{"id":1043109,"date":"2026-09-04T15:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043109\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:31:18","slug":"xiaomi-copied-the-foldable-iphone-before-apple-even-announced-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043109\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi Copied the Foldable iPhone Before Apple Even Announced It"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now everyone on the internet has seen 3D renders of what the first foldable iPhone will reportedly look like<\/a>, though Apple isn\u2019t set to announce it until Sept. 9<\/a>. It will have two rounded corners when it\u2019s closed and four when it\u2019s open. Xiaomi saw the leaks and immediately fired up its copy machine.<\/p>\n

At IFA 2026<\/a>, the Chinese tech giant showed off the Xiaomi 18 Fold behind a glass case\u2026 and it looks almost exactly like what we expect the foldable iPhone to look like. Xiaomi is planning to share full details at an event on Sept. 7, two days before Apple.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we do know, though: the outside screen is 5.38 inches and the inner one is 7.58 inches, according to GSMArena<\/a>. The aspect ratio for the inner screen is supposed to be 2:1, which would make it shorter and wider than Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold 8<\/a>, which has a 4:3 inner screen. The Xiaomi 18 Fold also has a pill-shaped camera bar on the rear housing with three Leica-optimized cameras, presumably a main, telephoto, and ultrawide. (Xiaomi would one-up Apple with a telephoto, which the foldable iPhone will reportedly not have.) There\u2019s also a hole-punch camera in the upper right on the inner screen; the foldable iPhone is supposed to have a hole-punch on its inner screen, but it\u2019s in the upper left.<\/p>\n

\"Xiaomi\u00a9 Kyle Barr \/ Gizmodo <\/p>\n

Xiaomi has also confirmed the foldable uses its own Xring 03 chip. We\u2019ll have to wait until reviewers can do benchmarks to get a sense of how it compares to Apple\u2019s upcoming A20 Pro chip and Qualcomm\u2019s latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip.<\/p>\n

No reporters were allowed to touch the Xiaomi 18 Fold, according to our own Kyle Barr, who\u2019s on the ground, so we have no idea how it feels in the hand. But at least it comes in a sweet red color? I guess we\u2019ll find out more in a few days, but don\u2019t expect Xiaomi to sell the foldable in the U.S. As always, the U.S. is losing out on much-needed competition in consumer tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By now everyone on the internet has seen 3D renders of what the first foldable iPhone will reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1043110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[17],"tags":[10739,414887,611,10740,158,67,132,68,20268],"class_list":["post-1043109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-foldables","tag-ifa-2026","tag-mobile","tag-smartphones","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-xiaomi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}