Vivo intros its first clamshell foldable phone, the Vivo X Flip

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Vivo actually announced two foldable smartphones during its press event in China. We’ve already talked about the Vivo X Fold 2, and we’ll now focus on the Vivo X Flip. The Vivo X Flip is the company’s very first clamshell foldable smartphone. This thing was rumored for a long time, and it’s finally official.

The VIvo X Flip has been tested for 500,000 folds

It is technically inferior to the Vivo X Fold 2, but it’s immensely powerful nonetheless. We’ll talk about its specs soon, but let’s first check out the design. This phone has been tested for 500,000 folds, and it has the TUV Rhineland certification.

Three distinctly different color variants are on offer. The black one is, well, exactly what you’d expect. The purple model has a rather interesting pattern in which lines cross all over the place. The gold one shows off a marble finish look. Those three models are called Diamond Black, Purple, and Silk Gold, by the way.

The phone has a rather sizeable display on the outside, which we’ll talk about in a minute. Vivo even included a “makeup box” function here, to cater to women. There are a number of makeup options, and even a soft light for that purpose. It’s supposed to mimic the real thing.

In any case, the VIvo X Flip does fold flat, and it has a display camera hole on its main display. The bezels are not thick at all, and the phone looks quite nice overall.

Its specifications are nothing to scoff at, quite the contrary

The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 fuels this handset, while the device includes 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM. It is also equipped with either 256GB or 512GB of UFS 3.1 flash storage.

A 6.74-inch fullHD+ (2520 x 1080) AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate sits on the inside. This display is foldable, and it supports 1,920Hz PWM dimming. It does have UTG glass on top. The second display is a 3-inch unit with a 682 x 422 resolution. It is an AMOLED display with a 60Hz refresh rate.

Android 13 comes pre-installed here, along with OriginOS 3. Do note that the phone will ship with Funtouch OS if it launches globally. Stereo speakers are included, as is a side-facing fingerprint scanner. Bluetooth 5.3 is also a part of the package, as are two SIM card slots (2x nano SIM).

It supports 44W wired charging, and has ZEISS-backed cameras

A 4,400mAh battery sits inside of this phone, and it supports 44W wired charging. A 50-megapixel main camera (f/1.75 aperture, OIS, ZEISS T* coating) sits on the back, along with a 12-megapixel ultrawide unit (106-degree FoV, f/2.2 aperture). A 32-megapixel front-facing camera (f/2.45 aperture) is also included here.

The device measures 166.42 x 75.25 x 7.75-8.19mm when unfolded. When folded, it measures 86.4 x 75.25 x 16.62-17.56mm. The Purple and Black models weigh 198 grams, while the Gold variant weighs 199 grams.

The phone’s 256GB and 512GB storage variants are priced at CNY5,999 ($872) and CNY6,699 ($974) in China. We still don’t know if this handset will make it to more markets.

2023-04-21 15:05:39