The vivo X Fold, the company’s first foldable smartphone, will be unveiled soon. On April 11, it will be made official in China. A snapshot of a marketing stand for offline retailers has been released, exposing many of the phone’s specifications in the process of leaking out in the meanwhile. What do you think?
As such, the 8-inch “2K” internal folding screen with 120 Hz refresh rate and LTPO 3.0 technology for varying the refresh rate, the 6.53″ FHD+ 120 Hz outer display, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, LPDDR5 memory, UFS 3.1 storage, Android 12 on board and a 4,600 mAh battery with support for 66W wired and 50W wireless charging are all confirmed for the vivoX Fold.
The phone has a 50 MP Samsung GN5 primary camera with optical image stabilisation (OIS) and a Zeiss logo and T* coating on the back quad camera configuration. As for the other cameras, there’s a 48 MP wide-angle lens with an angle of view of 114 degrees, a 12 MP portrait lens with a 2x zoom, and a 5 MP 60x OIS periscope camera. The vivo X Fold has also been verified to include Wi-Fi 6 and NFC.
The X Fold’s screen has equaled or beaten 19 DisplayMate A+ records, while the hinge has been certified by TUV Rheinland to function for 300,000 folds/unfolds. Due to the fact that this is entirely in Chinese, you can probably guess that the vivo X Fold will be available in China initially. Oppo Find N and Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold have yet to reach it to global markets, so we’re not holding our breath.
Chinese corporations appear to be banking heavily on foldables, but for their local market, for reasons that we are unable to understand. As a result, there is far less competition in this market than there should be.