Xiaomi 18 Fold: Official teaser images and Geekbench test have surfaced
Xiaomi confirmed last week that its foldable widescreen smartphone with the Xring O3 chipset will launch in September. Now, the company has officially unveiled the design of the Xiaomi 18 Fold and confirmed the release date: The foldable will launch in China on September 7, two days before Apple is expected to unveil its own foldable widescreen smartphone, the iPhone Ultra.
In addition to announcing the release date, Xiaomi also presented the foldable device in the Nishino Red color. The smartphone features a triple rear camera and an LED flash, housed in a horizontal, pill-shaped camera module. It also boasts large, rounded corners and narrow bezels.
It has been confirmed that the Xiaomi 18 Fold will have a 5.38-inch external display and a 7.58-inch foldable internal display.
Xiaomi has also released a video showcasing the foldable device and providing insight into the internal components and hinge mechanism.
Xiaomi 18 Fold Geekbench test confirms chipset and RAM
Furthermore, the Xiaomi 18 Fold was discovered in the Geekbench AI database after a prototype successfully completed the benchmark test. As expected, the Xring O3 chipset is confirmed. It also features 16 GB of RAM – at least that was the case with the prototype. Xiaomi may offer other options as well.
The Xiaomi smartphone ships with Android 17, which was released several months ago but has not yet been adopted by all Android manufacturers. As the screenshot above shows, the Xiaomi 18 Fold achieved the following scores in the Geekbench AI test for Android: 629 points (single precision), 799 points (half precision), and 634 points (quantized).
In benchmark tests, the Xring O3‘s CPU reached clock speeds of up to 4.36 GHz for two cores, up to 3.69 GHz for four cores, and up to 3.15 GHz for four cores. It uses the Mali-G2-Ultra-NX MC16 GPU.
