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| Xiaomi displays a phone with a curved screen from all sides |
Xiaomi has shown a new concept for the smartphone, it has raised the curved screen to a new height, it has a square waterfall screen that can smoothly wrap all edges.
The device is based on the experience Xiaomi has acquired with the Mi Mix Alpha concept, whose screen covers the device almost entirely.
Quadruple super screen design, curved at an angle of 88 degrees, plunge the visible surface like water on the surface of the phone.
In addition, the frame of the smartphone is almost completely covered by the screen, there are no ports or buttons on the case, which completes the futuristic design without ports.
Xiaomi strives to find the best balance between imagination and reality.
By pushing the boundaries of the appearance of traditional smartphones, Xiaomi engineers have tried to make smartphones as simple as possible and bring the current look (screen only) closer to life.
With flexible screens now part of the new standard, the biggest challenge in creating the industry's first square waterfall display is not screen folding, but creating curved glass panels at 88 degrees using a 3D splicing process.
Glass curvature at 88 ° exceeds the technical limit of glass production, and the bending difficulty is greatly increased compared to normal curved glass.
Polish a piece of heavily curved glass so that it bends 88 degrees from all four sides. The glass processing equipment we developed must be bent at high temperature and high pressure up to 800 ° C, four different polishing tools and up to twelve thousand. The polishing process is complicated, and most importantly, there are thousands of attempts to make this glass.
To install such 88-degree curved glass on a flexible screen, an innovative sieve stack design is adopted through an innovative three-dimensional splicing process, all of which include flawless screen performance.
This design ensures that the screen covers almost all sides of the phone. Thanks to 46 patented technologies developed in-house, the functionality of ports and physical buttons can be offered with more refined alternatives.
The latest technology and engineering solutions - including ultra-thin piezoelectric ceramics, world-class audio technology, 3G display cameras, wireless charging, eSIM, and pressure-sensitive touch sensors - combine perfectly to form the current device.