Phones Xiaomi Mi MIX Alpha

[Ralfi]

Here’s something a little different...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176412755240181764

When I first saw it, I thought it was a foldable & therefore a scratch magnet. But since it’s just a wrap around screen, I guess you could put a (plastic) screen protector on it for peace of mind.

Also 108MB camera. What sorcery is this?!

 

[ramram55]

It will blow competition out ! Watch out you are paying the Chinese Government your hard earned money, some will say.

 

[Klyster]

Looks incredible, and incredibly fragile.
Camera sounds interesting.

 

[noobinator]

Only $2,800

 

[Ralfi]

Only $2,800

They should rename it the FLEX Alpha ? ?

 

[Suckfest 9001]

Lmao this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. There's "innovating" to give customers something that makes their life easier, and "innovating" total gimmicks like this so that your phone looks sick as hell in the movie theatre when you pull it out and the people next to you explode buckets.

will not purchase, next

 

[michael9891]

Camera sensor size looks like it might be a very capable camera. Not a product for everyone but definitely interesting.

 

[Aston441]

Just look at this thing:

Xiaomi’s Mi Mix Alpha is almost entirely made of screen

The display wraps around the entire phone.

www.theverge.com

and apple cannot even get rid of the notch lol¿¡¿

the world is upside down

 

[Pakaku]

What's the point of an all-screen phone if I can't see the back when looking at the front, or vice versa? Serious question

 

[pika2000]

Great work from Xiaomi. It's great seeing the Chinese OEMs not afraid trying out new concepts such as this, motorized pop-up camera, under display fingerprint, etc.

 

[Aston441]

did you read the article and scroll down to see all the other pictures?

it looks amazing!!!

 

[Ralfi]

Great work from Xiaomi. It's great seeing the Chinese OEMs not afraid trying out new concepts such as this, motorized pop-up camera, under display fingerprint, etc.

Industry needs more of this!

 

[Pakaku]

did you read the article and scroll down to see all the other pictures?

it looks amazing!!!

Just because it looks interesting doesn't mean it's useful. I'd love to hear about any practical reasons you can think of to have a screen you won't be looking at half the time (or more)

 

[Oohara]

Good on Xiaomi for stirring the imagination, but this one seems a bit too much like a pizza with the filling spread all the way around including the crust and bottom.

 

[sunapple]

Apple is not in the business of making concept phones out of concept hardware, but they could if they wanted to.

 

[sunapple]

That camera works as follows:

As with other recent high-resolution Samsung sensors, pixels are combined into 2x2 squares for better light sensitivity in low light, which in this case will produce 27-megapixel images.

Source

So it more or less a 27MP camera, but it's impressive nonetheless.

 

[vladi]

Lmao this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. There's "innovating" to give customers something that makes their life easier, and "innovating" total gimmicks like this so that your phone looks sick as hell in the movie theatre when you pull it out and the people next to you explode buckets.

will not purchase, next

Most ridiculous award of 2019 still goes to notch screen and people who think they have more screen estate with left and right leftovers

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

This is bound to give sooo many unwanted activations of random things displayed on the opposite side.

In fact, short of using the main camera for selfies, I have no idea why this is supposed to be smart.

 

[sunapple]

Most ridiculous award of 2019 still goes to notch screen and people who think they have more screen estate with left and right leftovers

This phone doesn't have a notch simply because you use the back camera with the back screen. Other solutions include a mechanical sliding portion and a large front bezel (Pixel 4), both of which don't improve on Apple's solution IMO. Okay, maybe if you scrap FaceID and put TouchID under the display, but that's another discussion.

 

[Ralfi]

This is bound to give sooo many unwanted activations of random things displayed on the opposite side.

They’ve apparently spent a lot of time alleviating those issues, so they say...

Most ridiculous award of 2019 still goes to notch screen and people who think they have more screen estate with left and right leftovers

Why couldn’t you just leave that to yourself instead of putting it here?....

 

[sman789]

$2,800 buys you this:

Seriously though, that's pretty cool. I hope other companies are working on designs like this, bring it down to sub $1,000 prices.

Samsung currently has cases for the Note and S10 that have a simple LED grid in them. They'll light up with an icon when a message/call comes in. Imagine having this face down and you get simple triage notifications like a WearOS watch.

 

[moderniste]

I love the look of the glass curving around. I'd worry about battery life though!

 

[AngerDanger]

I think this phone looks stunning. I also think it looks completely impractical.

 

[Silvestru Hosszu]

It seems that there are interesting things related to this phone.

Official Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha unboxing vid reveals unique protective case

It was only a few days ago that Xiaomi unveiled the Mi Mix Alpha to a stunned global audience. The company has now rolled out an unboxing video that also answers the question of how the nearly all-glass, all-display device will be protected.

www.notebookcheck.net

 

[Aston441]

I wonder if MR has the fortitude to put this up as an article.

It was yanked off the front page of every popular website.

Someone powerful does not like this design.

And this thread got merged with lots of replies lost.

Plenty of useless articles about the awful Samsung Fold are fine it seems...