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You’re my best bend
To make the Mix Fold 2 so thin, Xiaomi developed its own ‘micro waterdrop’ hinge, which is made up of 87 parts and creates a smaller bending radius than the previous design.
The fuelling class
The Mix Fold 2’s 67W wired charging apparently takes 40 minutes for a complete top-up, through a USB-C port that’s only just small enough to fit inside the phone.
Task me anything
The MIUI Fold 13 interface includes a taskbar at the bottom for easier multitasking than before. Underneath it’s using Android 12L, which has been optimised for folding displays.
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Xiaomi Mix Fold 2
There must be something in the water this month. Something that makes things foldable, because in the space of just 24hrs Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold4 and Flip4 (both reviewed p29-32), Motorola revealed a new Razr, and perhaps best of all, Xiaomi removed the covers from the Mix Fold 2 – the world’s slimmest folding phone.
At just 5.4mm thick when open, and 11.2mm when closed, it’s noticeably skinnier than the Z Fold4. It’s no weakling, though – there’s a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 CPU, 12GB of RAM and a choice of 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of storage. On the outside you get a 6.56in 2520x1080 AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass Victus, while the 8.02in 2160x1914 screen on the inside has a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate and 1300-nit peak brightness, and supports HDR10+ and Dolby Vision video.