Xiaomi’s crazy new $2,800 phone has display on the front, sides, and back

guest · Sep 24, 2019

Xiaomi’s crazy new $2,800 phone has display on the front, sides, and back
Xiaomi says the Mi Mix Alpha is "almost entirely display."
September 24, 2019
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...hone-has-display-on-the-front-sides-and-back/

Xiaomi is back with one of its trademark insane smartphone designs. Meet the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha, a phone with a screen that curves around the sides and then just keeps going, wrapping all the way around the back of the device. As Xiaomi's blog post says, "the front, side, and back of the phone are almost entirely display."

Xiaomi is calling this a "concept" phone, and while the company is being coy about details right now, it says it will sell the Mi Mix Alpha in December in China. The Mi Mix Alpha might not be a foldable smartphone, but it does come with a foldable smartphone price tag: $2,810 (RMB 19,999).
The one display spec we get is the made-for-headlines quote that the phone has "a screen-to-body ratio of more than 180.6%," which is not at all how the "screen-to-body ratio" spec is supposed to work.

The design may be a stepping stone toward a foldable smartphone from Xiaomi. In January, the company showed off a "tri-fold" foldable smartphone, which folded on the left and right sides, in a (very blurry) video. When closed, that tri-fold prototype really looked just like the Mi Mix Alpha.
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