Xiaomi Patents A Foldable Phone Similar To The Huawei Mate X

Xiaomi has been granted a new design patent (picked up by Letsgodigital and TechiesBlog) for a foldable smartphone, and this device is similar to the Huawei Mate X and Xs. Those ii phones look almost identical, by the mode.

This smartphone folds outwards, so, when folded, its display covers most of the front and back sides of the device. That brings up various questions nearly durability, and scratching upward the display, only there you get.

This brandish does not exactly fold right down the eye, though. Nigh, but not quite. When folded, the smaller part of it sits right side by side to the phone's rear-facing cameras. So, those cameras serve as both forepart and rear-facing ones.

This foldable smartphone from Xiaomi takes inspiration from the Huawei Mate X / Xs

That is a similar approach to what Huawei had with the Mate X and Xs. Its cameras are also placed adjacent to the role of the display that gets folded, and they're also vertically-aligned.

When unfolded, this telephone gives yous a really good place to grip it, below its cameras. That protrusion seems to be made for gripping the telephone properly.

The power / lock and volume up / downwardly buttons are included on the correct side. The speaker grille sits on the lesser of the device, though one may exist located at the superlative as well, we tin't really run across considering the angles of these sketches.

The phone's bezels are most non-existent, and these sketches do give us a good look at the phone's hinge as well. Do notation that a push button needs to exist pressed in social club to fold this telephone.

That push seems to be placed below the phone's cameras and all additional sensors located on that part of the device.

This patent, for those of y'all who are wondering, surfaced over at CNIPA (Red china National Intellectual Property Administration), and it'south brand new.

Xiaomi still hasn't announced a foldable smartphone, but that may happen in the near future

Huawei had introduced 2 foldable smartphones thus far, the Mate X and Mate Xs. Xiaomi, on the other hand, did not innovate a single ane just nevertheless. Information technology did demo its foldable phone last twelvemonth, though.

That was just a concept, pretty much, every bit it did non even take cameras congenital into it. Xiaomi was expected to announce its foldable device this year, simply considering the global health crisis, it remains to be seen if that volition happen.

We practice know that the visitor has been working on a foldable telephone for a long time now. Volition a foldable smartphone from Xiaomi resemble the Huawei Mate X / Xs? Well, it'due south possible, if Xiaomi ends up utilizing this patent.