Xiaomi Mix Flip Review: Mixing Up The Foldable World

While we don’t see a lot of its products here in the States, Xiaomi is the world’s third-largest smartphone maker with almost 15% of the global market. And while it’s become well known among hinge-heads for its large-format foldables (now on their fourth generation), the company hasn’t dipped its toe into flip phones … until now.

From an American perspective, the Xiaomi Mix Flip has most of the shortcomings you’d expect from both a first-generation product and one built especially for the China market. At the same time, it’s without question the best first pass at a flip phone I’ve seen – and it gets so much right about the clamshell experience that incumbents like Motorola (and certainly Samsung) might soon have reason to worry.

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00:00 The best first pass at a flip phone
00:50 (An unexpectedly conventional) Design
01:50 Class-leading cover display
03:48 Missed alerts and other HyperOS fun
04:56 Big battery, hot chip
06:38 I Leica this camera
08:17 Putting the competition on notice
09:20 Outro & Disclosures

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[nzjustin]

4:58 The battery stuff happens because apps in China are notorious for using every trick they can to stay persistent in order to show ads/run background processes/etc. As a result, Xiaomi and other OEMs do aggressive system-level management in response.

[robinrai]

alright that full size keyboard on flipping the phone got a "neat" out of me

[majtechtings]

Mr. Foldable has been FEEDING us foldy boys and girls. God bless hot foldable summer.

[dtincworldnews]

I love that foldables and flip phones are out because it gives the smartphone World more competition. And gives the people more choices. We all win!

[willcookmakeup]

The cove screen design is by far the best on this phone. It's so smart how they separated the different regions and has the flipped keyboard

[BansGuy]

Imagine how much better Samsung's phones would be if Xiaomi and other Chinese brands could legitimately compete in the west. The fact that this has a bigger battery + nearly 3x faster charging than my Fold 5 and the "new" Fold 6 should be embarrassing for Samsung, but they don't have to lift a finger since relatively few people outside of China will pick these up. If not for the software issues I'd grab one for myself too

[JohnJohnson-jmku]

That front screen layout is the way it should be done. Bravo.

[andrewd]

These things are tempting, and with the iPhone finally getting RCS, I’m tempted to pick one up

[GFourGadget]

Definitely the best implementation of cover screen UI/UX on any flip phones. It's just a matter of time before more apps get supported! 👍

[victorutomo]

Wait .. Why no other reviewer talks about the front screen?
That is the much better usage of it.
You are great Mr Mobile!!!
You arr great!

[MaxrX]

Thank you so much for mentioning the navigation gestures issue. I really hope that Xiaomi removes this artificial limit again and allows third-party launchers to shine equally.

[ifeanyinwachukuw]

Personally I think the cover screen is the most practical so far

[nickthaskater]

The cover display implementation is ingenious. Wow.

[JamesLawner]

The cover screen is incredible and ingenious; how is this not the standard for most folding phones?

[PauL-trmn]

Not gonna lie this is the first time i saw how small screen software was done on xiaomi mix flip in such detail- or maybe that well presented... And im impressed and loving it. On that part they are already winning imo.

[KnolesCoolStuff]

I lived in China for 5 years. I love Xiaomi phones and used many of them. If only more Chinese phones could come to the US markets. Another insightful video.

[matheusguedesba]

I loved it, oh my, if only I had the money to live in a country that isn’t ULTRA protective of its national industry (despite basically not having much of a national industry, just billionaires in Agro and a handful of businessmen like the old guy from Havan and the owner of Magazine Luiza—a store similar to Best Buy in Brazil—who do EVERYTHING to prevent imports and become even richer). Importing here costs a fortune in Brazil. This has been happening since 1985, after the end of the military dictatorship. There are so many products from the U.S. that everyone here wants, but it becomes impractical due to this damn protectionism. And it's protectionism for nothing, as nothing significant is developed here on a global level. It’s just to make the 1% richer and for the government to collect more.

[DylanHunter]

That cover display is seriously impressive, honestly kinda makes Samsung seem a little lazy considering how long they've had to iterate.

[jetmyron]

The Leica filters are very cool. Im a gimmick guy and love that kind of unique flavor to a phone

[MrMESSI]

You're an unmatched video maker let alone the the writing and the voiceover.