Phone and laptop makers have been shrinking screen bezels over the past few years, but that raises the question of what to do with the things that used to hang out in the bezels, like cameras, home buttons, and fingerprint sensors. While most phone makers have been moving the fingerprint sensors to the back of […]
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Vivo Xplay7 may be first smartphone with 10GB of RAM
Most high-end smartphones on the market today ship with 4GB or maybe 6GB of RAM. Every now and again you can find one with 8GB. But Chinese phone maker Vivo may be the first to hit double-digits. The company is said to be working on the first smartphone with 10GB of RAM. It’s called the […]
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Vivo X20 Plus with under-glass fingerprint sensor launches in China
The first smartphone with an in-display fingerprint sensor goes on sale February 1st for about $560. The Vivo X20 Plus features a 6.4 inch, 2160 x 1080 pixel display that covers most of the front of the phone. But rather than put a fingerprint sensor on the side or back, Vivo used under-glass fingerprint sensing […]
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Vivo smartphones to be first with under-glass fingerprint sensor from Synaptics
This week Synaptics announced it’s begun mass production of an under-glass, in-display fingerprint sensor and that the company is working with a top five OEM. Earlier this year we’d heard that Chinese smartphone maker Vivo was working on phones with under-glass fingerprint sensors. Coincidence? Nope. In an article for Forbes, Patrick Moorhead says he got […]
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Vivo X20 and X20 Plus launch in India for $450 and up (with big 2:1 displays)
A few weeks after launching the Vivo V7+ smartphone with a 6 inch, 1440 x 720 pixel display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 processor, Vivo is back, and this time the company’s got two new phones with higher-resolution screens and faster processors. The Vivo X20 is a 6 inch phone with a Snapdragon 660 chip […]
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Vivo launches V7+ smartphone with slim bezels, 2:1 display, 24MP front camera
Chinese phone maker Vivo’s latest phone is features a 6 inch display with an 18:9 (2:1) aspect ratio and slim bezels, which seems pretty much par for the course for premium phones in 2017. But the Vivo V7+ is launching this month in India with a list price of 21,990 rupees, which is less than […]
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Vivo XPlay 7 smartphone features under-glass fingerprint sensor, dual front and rear cameras (updated)
4 Comments on Vivo XPlay 7 smartphone features under-glass fingerprint sensor, dual front and rear cameras (updated)As the smartphone spec race continues, it looks like Chinese device maker Vivo plans to launch the first smartphone with a triple-lens camera. Leaked pictures of a product presentation for the upcoming Vivo XPlay 7 seem to show a phone with three rear cameras, two front-cameras, and the under-glass fingerprint sensor we already knew Vivo […]
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Vivo’s new phone may have a fingerprint sensor hidden beneath the screen
Chinese phone maker Vivo may not be a household name in the West. But the company was one of the top 5 smartphone makers in terms of shipment volume for a little while last year. And Vivo has a habit of unveiling devices with bleeding-edge features before they become more widely available on competitor’s devices. […]
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Vivo V5 Plus smartphone has dual cameras… on the front
There are a growing number of smartphones with dual camera systems on the back of the phone, allowing you to adjust depth, apply optical zoom effects, or snap special photos in other ways. But the Vivo V5 Plus is one of the first phones I’m aware of to feature dual cameras on the front. I guess […]
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Oppo and Vivo joined the top 5 smartphone companies in Q1 2016
Apple may have had a decline in iPhone shipments for the first time since launching the first model in 2007. But Apple wasn’t the only company to see a slump in smartphone sales: According to a new report from IDC, the smartphone market only grew by 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2016, with […]