The existing folding screen manufacturers may be left with Huawei and Samsung. Although Yu Rou, a veteran flexible screen manufacturer, has been producing folding screen mobile phones, the market share of software support and other issues is far less than that of first-line mobile phone manufacturers such as Huawei and Samsung. Recently, Motorola's blade mobile phone has not caused much heat because of its mediocre performance.
However, this situation may change at present. According to foreign media LetsgoDigital, Xiaomi recently registered a brand-new design patent. It is understood that this patent refers to a folding screen mobile phone, which adopts an inward folding screen design.
However, unlike other folding mobile phones, the machine is equipped with a front dual camera. In order to ensure the integrity of the folding screen panel, the front camera of this new machine adopts a pop-up lifting scheme, and the industrial design is very unique.
If you take your eyes off his lift camera, Xiaomi's patent is similar to that of the first generation folding screen of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, with the same internal folding scheme and the same external small-size sub-screen.
The first generation of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold was criticized for its small secondary screen, so Samsung simply made the secondary screen bigger on the second generation of Galaxy Z Fold. I didn't expect Xiaomi to learn from the past and choose such a small screen.
According to the patent drawing, the four sides of the machine are equally wide in the unfolded state, and there is no obsessive-compulsive disorder caused by the second-generation digging screen of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, but the pop-up camera module has a new problem, which is heavy. At present, many pop-up camera phones on the market are inevitably thick, which is even worse for folding screen phones with thick folds. So the question is, will you choose a heavy model with a complete screen or a mobile phone with a special-shaped screen but not that thick?
Ok, let's go back to this patent. At present, there are few renderings of this new machine, only one suspected, yes, suspected picture.
In fact, this is not the first time that Xiaomi has the idea of a folding screen mobile phone. As early as 20 15, Xiaomi has applied for a patent related to folding screen design, but applying for a patent does not mean that such a product will definitely be produced, but in any case, it is possible to think about it.
Xiaomi has also shown a folding screen mobile phone before. It can be seen that it adopts an internal folding scheme, but this new folding screen machine only stays at the level of an engineering machine, and mass production is still far away.