Vivo just showed the rest of the industry how foldables should be done with the X Fold3 Pro and X Fold3. Not only does the Fold3 Pro come with the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, both devices are thinner and lighter, yet have significantly larger batteries than (at least in the U.S.) Samsung, Google, and OnePlus...Read more...
If leaked sources hold true, Vivo's upcoming X100 flagship might possess the most OP telephoto sensor to ever graze a smartphone. Perhaps wanting to please mobile photographers looking for that extra iota of zoom clarity and image quality, the Vivo is said to be coming with a monster 200MP sensor with 200x zoom, made...Read more...
Samsung sells the most foldable phones by far, but it has done little to advance its hardware in the most recent generations. A new leak of the upcoming Vivo X Fold 2 suggests the phone will surpass Samsung's current foldable hardware, giving the Korean company something to aim for when it releases the Galaxy Z Fold 5...Read more...
Qualcomm's latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is barely a week old, and Chinese smartphone maker Vivo just announced that their new flagship, the Vivo X90 Pro+ is the first to carry that SoC.
The launch live stream for the X90 series was, as expected, a blitzkrieg of specs, with Zeiss camera packages for all...Read more...
Vivo is known for announcing crazy concept smartphones, but its latest X50 family of smartphones is going straight into production capped off with the X50 Pro and X50 Pro+. Both of these smartphones feature gimbal stabilization, which we're normally accustomed to seeing with third-party add-on solutions like the DJI...Read more...
Mobile World Congress (MWC) would have wrapped up yesterday, has the event gone on as planned. It ended up being cancelled, though, as vendors started pulling out due to concerns from the coronavirus outbreak. While MWC never came to pass this year, we can still expect a string of announcements that would have been...Read more...
In effort to do away with display bezels and improve the camera performance on smartphones, hardware companies are coming up with unique designs. Take the new Vivo 17 Pro. It has a full front display, but instead of a selfie camera tucked underneath the screen, it uses a motorized pop-up assembly. We have seen that...Read more...
The Vivo Nex 3 is now official, and confirms the leaks that we first saw a few months ago. The smartphone sports a wicked high screen-to-body ratio that stands at 99.6 percent. With that being said, there are still tiny bezels found at the bottom and top of the 6.89-inch Full HD+ Waterfall curved display.
What you...Read more...
Vivo makes some relatively attractive smartphones, ones that follow the usual premium script, as well as uniquely designed handsets like the Nex Dual Display. The company's upcoming Nex 3, however, is going to flaunt some sexy glass. That is according to a couple of new Twitter posts by prominent leaker Ice...Read more...
The Vivo V15 Pro is a perplexing smartphone; one that takes some of the intriguing design features of Vivo's previous flagship designs and applies them to a more budget-friendly device.
The most obvious feature of the V15 Pro is a large 6.4-inch OLED display this is unbroken by unsightly notches or punch-hole...Read more...
All eyes are on Samsung and its upcoming Unpacked event as February 20 rolls into view, as the company is expected to announced its Galaxy S10 lineup and a new folding smartphone. Be that as it may, Samsung is not the only company with something up its sleeve. Vivo's social media team has been flailing about on...Read more...
Forgot about bezels, notches, so-called 'punch holes', and anything else smartphone makers might come up with to accommodate a front camera while maintaining maximum screen real estate. Vivo took things in a different direction. The Chinese technology company formally introduced its Apex 2019 handset, and it boasts an...Read more...
It appears that notches that were all the rage in 2018 flagship Android smartphones are either quickly shrinking or disappearing completely. Now, it looks as though physical buttons may be the next smartphone staple to get kicked to curb if Vivo has anything to say about it.
This is the new Apex 2019, which is a...Read more...
The Vivo Nex Dual Display Edition is now official, which means that we're getting confirmation of some rather interesting design choices for a flagship Android phone. The original Nex avoided the whole notched display craze by using a fussy pop-up mechanism for the selfie camera, but the Nex Dual Display Edition goes...Read more...
Smartphone makers are starting to experiment with new designs in order to stand out from the crowd, and we've seen some interesting concepts emerge. One of them is Samsung's upcoming folding phone—it turns into a tablet when opened. Vivo, meanwhile, seems to be readying a new smartphone with two displays, one on the...Read more...
After plenty of months of teasing (starting with a concept that was unveiled at CES 2018), Vivo has finally pulled the wraps off its next smartphone: the Nex. The Nex is the production version of the previous Apex concept and manages to achieve the holy grail when it comes to smartphone design: a near bezel-less...Read more...
Smartphone manufacturers are going all-in when it comes to larger displays these days. In the case of devices like the iPhone X and the OnePlus 6, OEMs have taken to minimizing bezels all around and leaving a display notch in the top-center of the display to accommodate the front-facing camera and other...Read more...
Sing it with us now—'Vivoooo Las Vegas!' Wait, that doesn't sound right. However, Vivo is a name to pay attention to, assuming you are not already familiar with the Chinese brand. That's because Vivo just unveiled the world's first smartphone to sport a fingerprint sensor embedded into the display. No small feat, that...Read more...
When it comes to flagship smartphones, the new trend seems to be near bezel-less edge-to-edge displays. The Samsung Galaxy S8 is probably the best example of this, and the upcoming Galaxy Note 8 is expected to feature a similar design.
Since there is little room on the front of the display to house a dedicated home...Read more...