Vivo recently announced its much-awaited Vivo X Fold smartphone, which is the brand’s first foldable smartphone. Now, just a couple of weeks after its announcement, the device is now up for sale in the Chinese market.
The 12GB RAM and 256GB internal storage
model of the Vivo X Fold is priced at 8,999 yuan (US$ 1,391) while the 12GB RAM
and 512GB storage model costs 9,999 yuan (US$ 1,546). The device has already been
sold out in the first sale but it is available to pre-order for the next sale
which will take place on 29th April. The Vivo X Fold features an 8.03-inch E5
LTPO OLED 3.0 display with UTG that supports a 120Hz refresh rate, 2K
resolution, and a 4:3.5 aspect ratio. It also comes with HDR10+, and a 113
percent DCI P3 color gamut.
The secondary screen has a 6.53-inch E5
OLED panel with support for Full HD+ screen resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate,
HDR10+ support, 100 percent DCI P3 color gamut, and a 21:9 aspect ratio as
well. Both of them have a punch-hole cutout for housing the front-facing camera
sensor.
Under the hood, the device is powered by a
custom Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SPU which is basically customized to enhance
the security and privacy of the smartphone on a chip level. It is coupled with
LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 internal storage.
In the camera department, there’s a
quad-camera setup on the back that includes a 50-megapixel Samsung GN5 primary
sensor, a 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens that has an f/2.2 aperture, a
12-megapixel portrait lens, and a 5-megapixel periscopic telephoto lens that
offers up to 5x optical zoom and up to 60x digital zoom. On the front side,
there’s a 16-megapixel snapper on the outer and the inner display.
The Vivo X Fold foldable smartphone is
running the Android 12 operating system out-of-the-box with the company’s own
custom user interface on top. It is powered by a 4,600mAh battery which
supports 66W fast charging and 50W wireless charging.
