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A year and a half ago, Xiaomi's first folding screen MIX Fold was officially released. Among the folding screen phones of mainstream manufacturers, this product had the lowest price at that time-9999 yuan. Even though it was already the most expensive phone in Xiaomi at that time, MIX Fold still adhered to the product concept of performance-price ratio, pulled the price of the folding screen phone under 10,000 yuan on its own, and won an impressive record of selling 400 million yuan in one minute on its first day of sale. However, perhaps Xiaomi was too eager to release folding screen products at that time, and the first generation of MIX Fold did not seem to have many impressive advantages in addition to price advantages. on the contrary, the outer screen, such as a remote control, became the biggest memory point for consumers of this product and the disadvantage of lack of stamina, which made Xiaomi MIX Fold slightly weak in the competition with competitors in the later stage of the folding screen, so that there are always new folding screen phones on the market. However, Xiaomi MIX Fold, who can't hit the pole, is always criticized by netizens.

If it does not break out in silence, it will perish in silence. After a year of silence, the belated millet MIX Fold 2 carries more observation and thinking about the folding screen, and Nirvana is reborn.

On the evening of August 11, in 2022 Lei Jun's annual speech, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 was officially released. According to Lei Jun, MIX Fold 2 achieves the extreme thinness of the folding screen, with core components such as hinges and frames that are much higher than industry standards in terms of reliability. The official stressed that the millet MIX Fold 2 will "break through the last kilometer of the folding screen", making the folding screen into the practical era.

So what on earth has Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 changed? What different experiences have it brought to the whole folding screen market? Can the price starting from 8999 yuan become the most worthwhile folding screen phone for consumers at present? With these doubts, CTOnews.com had a deep experience around Xiaomi MIX Fold 2.

First, the appearance design and packaging to see the millet MIX Fold 2 glance, the author's inner surprise is far greater than surprise.

Because the change of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is too big, except for the folding feature, this product has no shadow of the previous generation, it is a product rebuilt from the inside out.

In terms of outer screen design, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is no longer in the shape of a "remote control". The 21:9 outer screen is no different from the mainstream straight screen machine. In the folding state, this is a flagship straight screen. More importantly, the millet MIX Fold 2 is extremely light and thin, with a unilateral thickness of only 5.4mm, and even when folded, the thickness is only 11.2mm, which is similar to that of a traditional straight-screen machine with a protective case, so it can be used as a straight-screen machine.

The weight of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is only 262g, which is even lighter than the smaller OPPO Find N, and only 7g heavier than Huawei Mate Xs 2, which is featured with no trace. But you know, the latter is a folded design, and Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has one more screen.

In terms of color matching, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 offers Moon Shadow Black and Star Gold, while CTOnews.com gets the Star Gold version. This is a very neutral, soft gold, retaining the gold itself "noble", but not so flamboyant, looks very elegant.

The design on the back of the phone is also very simple. The golden rear shell under the AG frosted glass is like a thin layer of frost. The light is not dazzling, but it has a foggy beauty, and it is not easy to stick off fingerprint sweat stains.

The whole image module protrudes from the fuselage and adopts a similar "levitation" design. Inside the module, the camera is arranged in the form of big circle, small circle and small square on the left, complementary lights and Leica logo on the right, and a circular supplementary light on the left side of the Leica logo.

Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 uses dual speaker stereo, the top is custom 1115 superlinear unit, the bottom is custom 1318 superlinear unit, Harman Catton professional tuning, support Dolby Atoms,Hi-Res Audio certification, Hi-Res Audio Wireless certification and so on.

The volume button and the power and fingerprint identification button of the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 are located on the right side of the body.

In the folding state, the straight edge design is adopted in the left rotating shaft, and a large area is left blank.

Back to the product packaging, this time CTOnews.com received Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 gift box packaging, using a double-layer design:

The first layer is the mobile phone packaging, in addition to the mobile phone body, there are 67W fast charging head, data line, C-port transfer 3.5mm conversion head, clip pin and an one-sided plain skin protection case with bracket:

The second layer is a water cup, a black double-sided plain leather protective shell with magnetism, and a lanyard and a chain rope:

Second, the inner and outer screen experience back to the screen, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 outer screen size of 6.56in, display ratio of 21:9, resolution of 2520x1080 ≈ E5 material, support P3 color gamut, JNCD ≈ 0.29de Delta ≈ 0.34, support Dolby Vision, HDR10+, contrast 800000000 MIX Fold 1, support 10bit dark color, the surface is Corning gorilla glass Victus.

The outer screen basically achieves the visual narrowness of the four sides, which is very surprising. The right side of the screen is designed with a micro-bend and a hole is punched in the middle of the screen, which is the only front-facing camera of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2.

When unfolded, the inner screen of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is 8.02 inches and uses Schott ultra-thin UTG glass.

In terms of display effect, the outer screen resolution is 2016 x 1914, P3 color gamut, JNCD ≈ 0.29 HDR10+, deltae ≈ 0.34, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, contrast 800000000 JNCD and so on.

The internal and external consistent 120Hz high brush, 1000nit full screen brightness, front and rear double light feeling and Dolby horizon and other primary color screen experience means that the experience of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 inside and outside screen is completely consistent, and there will be no sense of fragmentation.

It is worth mentioning that Xiaomi MIX Fold 2's inner screen is still the only screen made of Samsung Eco ²OLED material, official data show that Eco ²OLED (Pol-Less) ultra-thin low-power screen removed and replaced the Polarizer polarizer in the original screen with a color filter and introduced a new black matrix material between pixels to reduce intra-screen reflection, combined with ultra-low reflective AR film, to reduce reflectivity to < 2%. Pol-Less technology can increase the light transmittance of the screen by up to 33%, reduce power consumption by 25%, and further reduce power consumption by adding LTPO 2.0 features.

In terms of rotating shaft, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 uses a self-developed integrated micro-droplet rotating shaft, which is also the key to why Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 can be so thin. To put it simply, the "water droplets" formed by the folded screen of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 are smaller.

It is reported that the entire hinge folding thickness of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has been reduced to only 8.8mm, which is much lower than the 11, 12mm thickness of the mainstream in the industry. As a result, the millet MIX Fold 2 achieves that even in the folded state, the thickness of the fuselage is only 11.2mm.

It is a bit of a pity that the spindle of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 does not support "hover" mode, which is useful in scenes such as watching movies.

In terms of creases, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 uses the self-developed "wonder curvature" technology, which simply relies on rigorous simulation calculations to disperse the stress area of the screen to reduce creases. The official data is less than the crease depth of 0.15mm. As far as the actual experience of CTOnews.com is concerned, the crease of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is almost invisible in the bright screen. Of course, there is no denying that creases exist, such as when the screen is turned off, squint at the screen, you can see the crease area, or touch the middle area with your fingers, you also feel that the screen is uneven. But in daily use, the crease problem can be ignored, it will not let you in the process of using the phone because of the crease in the middle of the screen minute "play".

Third, MIUI large screen experience large screen application adaptation and interaction optimization, very test the soft power of folding screen manufacturers, which also determines whether a folding screen mobile phone is easy to use.

In the system part, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is equipped with MIUI FOLD system (13.1.6.0 stable version), which has been rewritten and redesigned. For example, the newly reconstructed desktop maintains the mainstream 4x6 layout design on the outer screen, while the 8x6layout appears when the inner screen is unfolded.

In addition, in the inner screen state, there is a Dock bar design similar to Xiaomi Pad at the bottom of the desktop, a new search button, and three icons for recent tasks on the right, to maintain the tablet experience on a large screen as much as possible.

Outer screen, inner screen

In addition to desktop optimization, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2's built-in default App, such as calendar, file management, and notes, is also redesigned for large screens, such as column navigation for file management, double-row display of clocks, display of calculators with scientific calculators, and so on.

Clock

Document management

Calculator

In terms of large screen interaction, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 provides three-finger application split screens, free windows, parallel windows, and so on. In terms of input methods, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has also been optimized and adapted, including three custom input methods that support "double G and double V" and so on.

Take the three-finger application split screen as an example, three points to the left or right slide can directly open the split screen mode, the commonly used split screen combination can also save the quick start icon on the desktop, click to start quickly.

Small window mode has also been upgraded, the same screen can open two small windows, while the new support for small window edge function, can be hidden on the edge of the screen.

In terms of internal screen application adaptation, Xiaomi's parallel window has been adapted to Baidu, Nail, bilibili, pinduoduo, Weibo, Zhihu, QQ, QQ Mail and many other commonly used App. Parallel window, simple understanding is on the inner screen, one application, two screens display. Take JD.com as an example, when browsing the home page, the full-screen display is applied, and when the second display level is turned on, the application will automatically split the screen left and right.

However, the parallel window has not yet adapted to Wechat, Jinri Toutiao, Taobao and other common App, and has not yet adapted to the application of parallel window, then the default is full screen display, of course, you can also set the appropriate display mode in the settings, including full screen, 4:3, 16:9 three modes.

In the 4:3 and 16:9 display modes, there will be a shortcut switch in the upper right corner of the screen, which you can click to switch between different application display modes.

In addition, in the system settings, Xiaomi also added an additional "folding screen area", which provides the relevant settings of the folding screen, including free window, folding screen, application display layout, game display layout and so on.

In the evaluation of OPPO Find N, CTOnews.com once mentioned that playing games with the inner screen of a folding screen phone actually has no advantage, because the inner screen will enlarge the central picture of the game, resulting in incomplete display of the game screen.

So how to make full use of the advantage of large folding screen to play games? Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 offers a new solution:

In the game display layout, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 provides proportional, filled two display modes, in the course of the game, through the game sidebar, you can exhale relevant settings.

For example, in the "original god" game, after selecting the "proportional" display mode, the "original god" runs at the original display ratio, and then click on the "original god big map" function, and some blank areas on the inner screen will display a large map on the full screen. enough to make use of the large screen ratio to expand the upper and lower field of view space.

Even, you can use the blank area in the upper half to display small window applications, for example, you can play "original God" while watching strategies, while talking about Wechat, etc., multi-purpose screen, make full use of the advantages of the big screen.

Fourth, Leica professional image experience image part, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 carries a 5000-megapixel IMX766 camera, as well as 13 million ultra-wide-angle, 8 million 2X portrait telephoto.

Among them, the main shot is 1.56 "background, 2.0um four-in-one fusion of large pixels, F1.8, support SMA OIS optical anti-shake, with 7p anti-glare professional coating. Other features include support for Leica's native dual quality, master lens pack, and support for focusing everything and taking 30 lightning shots per second.

Like Xiaomi 12s Ultra, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 also offers two shooting styles: Leica vivid and Leica classic.

Leica is vivid, the picture is brighter, and the color is relatively bright, and the atmosphere is stronger. Leica classics tend to be seen by the human eye, pursue a relatively three-dimensional tone, and the picture has a high contrast, which is what we call "virtue".

Leica vivid, Leica classic

Leica vivid, Leica classic

Leica vivid, Leica classic

According to the above groups of samples, Leica has a slightly higher vivid saturation, which is very suitable for shooting scenes with flowers and plants and rich colors; the most obvious feature of Leica classics is that it has obvious dark corners, and the dark part is slightly underexposed. the overall brightness of the picture is slightly lower, which is more realistic, which is suitable for shooting some architectural, cultural and other scenes.

In the night environment, the contrast between the two different Leica color styles is stronger.

Let's enlarge the details.

In Leica's vivid mode, the subjects are more prominent and the flowers are more colorful, while the Leica classics, by contrast, have a stronger night atmosphere, stronger color contrast, and more intense dark parts. very "virtuous".

(local magnification)

Let's take a look at the performance of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 sample:

CTOnews.com Note: unless otherwise specified, they are all shot in Leica's vivid style.

Main photographer

Ultra-wide angle

2X long focus

2X long focus

Evening sample sheet:

Main photo, Leica classic

2X telephoto, Leica classic

Main photo, Leica is vivid.

Main photo, Leica is vivid.

Main photo, Leica is vivid.

The IMX766 main shot is still at the flagship level, and the imaging level of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is a proper flagship performance in both day and night scenes, and there are no problems. Especially with the blessing of Leica classic mode, in the night environment, the sample atmosphere of this lens is extremely strong, and it is full of "virtue".

The performance of ultra-wide angle and 2X telephoto is not satisfactory, as long as there is enough light, the performance will not let you down.

Generally speaking, the image stack of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is not as exaggerated as Xiaomi 12s Ultra, but as far as a folding screen is concerned, this image configuration is not out of date. Especially with the blessing of Leica, such as color control, shadow tone, and even the future imaging style of Xiaomi mobile phone, there will be a clear and fixed direction, so that Xiaomi has its own style and tone, which is of great help to Xiaomi in image exploration.

Fifth, the performance of the core configuration, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 + flagship chip, with full blood LPDDR5 6400Mbps + full blood UFS 3.1, and 4500mAh dual-battery parallel, 67W wired fast charge, officially announced 40 minutes to 100%.

In the heat dissipation part, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has built-in 2520mm ²large area VC homogenizing plate + 3715mm ²boron nitride heat dissipation film + 9249mm ²high density graphite sheet.

The new "Snapdragon 8 +" uses TSMC 4nm process, 3.2GHz Cortex-X2 super core × 1Magne 2.75GHz A710 large core × 3Magi 2.0GHz A510 small core x 4core Adreno730, but the frequency increases by 10%, the CPU / GPU power consumption decreases by 30%, the overall power consumption of Qualcomm Soc is reduced by 15%, and the energy efficiency of the seventh generation Qualcomm AI engine is improved by 20%.

Let's take a look at the running scores of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2.

Note: the running scores are all tested in the state of large screen, and the mobile phone performance mode is turned on.

As shown in the following picture, the comprehensive score of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 rabbit reached 1111281, exceeding 1.1 million points:

In the flash performance test, the write speed of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has reached 1959MB/s, and the read speed has also reached the top level of 1483MB/s, which is full of new generation UFS 3.1:

3D Mark with more emphasis on the theoretical performance of GPU. In the Wild Life test project, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has a total score of 10564, with an average frame rate of 63.30fps, which is still at the ceiling level:

In 3DMark's Wild Life Stress Test project, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 achieved an amazing 92.9% stability, which is also the highest of all Snapdragon 8 + models tested by CTOnews.com, thus proving that Xiaomi MIX Fold 2's large screen does have some advantages in terms of heat dissipation.

In terms of GeekBench5 running score, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 has a single core score of 1334 and a multi-core score of 4322. The multi-core score is also the highest of all Snapdragon 8 + models tested by CTOnews.com.

(the performance training of different models is different, the above running points are for reference only.)

Sixth, after the actual test of the game, let's take a look at the game performance of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2.

It is still the same old rule, it is still the highest picture quality "original god" for 30 minutes, the test environment is an indoor air-conditioned room of about 25 °C, the game test scene is the outdoor running map + playing strange, and the battle scene accounts for about 40% of the total time of the game. Turn on the performance mode of the mobile phone and pass the on-screen play test.

(the picture quality of the original god is set as above)

As shown in the following figure, the average frame rate of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 reaches 59.63fps, with a maximum value of 61fps and a minimum value of 29fps:

(millet MIX Fold 2 original god 30-minute frame rate 59.63fps)

This result, the proper Android camp ceiling level, in the course of the game, there is no lock screen drop frame phenomenon, the first 5 minutes of the game, a little frame fluctuation, the late basic regional stability, even in the battle scene, the frame rate is also maintained above 45fps, basically invisible to the naked eye.

Let's take a look at the power performance. In the original God game, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 reached 5.276W, which is also much better than the Snapdragon 8 flagship machine and lower than the 5.517W of Xiaomi 12s Ultra. The advantage of large screen is obviously self-evident.

(Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 original power consumption)

In terms of temperature, the measured maximum temperature of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is only 43.5C, which is located in the upper left side of the front screen (that is, the corresponding area of the camera), and the highest temperature on the back is 43.2C, which is located under the camera. Under basically consistent test conditions, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is 1 °C lower than Xiaomi 12s Ultra in the same configuration, and its more ferocious heat dissipation stack, as well as larger fuselage and heat dissipation area, is obviously more dominant in high-intensity game scenarios.

Conclusion: compared with the previous generation of products, the changes and upgrades of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 can be described as earth-shaking, excellent and consistent internal and external dual screen experience, top performance, and extremely frivolous industrial design, which make Xiaomi a shame on folding screen products and correct its own level of research and development and innovation. Compared with its competitors' folding screen products, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is a rare folding large screen phone with a breakthrough in the light and thin field, and its competitive advantage is quite obvious.

Not surprisingly, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 will still be compared with various competitors' folding screen products, but this time Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is expected to become a lightweight folding screen phone, and the starting price of 8999 yuan seems to be difficult for consumers to bypass the choice of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2.

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