Overview
- Xiaomi confirmed the Xiaomi 18 Fold will debut in China on Sept. 7 and showed the device at IFA in Berlin ahead of that launch.
- The company announced the foldable will use its first high-end in-house chip, the Xring O3, and said it worked with Leica on the phone’s triple-camera array.
- Tipsters have leaked that the phone could start above CNY 10,000 and offer a top-tier 16GB+1TB configuration using LPDDR6 memory.
- Additional leaks report a large battery around 6,000mAh plus fast charging numbers (about 67W wired and 50W wireless), but Xiaomi’s benchmark claims, final specs and global availability remain unverified and the IFA unit was not available for hands-on testing.
- The timing and passport-style 5.38" cover/7.58" inner design put Xiaomi in direct competition with other premium foldables and underline its strategy to shift AI workloads onto device silicon, a move that could raise prices and change supply-chain demands for next‑gen memory and foundry capacity.