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New Xiaomi patent shows a clamshell folding phone with rotating camera bar

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Enrique 22 May 2020

Xiaomi Android Rumors

In a new patent submitted by Xiaomi, we see sketches of a new smartphone form factor that is rather interesting. With folding smartphones making a comeback in the last year or so, we have a feeling that smartphone companies are going to push innovation in unique hardware form factors. This one from Xiaomi is a folding clamshell smartphone, like the Moto Razr or the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, but with a twist (literally).

The clamshell phone features a bar on the upper half, which can be rotated horizontally to physically turn the rear facing cameras towards the front to be used for selfies. The patent images below are renders created by Let’s Go Digital based on the drawings published in the CNIPA filing.

 Lets Go Digital Source: Let's Go Digital

The upper half of the device has the power and volume keys on the right side. As well, we see a speaker grille that sits just below the part that rotates.

it doesn’t necessarily mean that Xiaomi will ever produce and sell such a device. Phone makers often patent hardware that will never make it to market. If down the line, such a device would be ideal for the market, then it might pursue the idea to produce and market a device.

Original patent from CNIPA Original patent from CNIPA Original patent from CNIPA
Original patent from CNIPA

Xiaomi has several funky smartphone patents under its belt including another clamshell phone like the Z Flip, a phone with a pop-up mechanism containing 7 cameras, a dual-sided smartphone with a wrap-around screen, and a phone with dual punch-hole selfie cameras.

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Reader comments

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  • Scurry
  • sXt
  • 26 May 2020

What's there to patent here? It is an N90 rip off from the days Nokia did all the innovating....

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  • Samath N8 808 owner
  • Dk3
  • 24 May 2020

I guess, Boys copy stuff, Men develop stuff and patent it, Legends copy from others, and get it patented... for ever.

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  • Samath N8 808 owner
  • Dk3
  • 24 May 2020

Well, since we're done with copying Apple, how about copying the real Nokia? The real Nokia from N90, N93 days...

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