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Xiaomi launches first flip phone at just over $800, with a $70 portable printer

The Mix Flip starts at 5,999 yuan ($825), the Chinese company announced.

BEIJING — Xiaomi on Friday launched its first flip phone with the ability to print pictures instantly using a separately sold portable printer. He also warned that supplies of the portable printer were tight.The company in late March released its first electric car, the SU7 sedan, at a cheaper price than Tesla's Model 3.Lei said as of Friday that cumulative deliveries had exceeded 30,000 vehicles, and that he expected to deliver 100,000 cars by November, a month earlier than previously announced.The company last month doubled the shifts to 16 hours a day at its factory in southern Beijing to meet higher demand, according to a staff member. This year's speech played up how U.S. sanctions on the company in January 2021 prompted Xiaomi's board of directors to ask Lei to think about options, such as building a car, in the event they could no longer sell smartphones.

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