Xiaomi is now launching a new flagship phone with a similar feature. The move came days after Oppo announced its latest under-screen camera solution. The Mi Mix 4 is the Chinese company’s slimmest ceramic uni-body smartphone yet. It features a 6.67-inch 2,400 x 1,080 screen. The device stealthily hides a 20-megapixel selfie camera underneath a near-indistinguishable patch of pixels. It has the same 400ppi density as the rest of the panel with smaller pixels and transparent circuitry. The Mix series always pushes the boundary of form factor design with the first two models. Both devices were designed by Philippe Starck and offer super slim screen bezels along three sides. Xiaomi finally got rid of the chin by moving the selfie camera to a slide-up module for Mi Mix 4.

CEO Lei Jun said that if you really care about your selfies, you should stick to phones with punch-hole cameras; but for him, the under-screen camera is good enough. The screen itself is very much the same as many other recent flagships are offering. It includes 10-bit color, P3 gamut, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, 120Hz refresh rate, and 480Hz touch sampling rate. It’s protected by a layer of Gorilla Glass Victus. The Mi Mix 4 provides stereo sound tuned by Harman/Kardon, which should go well with that vibrant screen. It uses the first smartphone sporting Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 888+ 5G processor. LPDDR5 RAM options range from 8GB to 12GB, whereas UFS 3.1 storage goes from 128GB to 512GB. The Mi Mix 4 also packs UWB (ultra-wideband) much like the iPhone 12 series.

The company will also offer a small UWB hub for existing TVs, and this will launch via a beta program in China on August 20th. This Android phone also has an infrared remote feature and impressive rear cameras. There’s a 108-megapixel main camera (HMX sensor with optical stabilization), an 8-megapixel 5x optical zoom camera (with optical stabilization), and a 13-megapixel 120-degree ultra-wide camera (with free-form lens). The Mi Mix 4 houses a 4,500mAh battery and supports 120W wired charging, which goes from zero to 100 percent in 21 minutes. There’s also 50W wireless charging, which normally takes 45 minutes for a full charge in “Boost Mode”. The prices start from $770 for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage model and $970 for the 12GB RAM + 512GB storage option.