Xiaomi has never shied away from building outlandish phones, with its concepts exploring new form factors and new hardware ideas. It is also known for making very competent phones at affordable prices. It argues its innovation in new technology helps it bring phones with flagship features at a lower price.
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Display technology has been changing and evolving quickly, which makes the latest concept choice a bit curious. It has shown off a new concept with a “quad-curved waterfall display”, in a time when most smartphone manufacturers are moving away from the curved-edge displays. Most users prefer a flat display, as the usable space is greater, with none of that distortion on the edge image.
The Chinese company has said that sourcing a screen that could do the trick is pretty simple now that flexible display panels have grown more common. However, they had to manufacture an 88° quad-curved glass panel which had to be bonded to the underlying display. Xiaomi says that the process of correctly shaping glass layers like this involved in-house processing equipment, 800-degree heat, multiple polishing tools and thousands of attempts.
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