Vivo has announced its latest flagship phone, the X80 Pro, and its most famous new hardware feature is a larger fingerprint sensor on display. The hotspot is much larger than the small sensors found on most Android phones these days, which means it’s easier to unlock the phone without looking at the screen to align your thumb.
The scanner has several advantages, apart from being physically larger. You can register each finger with one tap on the screen, instead of having to lift and press it several times, as with conventional phones. Works very fast, even if your hands or screen are wet. The larger surface also means that you can set the phone to require two simultaneous fingerprints for an additional authentication layer.
The “3D Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor” technology actually comes from Qualcomm, which calls it “3D Sonic Max” and advertises its inclusion in a recent gaming-focused iQOO sub-brand phone. The X80 Pro is the most widely used technology to date.
As a company, Vivo has done more than any other to promote fingerprint sensors on display, introducing the world’s first delivery phone delivery in 2018. Vivo is showcasing larger scanning areas in Apex concept phones, including ” full -display ”in its 2019 model, but the X80 Pro is one of the first commercial devices to actually come with a module that is larger than the tip of your thumb.
Vivo is also increasingly known for its camera skills these days and this is a big focus with the X80 Pro. The hardware of the Zeiss camera (complete with the T * trademark lens cover) is similar to what we saw with last year’s X70 Pro Plus, although Vivo has not yet announced a Plus version of the X80 Pro. It has a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 48-megapixel ultra-wide, a 12-megapixel 2x telephoto and an 8-megapixel 5x periscope telephoto, all housed in a giant camera. One difference is that the 2x lens already uses Vivo-style gimbal optical stabilization.
Vivo also uses a new custom image chip called the V1 Plus. Like Oppo’s MariSilicon X chip introduced earlier this year, the V1 Plus’s hardware is designed to handle image processing in difficult situations such as shooting video at night. Another processing-intensive use of the X80 Pro is the “cinematic video bokeh” mode, designed to mimic the oval bokeh seen in shallow depth of field scenes shot with Zeiss anamorphic lenses. Vivo says the chip also allows for reduced power consumption.
The other specifications of the X80 Pro are typical of the flagship Android phone from 2022. It has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of memory. The screen is a 6.78-inch 1440p curved OLED panel with a refresh rate of 120Hz. The battery is 4700 mAh and chargers up to 80 W with cable or 50 W wirelessly through Vivo’s own FlashCharge system.
We don’t have price or regional versions for X80 Pro yet. It is likely to hit the typical Vivo markets in India, Europe and East Asia.
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