During the second day of its Mega Launch 2021 event on Tuesday big Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi pulled the wraps off its first official foldable smartphone after resurrecting its Mi Mix series with the Mi Mix Fold, the company’s first commercial folding phone. Xiaomi claimed the foldable screen had been tested to last for 1 million folds, while the hinge can go for at least 200 bends.

The company has previously showcased an ambitious prototype foldable for which the screen could be folded in two places, but unlike these other previous outlandish Mix devices and concepts, the Mi Mix Fold is a pretty conventional folding phone that uses a big-screen-on-the-inside / small-screen-on-the-outside design similar to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold series and Huawei’s new Mate X2.

The inner screen is an 8.01-inch 4:3 OLED panel with 2480 x 1860 resolution, a standard display brightness of 600 nits (900 peak), and support for Dolby Vision HDR. Xiaomi says the display is able to withstand being folded 200,000 times. The outer screen is 6.52-inches with a 90Hz refresh rate. Xiaomi is making big claims about the Mi Mix Fold’s audio capabilities, with four Harman Kardon-tuned speakers and what the company describes as 3D panoramic sound.

People in China are able to preorder it as of today, and it’ll ship on April 16th. Prices start at 9,999 yuan (around $1,521) for a model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, going all the way up to 12,999 yuan (around $1,978) for a 16GB / 512GB ceramic special edition. There’s no word yet on a release outside of China.

Go to https://innovation-village.com/xiaomi-announces-its-first-folding-phone-mi-mix-fold/ to learn more about the phone

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