Xiaomi’s latest phone has a screen that looks amazing.
Xiaomi
Xiaomi announced an amazing new technology for air fares a week ago, and this week it’s a showcase of a global display. In the past few months, some phone manufacturers have returned curved edge displays for a return to a flat screen, such as the iPhone 12 family and Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 +.
But Xiaomi has gone the other way. His new prototype has a display that falls down the sides of the phone. And not just the long sides, the short ones too.
Check out the video below to see this clearly, but the effect is pretty amazing. Shadows like this are nicknamed waterfall displays, so don’t be surprised that there are plenty of videos showing waves and rain pouring over the edges.
As you can see, the corners of the phone and a small piece of the edges are the only parts of the front and sides that are not covered in a display.
Xiaomi describes it as a concept but it’s probably more than that. A producer told The Verge that it already exists and they are used to it, indicating that it could be here sooner rather than later.
In its blog, Xiaomi states that what it describes as a “hyper-curved screen” 88 has “almost broken through the boundaries of glass production technology”. Be that as it may, there may be problems with a screen like this.
First, there is the Cornish pasty problem. Workers in tin mines in Cornwall, England, in the nineteenth century, ate pasties, that is, pastries filled with meat.
Crucially, there was a large crusty crust around one side, so that the miners could get the pasty with the crust to get at the meat and throw away the piece they had been holding the fingers covered with. toxic grains from the mine. .
In other words, you need something you can hold, so we have to hope that Xiaomi has built a rejection system into the sides so that it doesn’t react harshly when you pick up the phone along its edges.
This problem already exists on phones where the display is creeping around the sides.
Then there’s the off-axis issue that OLED screens suffer from today as well, where the curved edges look different from the main display, which can be hard to spot. .
However, this phone has other interesting features. As you might expect, with all that show, there’s not much room for anything else. So, this is a phone with no ports, not even for a charge. It will use wireless charging only.
And the front camera sits next to the display, so there will be no visible breakage for that, or the fingerprint sensor. Apparently, something similar will be used for the power button. Or maybe none of that, either?
Overall, this looks like a weird but very interesting phone. We hope it comes to fruition.
Click here to continue Facebook on Instagram: davidphelantech and Twitter: @ davidphelan2009