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Xiaomi’s first flip phone has something Galaxy Z Flip 5 doesn’t – SamMobile

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While Samsung has released five generations of Galaxy Z Flip series phones, the only big change it brought to the lineup was with the Galaxy Z Flip 5. It has a much bigger screen than previous-generation Galaxy Z Flip phones. While the company introduced a slightly larger primary camera with the Galaxy Z Flip 4, not much has improved in the imaging department over the years. The Galaxy Z Flip 5 still has the same 12MP+12MP dual-camera setup as seen on the original Galaxy Z Flip.

Samsung’s rivals are thinking bigger, though, and the South Korean firm is falling behind the curve in the flip-style phone segment as well.

Xiaomi MIX Flip will have a telephoto camera and Galaxy Z Flip 5 doesn’t

Last year, OPPO became the first brand to introduce a flip phone with a dedicated telephoto camera. The Find N3 Flip has a 32MP telephoto camera with 2x optical zoom. In February 2024, Huawei introduced the Pocket 2, a flip phone with an 8MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom. Now, Xiaomi is ready to launch its first flip phone—Xiaomi MIX Flip—in China, and it will have a dedicated telephoto camera.

According to reports, the Xiaomi MIX Flip has a 60MP telephoto camera with 2x optical zoom. It reportedly uses an OmniVision OV60A sensor (1/2.61-inch) with 0.6µm pixels. Its primary camera is reportedly a 50MP OmniVision OVX800 sensor (1/1.55-inch), which is bigger than the one used in the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and as big as the primary camera on the Galaxy S24. The MIX Flip seems to lack an ultrawide camera, though. It is expected to have a 32MP selfie camera on the foldable screen.

In comparison, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 doesn’t have a telephoto or high-resolution primary camera. You can watch our Galaxy Z Flip 5 camera review in the video below.

Galaxy Z Flip 6 could use a 50MP primary camera for in-sensor zoom, but it might not be enough

A few weeks ago, the first renders of the Galaxy Z Flip 6 were leaked. If those are accurate, the upcoming flip phone from Samsung will continue to have two cameras. It means we won’t see a telephoto camera on the Galaxy Z Flip lineup for the sixth year in a row.

Some reports claim the Galaxy Z Flip 6 will have a 50MP primary camera. Samsung could use the in-sensor crop for improved 2x zoom shots. However, those shots will likely not be as good as shots captured using the dedicated telephoto camera on the Xiaomi MIX Flip. This is a bit disappointing, especially since three of Samsung’s rivals have decided to ship flip phones with telephoto cameras.

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What will the iPhone 16 look like? We asked Xiaomi’s AI to design it

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While we’ve not yet seen the hotly anticipated iPhone 16 with our own eyes, when the opportunity arose at MWC 2024, we thought we’d ask one of Xiaomi’s new AI-toting tablets to take a crack at rendering its own artistic interpretation of Apple next major smartphone … leading to an interesting result.

Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona every year, grants us access to all manner of weird and wonderful tech, and at Xiaomi’s booth the company was showing off myriad new wares: from its latest Xiaomi 14 series smartphones to its first car. One of the more innocuous products on show was the new Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4.

While the tablet itself looks like an attractive new alternative to the likes of Apple’s iPad Air line or Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S9 series – packing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, a crisp and responsive 3K 144Hz display and the fastest charging we’ve ever seen on a slate, at 120W – it was the new AI Pen feature built into Xiaomi’s Mi Canvas app on the 6S Pro that we wanted to put to the test, tasking it with (digitally) inking its take on the next iPhone.

With a brief iPhone doodle of our own creation as a guide, we entered a text prompt simply saying ‘the iPhone 16’, dialed the ‘AI involvement’ slider all the way up to its 90% maximum and chose ‘watercolor’ from the four predefined art styles. Then, all we had to do was wait 30 to 40 seconds for the tablet to generate four concept images, of which we picked the ‘best’.

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A concept sketch of the iPhone 16 'drawn' by Xiaomi's AI Pen — (Image credit: Future | Alex Walker-Todd)

Is this the iPhone 16? Xiaomi’s AI apparently thinks so.

The result is a decidedly flamboyant take on Apple’s next potential smartphone, with the AI making some stylistic choices concerning the watercolor accent work, alongside some truly interesting design choices that don’t fall outside the realm of possibility.

Despite a relatively squared smartphone silhouette in our initial sketch, the AI chose to more heavily round the corners on its iPhone 16 concept; a design choice we’ve seen Google make with the transition from the Pixel 7 series to the Pixel 8. The camera module takes on a more rectangular shape, spacing the trio of lenses further apart vertically, while the lower quarter of the iPhone 16’s back is accented by an unmistakably familiar contrasting bar that looks as though it was lifted straight from the original iPhone.

You can watch the entire process from start to finish from our TikTok, below:

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♬ Aesthetic – Tollan Kim

Although we don’t have a deep insight into the training models used by Xiaomi’s AI, it’s clear that it already understood what an iPhone was. It understood that the circles in the top-left corner represented camera lenses and that the deformed Pac-Man in the center of the initial sketch was, in fact, an Apple logo, which it rendered perfectly.

There’s also the matter of AI image generation in this context. By using an initial user-generated sketch before layering on both a text-based prompt and a predefined art style for the AI to follow as a set of guidelines, there was only so far off-piste that it was ever likely to go, while still fulfilling what had been asked of it.

There’s a key distinction between truly original AI-based image creation and reinterpretation, which is the case with this technology from Xiaomi. That said, there’s little reason to assume that we couldn’t soon have AI image generators that account for factors like the context of the current mobile market, Apple’s latest aesthetic, and what pre-existing leaks and rumors concerning iPhone design to include, all as factors in creating a more refined iPhone 16 concept.

One thing’s for sure, although this might be among the first AI-generated iPhone 16 renders we’ve seen, it almost certainly won’t be the last before the real phone’s expected debut in September, later this year.

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