Xiaomi could have a clamshell foldable phone to rival the Motorola Razr
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Not this shit again
But Motorola had the icon. The Razr was an immense popular device because of thing it was. The clam phone were still a thing back then.
I would love to have a touch screen clam like that one day but right now, all foldable screens are not reliable enough yet.
Edit:
Ow shit, they’ve ready started!
https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/11/14/xiaomi-patents-motorola-razr-like-foldable-phone/
That camera placement is questionable.
The Razr is imho pretty bad. 2500 mAh in 2020?
A notch? But there is no front camera?
€1500?
Why fold a phone that already fits in your pocket?
It should be easy for Xiaomi to make something better.
6.2 inch phones don’t fit in everyones pockets…
There is a front camera. The notch fits the look imho.
The price reflects the technology, it’s not for everyone but it’s still cheaper than Samsung’s or Huawei’s offering.
Because it fits in your pocket better, and it looks cool and retro. Razr fans love it.
If it doesn’t float your boat, that’s fine, because then it’s not the phone for you. But so many people are willing to look past the shortcomings, because frankly, it’s awesome as heck.
Link?
It’s too early to have properly foldable phones, but it’s a start. I hope that clamshell phones become the standard in the future. Phones are getting ridiculously big, and as a woman myself I can’t fit my Redmi Note 5 in most of my pants.
Pricing yes. But it seems like they recently started developing on it. Why does razr only have a Snapdragon 710 instead of the new 712? Why does it have only 1 back camera? Why small battery? Because it took years for them to design.
They’re not samsung, where when a new chipset came out they can just use their huge software team to make it support the galaxy fold
It’s just the nostalgia factor. The design most definitely did not age well. Plus, with these god awful rounded corners AND notch it’s not even an upgrade from the original one, and let’s not forget the 2500 mAh battery and sub-par specs. I wouldn’t buy it even if it was 150 dollars.
However, I do agree that foldable technology needs to be invested in – however this design is pointless. Phones are already pocketable, unlike tablets. There’s no reason to make a phone into a smaller phone instead of making a phone into a tablet.
I will be downvoted for this, here goes.
Wasnt the point of foldable phones to provide a tablet like experience on demand without the hustle of carrying a slab around? I see no slab here. Just a normal phone that becomes a very small phone when folded
Lenovo seems to have made a kot of questionable choices just to mimic a particular aesthetic. i firmly believe that with just 2 more mm of thickness, they could have avoided doing 2 batteries segmented in each side and made one monolithic one with better capacity,and the soc +board on the other side.
but the razr is more about mimicking the iconic clamshell phone than to make all the right design decisions around a clamshell + foldable screen phone. xiaomi, being free of such expectation, IMO can make a more sensible approach to this type of format.
@goukaruma – i agree. dual sim primary and secondary cam, a better battery. hopefully 4k mAh.
I could also have a clamshell foldable phone to rival the Motorola Razr.
I guess its for the niche audience that misses a small(er) phone. I do agree I would never buy something like this, because it still has the same downsides of a foldable phone without the upside of having a larger screen. If people hated the size of current phones we’d have known it by now.
The only main ”complainers” I see are women and their non existent pockets on pants, perhaps this type of phone is targeted at that group/.
Don’t you guys think that this meme went to far?
As a man I also don’t feel comfortable with the grip of new phones (thin and huge). I find the iPhone 5/SE size to be the perfect one for me: it grips tightly, I can easily reach every pixel of the screen with one thumb without awkward movements and it’s quite compact for people with smaller pockets.
I also recently went from a small phone (Nexus 5) to the Mi 9T Pro so I certainly know how you feel. Even considering that I have pretty big hands (as a tall person) I still need to do some awkward maneuvers to reach app menus. I had to learn that using my phone would 90% of the time be a 2 handed operation.
Now yeah, thats a downside I agree, but media consumption, emails, browsing, gaming etc is so much better on a bigger screen imo. The amount I can see at a glance is a huge improvement over my older phone.
So there’s obvious downsides and upsides, with the new folding phone trend I guess the best thing to come out of it would be a (taking your example) Iphone 5/SE that you can fold out into a bigger phone, so that both sides win.
I like the idea as someone who drop their phone often while the over all structure of these is likely to be low in the future we could see these become very durable making breaking screens less common.
Yes I loved the RAZr and this foldable screen technology would only be usefuld for this!!
Not necessarily. Some people just don’t like having huge bricks in their pockets, plus it covers the screen up.
Not for €1200 not even for €300 but it would be a nice additive.
Xiaomi Mi CC9 Flex
Redmi whatever
Of course they will, they make so many different phones with different form factors to cater for different needs, I can’t see them stopping just because of a new form factor, they’ve already proved their capable with the Mi Mix Alpha.
This!
One would think creating a bigger pocket would be both cheaper and easier than manufacturing a foldable phone.
I know what you mean – but I really hope the market doesn’t respond to this bullcrap at all.
Xiaomi is good at improving already existing stuff. Moto put some shit tech in it, and I’m sure xiaomi could stuff a modern chipsets with decent ram and storage, with a 9000+MP camera, which is exactly what the razr is missing.
My ideal phone size is iPhone SE…is perfect in pocket, the actual smartphones are too great
>They are thr latest when it comes to major updates like android.
Better safe than never. Xiaomi is slower tho. Samsung will release within 6 months of google release. Xiaomi usually updates within 1 year on their older flaghip