Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi held its fall product launch event in Beijing and unveiled the medium-sized foldable smartphone Xiaomi 18 Fold. The device features the company’s in-house-developed 玄戒 O3 SoC and will go on sale on 10 September, starting at approximately ¥250,000.
Xiaomi held a product launch event in Beijing and officially unveiled the medium-sized foldable smartphone Xiaomi 18 Fold. It has a 5.38-inch outer display and a 7.58-inch inner display, measures 5.02 millimeters thick when unfolded, and weighs 219 grams. It also introduces a mode supporting up to six-way screen splitting.
The device will be the first to feature the company’s in-house-developed flagship SoC, 玄戒 O3. Xiaomi highlighted performance improvements including a 60% increase in multicore CPU performance, a 25% reduction in power consumption under light loads, an 85% increase in GPU performance, and NPU tensor processing performance of 200 TOPS. The top-end model will also use CXMT LPDDR6 memory.
The standard model will be priced from approximately ¥250,000 and will go on sale from 10:00 a.m. on 10 September. Reports also indicate that a special edition will be produced in limited quantities and priced at approximately ¥370,000. As Huawei prepares to announce the Mate XT2, Xiaomi appears set to differentiate itself in the high-end foldable smartphone market with a new medium-sized category.