The Mix Flip is Xiaomi’s inaugural clamshell-style phone.
The Mix Flip is Xiaomi’s inaugural clamshell-style phone.
Xiaomi is the latest player to enter the flip phone arena. The Beijing-based company showed off its inaugural flip phone, the Mix Flip, ahead of its launch in China on Friday. The Mix Flip adopts the large outer screen seen on recent flip phone offerings such as Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Motorola’s Razr Plus 2024. CEO Lei Jun said to expect a “highly functional” outer screen that “lets you do more without even flipping it open”, in a Wednesday post on X.
The last two years have seen flip phones undergo a design transformation, with much of the changes happening on the front screen. This may have been kicked off by Chinese phonemaker Oppo, which shook up the cover design of flip phones in late 2022 by introducing a vertically oriented cover screen to its first-ever flip phone, the Find N2 Flip.
