As a senior digital enthusiast, from Samsung, Huawei to vivo, OPPO, there are five or six folding flagships used, but none of the flagships can stick to a week, because each folding flagship due to various restrictions, either do not compromise performance, or compromise battery life, or compromise photography, there is always a part of the experience and the flagship can not match, sell a high price just because of the folding form.
I have also used Xiaomi's folding screen, and frankly speaking, the third-generation Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 has found a direction for folding the flagship, such as not sacrificing performance for thinness, not sacrificing photography for performance, and not compromising thickness for taking pictures. It can be said that Xiaomi's third-generation folding screen can be regarded as the level of an all-round flagship machine
Leica's four-camera full-focal range makes up for the short board of the folding flagship
Taking photos has always been recognized as the biggest shortcoming of folding flagships, and mobile phone manufacturers also know this, but limited by technology, in the case of thinness and imaging effects can not be both, most department manufacturers have chosen to give priority to ensuring thinness.
Xiaomi's idea is clear: even if the thinness and photography cannot reach the current top level, it still has to reach the level of mainstream flagships. As a result, Xiaomi and Leica have made great efforts in key areas such as miniaturized OIS motors, ultra-thin and high-transparency lenses, miniaturized periscope telephoto modules, and stacking designs, and successfully brought the "Leica Optical Full Focal Range" quad camera to the field of folding screens, and achieved a leap in the miniaturization of moving images in the Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3.
From the current media and consumer feedback, under the joint tuning of Xiaomi and Leica, the tone of the four lenses of Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 remains highly unified, and the comprehensive experience has been aligned with the straight flagship, which is the only one in the folding flagship.
Of course, limited by technical conditions, CMOS such as the one-inch outsole is still difficult to use on folding flagships for the time being, and the comprehensive imaging experience cannot reach the level of Xiaomi 13 Ultra. However, for the entire folding flagship market, the idea of Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 should be enlightening to other manufacturers, most consumers may not need the ultimate image experience like Xiaomi 13 Ultra, but they cannot accept products priced at 8000+, imaging experience is not as good as 2000 yuan price products, and even a number of cameras, can not give up the pursuit of user experience in order to pursue thinness and lightness.
Self-developed keel shaft, light and thin
The flagship device should have the texture of the flagship, whether the damping feeling when folding is just right, whether it can hover arbitrarily, etc., all directly affect the texture of the folding flagship. Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 adopts self-developed keel hinge, which is narrower, thinner and more suitable for the screen than the traditional hinge, and the hinge area space is released by up to 17%, providing more space for the internal stacking of the folding screen, truly realizing both thinness and folding.
While ensuring thinness, the entire support structure of the keel shaft uses high-wear-resistant carbon ceramic steel, the wear resistance is 4 times higher than before, and it has passed the Rheinland 500,000 times worry-free test, simply put, if folded 100 times a day, Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 can be used stably for more than 5,000 days, which may be the flagship with the longest folding life at present. The reliability of the keel hinge will also further reduce the risk of screen damage and structural deformation caused by the fall of the Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3, after all, such an expensive phone, it is still very distressing to fall.
While ensuring that the overall structure of the fuselage is strong and reliable, Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 adopts a new "dragon scale fiber" back cover, which innovatively stacks aramid fiber and ceramic fiber at high temperature and high pressure to form a new material. Its strength is equivalent to high-strength carbon fiber, and breaks through the limitation of the brittleness of ordinary ceramics. The drop test of the steel ball showed that the strength of the dragon scale fiber was 36 times that of glass-ceramic. In this way, whether it is placed in an official bag, desk, or car, you can feel more at ease.
Folding flagship thinness is the general trend, only relying on component stacking has been unable to achieve thinness, self-developed hinge is an important water section to achieve thinness, Xiaomi wants to compete head-on with Samsung Huawei in the folding flagship market, must have its own unique advantages, self-developed hinge is a must do.
The surging chip intelligent management completely solves battery life anxiety
Because the inside of the fuselage is expensive, it is impossible to stuff a large battery to ensure battery life, and can only achieve ultra-long battery life through intelligent management, so Xiaomi is equipped with two surging G1 battery management chips and a surging P2 fast charging chip on the MIX Fold 3.
In the actual test, in the case of 67W continuous high stability input, the actual test charges 28% in 10 minutes, 49% in 20 minutes, and it only takes 45 minutes to fully charge. At the same time, Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 also supports 50W wireless charging, which will be much more convenient for users with a wireless charging environment.
In terms of battery life, the recognized king iPhone 14 Pro Max can only play for 16 hours and 45 minutes, while the Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3 uses an external screen to play video for more than 22 hours. What's more, because the inner screen of Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 is Pol-less Plus low-power large screen, with the power management of three chips, Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 has achieved consistent battery life between internal and external screens, which is worthy of the strongest battery life flagship at present.
In terms of fast charging and power management, Xiaomi has a deep technical accumulation, and the combination of three chips + Pol-less Plus low-power large screen used in Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 greatly improves the battery life level of the folding screen.
Summary: The best folding flagship for the current comprehensive experience
After the release of Xiaomi MIX Fold 3, there are Leica full-focal four cameras, self-developed keel hinge applauded, and some rice fans said that Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 is too balanced, although charging, taking photos, screens, etc. are the best experience in the folding flagship, as for me personally, I quite like Xiaomi MIX Fold 3, after all, the folding flagship with good photos and full focal length seems to be this one at present.