Xiaomi takes the foldable fight to Samsung with thinner Mix flagship

New Atlas | Aug 15, 2022 at 3:12 PM
  • Chinese consumer tech giant Xiaomi has thrown down the folding smartphone gauntlet with the Mix Fold 2.
  • Xiaomi goes for a thin profile of 0.21 in (5.4 mm) when folded out to its mini tablet mode – compared to the Fold4’s 0.24 in (6.3 mm) – and offers up an 8.02-inch OLED display using Samsung’s flexible ultra-thin Eco glass with LTPO 2.0 backplane technology.
  • Resolution is reported to be 2,160 x 1,914 pixels, an adaptive refresh rate runs between 1 Hz and 120 Hz, the company has replaced the polarizer with an ultra-thin color filter and employed a black matrix material to reduce screen reflections for a bump in light transmittance of 33% while also reducing power draw by some 25%.