Paul Jones / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Xiaomi’s new Combine Flip gained’t be caught in China, with gross sales confirmed for no less than 5 European markets.
- Bulgaria is about to get the Combine Flip starting on August 15, in “restricted portions.”
- It’s nonetheless unclear which {hardware} configuration Xiaomi intends to make accessible internationally.
Final week, Xiaomi joined the rising variety of firms introducing new foldable telephones this summer season, as the corporate unveiled not simply the Combine Fold 4, its newest era book-style foldable, but additionally the clamshell Combine Flip — its first ever folding cellphone with this type issue. With an enormous exterior show and a few enjoyable materials choices, there’s so much to love concerning the Combine Flip — we simply weren’t certain how excited it was price getting concerning the cellphone, with Xiaomi’s worldwide launch plans nonetheless up within the air. Whereas we nonetheless don’t have the whole image on each market the place this mannequin may find yourself, we are able to now no less than affirm that Xiaomi is transferring ahead with Combine Flip gross sales outdoors of China.
Affirmation comes our means from Cellular Bulgaria (by way of WinFuture with a h/t to our personal Mishaal Rahman), the place the positioning realized from Xiaomi Bulgaria nation supervisor Nikolay Nankov that Combine Flip gross sales are coming to the nation in mid-August, when the cellphone will go for two,600 Bulgarian lev (~$1,450). That’s considerably greater than customers in China can be paying, the place the bottom Combine Flip begins at 5,999 yuan (~$825).
Outdoors Bulgaria, the positioning notes that Xiaomi plans to deliver the Combine Flip to 4 different markets in Central and Japanese Europe — however for the second, we don’t have an inventory of all these nations. And whereas European gross sales can be unique to those 5 markets, there’s nonetheless plenty of the world that leaves unaddressed.
There’s additionally the excellent query of which configuration of the Combine Flip Xiaomi may select to promote outdoors of China. There, customers have the choice for 12GB or 16GB of RAM, and storage configurations starting from 256GB to 1TB. Even with affirmation that European gross sales are taking place, it’s nonetheless unclear which {hardware} choices that may contain. We hold listening to the 12GB/512GB mixture talked about, however contemplating what Xiaomi’s planning to cost right here, it could be good to see customers get a bit extra for his or her cash.
For now, we’ll hold trying to fill in the remainder of these blanks, and hopefully get a extra full sense of Xiaomi’s curiosity in international markets for the Combine Flip.
