vivo V9 live images leak ahead of its announcement on March 27

It was just yesterday when we found out that vivo is expected to announce the V9 for the Indian market on March 27, and today we're already treated to leaked live images showing the device.

The first time we saw the V9 was in a billboard in Indonesia in February, but these pictures give us a much better idea of what to expect, design-wise.

The notch is there, even if it's hard to see in the first shots (take a look at the last, blurry one if you're not convinced of the notch's existence).

The handset also has a dual rear camera setup, mounted vertically because now that Apple's gone this route with the iPhone X it seems like that's the way to go. The screen of the V9 definitely has a bottom bezel, but it is quite small. Thus, its fingerprint sensor is on the back.

There's also a 3.5mm headset jack on the bottom side of the vivo V9, next to what disappointingly looks like a microUSB port. The phone has an all-metal build with barely visible antenna lines.

The vivo V9 will ship with a 24 MP selfie camera, as well as a hybrid slot for dual SIMs or one SIM and one microSD card. Its price in India will allegedly be around INR 25,000.

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vivo X21 will be unveiled in China on March 19, vivo V9 to launch in India on March 27

vivo will be quite busy this month, as the Chinese smartphone maker is going to unveil two devices by the time April comes along.

First, on March 19 at an event in its home country it will make the X21 official, as revealed through official channels today. What you see below this paragraph is the invite for that, which tells us that the X21 will follow in the footsteps of the vivo X20 Plus UD and come with an under-display fingerprint scanner.

However, that's about everything we know of it so far, since the X21 has been curiously absent from any recent leaks. Given its name, we expect it to be a successor of sorts to the X20. Hopefully more details will be revealed in the next few days, otherwise we'll have to wait until March 19 to really get to know the phone.

In India, vivo will make the V9 official on March 27, according to a report from the subcontinent. We've seen the vivo V9 once before, when it appeared on a billboard in Indonesia despite not having been announced. In the meantime, some more promo materials for the V9 have surfaced, and you can see those above and below this paragraph.

The V9 has a screen notch, a pretty slim bottom bezel, a 24 MP selfie camera, and of course a dual rear camera setup. The V9 is expected to be priced at INR 25,000, which would make it more expensive than both of its predecessors, the V7and and V7+, which launched at INR 18,990 and INR 21,990, respectively.

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Unannounced vivo V9 appears on a billboard in Indonesia with a screen notch

Yesterday Asus outed the Zenfone 5 and 5z, identical smartphones on the outside that borrow heavily from the iPhone X in the looks department. But if you want a screen notch on a handset running Android, you will soon have another option: the upcoming vivo V9.

This too comes with the polarizing feature, as the images below attest. They were captured by a reader of ours and they show the vivo store (and the billboard right above it) in Pangkal Pinang City, Bangka Island, Indonesia.

  
vivo V9 billboard in Indonesia

Besides the slim overall bezels of the phone, it reveals that you should expect a 24 MP selfie snapper to be featured inside that notch. The image on the screen is of Agnez Mo, an Indonesian singer, songwriter, and actress who is vivo's brand ambassador for the V series in the country.

No other details about the vivo V9 are known yet, there's been a strange lack of leaks regarding it. Still, since it's already advertised by its maker in at least one market, we assume the official unveiling should happen sooner, rather than later.

vivo X30 display panel leaks with a tiny notch on top

Apple introduced the iPhone X with a notch and despite the controversial reception that got, some smartphone makers seemingly plan on following suit. After the Cupertino flagship, the Essential PH-1 and the Sharp Aquos S2, vivo is also planning to introduce the new front panel design with the upcoming X30, as shown by a leaked image.

The photos suggest that the new phone will have a tiny notch on top, thin bezel on the bottom and practically non-existent ones on the left and right sides.

  
vivo X30 alleged display

There is no information about an upcoming launch or eventual specs. Right now vivo makes headlines for the first phone with fingerprint scanner under the display - the X20 Plus UD. Sources suggest vivo might not include that on the X30 and reserve it for the X30 Plus version.

There is also a chance that we are not looking at a working display at all, but in the world of leaks, everything is possible.

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Vivo will reveal first phone with in-screen fingerprint reader on January 10

When Qualcomm unveiled tech that supports fingerprints under the display, vivo called dibs. It even showed off a working prototype a few days later. Now the company is ready to take the next step.

Vivo posted a teaser image with the tagline “Unlock the Future” and promised to unveil the first smartphone with an in-screen fingerprint reader on January 10. This suggests that we’ll be seeing the finished article rather than another prototype.

 
Vivo's teaser for the first phone with an in-screen fingerprint reader

The vivo phone may not be alone, however. Synaptics also promised a phone with an in-screen fingerprint reader at CES.

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vivo introduces V7 with 24 MP selfie camera

After the V7+, vivo delivered the non-plus version of its Clearer Selfie phone today. The device is called vivo V7 and comes with a 24 MP front camera, FullView display and triple card slot for two nano-SIMs and one microSD.

The display is with the trendy 18:9 ratio and has HD+ resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels. The panel is IPS LCD, and the diagonal is 5.7”.

The chipset in the vivo V7 has eight Cortex A53 CPU cores, clocked at 1.8 GHz on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 chipset. There is one camera at the back with 16 MP sensor, f/2.0 aperture, coupled with an LED flash. The RAM is 4 GB, and there is also 32GB storage.

   
vivo V7 from all sides

The vivo V7 runs Funtouch 3.2, based on Android Nougat 7.1 and is powered by a 3,000 mAh battery.

    
vivo V7

vivo will sell the V7 in all its global markets, with Indonesia getting the phone first today. It is offered in either Matte Black or Gold and costs the equivalent of around $300.

Vive Focus, its first standalone VR headset, goes "world-scale"

If VR headsets are ever to bring a holodeck-like experience, we need to cut the cables. Vive just announced its first stand-alone, completely untethered headset – the Vive Focus. More importantly, this is the first hardware implementation of the new Vive Wave platform. Twelve hardware partners in China have already signed up and will build future products based on Wave.

The Focus delivers “inside-out” 6 DoF tracking. Since it doesn’t rely on cables or even the Vive Lighthouses, the company calls this “world-scale” (goodbye, “room-scale”). The headset comes with a single motion controller.

The headset is powered by the Snapdragon 835 VR platform. The similar Oculus Go is purported to run on Snapdragon 821 (it’s a $200 headset).

 
The Vive Focus is the company's first standalone VR headset

The Vive Focus will feature low-latency AMOLED displays with “unmatched clarity” (resolution unknown). Price and availability of the headset will be announced later.

Vive also partnered with Unity to enable on-click publishing of VR content onto Viveport – for both PC, standalone and mobile developers. The initial focus will be on the Chinese market. In fact, the Focus may never launch in Europe and the US (where it would have run Google’s Daydream VR platform).

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vivo X20 and X20 Plus unveiled with 18:9 Full View screens, Snapdragon 660

Today vivo took the wraps off its latest creations, the X20 and X20 Plus. The X9s and X9s Plus are only a few months old but we already get newer, shinier members of the X family to gawk at - and they do contain almost all the bells and whistles you'd expect from a high-end smartphone in late 2017.

Full View, near bezel-less screens with 18:9 aspect ratio? Check. Dual rear cameras? Check. As usual with vivo's X line, the main differences between the normal model and the Plus option are to be found in display and battery size - most specs are shared.

The vivo X20 sports a 6.01-inch 1,080x2,160 Super AMOLED touchscreen, and comes with a 12 MP f/1.8 main and 5 MP secondary rear camera setup. A 12 MP f/2.0 selfie camera is on the front, while the fingerprint scanner moved to the back because it couldn't fit elsewhere what with the tiny display bezels and all.

  
vivo X20 | vivo X20 Plus

At the helm we find Qualcomm's upper-midrange Snapdragon 660 SoC, with a 2.2 GHz octa-core CPU - and this seems to be the one aspect keeping the new vivo handsets out of true flagship territory. 4GB of RAM come standard alongside 64GB of storage, and the X20 has a 3,245 mAh battery. It runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat.

The X20 Plus has a 6.43-inch Super AMOLED panel of the same resolution, and a beefier 3,905 mAh battery to go with that. The X20 measures 155.85 x 75.15 x 7.2 mm, and weighs 159g, while the X20 Plus comes in at 165.32 x 80.09 x 7.45 mm and 181.5g.

Both phones will be up for pre-booking on September 25, with sales starting on September 30. The X20 is priced at CNY 2,998 ($454 or €381 at the current exchange rates). The X20 Plus will cost CNY 3,498 ($530 or €444). Both models will be offered in gold, rose gold, and black. As usual with vivo devices, it's unclear if or when they will be officially sold outside of China.

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vivo X20A on Geekbench: Snapdragon 660 SoC and 4GB RAM

The vivo X20A has been spotted in a benchmark database. The device has surfaced on Geekbench, with the listing revealing a few key specifications including Snapdragon 660 SoC and 4GB RAM.

The listing also reveals the handset runs Android Nougat (version 7.1.1) out of the box.

As you might already know, there's a standard vivo X20 as well. It is rumored to be powered by the same SOC, but will come with 6GB RAM. Display is 5.8-inch with 1080x2160px resolution, while camera department is handled by 24MP rear and front shooters. Battery capacity is said to be 3,500mAh.

Both X20 and X20A have been certified by TENAA. The Chinese company has officially confirmed that the X20 will be announced on September 21 and the X20A should join it on stage.

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vivo X20 to come with Snapdragon 660, blazing fast Face Unlock

The upcoming vivo X20 will be powered by a Snapdragon 660 chipset and offer facial recognition that will be able to unlock the device within 0.1s.

vivo itself confirmed the Face Wake (as it calls it) feature officially through a teaser on its Weibo account while the chipset comes by way of a leaked image showing the phone in the wild.

  
vivo X20 Face Unlock and Snapdragon 660

This clears the air as to the differences between the vivo V7+, which was officially announced yesterday, and the X20. The V7+ uses a Snapdragon 450 chipset with 4GB of RAM (or 3GB depending on the model) and has a 5.99-inch 18:9 screen of 720x1440px resolution, while the X20 has a more powerful Snapdragon 660 that will likely be paired to 6GB of RAM, a 5.8-inch AMOLED screen of 1080x2160px resolution. The X20 also boasts a 24MP selfie camera and 24MP main snapper (as part of a dual camera) and a 3,500mAh battery.

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vivo V7+ is official with FullView display

Today vivo announced the V7+ - a budget smartphone with an 18:9 "Fullview" display, 24MP front-facing camera and a triple slot for two SIMs and a microSD card.

The display on the front is a 5.99-inch 720x1440px IPS panel with an aspect ratio of 18:9 and nearly no bezels. There's a Snapdragon 450 chipset with an octa-core 1.8GHz processor, Adreno 506 graphics and 4GB of RAM.

The storage is 64GB but it can be expanded through the microSD card slot. The vivo V7+ is equipped with a 3,225mAh battery.

  
Vivo V7+

The cameras on the vivo V7+ are the phone's key attractions. We're looking at a 16MP main snapper with ultra HD mode, which captures 4 pictures and combines them into a 64MP image. The selfie is a 24MP unit with a selfie flash dubbed Moonlight Glow, Face Beauty 7.0 and Portrait Mode that simulates background blur.

  
Vivo V7+

The vivo V7+ is an Amazon India exclusive. You can pre-book today with the first sale on September 15. The vivo V7+ is priced at 21,990 INR (or around €286) in Matte Black.

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Vivo announces Y69 with 5.5-inch HD display and MediaTek processor

Vivo has launched the Vivo Y69 smartphone in India. It is priced at INR 14,990 ($234) and will be available across online and offline retail outlets starting September 1.

The Y69 has a 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1280x720, rather low for this price range. Even more disappointingly, it is powered by a MediaTek MT6570 processor. You do get 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage that can be expanded with microSD.

On the back of the phone is a 13 megapixel camera but the front gets a 16 megapixel sensor with Vivo's Moonlight Selfie camera flash that provides a soft glow. Powering the whole thing is a 3000mAh battery and Funtouch OS 3.2 software on top of Android 7.0 Nougat.

The Y69 will be available in Champagne Gold and Matte Black.

vivo Xplay 7 to feature triple rear-camera and on-screen fingerprint sensor

Recently, it came to light that vivo is working on two new smartphones: X20 and X20 Plus. And now, some leaked presentation slides have confirmed that the X20 will be called Xplay 7 and have revealed some of its specs.

There will be three camera sensors on the back and two on the front. The handset also features an on-screen fingerprint sensor, making it the first phone of its kind.

Sadly, there's currently no information on the Xplay 7's internals or display specifications. Pricing and availability also remain a mystery at this point, but hopefully we'll hear more about those soon.

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vivo X9s and X9s Plus become official with dual front cameras

Right on schedule, Chinese smartphone maker vivo has made its latest smartphones official today: the X9s and X9s Plus. As their names imply, these share a lot of specs, but the Plus model is bigger.

The vivo X9s is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 chipset, aided by 4GB of RAM and non-expandable 64GB of storage. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED touchscreen, and runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat underneath vivo's Funtouch OS 3.0.

vivo X9s

It has dual front-facing cameras for great selfies, with 20 MP and 5 MP sensors (both with f/2.0 aperture). There's even a front-facing flash so you don't miss out on night shots. The rear camera is a 16 MP f/2.0 unit with a LED flash of its own. A 3,320 mAh battery keeps the lights on, and for connectivity you get 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. A fingerprint sensor is built into the Home button. The vivo X9s measures 152.6×74.2×6.99mm and weighs 155.3g.

On the other hand, the X9s Plus boasts a 5.85-inch AMOLED display, still Full HD. This model has a Snapdragon 653 under the hood, and has a 4,015 mAh battery. Otherwise, it's identical to its smaller brother.

vivo X9s Plus

The X9s is priced at CNY 2,698 ($396 or €347 at the current exchange rates), while the X9s Plus goes for CNY 2,998 ($440, €385). As usual with vivo devices, there's no telling when or if these will be made available outside China.

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Vivo releases official X9s Plus renders ahead of launch

Vivo is launching the X9s and the X9s Plus on July 6 but the company already shared press renders of the Plus-sized device. It will come with dual camera setup on the front (20 MP + 5 MP) and in three colors - Pink, Gold or Matte Black.

   

As can be seen in the images above, the X9s Plus has few differences compared to the X9 or the X9 Plus. The antenna bands are once again following the curvature of the back panel. There is one camera with an LED flash in the upper left corner.

The front will come in white for the Gold and Pink versions and in black for the Matte Black option. .

Previous reports said the X9s duo will have Snapdragon 660 chipsets. The X9s Plus will have 5.85” screen, while the X9s will have a slightly smaller 5.5” display.

vivo already confirmed the pair is now available for pre-registration on JD.com until July 7. Then, on July 8, the first flash sale will start.

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vivo X9s will come with the Snapdragon 660 on board, benchmark reveals

Chinese smartphone maker vivo will officially unveil the X9s and X9s Plus next week, on July 6 to be precise. So far both models have passed through TENAA, which outed most of their specs, but some mysteries have remained.

For example, one had to do with the chipset the devices are using. Now though a Geekbench run performed by a handset going by the model number vivo TD1608 has revealed that information too. We assume this is the smaller X9s, since GFXBench lists the same model as coming with a 5.5-inch 1080p touchscreen, and the X9s Plus was sporting a 5.85" panel at TENAA.

Either way, it's entirely plausible that the two will share the SoC, which is the Snapdragon 660. This was announced last month as the latest premium mid-range chip from Qualcomm.

The vivo X9s will also come with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, a 16 MP rear camera, and a 5 MP + 20 MP dual selfie setup. It will run Android 7.1.1 Nougat. The X9s Plus will sport a 3,920 mAh battery.

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Vivo is first in line for Qualcomm's in-screen fingerprint readers

vivo X9s/X9s Plus to be made official next week

Chinese smartphone manufacturer vivo has confirmed that it will be unveiling a couple of new smartphones next week. The vivo X9s and X9s Plus will be made official on July 6 according to a teaser posted by the company.

While there's nothing much known about the vivo X9s at this moment, the Plus variant was listed on TENAA's website last month. The documents revealed some key specifications, including octa-core 1.95GHz processor, 5.85-inch Full HD display, and 4GB/64GB memory configuration.

The device features a 16MP main camera, and a dual front camera setup of 20MP+5MP. It runs Android Nougat version 7.1.1 and packs in a 3,920mAh battery.

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vivo may be first to out a smartphone with fingerprint sensor embedded in the screen

For many months now rumors have claimed that Samsung, Apple, or both companies will come out with devices sporting a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display this year. When that didn't happen for the Galaxy S8 and S8+, the speculation switched its focus onto the upcoming Note8. And for Apple this has always been claimed with regard to the tenth anniversary iPhone, the one that will be called either iPhone 8 or iPhone X.

But if a new report from China is accurate, vivo is set to one-up both Samsung and Apple from this point of view. The company already has a working prototype for such a fingerprint scanner, as you can see in the leaked image below. This is a screencap from a video that got out today.

A famous Chinese analyst says vivo will launch a new phone on June 28, and that device may be the one employing the novel unlocking technique. That said, Apple is still expected to be the company bringing such a solution into the mainstream globally with its iPhone 8, as Samsung has recently been rumored to have given up on the prospect for the Note8 (perhaps due to lack of time before its supposed August announcement).

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vivo may be first to out a smartphone with fingerprint sensor embedded in the screen

For many months now rumors have claimed that Samsung, Apple, or both companies will come out with devices sporting a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display this year. When that didn't happen for the Galaxy S8 and S8+, the speculation switched its focus onto the upcoming Note8. And for Apple this has always been claimed with regard to the tenth anniversary iPhone, the one that will be called either iPhone 8 or iPhone X.

But if a new report from China is accurate, vivo is set to one-up both Samsung and Apple from this point of view. The company already has a working prototype for such a fingerprint scanner, as you can see in the leaked image below. This is a screencap from a video that got out today.

A famous Chinese analyst says vivo will launch a new phone on June 28, and that device may be the one employing the novel unlocking technique. That said, Apple is still expected to be the company bringing such a solution into the mainstream globally with its iPhone 8, as Samsung has recently been rumored to have given up on the prospect for the Note8 (perhaps due to lack of time before its supposed August announcement).

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