Vivo has been working on a new S-series smartphone which is expected to go official in the first week of March. Today, the company has confirmed that the Vivo S9 will be announced on 3rd March in China.

The company has also roped in the well-known Thai musician and singer LiSA from the Kpop group Blackpink as an ambassador for the smartphone. Going by the teaser video shared by Vivo, the company seems to have changed its focus for the device this time.

The video teaser shows tag-lines like “Illuminating My Beauty” and “Very Night Soft Light Selfie”, which indicates that the company is now focusing on the front-facing camera technology instead of the primary camera in the previous models.

Coming to the specifications, leaks have revealed that it will be the first smartphone to be powered by the 6nm MediaTek Dimensity 1100 chipset. Reports indicate another smartphone named Vivo S9e could also be launched, powered by MediaTek Dimensity 820.

As per the TENAA listing, the smartphone will come with a 6.44-inch display offering 90Hz refresh rate and will feature a 44-megapixel dual camera setup on the front side. As for the camera configuration on the back panel, the device has a 64-megapixel primary sensor but nothing much is known.

Now, coming to the memory configuration, the device is expected to pack up to 12GB of RAM. For connectivity, it supports 5G Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB). The phone will be powered by a 4,000mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging technology. It runs the latest Android 11 operating system out-of-the-box, likely with the company’s own OriginOS custom interface on top.

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MediaTek has finally announced not one but two Dimensity 5G chipsets. These are the successors to the last year’s Dimensity 1000+ chipset. They feature the updated ARM Cortex-A78 core and are built on the newer TSMC’s 6nm process.

MediaTek announced two new chipsets- Dimensity 1100 and Dimensity 1200 5G. These smartphone chipsets are built on the TSMC’s 6nm compared to 7nm on Dimensity 1000+. Also, you get the boosted clock speed of up to 3GHz on the Dimensity 1200. MediaTek says that the chipsets feature updated AI, Camera, Connectivity, and GPU capabilities.

Dimensity 1100- CPU, GPU, Memory Specs

• Process– TSMC 6nm
• CPU cores– ARM Cortex-A
  • 4x Cortex-A78 Power cores clocked up to 2.6GHz.
  • 4x Cortex-A55 Efficiency cores clocked up to 2.0GHz.
• GPU: ARM Mali G77 MC9 nine-core GPU
• Memory–
  • RAM–  4xLPDDR4x at 2133MHz
  • Storage– 2-lane UFS 3.1

Dimensity 1200- CPU, GPU, Memory Specs

• Process– TSMC 6nm
• CPU– ARM Cortex-A
  • 1x Ultra-Core Cortex-A78 clocked up to 3.0GHz
  • 3x Cortex-A78 Super Cores clocked up to 2.6GHz
  • 4x Cortex-A55 power-efficiency cores clocked up to  2.0GHz
• GPU– ARM Mali G77 MC9 nine-core GPU
• Memory
  • RAM–  4xLPDDR4x at 2133MHz
  • Storage– 2-lane UFS 3.1

Both the chipsets have common features like MediaTek APU 3.0 for AI computing(APU on 1200 chipset has 10% more performance), MediaTek HyperEngine 3.0 gaming tech support, 5G call and data concurrency, multi-touch boost, ray tracing in games and AR apps, and super hotspot power savings.

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Important Features of Dimensity 1100, 1200 5G chipsets 

• Connectivity– Both the Dimensity 1100 and 1200 have an integrated 5G modem inside. They also have the company’s special UltraSave tech to tackle huge power constraints of 5G. Additionally, the chipsets support SA/NSA 5G(sub-6GHz, 5G+5G Dual-SIM), 2CC carrier aggregation across frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD), dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS).
  • It must be noted that Dimensity 1200 chipset has got  TÜV Rheinland certification for its 5G performance covering 72 real-world scenarios.
  • Other connectivity features include the latest Wi-Fi 6, GNSS L1+L5(navigation), Bluetooth 5.2,
• Camera Features– Out of the two, MediaTek says that Dimensity 1200 supports up to 200MP single camera. You also get the five-core HDR-ISP(Image Signal Processor) with 4K HDR video capture support. The Dimensity 1100, on the other hand only has up to 108MP single camera support.
  • Both the chipsets have common features like 32MP+16MP dual camera support.
  • This, coupled with improved AI performance means, you get AI-Panorama Night Shot, Multi-Person Bokeh, noise reduction, HDR camera features.
• Display, Audio & Video playback support- The Dimensity 1100 and 1200 supports up to QHD display at 90Hz refresh rate. However, for FHD+, the D1200 has up to 168Hz whereas the D1100 is limited to a 144Hz refresh rate.
  • For video playback, they support HDR10+, hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding.
  • For Audio, you get ultra-low latency true wireless stereo audio, LC3 encoding for High-quality Audio, Lower latency streaming for TWS earbuds(power-efficiency).

OEM Adoption

MediaTek says that OEMs like Xiaomi, Vivo, OPPO and realme, showed support for including the new chipsets in their devices by end of Q1 2021.

Among these, Redmi and realme have already confirmed that the devices powering Dimensity 1200 chipset will hit markets very soon and Redmi’s device is expected to be the company’s first Gaming phone while realme could include it on realme X9 Pro.

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MediaTek is growing rapidly in the smartphone chipset market and one of the reasons behind that is the company’s newly introduced Dimensity series. The company has already launched a few chips under the lineup and is now set to launch more.

The company has today confirmed by sharing a poster on its social media account that it will launch new Dimensity series products in China on 20th January. While MediaTek has not revealed what product it plans to launch, it is likely to be Dimensity 1200 (MT6893).

Now, another chipset from the company has been leaked online, which is dubbed as MediaTek Dimenisty 1100. From the leak, it seems that the Dimensity is just an under-clocked variant of the upcoming Dimensity 1200, and nothing much is changed.

It is being reported that the MediaTek Dimensity 1100 will be manufactured using the 6nm processor and will have four Cortex A78 cores and four Cortex A55 cores in the 1+3+4 architecture. Its clock speed is said to be 2.6GHz and the GPU won’t be overclocked.

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Additionally, the chipset packs ISP that supports 108MP primary camera sensor, a Full HD+ display with a 144Hz refresh rate, LPDDR4x RAM, and UFS 3.1 storage. Overall, it seems to be a mid-range offering from the company.

We expect the chipset to be announced later this week along with the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC. To know for sure about these chipsets and expected availability in the market, we will have to wait for a couple of days.

In related news, it is being reported that the upcoming Redmi K40 smartphone will have a MediaTek-powered variant along with the Snapdragon 888 version. It remains to be seen which chipset from MediaTek ends up in this upcoming smartphone.

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