When Vivo had unveiled the Vivo APEX phone in China
in the month of March, it had claimed that the mass production of the phone
would be begin by mid-2018. In the previous week, it was revealed that the
retail launch of the phone will start in Shanghai on June 12. It is now
speculated that the Vivo APEX concept phone could be arriving with a commercial
name of Vivo NEX.
However, there is still no official confirmation on
whether the Vivo APEX and NEX are separate or same smartphones. A leaked photo
that has surfaced on Weibo reveals that the Vivo X21 will be arriving in two
CPU editions. It can be known through the image that the starting variant will
be fueled by the all new Snapdragon 710 chipset. If this information is true,
the Vivo NEX will become the first phone to feature the Snapdragon 710. The
highest configuration model of the Vivo NEX has Snapdragon 845 onboard. The
leaked image has also revealed the pricing of both variants.
The image said to be a snapshot of an
offline pre-sale of the Vivo NEX phone. It reveals that the Snapdragon 845
edition has a price tag of 6,998 Yuan (US$ 1,090) and the one that features
Snapdragon 710 SoC is priced at 4,998 Yuan (Us$ 778).
It is speculated that the premium model having
Snapdragon 845 chipset will be coming with pop-up selfie snapper. This variant
may also feature 8 GB of RAM and a native storage of 256 GB. The Snapdragon 710
chipset model may feature a selfie camera at the bottom right corner of the
lower bezel like the Xiaomi Mi MIX. This model may feature 6 GB of RAM and 128
GB of storage.
The Vivo NEX smartphone is expected to arrive with
half-screen fingerprint scanner with support for multi-fingerprint recognition.
For Hi-Fi audio, the handset may feature System-in-Package (SIP) technology,
three amplifiers and DAC.
