IPX8 rating, which means that it’s protected against afloat h2o immersion, but there’s inactive nary particulate resistance.

A somewhat larger 5,100mAh artillery successful the Mix Fold 4 tin beryllium charged wirelessly astatine 50W oregon instrumentality vantage of 67W accelerated charging with a USB-C cable. The foldable besides carries implicit the aforesaid hinge durability arsenic past year’s model, promising a lifespan of up to 500,000 folds based connected laboratory testing.

When closed, the Mix Fold 4 measures 9.47mm heavy and 4.59mm erstwhile opened. That’s thinner than some the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and the Pixel Fold. Thanks to a redesigned hinge that’s present 34 percent narrower and 16 percent lighter, the 226 gram Mix Fold 4 is besides present 29 grams lighter than past year’s Mix Fold 3.

Further adding to value savings is simply a smaller interior 120Hz display. It present measures 7.98 inches but offers a bump successful solution to 2,488 x 2,224 pixels, portion the outer 1080P screen show stays the aforesaid size astatine 6.56 inches.

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 features 4 Leica-branded cameras connected the back. It carries guardant the 50-megapixel main camera and 12-megapixel ultrawide camera from the erstwhile exemplary but present offers an improved 50-megapixel telephoto camera with 2 times optical zoom for representation photography and a 10-megapixel periscope camera with 5 times optical zoom.

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 starts astatine ¥8,999 (around $1237) for the basal exemplary featuring 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, oregon ¥10,999 (around $1,512) with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, successful black, white, oregon blue. The Mix Flip, successful white, purple, oregon black, starts astatine ¥5,999 (around $825) with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, but with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of retention the terms jumps to ¥7,299 (around $1,004).

As with Xiaomi’s erstwhile folding phones, there’s nary connection connected whether oregon not these 2 caller models volition spot a planetary merchandise extracurricular of China.