Jia Jingdong, the Vice President of Vivo Brand in China, has revealed some key information about the Vivo S19 and S19 Pro through his official Weibo account. The Vivo S19 series has previously surfaced on Geekbench and the design was also revealed by leaked posters of the phone.

The Vivo S19 and the S19 Pro will be powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 and the MediaTek Dimensity 9200+ respectively. While the S19 offers a massive 6000mAh battery, the capacity is slightly lower at 5500mAh on the Pro model, and both will support 80W charging. The S19 Pro will boast a 6.78″ 2800 x 1260 OLED display, 16GB RAM, and 512GB memory.

Confirming the previous leaks, Jia Jingdong mentioned that the S19 Pro equips the industry’s first 50-megapixel Sony IMX921 sensor, another 50MP Sony sensor for telephoto (supports 50× digital zoom), and an “anti-distortion wide-angle double soft light selfie”. Both the S19 and s19 Pro offer 50MP front and 8MP ultrawide cameras.

Vivo had a focus on image processing for the S19 series

The Vivo S19 series comes with a “soft light ring” added to the camera module. It aims to “evenly fill in the light” on the subject and reduce excessive shadow contrast on the face or any other objects.

When shooting with the main camera, it will scatter the light in a large area, and by switching to the telephoto, it will also adapt and focus the light into a narrower beam to cover distant objects, which is seemingly a great implementation of the existing technology. It reportedly offers ideal light distribution, light texture, and light color temperature to different scenes.

According to the official, the “Soft light ring” is an iconic innovation of the vivo S series. He also hints at how the portraits could be better than its overseas competitors. He says that aside from using lines to separate the subject and background, they are also deliberately using shadows to add a touch of contrast to the subject.

Alongside the soft light ring in the camera module, the Vivo S19 series also offers “synchronized focus change”, which means autofocus will be more reliable.

The Vivo S19 series also brings the latest and constantly evolving self-developed portrait algorithms. They have also encoded the preference for “beautiful things” into the objective function of imaging AI through supervised machine learning.

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