Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi today unveiled a new concept device that aims to make the no-port, “just a screen” form factor for smartphones a reality in the market. The company, through promotional images and an official video, announced the unnamed device that comes with a special display that features the waterfall-curve on all four edges, making the device completely portless and button-less.
“Compared with ordinary curved glass, the difficulty of hot bending increases exponentially. Polishing a piece of such hyper-curved glass with a deep 88° bend on four sides requires self-developed glass processing equipment, hot bending under 800°C high temperature and pressure, four different polishing tools and up to more than ten complex polishing procedures”, wrote the team in an official blog post.
Much like the Mi Mix Alpha, there is a high chance that this concept device will remain in Xiaomi’s headquarters and not launch as a commercial device. Nonetheless, it great to see the Chinese giant developing innovative devices like this one and futuristic technologies like its recently-unveiled “Mi Air Charge” tech.
