Vivo Xplay 5 Elite
Vivo had held a special event in China
to announce its next flagship lineup, the vivo Xplay 5. As it turned out the
Xplay 5 will launch in two different models - vivo Xplay 5 and vivo Xplay 5
Elite.
Vivo Xplay 5 Elite is a more
powerful model, made entirely of metal and using Gorilla Glass 4 to cover the
dual-curved 5.43" Super AMOLED Quad HD screen. It is powered by a
Snapdragon 820 chipset with the insane 6 GB RAM and integrated non-expandable
128 GB storage right out the box.
The Xplay 5 Elite has a rear 16 MP (Sony
IMX298) snapper with phase-detection AF and dual-tone LED flash, plus an 8 MP
selfie snapper at the front. The Xplay 5 Elite is a dual-SIM device, supports
LTE networks, Hi-Fi 3.0 (2*ES9028+OPA1612), and comes with a 3,600 mAh battery. Finally, the Xplay 5 Elite has a rear
fingerprint scanner on the back.
The Xplay 5 Elite runs on Android 5.1
Lollipop, skinned with the latest Funtouch launcher with split-screen
multitasking support. It will launch on March 8 in China and will set you back
CNY 4,288 (US$ 655).
The Vivo Xplay 5 is a more
affordable version of the Elite model, which retains the same design,
5.43" Super AMOLED QHD display, camera setup, and 128 GB storage, but
downgrades the chipset to Snapdragon 652 with 4 GB of RAM. The Hi-Fi chip
configuration is also of a different kind - CS4395+AD45257. Vivo Xplay 5 will launch in China on
March 8 for CNY 3,698 ($565).
In case you are not familiar with the
Snapdragon models - the 652 flavor offers an octa-core processor with
4xCortex-A72 at 1.8 GHz + 4xCortex-A53 at 1.4 GHz, and Adreno 510 GPU. The 820
flagship chip packs a custom quad-core Kryo processor and Adreno 530 GPU.
There are no details on international
availability, but we guess both models will expand their market reach later on.
