36Kr Exclusive: Xiaomi has revealed to its premium dealers across all sales channels that the pricing for every variant of the Xiaomi 18 Fold will surpass the 10,000-yuan threshold, with the base model starting at around 12,000 yuan. As Xiaomi’s inaugural smartphone boasting a novel foldable design, the Xiaomi 18 Fold is earmarked as the flagship device in Xiaomi’s smartphone portfolio. It will incorporate all the state-of-the-art technologies from within the Xiaomi Group, such as the Xiaomi Xuanjie O3 chipset, along with top-tier external components like LPDDR6 memory. Thanks to the launch of the Xiaomi Xuanjie series chips, the pre-order deposits for the Xiaomi 18 Fold have far exceeded expectations, outstripping the pre-order volumes of Xiaomi’s previous foldable smartphones by a significant margin.