Xiaomi's new patent features earphones with rotatable heads that stow away inside the phone. Image: Xiaomi via WIPO Xiaomi's new patent features earphones with rotatable heads that stow away inside the phone. Image: Xiaomi via WIPO
Xiaomi's new patent features earphones with rotatable heads that stow away inside the phone. Image: Xiaomi via WIPO
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Xiaomi patents a smartphone design with pop-up wireless earphones

  • Storing wireless earphones in a smartphone could eliminate the need for charging pods
  • The Chinese smartphone maker has become known for patenting odd smartphone designs

Topic |   Smartphones
Masha Borak
Masha Borak

Updated: 5:24pm, 28 Jul, 2020

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Xiaomi's new patent features earphones with rotatable heads that stow away inside the phone. Image: Xiaomi via WIPO Xiaomi's new patent features earphones with rotatable heads that stow away inside the phone. Image: Xiaomi via WIPO
Xiaomi's new patent features earphones with rotatable heads that stow away inside the phone. Image: Xiaomi via WIPO
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