Vivo has launched its X50 series in India. It consists of two models, the Vivo X50 and Vivo X50 Pro. The two phones come equipped with a hole-punch display. They include features such as 3D Sound Tracking, Audio Zoom, and Super Night Mode 3.0. Moreover, the Vivo X50 Pro features a Gimbal Camera System that helps stabilize the frame for capturing clear still images and videos.
The Vivo X50 price in India starts at Rs 34,990 for the 128GB storage variant. The 256GB storage model will sell for Rs 37,990. It comes in Frost Blue and Glaze Black color options. On the other hand, the Vivo X50 Pro will cost Rs 49,990 for the single 256GB storage version. It comes in sole Alpha Grey color.
Both phones will be made available for purchase starting July 24, whereas the pre-bookings open today via offline and online retailers including Reliance Digital, Croma, Flipkart, Amazon, Vijay Sales, Paytm Mall, and Tata Cliq.
The wait is finally over. VIVO has announced that its camera-centric X50 series smartphones are launching in India on July 16. To recall, the VIVO X50 trio – consisting of the vanilla VIVO X50, VIVO X50 Pro, and the VIVO X50 Pro+ – was launched in China last month to much fanfare, thanks to the hype surrounding their camera capabilities.
However, the Chinese smartphone maker will only bring the VIVO X50 and its Pro sibling to India. A report from Gadgets 360 claims that the top-of-the-line VIVO X50 Pro+ with the Snapdragon 865 chip at its heart and a quad camera setup won’t make it to the Indian smartphone market.
As for the VIVO X50 and its Pro variant, both of them feature an AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate and are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC paired with up to 8 gigs of RAM. The quad camera setup at the back includes a 48MP camera with a gimbal-like stabilization system and a 32MP selfie snapper.
The Vivo X50 and X50 Pro are scheduled to launch on June 1 in China. However, the renders of both devices have already leaked online. Now, a trustworthy leakster from China has shared the key specifications of the Vivo X50.
The handset is said to feature a flat 6.56-inch Super AMOLED display with Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2376 pixels and a 90Hz refresh rate. It will come with an in-display fingerprint sensor. It could be powered by the Snapdragon 765G SoC.
Vivo X50 Pro
On the optics front, the Vivo X50 is tipped to sport a 32MP Samsung GD1 selfie shooter. It will come with a quad rear camera that could include a 48MP Sony IMX598 sensor + a 13MP Samsung S5K3L6 lens + an 8MP OmniVision OV08A10 telephoto sensor + an 8MP Hynix Hi846 ultrawide lens.
Vivo X50
It may pack a 4,315mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging. The phone is rumored to come with a 3.5mm audio jack and an AK4377a Hi-Fi audio chip.
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Here’s your first official look at the VIVO X50 and X50 Pro
Oh so you thought the Galaxy S20 had a big camera hump? Well, vivo has been teasing their new X50 Pro which brings a gimbal like main camera. The company just released a new poster of the phone which shows the quad camera module with the huge main sensor. This main camera is a Samsung 50MP ISOCELL GN1 Sensor which comes with Dual Pixel PDAF tech for faster focusing, it basically rotates on it’s axis like a gimbal for better stabilization. The other cameras include a periscope, and most likely a wide angle and a macro camera. We’re expecting the vivo X50 lineup to launch on June 1.
ASUS ROG Phone III and ZenFone 7 to debut around July: Report
Back in February Qualcomm gave us a list of phones that would bring the Snapdragon 865 and, that list included two ASUS phones. It looks like both of those phones are ready to launch according to a new report from Taiwan which claims that the ROG Phone 3 and the ZenFone 7 will either in Q2 or early Q3 of 2020. Going by last year’s launch date, if they do launch in July or August they will be late by a couple of months when compared to their predecessors but, the market isn’t in the same state as it was last year. The company is currently targeting a 30-50% growth in sales for the ROG Phone 3. We’ll keep you posted in case we get more leaks.
Second-gen Moto Razr foldable phone could be launched in September
We all know how excited I was for the Moto RAZR last year, and we all know how that turned out. Well, according to Lenovo’s South African GM, the company is already working on a second generation device and it is supposed to come out in September. He actually mentioned the words “generation two” twice during a podcast while talking about the RAZR. Leaks will most likely start coming in soon and we hope it brings better specifications for the price tag, nostalgia can only go so far.
Apple may have started the production of the new AirPods Studio
A new DigiTimes report claims that we’ll be getting Apple’s AirPods Studio sooner rather than later. The report mentions the fact that Apple will be dropping the wired earphones from the iPhone 12’s box like we covered yesterday. It also mentions that Cupertino will resume regular shipments of the AirPods 2 in the second half of this year, which we wonder if it has anything to do with the move of production to Vietnam, but that does match the timing of the possible AirPods Studio. The company has apparently already started production for these and we could see an announcement at WWDC and they might cost $350.
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We may get a Periscope camera in the Samsung Galaxy Note 20+
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 could’ve appeared in some hot looking renders
We recently got some sketches for the Galaxy Note 20′s design from Ice Universe. Now we got the first renders which were made based on that leaked design. The phone looks pretty similar to the Note 10 from the front with the very boxy design but it does bring some changes. The camera on this one has a larger hump, like the one on the S20 Ultra, the buttons are also on the right side and the S Pen was moved to the left. Like seriously, common sense changes. Now, these aren’t the official renders just yet but, this gives us a pretty good idea of what it might look like according to the sketches. Galaxy Club just found some new information and they claim that the Note 20+ will most likely bring a periscope camera. It isn’t clear if it will be the same one on the S20 Ultra and some other rumors claim that it won’t bring 100X zoom, but it pretty much explains the large camera hump for this phone as well.
VIVO recently started teasing its upcoming X50 series phones and the huge gimbal-style camera on it that is promised to deliver a superior stabilization output. Now, VIVO has released an official poster, giving us our first glimpse of the VIVO X50 and X50 Pro’s glass-and-metal sandwich design.
The VIVO X50 Pro can be seen packing four cameras, with the huge gimbal-inspired primary snapper sitting at the top. The main camera will reportedly use Samsung’s new 50MP ISOCELL GN1 sensor, which comes with the Dual Pixel PDAF tech for faster focusing. There is a periscope camera lens at the bottom and two other sensors above it, likely a wide-angle and a macro camera.
As for the VIVO X50, it only has three cameras. The one at the top is the familiar gimbal-style camera with a huge opening and two other lenses below it. Notably, it misses out on the periscope camera that we see on its Pro sibling. We’ll get to know more about the two VIVO X50 series phones as the company releases more teasers ahead of its June 1 launch.
Earlier this year, Vivo showcased the Apex 2020 concept phone packing a wild gimbal-like primary camera to achieve better stabilization for capturing blur-free videos. While the Apex 2020 wasn’t widely released, the camera technology is coming to the Chinese smartphone maker’s Vivo X50 flagship.
As per teasers released on Weibo, the Vivo X50 is shown sporting a periscope lens, two regular camera lenses, and a huge primary camera module. The teaser video shows that the primary camera lens will rotate on its axis to provide a wider range of angular stabilization.
Notably, Vivo has claimed in the past that the gimbal-style camera improves the stabilization output by 200%. Vivo is yet to reveal make of the sensor or the mechanism behind its gimbal-inspired primary camera on the X50 flagship.
But from a cryptic Weibo post by a Vivo product manager, it appears that Vivo X50 will employ Samsung’s new 50MP ISOCELL GN1 camera sensor that has a large 1/1.31″ sensor. We’ll know more in the days leading up to the Vivo X50 series’ launch on June 1.
