Xiaomi has filed a patent with CNIPA (China National Intellectual Property Administration)
What a monster
So, the sketches show a foldable smartphone that folds with the display facing out, like the Huawei Mate X. Moreover, the left half is much thicker than the right.
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To achieve framelessness, it is used hereretractable camera. But even this was not enough for Xiaomi: the camera received 5 (!) modules at once. There is only one here, so it is used as both the main and front camera.
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For now, this is just a patent, so it is unknown whether Xiaomi will decide to bring such a wild idea to life.
In any case, the company already has many patentsfor folding smartphones, but so far not a single such device is on sale. At the end of January, the head of Xiaomi showed the operation of a folding smartphone on video, but this gadget has not yet entered the market.
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