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Prolific insider Digital Chat Station (DCS) has shared details of a Vivo phone that they claim belongs to the next “S” model. The tipster does not name the phone, but going by the timing and the pattern Vivo followed this year, it is most likely the Vivo X500s. However, that is our reading, and the leak does not confirm it.
According to DCS, Vivo went with a large-screen approach while testing its mid-cycle “S” iteration. The engineering sample has a 6.85-inch 2K+ display with a 144Hz refresh rate. DCS also describes the panel as a quad-sided flat screen.
The post says nothing about the chipset, cameras, battery, or launch date, so the display is the only detail you have to go on for now.
The Vivo X300s, which launched in March, has a 6.78-inch 1.5K display and a 144Hz refresh rate. It was the first phone in the X series to move beyond 120Hz.
The device arrived alongside the Vivo X300 Ultra, which also has a flat 2K panel with a 144Hz refresh rate. If the new engineering sample belongs to the Vivo X500s, it would bring a larger screen and higher resolution than the X300s.
The current standard model has a smaller display. Launched in China in September, the Vivo X500 features a 6.59-inch 2K display with a 144Hz refresh rate. It also packs a 7,500mAh battery and the Dimensity 9600M chipset. A 6.85-inch panel would give the rumored X500s a noticeable size advantage over the standard model, similar to the X300s and the regular X300.
Keep in mind that this is an engineering sample. Vivo can still change the screen size, resolution, or panel type before a final version is ready, and the company has not said anything about an X500s.
If it follows the X300s schedule, a spring launch would be the logical window. Nothing in the leak supports that timing, so treat it as a guess until Vivo or another tipster adds more.
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