Vivo Could Unveil its Exynos 980-Powered 5G Phone Tomorrow
Nov. 6, 2019While many consider 5G as a popular buzzword, the technology is rapidly advancing and reaching the masses who want future-proof phones. Vivo has already launched a couple 5G-enabled phones and isleading the segmentwith over 50% sales in China, but it now plans to advance its market share in partnership with Samsung.
Vivo has shared an official poster for the“Vivo X Samsung 5G AI chip press conference”today on Weibo and it could be where the Chinese giant shows off its next 5G-enabled phone. The conference is scheduled for tomorrow, i.e November 7, in Beijing. We have attached the teaser poster below:
If you are unaware, Samsung recently debuted its first-ever 5G integrated chipset, the Exynos 980 and Vivo hadconfirmedthat it’s working on a smartphone powered by this chipset. Rumored to be called the Vivo X30 5G, this device could be a successor to Vivo X27 that launched in December last year.
As for the specs of theSamsung Exynos 980, it’s an octa-core processor based on 8nm FinFET process technology for improved power efficiency. It includes two 2.2Ghz Cortex-A77 cores and six 1.80GHz Cortex-A55 cores, coupled with a Mali-G76 MP5 GPU. Exynos 980 packs support for UFS 2.1 storage, WQHD+ display, a single 108MP camera or dual 20MP+20MP camera setup.
So, are you excited for a new 5G smartphone from Vivo – that too powered by Samsung Exynos chipsets? I’m quite intrigued to see what Vivo X30 brings to the table and if that would be enough to tempt buyers.
