Just look at this huge flip phone screen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Further adding to weight savings is simply a smaller soul 120Hz display. It now measures 7.98 inches but offers a bump successful solution to 2488 x 2224 pixels, while nan outer 1080P screen show stays nan aforesaid size astatine 6.56 inches.

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

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 starts astatine ¥8,999 (around $1,237) for nan guidelines exemplary featuring 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, aliases ¥10,999 (around $1,512) pinch 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, successful black, white, aliases blue. The Mix Flip, successful white, purple, aliases black, starts astatine ¥5,999 (around $825) pinch 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, but pinch 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, nan value jumps to ¥7,299 (around $1,004).

As pinch Xiaomi’s erstwhile folding phones, there’s nary connection connected whether aliases not these 2 caller models will spot a world merchandise extracurricular of China.