THE MI MIX FOLD REVIEW IS XIAOMI MAKING FOLDABLES MORE AFFORDABLE AND ATTAINABLE By Zola TECH

The mix fold is Xiaomi, making foldable more affordable and attainable Xiaomi's. First ever foldable phone, the mix fold hasn't even gone on sale officially yet, but the crazy fast, Hong Kong phone import scene has already secured early bird retail units. One of these retailers, trinity, electronics, was kind enough to load as a unit to test for an afternoon. Of course, I compared it to the two other prominent foldable phones right now: the Samsung Galaxy z, fold 2 and the Huawei Mate x2 Xiaomi mi mix fold design, nothing we haven't seen before, but it's still noteworthy. If you remotely follow smartphone news, the Xiaomi mix, folds design, won't be anything new. It's the inner folding phone design, first pioneered by Samsung, meaning the large bendable display folds inwards and closes like a book and there's a secondary, smaller glass screen on the outside.

On the mix fold, the outside smaller screen measures 6.5 inches with a really tall and narrow 27 9 aspect ratios. This gives the phone when folded that remote control, vibe of the galaxy fold and Galaxy Z, fold too, the 90 hertz refresh rate, isn't the fastest around. But my e is well optimized with cutesy animations, so the i. e. still feels smooth the larger inner folding display measures, 8 inches and looks great.

It gets up to 600 nits of brightness and can output 10 bit colors. Unfortunately, it's only got a 60 hertz refresh rate and there's a crease down the middle. That's noticeable. If you look at the phone at an off angle, the crease issue is also present in the Samsung Galaxy z fold tutu for what it's worth, I'm just going to be blunt. When it comes to the folding aspect, the mix fold does not have better hardware than the Huawei Mate x2.

The problems that Huawei's foldable fixed, such as reducing the crease of the folding display and having a hinge that folds entirely flat, are back here in the Xiaomi mix fold the bezels around Xiaomi's foldable, whether it's the inside or outside screen, are larger than the Huawei Mate. X2 single quote s. Brazil's two but context is much needed. Huawei's mate x2 is priced at 17999 Chinese yuan. Compared to the zoo me, mix folds, 9999 yuan, plus the mate x2 can't run core google services due to the ongoing U.

S. ban, but Xiaomi's mix fold can so despite the mate x2 being the most impressive piece of mobile hardware, I've ever held. The reality remains that the mix fold has much more mainstream appeal, not just within china, but worldwide. The mix folds hinges sturdy, and it has a more rounded feel all around compared to the sharpish Galaxy Z. Fold 2, especially in the hinge corners inside the phone, is a Qualcomm snapdragon 888 with 12 GB or 16 GB of ram 256, GB or 512 GB of storage and a 5020 my battery.

The latter is the largest battery seen in a foldable phone. Yet considering the fact. The phone also only has 90 hair 60 hertz panels. Battery life should be quite epic, I'm guessing a day and a half easily. If you need topping up, the phone can be charged at 67 w speeds via the included charging, brick Xiaomi, me mix, fold cameras, the liquid lens works as advertised.

The mix fold features a triple camera main system consisting of a 108 mp main camera that we've seen before in various Xiaomi devices, a 13 mp ultra-wide and a 8mp liquid lens that Xiaomi hyped up a lot self-developed by Xiaomi. The liquid lens features a layer of liquid that changes, the sensor's focus and focal length via electrical voltage. I'm not a camera hardware engineer, but I can tell it works that one lens can produce a 3x, lossless optical zoom, and also capture a macro shot around the front of the phone. The mix fold has a single 20 mp selfie camera. There is no front facing camera inside the larger screen.

I only had about three hours with the phone, so I could only do some surface level camera testing, but I can say that the mix, folds cameras are pretty good. The main 108 mp sensor produces natural both if you're shooting relatively close to a subject and produces excellent dynamic range, even shooting directly at the sun. The ultra-wide seems just okay in the shot below colors are a bit muted and the dynamic range is not the best. Now, to be fair, this is a relatively harsh shooting condition, as I am pointing at the sun. I've also been spoiled by the industry, the best ultra-wide cameras of the Oppo find x3 pro and the Ana plus 9 pro that liquid lens works.

Fine, as mentioned, I can get a clean, 3x, zoom and a macro shot from one sensor as a zoom lens, it's better than the Galaxy Z fold. Two single quotes s measly 12 mp, 2x telephoto lens, but falls far short of the Huawei Mate x2 single quote: s10x periscope, zoom lens Xiaomi, me mix fold, software missing PC mode for now. For some reason, the Xiaomi mi mix fold runs Maya e12 over android 11 and if you've used a Xiaomi phone recently, you'll know the software experience. App icons are colorful, perhaps even garish and animations are full of whimsical touches. I personally place my e somewhere, like fourth or fifth favorite android us skins, billow, oppose colors and on a plus OxygenOS, but above who awaits in me and Vevo's.

Fun touch it's about on par with Samsung's, one again google's own stock, pixel launcher for me. In terms of rankings, the software experience on the mix fold feels familiar to other folding phones. I've used Instagram stories will cut off the top and bottom if you're, viewing them on the large inside screen and apps generally need to be restarted and resized. If you're jumping between the small and large screens, Maya e offers split, screen, multitasking and floating windows for apps, so the larger screen real estate isn't wasted. However, the PC mode that Xiaomi advertised during the mix folds launch was not available.

On my unit, I spent 30 minutes searching through the phone's settings and could not find the mode I am assuming this will come later via a software update, but nonetheless I was disappointed as this was the one feature that sets Naomi's foldable. Apart from the Huawei Mate x2 and the Samsung Galaxy z fold, 2. Xiaomi mi mix fold early impressions, Xiaomi really is making innovation for everyone. Like I said earlier, if we're going just by pure hardware, the mix fold doesn't do anything that smartphone fans haven't already seen before. If you've held the galaxy fold or z fold too, the mix fold will feel very familiar, but the mix fold is still notable because of its pricing.

For the longest time, foldable phone detractors have cited two major causes for skepticism the supposed fragility of foldable and the sky-high price that cost twice as much as a slab flagship. The Galaxy Z fold 2 mostly addresses the durability fragility concerns. In my opinion, I've been using it heavily for seven months without issue. Its hinge still feels rock solid. I also haven't seen any widespread internet complaints about Galaxy Z fold.

Two single quotes s malfunctioning so safe to say the durability point is mostly mood at this stage. That leaves pricing, and this is where Xiaomi comes in the mix. Folds starting price of around 1 500 is significantly lower than the Galaxy Z fold 2 and made x, 2 single quotes s 2 000 and 2 700 respectively, while 1 500 is still high for the average consumer. It is now close enough to a regular slab flagship phone that the markup pricing of foldable is almost gone. Maybe in another half a year, foldable prices can drop.

Another few hundred Xiaomi's motto is an innovation for everyone, and the mix fold again proves that Xiaomi means it. This is the beginning of Xiaomi, making foldable phones affordable enough to buy for everyone, not just tech geeks, with a lot of money to spend.

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