There is no doubt that folding screen mobile phones have become the only way for domestic manufacturers to impact the high-end market.
In 2021, Samsung, Huawei and other veteran players have launched a number of folding new products, and later Xiaomi, OPPO and Glory have also entered the game and released their first folding screen models. In 2022, DSCC expects the shipment of folding screen mobile phones to reach 17.5 million units, which means that folding screen mobile phones will enter large-scale development starting this year.
With the yield, technology, endurance, thickness, heat dissipation and other issues are solved one by one, more and more mobile phone manufacturers into the folding screen mobile phone track, looking at the present, the domestic head camp mobile phone manufacturers only vivo has not launched the corresponding model, is vivo will be absent from the "folding screen mobile phone" battlefield?
In the past two years, vivo's achievements in the mobile phone circle are obvious to all, and the achievements of screen fingerprints, lifting cameras, micro-gimbal solutions, professional image chips V1 and OriginOS are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, as a domestic mobile phone manufacturer will certainly not be left behind.
In fact, as early as June last year, it has applied for trademarks such as "NEX FOLD", "NEX SLIDE", "NEX ROLL", etc., and from the naming point of view, it should be used for folding screen mobile phones. At present, the news about the vivo version of the folding screen mobile phone is gradually increasing.
@Ross Young, CEO of DSCC, a display supply chain consulting company, said that Vivo's first folding screen will use an 8.03-inch LTPO flexible screen, supporting a dynamic refresh rate of 120Hz, and applying UTG ultra-thin flexible glass technology. In addition, some digital bloggers broke the news that Vivo's first folding screen outer screen adopts a single-hole micro-curved design and supports FHD resolution; the right half of the inner screen is centered on a single hole, supporting QHD resolution, and Korean media pointed out that its inner screen is produced by Samsung Display, and the outer screen is produced by BOE.
A few days ago, some bloggers exposed the prototype image configuration of vivo's new folding screen vivo X Fold. Vivo X Fold is equipped with full-focal length camera, 50MP 1/1.3" main camera + 48MP lens + 12MP 2X + 8MP 5X, it can be seen that the overall image capability will surpass the straight board flagship. In addition, it is expected to be similar to conventional mobile phones in terms of feel, further improving the portability of the folding screen.
In terms of performance, vivo X Fold will undoubtedly be equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, while building 4600mAh, supporting 80W wired fast charging and 50W wireless charging. Looking at the current folding screen mobile phone, almost all of them use the side capacitive fingerprint unlocking scheme, there is news that vivo NEX Fold will open the precedent of fingerprint unlocking under the screen, and adopt a more advanced regional ultrasonic screen solution on the folding screen mobile phone.
Although vivo has never responded positively to these rumors, it is certain that as china's top three and the world's top five smart phone manufacturers, vivo will definitely not be absent from the folding screen mobile phone field, as for when to officially launch the folding screen new machine, we will wait and see!