On April 11, Vivo held a new product launch conference, at which the latest generation of business flagship mobile phones vivo X Fold and vivo X Note were launched. The two mobile phones launched by Vivo this time have a good flagship performance in terms of performance, image, screen and so on. In addition, the two models launched by Vivo this time have also made sufficient efforts in terms of security and privacy, and have carried out a series of targeted improvements.
At this stage, smart phones have become an important carrier for more and more users to access the Internet, so on smart phone devices, some personal privacy information will be stored more or less, such as text messages, call information, fingerprints, faces, accounts, passwords and a series of data. How to ensure their own information security has become a major problem for business people and even all mobile phone users.
Vivo's newly launched flagship mobile phones vivo X Fold and vivo X Note start from many aspects, and have done a series of work for user information security, firmly adding protection to users' information security.
Vivo X Fold and vivo X Note provide a series of functions such as atomic privacy system, fuzzy geographic location, camera detection and so on at the application level to provide protection for users' privacy and security. In addition to adding a series of privacy protection functions to the application side, vivo X Fold and vivo X Note also adopt a new generation of Snapdragon 8, which provides chip-level security protection in hardware through the security processing unit (SPU) support in the Snapdragon 8 platform.
Vivo has also developed a password vault function based on the Snapdragon 8 SPU, which uses a hardware-protected key to encrypt the user's password within the SPU. The password safe covers online shopping, office, entertainment and other applications, and any use scenario that enables the password autofill function can be guarded by SPU-level passwords. Vivo also added a new Thousand Mirrors security architecture, which relies on the powerful security technology of the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, and builds a "weaving network" on the bottom of the software by combining the capabilities of the SPU security processing unit to comprehensively improve the security and privacy protection capabilities. This set of thousand mirror security architecture can cover the operation security of mobile phones in all aspects from four levels: chip, core, framework and application in every operation process of the device.
It can be seen that the two flagship products launched by Vivo this time can be described as sufficient efforts in the privacy and security of users. To achieve comprehensive privacy security from hardware to system requires strong chip capability support, Qualcomm located in the upstream of the supply has long been integrated in the chip design security capabilities, but also in recent years to continuously strengthen the privacy and security of its mobile platform for privacy and security.
When Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 835, it added the Haven security platform corresponding to hardware, software and biometrics on the mobile platform. On the Snapdragon 888 mobile platform launched at the end of 2020, qualcomm Hypervisor is introduced as a deep protection layer, which operates independently under the bottom layer of the Android system, and through Qualcomm Hypervisor, it can create multiple isolated security environments between applications and services to protect and isolate data. Qualcomm also announced that Qualcomm Hypervisor has now opened up a series of partners, which will allow applications and services to communicate with more parts of the mobile platform, providing more features in virtualized environments.
On Snapdragon 8, Qualcomm also introduced a new trust management engine (Trust Management Engine), a new trust management engine that runs at the lower level of Hypervisor and can provide additional root of trust for applications and services to isolate and protect sensitive information internally. We can see that the password vault function used by vivo X Fold and vivo X Note is isolated from other data in the system with the help of Qualcomm's trusted execution environment, thus achieving the purpose of data protection. The Thousand Mirrors security architecture adopted by vivo X Fold and vivo X Note also makes full use of the Defense-In-Depth strategy that continues on the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, and realizes trust protection from the chip to the cloud by setting different layers of security policies.
As the product chosen by many flagship phones this year, Snapdragon 8 is also the world's first mobile platform that meets the Android Ready SE standard. The Android Ready SE standard is an alliance initiated by Google in March 2021 for the development and promotion of the SE security chip standard, with the goal of enabling a series of smart devices to be used as security credentials such as housing keys, car keys, and digital wallets through open source SE security interfaces and programs, so that more physical items can be digitized. According to Qualcomm's official statement, Snapdragon 8 also supports a series of security guardian functions such as identifying pseudo base stations in the offline state, calling hidden ISPs to see whether the user screen is peeping, and the overall security has reached the vault level.
As flagship models, the vivo X Fold and vivo X Note have also received security improvements with the support of the Snapdragon 8. In fact, like many flagship mobile phones equipped with the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, vivo X Fold and vivo X Note have also received support from the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform in terms of image, performance, and display output.
In terms of imaging, vivo X Fold and vivo X Note and ZEISS have jointly cooperated, and are equipped with a self-developed V1 image chip, which can achieve a series of improvements such as better picture effect and more accurate color reproduction in use.
In addition to a series of technologies used by vivo, the two phones are also supported by the powerful ISP performance on the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform. The Snapdragon 8 is the first mobile platform to achieve such specifications with the first commercially available triple-core 18-bit ISP for mobile devices capable of shooting content at an astonishing speed of 3.2 billion pixels per second, as well as support for video shooting in 8K HDR. The higher bit can record more color information when shooting images, which is also a key to the two phones' ability to further restore true natural colors.
Vivo X Flod also achieved a high degree of unity in the quality of the inner and outer screens on the folding screen for the first time, and the inner and outer screens all adopted the 120Hz high-brush screen of Samsung E5 material, which brought more comfortable look and feel unity in use. The 7-inch 120Hz high refresh rate screen used by vivo X Note also brings visual perception improvement to many consumers. In addition, the two flagship products launched by Vivo this time have further adopted the off-screen ultrasonic fingerprint recognition solution provided by Qualcomm. Vivo X Fold also uses Qualcomm 3D Sonic's second-generation fingerprint recognition sensor on both the inner and outer screens, becoming the world's first folding screen mobile phone that supports fingerprint unlocking under the internal and external screens. The vivo X Note uses Qualcomm's most advanced 3D Sonic Max fingerprint sensor. Vivo's two flagship products not only have a huge fingerprint recognition area, in the unlocking process finger can be used to more angles, but also has a higher security, wet hand can be unlocked, can be entered at one time and many other advantages, to solve the pain points of the previous under-screen fingerprint unlocking program, in the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform with cooperation, for the user experience has brought great improvement.
With the help of the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, vivo X Fold and vivo X Note have not only been targeted in terms of privacy and security, but also brought about experience improvements in many aspects such as imagery, display, performance and so on. With the help of the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, the two flagship products launched by Vivo are expected to bring a new experience to consumers.
It is worth noting that in this year's flagship mobile phone market, in addition to the vivo X Fold and vivo X Note, there are also a series of flagship products selected to the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform. The reason is also very simple, it is precisely because the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has carried out corresponding technology accumulation in many aspects such as connectivity, AI, imaging, audio, security and games, and also has a series of technical matrixes such as Snapdragon Elite Gaming, Snapdragon Sound, Snapdragon Connect, etc., which can enable mobile phone manufacturers to carry out more targeted development on the basis of excellence. So as to present users with a better user experience, perhaps this is why many flagship mobile phone products choose the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform.