- Xiaomi has announced a new concept phone with a four-sided curved display and a portless design.
- The company owns 46 technical patents for it.
- There is no word on when or if Xiaomi plans to bring this technology to the market.
Xiaomi has announced a new concept phone with a portless design without buttons or other openings.
The star of the show here is the new “Quad-curved Waterfall Display”. According to the company, it achieves an 88 degree bend on all four sides of the phone, leaving no frame or bezels.
To create the unique display, Xiaomi used proprietary glass processing equipment, a hot bending process under a temperature of 800 degrees, four different polishing tools and more than ten complex polishing procedures.
It’s a lot like Vivo’s Apex concept phone, which was the first to introduce a portless design in 2019. also offers curves at the top and bottom.
Elsewhere, Xiaomi’s new concept phone includes a third generation of camera technology underneath the display as the screen is rounded to the edges and there is no room for a pop-up module. It also includes wireless charging, eSIM support, and pressure sensitive touch sensors.
The company claims it has 46 technical patents for the whole machine.
Xiaomi portless concept phone: is it practical?
Xiaomi is unlikely to put such a design into production anytime soon. For once, we don’t think the world is ready for portless phones that lack such things as a SIM card tray, volume keys, microSD card slots, and other important hardware attributes.
We are also not fans of waterfall displays. They are more prone to breakage and do not adapt well to the contents. Not to mention unwanted false touches that can fail actions on the phone.
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