A new patent has been recently published by the WIPO
(World Intellectual Property Office) for two new Xiaomi smartphones. The folks
over at LetsGoDigital have created mockup renders of the patents outlined in
the patent submission.
There are two devices in the patent, both dual-sided
smartphones with screens that wrap-around in different directions. The first
one is a wrap-around screen akin to the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha Concept phone. The
main difference with that one is that the Mi Mix Alpha wraps around both
vertical edges while the patent shows only one side that wrap around. The
layout resembles that of the Huawei Mate X when it is folded closed.
The second device has a display that wraps around in a
different direction. Model “B” features a screen that wraps up and over the top
horizontal edge of the handset. Its back side has a hole-punch cut-out for a
dual-camera setup. Its worth noting that both devices don’t have dedicated
front-facing cameras – the main camera doubles as the selfie camera since the
device is mostly screen.
As per the patents, neither device appears to have
buttons, but this could be that the sketches are general representations of the
form factor and details like buttons and ports (which don’t appear either) may come
later.
These are certainly interesting smartphone designs. Such
smartphones appear somewhat more practical than the Mi Mix Alpha’s design from
a manufacturing perspective. We are excited to see manufacturers alter the form
factor of the modern smartphone thanks to new innovations like flexible glass
and displays. We still wonder when something like this would arrive to
mass-market status.
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