Vivo-backed smartphone brand iQOO is all set to launch its next-generation flagship smartphones in the form of the iQOO 10 series tomorrow, i.e., on 19th July. Ahead of the launch, key details and features of the devices have already surfaced online.

In the latest development, the company has shared a teaser poster that reveals that the iQOO 10 series smartphones will pack the company’s own self-developed V1+ chip for better photography results.

The V1+ is a second-generation image chip developed by iQOO’s parent company Vivo. It supports 3D real-time stereoscopic night scene noise reduction, MEMC frame insertion, and AI super-division in the hardware.

It is also said that the data throughput rate can be maintained at about 8GB/s while combining with SRAM improves energy efficiency by about 300 percent and reduces power consumption by around 72 percent.

Under the hood, the device will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, which is an enhanced version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. It is made using a 4nm process by TSMC and offers a maximum frequency of 3.2GHz.

The iQOO 10 Pro is expected to have a 6.78-inch display with a Quad HD+ E5 LTPO AMOLED panel offering a 120Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ support. It will also have an in-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for added security.

As for the memory, the device is expected to come with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage. It will be powered by a 4,500 mAh battery, which will have support for 200W fast charging.

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The Vivo X80 Series has been officially launched in its first global market outside of China today, in none other than the tropical Southeast Asian country of Malaysia. 

As an industry-leading flagship from Vivo, the Vivo X80 series brings in several firsts to the global smartphone market which include the 1st flagship to sport a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 processor, the 1st flagship to sport its Vivo V1+ imaging processor and the 1st flagship to sport a Sony IMX866 sensor.

Vivo X80

Starting with the design, the Vivo X80 features a curved AMOLED screen at the front and a flat glass back panel with a rectangular ceramic camera island on top. The front display is a 6.78-inch FHD+ 120Hz E5 Samsung curved AMOLED that goes up to 1000 nits of brightness covering 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut. The front display is then complimented with a centered hole punch housing the 32MP selfie camera.

Powering the standard Vivo X80 is MediaTek’s top-of-the-line Dimensity 9000 SoC, with 12GB of onboard LPDDR5 RAM, 4GB of extendable RAM and 256GB of blazing-fast 256GB UFS 3.1 storage. Keeping the lights on is the device’s generous 4,500mAh battery, paired with Vivo’s class-leading 80W fast charging. Vivo claims that its 80W fast charging will be able to charge from 0% to 50% within 11 mins and 0% to 100% within 34 mins.

Coming to the photography, besides the ISP on the MediaTek Dimensity 9000, the Vivo X80 also comes with Vivos first in-house ISP, the Vivo V1+. Vivo proudly exclaims that the Vivo V1+ ISP paired with the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 allows the company to produce newer and more advanced smartphone camera algorithms to ensure that the best camera shot comes out of your smartphone.

As for the cameras, the Vivo X80 features a triple rear camera setup. The main sensor is Sony’s latest 50MP IMX866 sensor. The 50MP sensor comes with a wide f/1.75 aperture, OIS stabilisation, and an RGBW colour arrangement. The setup is then supported with a 12MP ultra-wide-angle lens and a 12MP telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom. All lenses are also equipped with Zeiss’ T* coating technology to reduce ghosting and stray light to capture more natural colours and finer details when you are using the device.

For haptics and audio, the Vivo X80 is included with a linear X-axis haptic motor and features dual top-bottom firing stereo speakers for an immersive mobile gaming experience. The device weighs in at a hefty 206g and is sporting Android 12 with Vivo’s Funtouch OS 12 user interface on top. 

Vivo X80 Pro

The Vivo X80 Pro features a similar design as the Vivo X80 with the same curved AMOLED panel at the front, a flat matte glass panel at the back, and is rated for IP68 water and dust resistance. The display up front is upgraded to a 6.78-inch 2K 120Hz LTPO E5 Samsung AMOLED over the standard model and also houses a 32MP front camera in the punch hole at the top centre of the display. The display also supports up to 1500 nits of brightness, 10-bit colours and HDR10+ content.

The Vivo X80 Pro is coming to global markets with only the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 onboard, and with 12GB of onboard LPDDR5 RAM, 4GB of extendable RAM, and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The Vivo X80 Pro is equipped with a larger 4700mAh battery, with 80W wired fast charging, and 50W Vivo FlashCharge wireless charging. In turn, the device weighs in at a heavier 219g.

As for the cameras, the Vivo X80 Pro is also equipped with the new Vivo V1+ ISP and features a more capable quad-camera setup on the rear. The main sensor is a 50 MP ultra-sensing Samsung GNV sensor with OIS stabilisation. As the first Android flagship to sport the Samsung GNV sensor, Vivo claims that with this new technology, the Vivo X80 Pro will be able to reveal the colours of the night, making the night look brighter and more natural.

The other 3 rear cameras are also flagship highlights as well, with the 48MP ultra wide-angle sensor being the Sony IMX598, the 12MP telephoto sensor being the Sony IMX663 sensor, and an 8MP periscope lens that boasts 5x optical zoom and 60x hybrid zoom. All lenses are equipped with Zeiss’ T* coating technology which aims to provide photos with true to life colours and finer details in the dark.

The Vivo X80 Pro is equipped with the same flagship linear X-axis motor and dual top-bottom firing stereo speakers as its X80 sibling and will run Android 12 with Funtouch OS 12 out of the box.

Pricing and Colour Options

For the Malaysia market, the Vivo X80 will be arriving in two gorgeous colour options: Cosmic Black and Urban Blue, meanwhile the Vivo X80 Pro will be only available in Cosmic Black.

The Vivo X80 series is available for pre-order starting May 8th in Malaysia starting from RM 3,499 (800 USD) for the standard Vivo X80 (12GB+256GB), and RM 4,999 (1,144 USD) for the Vivo X80 Pro (12GB+256GB). Both devices come included with free gifts and a 2-year local manufacturer warranty.

The Vivo X80 series is due to come to more global markets soon this month, with the Indian launch of the Vivo X80 series happening next week on May 18th.

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Vivo is holding a launch event to its highly anticipated Vivo X80 Series in China tomorrow April 25th at CST (GMT +8) 7pm / IST 5:30pm / GMT 11am. 

The launch event this year will be held virtually and the entire event will be live-streamed online for the general public to tune in. To watch the launch event, you can head on over to the link below on April 11th, 2022 19:30 CST sharp to follow the announcement. 

Link to live stream here.

The Vivo X80 series is the successor to last year’s fan favourite Vivo X70 series. The Vivo X80 series will have 3 important models in the lineup, namely the Vivo X80, Vivo X80 Pro, and Vivo X80 Pro+.

So before the official launch event, we compiled all the highlighting features that we know about all the 3 Vivo X80 devices so far. 

Vivo X80

The anticipated highlight of the Vivo X80 would be its cameras. The device is sporting a triple camera setup that is rumoured to feature Sony’s latest IMX866 50MP sensor with OIS stabilisation. The main sensor is said to be revolutionary with its 1/1.56-inch sensor and RGBW colour arrangement. Paired with the main sensor are the 12MP ultra-wide-angle lens and the 12MP telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom. The device is also believed to come with Vivo’s new V1+ ISP to process better photos at a shorter shutter time.

The Vivo X80 is also to be equipped with a large 6.78 inch FHD+ 120Hz E5 AMOLED display on the front with a centred hole punch housing the selfie camera. Powering the device is the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 paired with up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB/512GB of fast UFS 3.1 storage.

Battery-wise, the Vivo X80 will have a 4500mAh with 80W fast charging support. The device is expected to come with Android 12 out of the box.

Vivo X80 Pro

The Vivo X80 Pro features an upgraded camera setup from the standard Vivo X80. It will house a large quad-camera module on the rear that includes a 50MP Samsung GNV 1G OIS main sensor, 48MP ultra-wide-angle lens, 12MP telephoto shooter, and an 8MP periscope lens that offers 5x optical and 60x digital zoom as well. Notably, the X80 Pro will also come with the V1+ ISP and Zeiss branded lens on the rear. 

Powering the Vivo X80 Pro instead is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset with 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB/512GB of storage. The device might be powered by a larger 4,700mAh battery pack that supports 80W fast charging and 50W wireless charging. 

Vivo X80 Pro+

The Vivo X80 Pro+ will be featuring the most premium camera setup amongst them all. The device will be rocking a quad-camera island equipped with a 50MP Sony IMX866 OIS main sensor, a 48MP IMX598 sensor, a 50MP Samsung JN1 sensor, and lastly, a 50MP JN2 sensor. The device is also expected to sport a 44MP selfie camera housed within the punch hole.

For the high-end flagship bells and whistles, the Vivo X80 Pro+ will be packing a 6.78-inch QHD+ 120Hz LTPO 2.0 AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC, 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage and a generous 4700mAh battery with 80W wired fast charging support and 50W wireless fast charging support.

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Vivo has announced on China’s microblogging site Weibo, a new imaging chip that is bound to enhance the display and imaging capabilities of its next flagships. The Vivo X80 series will have the V1+ chip developed in-house by the company and MediaTek. The new chip has gone through several improvements including enhanced compatibility and picture optimization.

The Vivo X80 series is the next flagship offering by Vivo and the improved V1+ imaging chip offers more depth to the models. The V1+ is the successor to the V1 which was released last year. It supports MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoCs. The collaboration with MediaTek has culminated in more than 30 related patents. The new V1+ image processor is first in several ways. It made Vivo the first OEM to produce its image processors compatible with high-end SoCs like the Dimensity 9000 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

The V1+ chip is the culmination of a year-long collaboration between MediaTek and Vivo involving about 300 staff. The chip is also well-suited for high-quality and high-speed gaming applications. Vivo is also adding improvements in color, portrait, and shooting aspects by creating a new vivid and textured memory scheme. It uses AI technology to boost image quality remarkably.

Vivo is also implementing algorithms to optimize CPU resource allocation, reduce heat generation and boost the efficiency of the Dimensity 9000. This has led to significant improvement in the Dimensity 9000’s power consumption. This also has a rub-off effect on battery life, with up to 10% enhancements reported in tests. The overall impact on the X80 series could be far-reaching in the market.

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We recently posted a hands-on video of the X70 Pro+ and our first impressions of the device were pretty good. We felt it was a phone with almost no shortcomings, with the ability to capture superb photos. Now, after plenty of days of playing around with the device, we have a renewed appreciation for the X70 Pro+. 

So what new discoveries have we made in the last few days? Let’s check them out.

The X60 Pro+ took second place in our Best Camera comparison two months ago, proving that Vivo’s imaging system is already very good. But can the newly released Vivo X70 Pro+ take things one step further and become the strongest imaging flagship phone in the second half of this year? 

vivo X70 Pro Plus Full Review: Camera Performance

Let’s look at the hardware part first. Compared to the X60 Pro+, the 2x portrait lens has been upgraded from 32MP to 12MP IMX663, and the main camera has an additional piece of Zeiss optical glass. And most importantly, it is equipped with Vivo’s own V1 chip for the first time. This chip helps brighten photos and reduce noise while also decreasing power consumption.

When compared to the X60 Pro+, the new X70 Pro+ has a significantly less saturated style, which is closer to true colors. If you still think it’s too saturated, try the new Zeiss color mode, which further reduces saturation compared to Vivo’s AI color mode. Personally, I would still prefer Vivo’s automatic AI color mode. 

Main Camera

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Note that the additional ZEISS optical glass brings in very few improvements to the X70 Pro+’s main camera, except for a slightly better highlight control in the presence of light. The upgraded Zeiss T* coating is an improvement in purple-fringing control in the daytime. But this coating is not perfect, as the photo angle has to be chosen very carefully to avoid them completely. 

Ultra Wide Angle Camera

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The ultra-wide-angle lens on the X70 Pro+ has no hardware upgrades at all, so it performs almost exactly the same as the X60 Pro+. But the purple-fringing issue is significantly lessened like the main camera. Although its main camera has improved and ultra-wide-angle lens has not improved significantly, it still maintains the high standard of last year and is in no way weaker than flagship phones of other brands.

Portrait Camera

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Let’s focus on the newly upgraded 2x portrait lens. The new portrait lens is much better than the previous generation in terms of dynamic range. And because the size of the sensor has become larger and OIS has been added, there is less noise in the picture and there won’t be any blur because of handshake. Because the amount of pixels has also been reduced, you can see obvious signs of sharpening when you zoom in. The new portrait lens has a longer focus distance, so unlike the X60 Pro+ you can’t get too close to the subject when using 2x portrait mode.

Zoom Performance

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Like we mentioned in our Best Camera Smartphones video two months ago, the X60 Pro+’s choice of 5x zoom in night mode would crop through the main camera instead of shooting with a periscope telephoto lens, resulting in worse photo quality than in normal mode. This issue is fixed on the X70 Pro+. And even in normal mode, image purity, dynamic range, and sharpness are improved. This 5x periscope telephoto on the X70 Pro+ is substantially more usable with the new algorithm.

Judging from the previous samples, the V1 chip doesn’t seem to do much for photos. But Vivo says the V1 chip also enhances the photo experience by allowing the X70 Pro+’s viewfinder to preview in real-time in dark conditions. While, in the actual test, it is true that the preview screen of X70 Pro+ with V1 chip is a little better, but the difference is not much compared to the X60 Pro+ without this V1 chip. The actual photos taken are also different from the preview, so it looks like there is still room for improvement for the V1 chip.

One phenomenon that has existed since the X60 Pro+ and is still present on the X70 Pro+ is the algorithm for intelligent lens switching. For example, you click on 2x zoom in normal mode, but the x70 Pro+ will not always shoot with a 2x portrait lens, it will intelligently determine which lens to shoot based on the environment. Look at these 2x zoomed-in photos here, one taken with the x70 Pro+ in auto mode with intelligent judgment cropping with the main camera, and one taken with my manual Professional mode switching the 2x portrait lens. Clearly, its AI has made a mistake. So although the AI is mostly accurate, I would still like to have control over which lens I choose to take photos with. There also has been some incredible bugs in the days of our experience with the phone, such as this night mode photo, which is a very weird bug. Hopefully, the next version of the system update will fix it. So the X70 Pro+’s imaging system is not as perfect as we thought.

Video Recording

The X70 Pro+’s video recording is also of great interest to many people. The specs that each lens can record are unchanged from the X60 Pro+. The portrait lens and periscope telephoto support up to 1080p 30FPS video recording. Gimbal’s stabilization is better than the previous generation, and the jelly effect is much lessened. However, the dynamic range of the main camera and ultra-wide-angle lens basically remain the same as the x60 Pro+. The V1 chip’s optimization of video recording is reflected in the noise control, as there’s less noise than the X60 Pro+, but the relative picture also becomes more blurred. This time, the new Horizontal line anti-shake mode has been added. However, it is not recommended using it unless for special situations, because it only supports 1080P 30FPS recording.

vivo X70 Pro Plus Full Review: Hardware

As a flagship phone rather than a camera, its other hardware specifications must also be strong enough to be called Vivo’s strongest flagship phone. vivo X70 Pro+ is now not only available in vegan leather, the black version in our hands has a frosted glass back panel. And the frosted texture is relatively rough and will reflect some light spots in the sunlight. Next to the lens is a ceramic decorative plate. Because of the high reflectivity, you can even take a selfie with the main rear camera when the light is better. 

While the X60 Pro+ lacked IP68 waterproofing, X-axis linear motor, and stereo speakers, these features are present on the X70 Pro+, and it also has a separate HiFi chip. It can be said that in the basic features of the X70 Pro+ there is nothing missing, but it comes at the cost of larger body size and heavier weight.

vivo X70 Pro Plus Full Review: Display

Taking good photos also needs a great screen to show it off. This time, the X70 Pro+ has a very large screen upgrade. With 2K resolution, 120Hz, the latest Samsung E5 light-emitting material, and support for LTPO dynamic refresh rate technology, this screen should theoretically be one of the most powerful screens available. But in reality, it’s a bit disappointing.

Compared to the Mi 11 Ultra, the x70 Pro+ screen appears slightly greenish and rainbow-streaked when viewed from the side. And it still has a larger curved section that can be shadowed and greenish. The fingerprint recognition is positioned downward, which is less convenient to press. In the past few days, we found that when you press the screen for a long time and then swipe, the response of the screen will become slower. We don’t know if this is intentional or a system bug, but when you use the web or Twitter, this slowdown is not a good feeling.

Of course, a flagship phone should use a flagship chip. The core specification is still the same: Snapdragon 888+, LPDDR5 and UFS 3.1. The Benchmark Test results are shown in the chart. Although the scores look good, the gaming part is more of a test of heat dissipation. Unfortunately, the gaming performance of the X70 Pro+ and X60 Pro+ is about the same.

Even when playing light games like PUBG, the X70 Pro+ can’t stabilize at 90FPS with Smooth Graphics 90 PFS settings, and larger games like Genshin Impact are even more difficult to handle. The frame rate curve also shows that Vivo is limiting the performance output of the x70 Pro+. Just when we thought it was unlikely that the X70 Pro+ would be able to play large games smoothly, we found that the V1 chip’s frame interpolation feature could be used in games, allowing them to run at 45 FPS with the screen displaying 90 FPS. In practice, the games run very stable and smoothly, and are also more power-efficient. The downside is that the image is sometimes broken and the delay in control increases. The current version of the game can become very laggy if you turn on and then turn off the frame insertion, and this feature will also be forced off once the temperature is too high. So in real life, this feature is not as good as imagined.

vivo X70 Pro Plus Full Review: Battery Life

The maximum charger power of 55w that we mentioned in the Hands-on video was a mistake on our part. In fact, the maximum power of the charger is 66w, but the phone only supports up to 55w charging power, which is the same as the X60 Pro+. What is different is that the x70 Pro+ also supports 50w wireless charging. Wired charging takes ten minutes to charge to 32%, thirty minutes to charge 80%, and 47 minutes to fully charge. Although charging with Vivo’s own charger is fast, it’s painful if you charge with other brands’ chargers. Even if you charge with a third-party charger that supports the PD protocol, the maximum power is only about 10w. The phone only charges about 6% every 10 minutes. 

Battery capacity has improved compared to the previous generation, 4500mAh is the average level in the 5G era. TikTok consumes 3% for half-hour and 4% for online video. 

vivo X70 Pro Plus Full Review: Verdict

It’s great to see that the X70 Pro+ is an improvement across the board, not just in the camera department. Many of the shortcomings of last year’s X60 Pro+ have been made up, on the X70 Pro+. But it’s not as perfect as Vivo advertised, and there are many issues and bugs that still need to be fixed. If Origin OS can fix the mentioned bugs and further improve usability, the next X80 Pro+ might really become the perfect photo flagship phone. 

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Today, Vivo announced new X-series phones in China. The Vivo X70 series includes three devices – the standard X70, the X70 Pro, and the X70 Pro+. This post is for the topmost model, the Vivo X70 Pro+.

Vivo X70 Pro+ Design

The Vivo X70 Pro+ has a similar design to its predecessor but with some slight changes. It still has a centered punch hole in the front and the camera housing is still a rectangular slab though bigger now. However, Vivo has added a sheet of ceramic called the Ceramic Cloud Window to the right of the camera housing. This sheet of ceramic has a mesmerizing effect when it reflects the sky.

The phone comes in three colors – black, blue, and orange. The black variant is covered in glass while the orange and blue variants are covered in plain leather.

Vivo X70 Pro+ Specs

The Vivo X70 Pro+ has a 6.78-inch 2K (3200 x 1440) display. The 10-bit panel is Samsung’s E5 AMOLED and it has a 120Hz variable refresh rate, a maximum brightness of 1500 nits, 300Hz touch sampling rate (1000Hz max). The display has received an A+ certification rating from DisplayMate.

There is a Snapdragon 888+ processor under the hood and it is paired with LPDDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. Buyers will be able to pick up the phone in three configurations with up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.

There are four cameras on the back of the phone and all of them are equipped with optical image stabilization. The sensors include a 48MP micro-pan-tilt ultrawide angle camera with 360° Horizontal Levelling Stabilization so even if you rotate the phone while recording, you still get a stable video. There is also a 50MP Samsung GN1 main camera, a 12MP Sony IMX663 portrait camera, and an 8MP telescope camera that brings 5x optical zoom and 60x super zoom.

Vivo says that the X70 Pro+ uses a Low-Dispersion High-Transmittance Glass Lens for its main camera. This type of glass is found only in high-end SLR lenses. The Vivo X70 Pro+ also comes with four classic ZEISS lenses that allow users to capture portrait images in different styles. The lenses are the Contax Biotar, Contax Distagon, Hasselblad Planar, and Olympia Sonnar. All of the Vivo X70 phones come with a ZEISS T* coating to reduce ghosting. The Vivo V1 ISP chip is also present inside the phone.

The Vivo X70 Pro+ has a 4500mAh battery capacity with support for 55W flash wired charging just like its predecessor. However, it now adds support for 50W wireless fast charging and 10W reverse wireless charging. Seeing as Vivo now has a phone with wireless charging support, it is no surprise that it has announced a wireless charger. The vertical wireless charger pictured below is inclined at a 60° angle and features multiple charging coils at the top and bottom. It also has air vents on the rear for cooling and a breathing light in front.

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Vivo’s topmost X70 model also has an IP68 rating, making it on par with flagships from Samsung and Apple. The phone runs OriginOS based on Android 11 out of the box.

Vivo X70 Pro+ price and availability

The Vivo X70 Pro+ will be priced at ¥5499 (~$852) for the 8GB RAM + 256GB version, ¥5999 (~$929) for the 12GB RAM + 256GB version, and ¥6999 (~$1084) for the 12GB RAM + 512GB version. The 512GB version is also dubbed the Vivo X70 Pro+ Premium Edition and it comes with a free pair of the Vivo TWS 2 ANC earbuds which costs ¥299 (~$46), 2 years of warranty, one-on-one customer service, and an exclusive butler service worth more than ¥1200 (~$186). Those who pre-order the premium edition also get the ¥329 (~$51) wireless charger for free.

On September 12, Vivo Silver and Gold members will be able to experience the two pro models at designated experience stores in 38 cities across China.

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Vivo was working on its self-developed Image Signal Processor (ISP) chip which was recently leaked online. Soon after that, the company’s Executive Vice President Hu Baishan officially confirmed that the company is indeed gearing up to launch the Vivo V1 ISP chip.

Today, the Chinese company has officially launched its first self-developed chip, named Vivo V1 which is an Image Signal Processor. It has also been confirmed that the upcoming Vivo X70 series smartphones will come equipped with this new chip.

For launching this new Vivo V1 chip, a team of over 300 people worked for more than 24 months for Research & Development as well as the Chinese company had in-depth cooperation with smartphone processor manufacturers. This is to ensure that the Vivo V1 ISP works smoothly with the main processor without any compatibility issues.

The company claims that the new V1 chip offers high computing power, low latency, and low power consumption. Along with processing complex calculations at high speed, it can also complete parallel processing of data like GPU and DSP. However, the company adds that Vivo V1 has massive improvement in energy efficiency ratio compared to DSP and CPU even when faced with a large number of complex operations.

Vivo has optimized the data storage architecture as well as the high-speed read and write circuits inside the chip to maximize simultaneous processing capacity. It is able to achieve an equivalent of 32MB large cache with on-chip storage.

The company claims that it surpasses current flagship desktop processors when it comes to low-latency real-time noise reduction and frame insertion. When processing tasks with the same amount of calculation at high speed, the dedicated algorithm in Vivo V1 reduces the power consumption of the hardware circuit by about 50 percent.

Vivo also worked with the Zeiss team to over technical limitations like process and yield and the glass lenses can now offer high light transmittance, ultra-low dispersion, and thermal stability. The AOA dynamic optical calibration process is used to adjust the sharpness reduction by lens thickness errors and lens eccentric errors.

The China-based company has also introduced SWC coating technology which ensures that the reflected light is fully suppressed, and the reflectivity is reduced to a minimum of 0.1%, which greatly improves the quality.

Vivo and Zeiss also worked through 140 color card performance and 3D color mapping matrix algorithms to adjust 262,144 parameters to make the hue more accurate and the saturation processing more refined. As a result, the hue accuracy ΔE is increased by approximately 15.5%, bringing more natural colors.

As noted, the Vivo V1 ISP chip will be equipped in the upcoming Vivo X70 series smartphones that are set to be officially launched in the Chinese market on 9th September at 19:30 local time. Soon after the China launch, the smartphone lineup is expected to have its global launch.

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The Vivo V1 is Vivo’s first self-developed processor, and it has been confirmed that it will make its debut in the upcoming Vivo X70 series set to launch this week. If you are wondering how big the chipset is, images of it alongside the Snapdragon 888 have surfaced on the web.

The photos which were posted on Weibo by the known Chinese leaker, Digital Chat Station, show the V1 image signal processing chip alongside the 5nm Qualcomm SM8350 a.k.a. Snapdragon 888 processor. As we can see, the Vivo V1 is pretty small when compared to the Qualcomm chipset.

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Vivo says the V1 chip will improve the photography experience of the phone(s) it will come with. There are speculations that only the Vivo X70 Pro+ will feature the custom ISP but until there is an official confirmation, it’s best to take it with a pinch of salt.

The Vivo X70 series will launch with a variety of chipsets. The standard model will be available in Exynos 1080 and Dimensity 1200 variants, the X70 Pro will have the Exynos 1080 under its hood, and the X70 Pro+ will ship with the Snapdragon 888+ processor.

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After reports about Vivo working on its self-developed Image Signal Processor (ISP) chip, we recently reported that the first in-house chip from the company will be called Vivo S1 which has now been confirmed by Vivo’s Executive Vice President Hu Baishan.

He has also confirmed that the upcoming Vivo X70 series smartphones will come equipped with this new Vivo V1 ISP chip. Further, he has also revealed that the upcoming flagship smartphones from the brand will be made official next month, i.e. in September.

Hu Baishan added that while the company is starting with its self-developed ISP, the plan is also considering laying out chips on other tracks — Design, Image, Performance, and System, which was established by Vivo last year.

It is being reported that it took about two years for the company to develop its own ISP chip which has now reportedly completed mass production. The chip department at Vivo reportedly has a Research & Development team of more than 300 members and the company is also looking to fill many more vacancies in the same department.

The development is in line with the company’s long-term vision as revealed by the Founder and CEO of Vivo, Shen Wei earlier this year. The company is set to heavily invest in technological innovation as well as strategic resources for improving design, imaging, and performance, as well as other areas that users are paying more attention to.

So far, we are aware of two chip-related trademarks from the Chinese firm — Vivo SoC and Vivo Chip. The product categories covered by these two trademarks include central processing units, modems, computer chips, printed circuits, and computer storage.

Chinese smartphone manufacturers are now spending more on innovation and becoming self-reliant after the issues faced by Huawei when it was banned by the United States. It will be interesting to see what Vivo has up its sleeves in this department. OPPO, the sister company of Vivo, is also developing its own chip which is expected to be officially released with the Find X4 smartphone early next year.

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Vivo is currently gearing up to launch its first self-developing chip which is reportedly an Image Signal Processor (ISP). The chip, which has been codenamed “Yueying,” has now appeared in the leaked image.

The leaked image has been shared by reliable tipster Digital Chat Station and it reveals that the first chip from the Chinese smartphone manufacturer will be called Vivo V1 as the branding appears on the chip.

The image shows the physical map of the Vivo V1 chip, indicating that the mass production may have been completed or is still undergoing. In any case, it is expected to be officially announced soon. While the launch date is not yet known, reports indicate that Vivo’s first in-house chip could be announced along with the Vivo X70 series smartphones next month.

So far, we are aware of two chip-related trademarks from the company — Vivo SoC and Vivo Chip. The product categories covered by these two trademarks include central processing units, modems, computer chips, printed circuits, and computer storage.

It’s noteworthy that Vivo partnered with Samsung for the Research & Development of chipset and the Chinese brand was closely associated with the development, providing in-depth inputs during the process.

Vivo is quite focused on developing chips as the company is planning to have a team of around 500-600 members in this department. It is currently looking to hire several new team members to the chip division for Research & Development. The company has also planned to invest a huge amount in the Research & Development of 5G, Artificial Intelligence, and other emerging technologies.

OPPO, the sister company of Vivo, is also developing its own chip which is expected to be officially released with the Find X4 smartphone early next year. Both these companies are following the footsteps of Xioami which has already launched an ISP chip named Surge C1.

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