At the beginning of this month, vivo
unveiled its latest smartphone innovation: a gimbal optical image stabilization
system, which the vivo X50 Pro uses for its main camera sensor instead of a
traditional OIS system.
The X50 Pro was joined in the spotlight by
the vanilla X50 and the X50 Pro+ (although confusingly the latter drops the
gimbal-like stabilization despite its name implying it's a step up in all areas
compared to the Pro).
That announcement was in China, for the
Chinese market, but if you were patiently waiting to hear about a global
release, here's some good news for you. vivo is going to take the X50 series
out of China next month.
That's everything we know so far - which,
admittedly, isn't much. But expect these handsets to be found wherever vivo
already has an official presence outside of its home country. So, in Asia, we
will probably see them in - among other places - Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,
Indonesia, and, of course, India. We'll give you pricing and availability details
once we have them.