Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi is trying to revitalize its fortunes this year and it's starting next month with its new flagship phone, the Mi Mix. However, its revolutionary edgeless design, where its display stretches from corner to corner with a small horizontal strip at the bottom, might be stealing the iPhone 8's thunder.
This is what The Verge believes after seeing the Xiaomi Mi Mix, considering the rumors about what the iPhone 8 could look like. It has been rumored that the iPhone 8 could be the major overhaul Apple fans had been waiting for after the iPhone 7 was seen only as a slightly reworked iPhone 6S.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix is a 6.4-inch smartphone that won't have any bezels on its curved-corner screen -- the outside border, basically. The huge screen also means that the sensors and the earpiece that usually goes on the top part of the phone's front is also gone, integrated somehow into the display. All of this is most likely what Apple had in mind for the iPhone 8.
This leaves Apple with not that much design room to do something different with the iPhone 8, the Verge speculates. They believe that the only thing left for Apple to do with its next flagship entry is to curve the phone, but its competitors Samsung and LG have already done this to some of their own devices. Samsung released their curved phone exclusively in Korea, and perhaps Apple can still pull this off on a global scale. It's also likely that if this is what Apple wants to do, it can better pull it off on a global scale, as it seems Xiaomi is keeping the Mi Mix in China, says Android Authority.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix is coming out next week on November 4, and will sell in China for $520. Meanwhile, we won't hear about the iPhone 8 until September 2017 at the earliest.
