Xiaomi MIX Flip is finally here. Compared with other brands, Xiaomi’s small folding phone arrived a little late. However, as the saying goes, “good things are worth waiting for.” Xiaomi MIX Flip not only boasts an exquisite appearance but also achieves breakthroughs in performance, transforming the small folding phone from a “beautiful little waste” into a true performance flagship for users.
Design
Xiaomi MIX Flip continues to leverage the advantages of a small folding phone. The phone weighs 192g, with a body thickness of 15.99mm when closed and 7.6mm when unfolded. Combined with its rounded body design, it offers an excellent feel, particularly when closed, making it very light in hand.
This time, the Xiaomi MIX Flip comes in four colors. We received the Phantom Purple version. Additionally, there are black, white, and Phoenix Feather Fiber Edition options. Due to the difference in materials, the Phoenix Feather Fiber Edition is even lighter, weighing only 190g. For users concerned about weight, this version is recommended.
To enhance the phone’s sturdiness, Xiaomi MIX Flip employs the Xiaomi Dragon Armor architecture, boosting the phone’s reliability in aspects such as the screen, middle frame, back panel, and hinge.
First, the Xiaomi MIX Flip uses Xiaomi Dragon Crystal Glass for the external screen, which is 10 times more drop-resistant than traditional glass. Secondly, the phone’s internal screen features UTG ultra-thin flexible glass, which is also stronger than traditional CPI material.
For the middle frame, the Xiaomi MIX Flip uses the same 6M42 high-strength aluminum alloy as the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, resulting in a two-fold increase in bending resistance. In terms of the hinge, the Xiaomi MIX Flip combines 1800Mpa high-strength steel and ultra-wear-resistant carbon ceramic steel to ensure the hinge remains reliable even after long-term use.
Xiaomi MIX Flip’s comprehensive security protection enabled the phone to pass the SGS High-Reliability Folding Quality Gold Label Certification and the Human Factors Folding Design Gold Label Certification. These certifications give users greater peace of mind when using the phone in daily life.
External Screen
Small foldable phones now feature large external screens as a trend. Xiaomi MIX Flip follows this trend with its 4.0-inch external screen. This screen not only boasts a large size but also high quality, utilizing TCL C8+ luminous material. It offers a 1.5K resolution, 460PPi, and a 120Hz LTPS refresh rate.
Xiaomi MIX Flip provides the same display quality inside and out. The inner screen matches the external one with a 1.5K resolution and 460PPi, delivering equally clear visuals. Both screens feature a 120Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of 3000nit.
Additionally, both the internal and external screens support professional primary color display and Dolby Vision. For eye protection, they include global DC dimming and rhythmic eye protection functions.
When users switch between the external and internal screens of Xiaomi MIX Flip, they experience consistent display quality, enhancing their daily use experience.
Xiaomi MIX Flip’s external screen has significantly enhanced playability and practicality. The phone offers a variety of external screen lock screen templates, allowing users to choose and personalize their phone lock screen images.
With the large external screen, users can often operate the Xiaomi MIX Flip directly without unfolding the phone. Additionally, the external screen uses the same interactive logic as the internal screen, enabling users to get started quickly.
The phone’s external screen integrates two lenses, so the display must maximize the effective display area. For instance, the area below the camera cannot serve as the main display area due to its limited size. To address this, Xiaomi introduced the smart hanging window function, optimizing the use of this area.
The smart hanging window includes three parts: rich widgets, recent task switching, and external screen focus notifications. Users can customize their preferences, enhancing the practicality of the Xiaomi MIX Flip’s external screen.
Despite the unusable area near the camera, the external screen still offers a display area of about 3.5 inches, serving as the main display area. Over 200 mainstream applications, including WeChat, QQ, Meituan, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Gaode, have been adapted to the external screen.
Notably, the Xiaomi MIX Flip is optimized for input methods, with a horizontal width almost identical to the internal screen, improving input accuracy and efficiency. It supports not only the conventional nine-square grid input method but also full keyboard, Wubi, and handwriting, providing an excellent external screen input experience.
Even when closed, Xiaomi MIX Flip supports calling functions. The phone features a narrow slit earpiece on the outer screen and an independent mic on the hinge, enabling users to make calls while the phone is closed, further enhancing its practicality.
The hovering feature of the phone introduces various usage scenarios. In the hovering state, the external screen can transform into a mini music box displaying music covers, with flashing lights between the two cameras.
Through inner and outer screen collaboration, Xiaomi MIX Flip supports simultaneous interpretation, addressing language barriers during travel. When this function is activated, the phone’s inner and outer screens display two languages, providing real-time bilingual simultaneous interpretation.
Hardware
Xiaomi MIX Flip features the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, which represents the current mainstream flagship choice. Users can confidently rely on its performance. However, to fully utilize the hardware’s capabilities, excellent heat dissipation support is essential. In the past, small folding phones struggled with performance partly because they could not dissipate heat quickly enough to maintain high hardware performance.
This time, Xiaomi MIX Flip introduces a three-dimensional cooling system that performs three key functions: heat conduction, heat distribution, and heat insulation. The phone achieves efficient heat conduction through a 3500mm² VC heat spreader. Additionally, it uses a double-layer large-area graphene flexible material to enhance thermal conductivity, allowing for rapid heat transfer. To address high-heat areas like the SoC, the design incorporates aerogel material under the screen, preventing excessive heat from affecting the display, and allowing users to avoid discomfort from high temperatures.
With the redesigned heat dissipation architecture and flagship hardware integration, Xiaomi MIX Flip demonstrates improved performance. According to AnTuTu’s actual tests, Xiaomi MIX Flip scores an impressive 1,938,504 points overall. For gaming tests, we selected “Honor of Kings,” “Game for Peace,” and “Genshin Impact.”
In “Honor of Kings,” we set the game to 120 frames with HD picture quality. After one hour of testing, Perfdog recorded an average frame rate of 120 FPS and an average power consumption of 2.99W.
In “Peace Elite,” we opted for 60 frames with smooth picture quality. After one hour of testing, Perfdog measured an average frame rate of 59.6 FPS and an average power consumption of 2.2W.
In “Genshin Impact,” we selected 60 frames with high image quality and activated the “frame rate enhancement” function. After one hour of testing, Perfdog recorded an average frame rate of 60 FPS and an average power consumption of 3.5W.
Through these tests, Xiaomi MIX Flip delivers not only exceptional performance but also outstanding gaming capabilities. Even avid gamers can enjoy an excellent gaming experience on the Xiaomi MIX Flip.
Xiaomi Mi MIX Flip also includes a 4,780 mAh Jinshajiang battery, featuring the Xiaomi Surge R1 dual-battery current-balancing chip and the Xiaomi Surge G1 battery management chip. This combination provides robust charge and discharge management capabilities, resulting in longer battery life. The phone supports 67W wired fast charging, allowing it to recharge from 1% to 100% in just 45 minutes.
Cameras
Thanks to Xiaomi’s expertise in imaging, the Xiaomi MIX Flip excels in this area. It features a 50-megapixel Leica main camera with the Light Hunter 800 sensor. This large sensor, measuring 1/1.55″ with 50 Megapixels, fuses pixels to achieve a single pixel size of 2μm, delivering exceptional low-light image quality. Additionally, it supports QPD 100% full-pixel omnidirectional focus, enhancing focus accuracy, speed, and performance in low-light conditions.
The Light Hunter 800 supports dual native ISO Fusion MAX, providing native 14-bit high dynamic capability and a 13.2 EV ultra-high dynamic range. It captures more light information, improves highlight suppression, and enriches dark details, resulting in more layered photos.
The Xiaomi MIX Flip includes a 50-megapixel independent portrait lens with a large aperture of F/2.0 and an equivalent focal length of 47mm, closely matching the human eye’s natural proportions. This lens focuses on portrait subjects while retaining appropriate background details. It also features a floating lens group for an extensive focus range of 225px to infinity.
With its telephoto lens, the MIX Flip excels in telephoto shooting, clearly capturing distant scenes. The built-in Xiaomi AISP meets the rigorous demands of image-heavy scenarios such as portraits, continuous fast shooting, and HDR, fully unlocking the phone’s imaging potential.
Users can leverage the Xiaomi MIX Flip’s compact body, free-hovering capability, and extra-large external screen for versatile shooting functions, including large external screen selfies and hovering shots.
Xiaomi has introduced a portable camera kit for the Xiaomi MIX Flip, which includes a leather case and a portable photo printer. When the photo printer is activated, the printer’s battery status appears on the phone.
In portable shooting mode, users can print photos directly from the phone, similar to the Polaroid experience. Additionally, users can operate the phone and photo printer separately, selecting their favorite photos to print.
Verdict
Xiaomi MIX Flip offers a lot of surprises in terms of experience. It is not only light, thin, and compact, but also delivers flagship performance. Xiaomi has fully optimized it for the large external screen, improving the efficiency of using this screen. Combined with its excellent photo-taking capabilities, it performs exceptionally well in all areas.
This flagship small folding phone comes at a very reasonable price. With a starting price of 5,999 yuan, the Xiaomi MIX Flip allows more users to experience the performance and functional advantages of a flagship small folding phone. If you are considering buying a small folding phone, I highly recommend the Xiaomi MIX Flip.
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