The Motorola Razr (2019) steered the foldable phone market in a different direction with its classic clamshell design. Instead of a tablet device that can fold to the size of a regular smartphone, clamshell phones offer extra portability folding to a much smaller form factor. Samsung launched its own version of the clamshell design - the Galaxy Z Flip, and now it seems that Xiaomi plans to do the same.

uncovered a new patent filed by the Chinese company in November 2019 in Beijing. The 48 included images show a foldable phone with a clamshell design. The really interesting part is the camera ...