Xiaomi has introduced the Mix 4, the primary telephone within the Mi Mix collection to be introduced in practically three years. The Mix telephones have at all times been about bezel-less designs with seamless screens, and the Mix 4 carries on that concept by commercializing a know-how that Xiaomi has been engaged on for a very long time: a selfie digicam that’s situated immediately below the display screen.

Xiaomi calls this CUP (Camera Under Panel) know-how, although it’s just like the under-display selfie cameras we’ve seen from different firms. Like Oppo and ZTE’s newest efforts, the Mix 4’s display screen has a 400ppi space that lets mild move by to the selfie digicam, which Xiaomi describes as “virtually invisible.” The digicam is 20 megapixels and the show is a 6.67-inch 120Hz 1080p curved OLED panel.

Xiaomi says CUP is “a technology iterated through three major generations, five years, sixty patents, a $77 million investment, and hundreds of engineers.” Last 12 months the corporate pledged to begin mass-producing smartphones with its third-generation under-display digicam know-how in 2021, so it’s making good on that promise with the Mix 4. Xiaomi first demonstrated its tackle the thought again in 2019.

The Mix 4 is the primary telephone to be introduced with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 Plus processor, a speed-bumped model of the flagship 888 chip with a high clock pace of 3GHz. (Honor did already say that it will use the 888 Plus within the Magic 3, however that telephone is but to be revealed in full.) The processor is paired with 8GB or 12GB of RAM and 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage.

The digicam system facilities round a 108-megapixel Samsung HMX sensor, suggesting comparable or equivalent efficiency to the marginally outdated however nonetheless fairly good Mi 11. There’s additionally a 13-megapixel ultrawide and an 8-megapixel 5x periscope telephoto.

The Mix 4 has a 4,500mAh battery that may cost at as much as 120W wired and 50W wi-fi. This isn’t Xiaomi’s first telephone with 120W fast-charging, however it could be the quickest — Xiaomi claims the battery will get a full cost in below quarter-hour, in comparison with 23 minutes for final 12 months’s Mi 10 Ultra. 50W wi-fi charging, in the meantime, will take 28 minutes to get you to 100%.

Xiaomi will solely verify a mainland China launch for the Mix 4 to date. Preorders will begin there tomorrow with normal availability approaching August sixteenth, and the pricing begins at 4,999 yuan (~$770) for an 8GB/128GB mannequin, going as much as 6,299 yuan (~$970) for 12GB/512GB.