The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 has launched successful China conscionable days aft Samsung announced its adjacent procreation of foldable handsets, with Xiaomi looking to summation an vantage implicit its contention with a slimmer design, bigger displays, and a much affordable price.

The Mix Fold 2 has respective improvements implicit the archetypal Mi Mix Fold released past twelvemonth that spell beyond dropping the Mi branding. The Fold 2 is powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC flagship chipset, with 12GB of RAM and respective retention options ranging from 256GB to 1TB. It besides features an improved hinge and comes successful either golden oregon black.

Just successful lawsuit you wanted to cognize if the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 looks bully successful black. Image: Xiaomi

As a foldable, you’re getting a 6.56-inch OLED outer show (2520 x 1080) with a agelong 21:9 facet ratio and an 8.02-inch LTPO 2.0 interior show (2160 x 1914), which are some somewhat larger than Samsung’s 6.2-inch OLED outer show (2316 x 904) and 7.6-inch (2176 x 1812) OLED interior show recovered connected the Galaxy Z Fold 4. Both of the Mix Fold 2 displays tally astatine 120Hz with a brightness of 1,000 nits. The outer show is protected by the latest (and toughest) Corning Gorilla Glass Victus, portion the main folding show uses Schott ultra-thin glass conscionable similar Samsung has been known to use.

Xiaomi’s foldable features a triple camera setup with a superior 50-megapixel camera, a 13-megapixel ultrawide, and an eight-megapixel telephoto with 2x optical zoom. There’s besides a 20-megapixel hole-punch camera successful the beforehand for selfies.

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 arsenic seen from the rear erstwhile folded open. Image: Xiaomi

Xiaomi’s announcement comes aft Samsung released 2 foldable devices of its own connected Wednesday — the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and the Galaxy Z Fold 4 — which volition make immoderate much-needed contention successful the foldables marketplace if the Mix Fold 2 ever ships to markets extracurricular of China. One mode that Xiaomi is trying to get a limb up implicit its Korean rivals is its assertion that the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 is the “world’s thinnest foldable phone.” At conscionable 5.4mm, it shaves astir 15 percent of the thickness disconnected the 6.3mm Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4.

It’s not each sunshine and device-measuring contests, though, arsenic Samsung’s flagship offering includes a utile Flex mode (Samsung’s terminology for applications automatically reorienting to acceptable a folded screen) and IPX8 h2o resistance, 2 features that the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 lacks. Nevertheless, Xiaomi’s 4,500mAh artillery capableness is inactive a smidge larger than the 4,400mAh artillery recovered wrong Samsung’s Z Fold 4. The Mix Fold 2 besides supports 67W wired accelerated charging, with the marque claiming that a afloat complaint tin beryllium achieved successful 40 minutes, portion the Z Fold 4 lone supports up to 25W accelerated charging by comparison, with Samsung claiming the handset tin execute up to 50 percent of its artillery capableness successful 30 minutes.

Given the deficiency of a rival to Samsung’s Flex mode, you astir apt won’t privation to clasp the handset fractional unfastened similar this. Image: Xiaomi

At present, the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 is lone disposable for acquisition successful China, with nary announcements regarding erstwhile the telephone could beryllium making its mode to different markets. Pricing for the 256GB basal exemplary is acceptable astatine CNY 8,999 (around $1,300 USD) which importantly undercuts the CNY 13,999 (over $2,000 USD) Samsung is asking for the 256GB mentation of its Z Fold 4 successful the country.

If those prices clasp for an planetary launch, past Samsung could finally look immoderate superior contention successful foldables, particularly successful price-sensitive markets similar India wherever Xiaomi is already No. 1 by marketplace stock and Samsung conscionable dropped to 4th place, according to IDC.