Xiaomi Mix Flip 2 Pocket Photo Kit debuts as innovative foldable smartphone accessory

Xiaomi now touts its new Mix Flip 2 as the ideal rival for the Motorola Razr Ultra 2025, heretofore the only Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered clamshell foldable Android smartphone on the market. 

The Mix Flip 2 has the larger battery and faster wireless charging of the 2, and can also record in 8K/24fps where its Motorola rival cannot. It has also been unleashed alongside something else the new Razr Ultra doesn't have: its own photo printer.

The Flip 2's version of the 15 Ultra Photography Kit is rated to integrate with the smartphone to produce hard copies of its up-to-50MP snaps for a price Xiaomi has set at 2 yuan (~$0.30) per print, whereas Polaroid photo paper reportedly costs an average of 5 yuan (~$0.70) per sheet in China - when you can get it there, that is.

The Pocket Photo Kit itself has been released at 699 yuan (~$98), and integrates a USB-C port as well as a physical shutter button.

Like its predecessor for the first-gen Mix Flip (which can be found on AliExpress), it works using ZINK sublimation technology rather than ink, and has upgraded to provide Leica watermarks in this iteration. Whether it can match Polaroid quality remains to be seen, though.