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Yesterday, Xiaomi unveiled the Xiaomi 18 Fold in China, marking its return to horizontal foldable phones after skipping the category last year. The company has taken a different approach this time with a wider, more compact design that sits between traditional book-style foldables and smaller foldable phones. The form factor is similar to the Galaxy Z Fold 8, with a wider outer screen and a squarer inner display.
Xiaomi’s new foldable is already drawing strong interest in its home market. It has recorded a sharp jump in first-sale performance compared with the company’s previous large foldable. Xiaomi executives have now shared the early sales figure, giving an indication of how buyers are responding to the new form factor.
Xiaomi 18 Fold is selling like hot cakes
The early response has been particularly strong. Xiaomi Senior Vice President of Xiaomi Group and President of Xiaomi China, Wang Xiaoyan shared that the Xiaomi 18 Fold’s first-sale performance was 310% higher year-on-year than the previous-generation large foldable. Xiaomi Group vice president and CMO Xu Fei also described the device’s sales as having taken off strongly. The company has opened pre-orders in China, with sales scheduled to begin on September 10.
Xiaomi 18 Fold specifications
The Xiaomi 18 Fold features a 5.38-inch outer AMOLED display and a 7.58-inch foldable AMOLED inner screen. Both panels support a 120Hz refresh rate and up to 4,000 nits of peak brightness. The phone measures 5.02mm when unfolded and weighs 219 grams.
Under the hood, it runs on Xiaomi’s Xring O3 chipset, with up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The top-end model uses LPDDR6 memory. It also packs a 6,000mAh battery with 67W wired and 50W wireless charging.
The foldable has a Leica-backed triple-camera setup with a 200-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel periscope telephoto camera with 3.5x optical zoom and a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera. The Xiaomi 18 Fold starts at 10,999 Yuan (~$1,640) in China. At present, it appears that Xiaomi has no plans to release the device outside China.
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