Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 Smartphone Review

Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 Smartphone Review – The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 5G is the successor of the last year’s Xiaomi Mix Fold. This year, the company has upgraded the phone in the best way possible to appeal to interested buyers. But from the track record, this phone will go to the flagship market, which will compete with the recent release Vivo X fold phone. The phone was announced in August 2022 and unveiled to the world soon after.

You can expect a few good things compared to the previous generation device such as the overall display quality being increased with screen protection, the performance section bringing a powerful chipset, the latest android version, and many more exciting perks. But at the same time, the company also decrease the battery capacity. Although it won’t affect the overall user experience. So, let’s find out whether it’s a good choice to purchase Xiaomi Mix Fold2 in the following review.

Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 Smartphone Review

Highlights

1. Xiaomi Mix Fold2 appears with a big 8.02-inches LTPO2 foldable OLED display with a 6.56-inches AMOLED cover panel.
2. As for the hardware section, the phone is powered through Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset with Adreno 730 GPU.
3. The software brings the new MIUI Fold 13 based on Android 12, which provides dedicated fold-screen features.
4. The camera module renders a 50MP triple camera followed by a 20MP selfie lens.
5. Under the hood, the Li-Po 4500 mAh powerhouse battery will fuel through 67W fast charging support.

Design and Display

Appearance-wise, the phone looks pretty refreshing the last year’s phone. It brings tons of new aspect with a comparatively aesthetic design layout that stand out from the previous Mix fold phone. It’s more like a new piece of tech that does look appealing and interesting in the first appearance. As for the outer camera module, the rectangle island shifted from vertical to landscape. Although, the phone doesn’t wobble when you put the phone on a table.

Speaking of the shade options, the device will appear in two exclusive shade options. The Black and Gold, both of them looks pretty interesting and attractive. But if we have to choose between them, we will go with the classic Black color variant for its professional appearance. While the Gold color variant doesn’t feel that underwhelming, it appears more premium. The color preference can differ from user to user, so choose anything that fits well to your taste.

The cover display arrives with a 6.56-inches AMOLED display that renders impressive color saturation with a proper viewing experience. Besides this, the display also equips the 120Hz refresh rate, which ensures you get a smooth UI experience on the screen. On top of that, the screen also blends astounding HDR 10+ contrast and provides Dolby Vision that enhances the crispness of content. Following this, the smartphone makers provide a 1300 nits peak brightness so that you won’t have any problem using the phone outdoors.

As for the security feature, the phone brings the Corning Gorilla Glass Victus protection. If you are thinking that the company invests in the cover display, you might be wrong in that case. Compare to the outer display, the foldable screen brings ample specs and features. You will get an 8.02-inches LTPO2 OLED panel with 10-bit colors. Alongside this, you will obtain the almost same features as the cover display. But there are a few things that improved in the foldable screen.

First of all, you are getting better resolution on the foldable screen, which further enriches the resolution quality, so that you won’t have trouble watching content in 4K without any problem. Moreover, the company also includes the Schott UTG glass protection on the foldable panel. It’s special glass protection, which is specially developed for foldable screen phones. Plus, the Schott UTG glass is stronger and tougher than the regular coring glass. It’s good to see that Xiaomi putting more effort into the display.

As we all know, the smartphone display is a deal breaker for many users. When you are talking about foldable phones, usually, smartphones many focus on better specs, but not the viewing quality. However, that’s not the case with the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 as it brings vibrant colors and immersive contrast, which make the overall display experience wonderful. Since it’s an OLED display, you will attain the under-display fingerprint scanner, which is quite good from the side panel sensor.

Memory and Internal

The hardware section includes the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset, which is known for its flagship-level performance. Usually, this chipset doesn’t heat that much compared to the previous-gen chipset. While at the same time, Qualcomm does a great job in performance optimization that increases the overall user experience of the phone. Since there are two screens that are using the hardware and software simultaneously, you won’t able to unleash the full potential of this chipset.

Aside from this, the processing cores can easily render up to 3.19Ghz cloaking speed. Through this, you won’t face any issues or lags in your multitasking experience, while the latest android 12 brings along the MIUI fold 13. The user interface is pretty much similar to the MIUI 13, but the company added various other foldable perks inside the interface so that you can effortlessly multitask your work and get a productive day without any trouble.

Moreover, you will obtain various customization features, which further boost the user experience over this handset. Plus, the faster refresh rate gives an additional edge and gives the butter a smooth touch response. Speaking of the graphic end, the Adreno 730 GPU grant ample graphic performance. It ensures that the users play games with the HD resolution visual without any ping or lag issues.

Frame drop was noticeable after a few hours of gameplay, but it’s not bad as the other flagship phone. As for PUBG, you can play it at the highest resolution settings with astounding support. Now, let’s talk about internal storage. The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 has three robust storage variant, that includes 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB UFS 3.1 storage unit. With this, you won’t have any issues storing your multi-media data in one place.

Store your apps, videos, photos, and doc files without being bothered by running out of storage alerts. In terms of the RAM department, every variant has a standard 12GB RAM configuration, which will further help in enhancing the overall performance. The base variant of 12GB/256GB is sufficient enough for regular user needs. Above this, you can choose anything according to your wish.

Camera

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 camera review does feel great according to the flagship level segment. But at the same time, it doesn’t provide it stand out from the rest of the competition. The phone brings a decent image processing unit that handles most of the photos and videos without any hassle. Furthermore, it boosts the colors, contrast, and saturation to some extent. Besides this, Mix Fold 2 has a relativity new camera island design layout.

The camera module equips a 50MP triple camera setup, which also has an 8MP telephoto and 13MP ultra-wide lens for taking a dynamic range of photos. We have taken images in daylight, the results are quite appealing it provide vibrant colors with proper texture and details in each shot. In the low light, the colors and contrast bring astounding depth to the blacks and render amazing details, which is quite great. The AI software help in improving the other aspects too.

Following this, you will find various custom filters and modes inside the native camera app from which you can take photos or videos using the 20MP cover screen camera. With this 20MP lens, the overall image quality doesn’t feel that underwhelming from what we were expecting in the first place. The saturation feels slightly off sometimes, but you won’t notice any problem with the crisp details. However, it doesn’t grant attractive photos as the main camera island.

As for the additional features, the company renders OIS stabilization support in the 50MP primary lens, while the 8MP telephoto lens gives 2X optical zoom ability. Furthermore, the ultra-wide lens brings better angles for clicking a dynamic range of photos and gets decent edge detection in the protest mode. Not only that, the camera quality stays constant in each mode so that you can capture your life moment without decreasing your expectation.

On the other hand, the phone won’t have any problem recording videos at 8K with proper video stabilization features. Moreover, the camera app provides different video recording modes from which you can effortlessly create time-lapse or slow-mo videos. With this, you won’t need to download a third-party application to enjoy those advanced features over your phone as those attractive perks are provided in the native app.

Battery and Others

We have run several tests on the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 and found out that you will obtain more than 5+ hours of screen time through the Li-Po 4500 mAh battery configuration. Besides this, the user interface optimized the battery life in the best way possible so that the users can get additional hours to use this phone. Although you are a heavy user and desire to use this phone to its utmost potential, you will notice a slight downfall in the battery life.

However, you won’t face any issues when you are having a long gaming session or streaming your favorite shows online. Despite this, you will notice overheating issues when you try to push the limits of this phone. Yet, you don’t need to worry about the charging time as the 67W charger will only take less than 40-minutes to fuel the battery. Plus, it only requires roughly 18-minutes to fuel the battery from flat to 50%.

Finally, the additional features that stand out in the specs section would be the sound output. It’s something we don’t expect that will gives impressive results. But it proves us wrong with the volume enhancement with the Dobly and offers a crisp sound experience. Now, the question is does the $1333 (Rs. 1,06,290 in India) approx price point justifies the value of the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2? If you look at the overall specs the phone already gives top-notch performance and user experience, adding the foldable screen, it becomes a pretty decent deal.

Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 Pros and Cons

Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 Specifications Detail

Down below you can see the full specifications of the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 smartphone.

Conclusion

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 smartphone is awesome when it comes to flagship foldable smartphones. The company also improved several factors from the previous gen foldable phone and those changes are visible in Mix Fold 2 for sure. With this phone, you will attain numerous multi-tasking features and lots of other exciting things, which will help you while playing high-end games to even watching simple YouTube videos. Plus, the UI is customized to support the foldable features with great precision.

Furthermore, the crack is not that visible on the foldable screen, while at the same time, the company tries a refreshed design layout that makes this phone more attractive and premium. For an alternative option, you can check the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4. On the surface level, the specs are almost identical and have an equal share of flaws.