Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 Innovation at Your Fingertips

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is a giant technological leap in the ultra-thin and foldable smartphone space. Measuring 5.4mm¹ just unfolded.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 provides a consistent viewing experience on both indoor and outdoor screens. In addition, it offers an original imaging experience and amazing power efficiency with the latest Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 mobile platform.

In addition to the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2, Xiaomi has also announced the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro, Redmi K50 Ultra, and a range of ecosystem products.

When the phone’s appearance was unified into a straight screen, everyone’s expectations of the new machine’s appearance dropped a lot, until the product’s foldable display shape appeared, only to let people see again in a similar way to the Nokia era of form flowering.

But a few years ago, this form of the product was because the screen was still too expensive, and the folding and fitting problems of the system were not well solved, so it was difficult to fly into ordinary people.

However the development of the mobile phone industry is advancing rapidly, especially for domestic mobile phone manufacturers, when a new shape becomes the next wave, they will devote all their efforts to this shape to perfection.

The latest generation of Xiaomi’s foldable display flagship was released in May last year, after a year and three months, we finally ushered in the second generation of the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 machine. This time, Xiaomi also claimed that this is the last kilometer from the screen in the age of practice.

AnTuTu Benchmark received the model for the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 of the 12GB + 1TB version, so all the following content is based on the case version, the machine-specific configuration parameters are as follows Xiaomi Mix review Fold 2.

Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 specifications

External display

• Slightly curved 6.56-inch screen,
• Samsung E5 AMOLED material,
• Resolution 2520 × 1080p,
• P3 color range,
• Support Dolby Vision,
• HDR10 +,
• 8 million: 1 contrast ratio,
• 10-bit color depth,
• Support front and rear ambient light sensors,
• Corning Gorilla Glass Victus.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 and Internal display

• 8.02-inch Eco²OLED large screen,
• Second-generation LTPO,
• Pol-less technology,
• Resolution 2160 × 1914p,
• P3 color range,
• 8 million: 1 contrast ratio,
• Support front and rear ambient light sensors,
• UTG glass,
• sweet vision,
• HDR10 +.

Mobile platform

• Snapdragon 8+ Gen1,
• The highest frequency is 3.2 GHz.

RAM and ROM

• 12 GB, LPDDR5, 6400 Mbps,
• 256GB / 512GB / 1TB, UFS3.1.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 cameras

• 766MP IMX50 main camera, 1 / 1.56 large base, pixel,
• large 2.0 um four-in-one fusion, F1.8,
• SMA OIS optical stabilization, 7P lens,
• 13MP ultra wide-angle camera, F2.4, FOV 123 °, 5P lens, a focal length equivalent to 15mm,
• 2MP 8X telephoto portrait lens, F2.6, 45mm equivalent focal length,
• 20MP front camera.

To unlock

• Side fingerprint recognition,
• Face Recognition.

Battery and charging

• 4500mAh double batteries in parallel,
• 67W fast charging.

The operating system

• MIUI Fold 13 is based on Android 12.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 comes in two colors

• Gold and Black.

Heat dissipation

• 2520mm² wide area VC heat plate + 3715mm² boron nitride heat dissipation film + 9249mm² high-density graphite sheet.

Multifunction NFC

• Infrared remote control, linear motor, Harman Kardon professional tuning, Dolby Atoms support, Hi-Res certification, Hi-Res Wireless certification.

Performance

Xiaomi 12S The series was the world premiere of a new generation of Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 processor, then, of course, the next flagship will also be equipped with this processor.

The new Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 in terms of performance and power consumption is indeed a significant advance, many cell phone company executives have said that the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 name is too euphemistic, it should be understood as a more appropriate replacement.

The author thinks we should understand it this way, the latest generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is not the full form and this Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 is the full body, which is much more appropriate, otherwise, say Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 is a great substitute, did you leave 3 months after the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 should do it?

The 12GB + 1TB version of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 AnTuTu Benchmark has a score of 1089291 points with a CPU score of 253389, GPU score of 464270; storage test, random read speed of 2024.4MB / s, random write speed of 1456.3MB / s, the total score of 72424; AI score of 3153788 points.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has a total of two screens, the external screen this time uses the standard 21: 9 ratio, and the parameters of the external screen: a 6.56-inch micro-curved screen, Samsung E5 AMOLED material, 2520 × 1080 resolution, color gamut P3, Dolby Vision support, HDR10 +, 8 million: 1 contrast ratio, 10bit color depth, front, and rear ambient light sensor support, Corning Gorilla Glass Victus.

Internal screen: 8.02-inch Eco² OLED large screen, 2nd generation LTPO, Pol-less technology, 2016 x 1914 resolution, P3 color gamut, 8 million: 1 contrast ratio, support for front and rear ambient light sensors, glass UTG, Dolby Vision, HDR10 +.

Both the screen quality is very good, but the machine in the unlock method does not use the fingerprint under the screen.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 camera specifications include three lenses respectively:

1. 766MP IMX50 main camera, 1 / 1.56 large base, 2.0um four-in-one fusion large pixel, F1.8, SMA OIS optical stabilization support, 7P lens;
2. 13MP ultra wide-angle camera, F2.4, FOV 123 °, 5P lens, 15mm equivalent focal length;
3. 2MP 8X telephoto portrait lens, F2.6, 45mm equivalent focal length.

Seeing the camera setup, the author imagines that users who haven’t spit any fingerprints under the screen will go back to spitting out the IMX766, which isn’t the main camera the flagship should have experienced the same way when they saw the setup. The camera, but look at the Leica logo above the lens, and I think it still needs to be guaranteed.

For the foldable screen, the goal is how to operate the large open screen, in addition to watching the TV brush video, software adaptation is also very important, at this point most non-adapted applications are generally in one state of violence extending the internal display, resulting in The browsable content is not as good as regular straight screen phones.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 approach is to reduce the weight and size of each phone, with a thickness of only 2 5.4 mm after opening, it is the thinnest phone at present, the phone is naturally thinner and smaller, and the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 weighs 262 grams… The iPhone 13 Pro Max weighs 238 grams, and there’s still a gap, but it’s getting close to catching up.

user interface

Foldable screen In addition to the appearance and common of the phone with a different straight screen, the other difference is the system because the shape change led to a foldable screen system that should be different from the traditional straight screen phone.

In addition to the hinge and the internal structure, to take full advantage of the advantages of the large screen, the improvement of the foldable screen software is also very important, first of all in the settings interface, we can see the foldable screen area, in the MIUI direct area to assemble a foldable screen fit together, which It allows novice users of foldable-screen phones to quickly understand the features of the phone and flexible adjustment according to the settings of their needs.

For the folding screen, how to use the large magnified screen is the key point. In addition to watching TV and browsing videos, adapting the software is also very important. At this stage, most of the non-adapted APPs are generally in violent stretching when displayed on the internal screen. The state of the browser is not as good as that of normal direct-screen mobile phones.

MIUI Fold solves this problem, directly in the folding screen area so the user to adjust the application layout, so that users can flexibly adjust the application display ratio, the game adaptation is also the same, to further improve the flexibility of the use of large screens.

Games on the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2

Foldable screen, large size, and the familiar Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 screen, Xiaomi also depends on the size of the phone to be connected with a large area of ​​2520 mm² VC uniform temperature panel + 3715 mm² boron nitride cooling film + 9249 mm² high-density graphite paper supercooling system, the result Is that the device has a very good performance in any game, the most important is that it is a large screen, and the visual effects can not be compared with ordinary mobile phones.

Game quality selection temporarily does not support opening 90fps mode, so choose 4K Ultra HD + limit, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 power consumption by 9%, temperature measurement this time is uniform because it is not the most energy-hungry 90fps mode nor It’s still 8.02 inches, so face the Peace Elite, the overheating of these games is quite minimal, even 9% of the power consumption of a large device is very good to control.

The performance of the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is fully expected. First of all, the large screen and large size favor heat dissipation more, in addition, Xiaomi also connected such a crazy cooling system, which makes the experience of the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 good.

In addition, on a large 8-inch screen to play the joy of this open-world game, it is really hard to try once can not return, so the screen this thing, there is no best / most suitable size, always bigger is the better.

Battery life and fast charging

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 finally has a big screen phone that should have power consumption, 9% power consumption is about twice as much as in a regular phone with a direct screen, but watching a movie with an 8-inch product can be more fun than watching Several times a 6. X-inch film.

Charging, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 uses 67W fast charging, and the battery capacity of the device is 4500mAh, for a product that is placed with a foldable main screen, it is not excellent and moderate, but the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is rarely in a consumption test environment Our battery. Very good performance and a normal flagship equivalent of a square screen. So in terms of battery capacity and fast charging, the mindset is appropriately moderate.

You can charge up to 26% in 10 minutes, 71% in 30 minutes, and 47 minutes for a full charge. This speed is of course not fast, or even a little slow, after all, it is slower than the official 40 minutes, for the 120W fast charging from Xiaomi, and on the Redmi Note series models, for a foldable main screen, 67W 47 minutes is not enough Of course, but considering its overall weight of 262g and thickness of 5.4mm on one side, this all seems reasonable.

Cameras

In terms of appearance, let’s talk superficially about the camera, the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 camera configuration in terms of parameters is not really enough to see, and even the feeling that it is not worthy of the flagship positioning of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2, but never mind, the flagship machine not only has the hardware but also depends on the software, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 in the camera module but also has the Leica logo.

Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 Review: Conclusion

The latest generation of MIX Fold did not go very well, as Xiaomi’s first folding screen, and it is playing the MIX brand, Xiaomi released the first answer not good, which also allowed Xiaomi to learn from the pain, after more than a year of silence before updating the second generation of MIX Fold.

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 foldable phone in a word is distinctive, it is a very reasonable compromise, with no fingerprint on the screen, no superior camera, no large battery of around 5000mAh, and 120W fast charging, but as a result, MIX Fold 2 gives you the maximum thinness of 5.4mm, a Leica image that surpasses its flagship performance, and the power consumption is only 13% for 30 minutes.