Project Overview

Explore — Let the future contain more possibilities. The Mi MIX Alpha is a futuristic 'surround screen' phone that shows the many avenues for Xiaomi to explore during the 5G era.

Organisation

Xiaomi

Project Brief

We may wonder what the phone will look like in the future when we are surrounded by more extensive and expansive information.

Perhaps in the future, the entire mobile phone will look like a display. The display of Mi MIX Alpha extends from front to back. When the screen lights up, it's like the universe: no end and no boundaries, but a stunningly futuristic feeling.

Project Innovation/Need

The front of the Mi MIX Alpha is virtually taken up by the entire screen, with the top and bottom bezels measuring just 2.15mm, meaning information on the front screen will no longer be crowded, allowing for pure interaction.

The display wraps around to replace the side frame, allowing space for phone status information - such as battery % - to be displayed. There are no physical buttons, but pressure-sensitive virtual side buttons. The virtual side buttons are pressure-sensitive and leverage a linear motor to simulate the touch of real buttons, allowing you to lock the screen, adjust volume, etc.

The most used applications are displayed as gadgets on the back display. In the future, it will be able to perform real-time AI scenario detection. For example, at an airport, the back will automatically show your boarding pass. When you are traveling by taxi, it will be able to display the real-time route.

In the future, what technology will we use to give phones more energy?
Nano-silicon-based lithium-ion battery provides one possible direction.
The Mi MIX Alpha uses a 4050 mAh nano-silicon-based lithium-ion battery
with 40W wired fast charging to accommodate its fast charge design. This improves both the energy density of the lithium-ion battery and battery safety.

With this battery, Xiaomi company the first company in the smartphone industry to achieve -10°C low temperature charging.