Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 to Launch This Month, Will Compete with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 6

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s Mix Fold 4 will be launched this month. It will replace the Mix Fold 3 introduced in China last year. This book-style foldable smartphone can be brought along with the company’s first clamshell foldable smartphone Xiaomi Mix Flip.

Xiaomi has launched a new app on China’s messaging platform Weibo. Post It has been told that Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 and Mix Flip will be manufactured at the company’s smart factory in Changping, Beijing. The capacity of this factory is to make about ten million smartphones annually. Recently, tipster Evan Blass (@evleaks) leaked the design and specifications of Mix Fold 4 in a post on the social media platform X. It shows a larger camera island than the company’s previous smartphone. It has four Leica branded cameras and LED flash. This smartphone can have a 50-megapixel primary camera with Leica Summilux lens. It can have Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as a processor. Xiaomi’s Mix Fold 3 had Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

This tipster claims that the Mix Fold 4 can have a 5,000 mAh battery with support for wireless charging. These designs and specifications are of the prototype of this smartphone and there may be some changes in it. The company launched the Xiaomi 14 series earlier this year. Xiaomi is preparing to enter a price segment in which it did not have a presence earlier. It is planning to launch a smartphone at a price of around Rs 50,000.

Recently, Xiaomi’s CMO, Anuj Sharma, in a conversation with Gadgets 360, told that the new smartphone will reduce the gap between Redmi Note 13 Pro + 5G and Xiaomi 14. The 8 GB + 256 GB variant of Redmi Note 13 Pro + 5G is priced at Rs 30,999 and the 12 GB + 512 GB is priced at Rs 34,999. The price of Xiaomi 14 is Rs 69,999. Select smartphone companies have introduced their models in this segment. However, OnePlus has a strong position in it. Xiaomi’s online sales have increased in the last few years. The company plans to increase the share of its sales of retail stores.