Following the presentation of the Xiaomi 12 and MIUI 13 series, news has emerged about the strategy of the Chinese brand for next year.
Apparently, Xiaomi wants to bet more on compact models and is even developing a folding smartphone, shaped like a shell, which is characterized by being … compact, of course.
More Xiaomi compact smartphones in the mid-range segment
Until now, Xiaomi smartphones tend to exhibit champion dimensions, but the new Xiaomi 12 series goes exactly the other way around and features premium models that provide the user with an optimized one-handed experience.
By the way, the size of the new compact smartphones was one of the points highlighted by the brand at the presentation event of the new Xiaomi 12 series. And it seems that these are only the pioneers of a strategy that will be adopted next year.
According to the information now published by Digital Chat Station, in 2022 Xiaomi will launch several compact models, perhaps to respond to the growing requests from users in this regard.
The well-known filter even anticipates that future compact models will appear, in greater numbers, in the mid-range segment and that they will be equipped with high-quality screens. More is not advanced, but since today has been reserved for the presentation of the new Xiaomi 12 series, the focus is more on the present than in the future.
Xiaomi’s new foldable may come in the form of a shell
And possibly to bolster the compact smartphone strategy, news arrives that Xiaomi may be working on a new foldable smartphone, in a shell.
The information was taken from a patent application to the National Intellectual Property Association of China and shows a device with a design similar to the existing models of Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Huawei P50 Pocket.
From the images included in this patent application, it can be seen that future equipment will have a double camera configuration and a small screen in the rear area, and that the screen will be perforated to also house two front cameras.
In addition, it is also possible to see the SIM card slot, as well as a USB type C port and a speaker, in the lower area of ​​the terminal.
We do not know when Xiaomi will present this folding smartphone, but from the information now published, we realize that the Chinese brand may be thinking of following the trend in the form of a shell, dictated by the successful Galaxy Z Flip 3 from Samsung.