Xiaomi unveils new concept phone with ‘waterfall’ screen on all four sides

Xiaomi has announced a new concept phone with a screen that bends around all four sides of the device, with no room for ports or buttons.

The “square waterfall screen” refers to the phone with 88 degree “waterfall” curves, not only on the left and right sides of the device, but also on the top and bottom of the handset. As the press release describes it:

The 88 ° hyper square screen design allows visual interfaces such as water to flow over the phone surface. Almost the entire frame of the smartphone is covered by the screen, while the body has no ports or buttons, bringing out the futuristic unibody-no-port design.

The overall effect seems to be that the screen includes touch controls on the sides and contents of the page which, when viewed at eye level, look outwards at the bottom of the screen. Based on the promotional material, the corners of the device do not display the “waterfall” effect, but do have rounded cutouts that have no display features.

Xiaomi says the concept aims to “extend the limits of the display to infinity” and realize a true, port-free unibody design. “This achievement is said to be the result of ‘countless breakthroughs in glass bending and lamination technology’ and ‘an innovative design for screen stacking used by our 3D binding breakthrough process.’

Thanks to 46 self-developed patented technologies, physical ports and buttons can repeat their functions through more elegant alternatives. Breakthrough technologies and engineering solutions – including ultra-thin piezoelectric ceramics, a first flexible acoustic technology for film screening, third-generation undertones, wireless charging, eSIM chips, pressure-sensitive touch sensors and more – are seamlessly integrated yet intuitively integrated device shape.

It is worth mentioning that although it is called a concept phone, Xiaomi said The edge that the device does exist and that they used it ‘self-sufficiently’.

Xiaomi’s recent decision to send emerging smartphones without a charger and the newly announced “Mi Air Charge” remote wireless technology seems to make more sense, given the lack of ports on this device.

That said, who knows if it will ever be on the market. Xiaomi’s Mi Mi Alpha phone for 2019 has a screen that wrapped around almost the entire device, and which also did not become commercially available.