Xiaomi unveils new phone concept with four-sided ‘waterfall’ screen

Xiaomi has announced a new phone concept with a screen that curves around the four sides of the device, with no room for ports or buttons.

The “cascading screen with four curves” refers to the phone with 88 degree “cascading curves” not only on the left and right sides of the device, but also on the top and bottom of the device. As the press release describes:

The 88 ° hyper-curved screen design allows visual interfaces to flow over the phone’s surface like water. Almost the entire frame of the smartphone is covered by the screen, while its body does not carry doors or buttons, bringing the futuristic unibody design without doors.

The total sum effect appears to include touchscreen-based controls on the sides and scrolling content that, when viewed at eye level, appears to drip past the bottom of the screen. Based on the promotional material, the corners of the device do not exhibit a “ripple” effect and instead feature rounded cutouts that lack display capabilities.

Xiaomi says that the concept aims to “extend the limits of the screen to infinity” and realize “a true monoblock design without doors”. This feat is considered the result of “countless advances in glass folding and laminating technology” and “an innovative screen stacking design adopted through our revolutionary 3D bonding process”.

Thanks to 46 patented self-development technologies, physical doors and buttons can be replicated by more elegant alternatives. Innovative engineering technologies and solutions – including ultrafine piezoelectric ceramics, industry-leading acoustic flexible film display technology, third-generation display cameras, wireless charging, eSIM chips, pressure sensitive touch sensors and more – are seamlessly integrated . , forming a visionary but intuitive device.

It is worth mentioning that, although this is called a concept phone, Xiaomi said The Verge that the device really exists and, reassuringly, they “used it” themselves.

Xiaomi’s recent decision to deliver the next smartphones without a charger and its recently announced remote wireless technology “Mi Air Charge” seem to make more sense, given the lack of ports on this device.

That said, who knows if it will hit the market. Xiaomi’s Mi Mix Alpha 2019 phone had a screen that involved almost the entire device, and which is also not commercially available.