On May 13, vivo X100 series new products were launched at the same time, announcing the signing of a new joint R&D expansion agreement with Zeiss to jointly explore new heights of mobile imaging with Zeiss with an open system of self-research and co-research in parallel. At the same time, Blueprint Imaging was launched, and the Blueprint Imaging launched in the X100 series is exclusive to the vivo and Zeiss joint research and development product line, representing the cognition and accumulation of vivo imaging in key scenarios.
Vivo has been ranked first in domestic mobile phone sales for three consecutive years. In Q1 this year, vivo continued to maintain the first result, and the full-score flagship X100 series contributed to it. While vivo X100 and vivo X100 Pro continue to sell well and gain a good reputation, vivo has upgraded and released three new products: vivo X100s, vivo X100s Pro and vivo X100 Ultra. As the first Ultra in vivo's history, the vivo X100 Ultra is equipped with a ZEISS 200 million APO super telephoto and a one-inch gimbal-level main camera, which continues to raise the standard of mobile imaging. With its 7.80mm ultra-thin vertical screen design, flagship-level imaging experience, and Dimensity 9300+ strong performance support, vivo X100s has become the new representative of the vertical screen flagship in 2024. The newly released vivo X100s has four colors: Qingyun, titanium [1], white moonlight, and space gray, with a starting price of 3999 yuan; vivo X100s Pro has three colors: titanium, white moonlight, and night black, with a starting price of 4999 yuan; The two new products will be officially released on May 17. vivo X100 Ultra has three colors: titanium, white moonlight, and space gray, with a starting price of 6499 yuan, and will be officially released on May 28.
Self-research and co-research are explored in parallel, and a new path of moving imaging is explored
Recently, vivo and ZEISS signed a new joint R&D expansion agreement. In the future, the cooperation between the two parties will not only continue to make breakthroughs in the fields of imaging and classical optics, but also in the direction of computational optics and health imaging, vivo and Zeiss will also cooperate deeply to jointly explore the infinite possibilities of future imaging. In the future, vivo will work with ZEISS to continue to build absolute leadership in mobile imaging technology.
In November 2023, vivo's "Blue Technology" was officially released, bringing together the blue crystal chip technology stack, blue ocean battery life system, blue heart model, and blue river operating system, comprehensively demonstrating vivo's ten-year phased technology research and development achievements, and also laying the cornerstone for the core competitiveness of vivo's forging products. At this press conference, vivo once again released the fifth member of the "Blue Technology" family - Blueprint Image, depicting a new blueprint for the future of imaging.
Imaging has always been a technology track that vivo has been reinvesting in for a long time. vivo is committed to integrating the imaging capabilities and photography experience of professional devices into mobile phones to create a user-friendly mobile imaging experience, allowing users to record the truth and convey their emotions anytime, anywhere. To this end, vivo has invested more than 2,000 manpower and billions of R&D funds, applied for more than 7,000 patents, and launched many popular super imaging functions.
Blueprint image represents the cognition and accumulation of vivo images in key scenes, and is a collection of vivo's self-developed sensor technology, self-developed algorithms, self-developed image chips and other imaging technologies. vivo's image is an open system of self-research and co-research, as well as an integrated system of cross-field cooperation. Blueprint Imaging launched in the X100 series is exclusive to the vivo and ZEISS joint R&D product line. It better supports and complements the vivo ZEISS joint imaging system, representing the leading position of ZEISS and vivo in imaging technology in the entire industry chain.
The ideal state to be pursued by blueprint images is the integrated design of software and hardware of images. The new "self-developed blueprint image algorithm matrix" comprehensively builds vivo's underlying basic algorithm capabilities from three sub-modules: ultra-clear image quality, color restoration, and computing power acceleration. Equally important is the customization of the hardware. vivo and the top manufacturers in the supply chain jointly develop core devices such as sensors and modules to achieve the desired image effect. Powerful algorithms need the support of powerful computing power. vivo's self-developed image chip has evolved to the third-generation "Blueprint Image Chip V3+", which can carry more and more complex real-time algorithms and significantly reduce power consumption.
A breakthrough in both hardware and software, defining a new standard for Ultra imaging
In anticipation of Thanos of the image, vivo finale released the first Ultra in the brand's history. The vivo X100 Ultra debuted with Blueprint Imaging and brought a new flagship for mobile imaging through a two-way breakthrough in software and hardware.
The vivo X100 Ultra is equipped with a one-inch main camera that also supports gimbal-level image stabilization, and has become an industry-leading one-inch camera with "industry-exclusive precision transition technology", "industry-leading ZEISS T* coating", and "industry-leading large-angle OIS stabilization". At the same time, 1.5-degree hardware stabilization brings industry-leading video stabilization. Outside of the main camera, the telephoto is even more eye-catching. vivo X100 Ultra is equipped with Zeiss 200 million APO super telephoto, which is a telephoto camera with both ultra-high pixels and outsole, not only equipped with an industry-leading 200 million pixel jointly developed Sensor, 1/1.4" outsole telephoto, but also uses professional optical glass to improve optical performance, and the glass lens applies the same lower dispersion material FCD100 as the professional camera. In addition, it also has a number of industry breakthroughs such as the industry-leading telephoto image stabilization level CIPA4.5, and constantly refreshes the Ultra image standard.
In terms of practical results, vivo X100 Ultra continues to subvert the public's perception of mobile image telephoto, 3.7X-20X ultra-clear relay zoom can achieve approximate optical quality, can easily shoot the beautiful scenery of snow-capped mountains passing by airplanes, the cityscape across the sea, and wild animals in the depths of the wilderness. This super telephoto camera also injects more abundant telephoto photography gameplay into vivo X100 Ultra, vivo's previously popular telephoto imaging functions have been included in vivo X100 Ultra and go further, such as the "telephoto hanging sun" function that allows the beauty of the sunset hanging sun to be recorded with high quality, the "telephoto macro" function that allows the interaction between the stamen and bee insects, and the reflection in the pupils of the alpine eagle's eyes can be meticulously revealed, as well as high-speed sports, low-light portraits, polar starry sky and other functions. This time, vivo X100 Ultra also for users who often watch concerts,Specially customized and developed the telephoto stage function,With an exclusive self-developed algorithm, it focuses on overcoming the 20-30 times telephoto stage film effect,Self-developed blueprint image chip V3+It also customizes and optimizes the concert video shooting capability,Supplemented by high-performance microphones to achieve studio-level sound recording effects,vivo starts from taking photos、Video、Recording all-round start,Vivo X100 Ultra has become a super concert artifact。 So far, vivo X100 Ultra has truly integrated vivo's "six telephoto images" functions, forming an ideal blueprint for telephoto imaging experience.
With the self-developed Blueprint image chip V3+ and vivo's integrated software and hardware imaging technology design, vivo X100 Ultra can carry more and more complex real-time algorithms and significantly reduce power consumption, achieving industry-leading 4K cinematic portrait video, 4K 120 fps shooting, and 4K 60 fps full-focus Dolby Vision shooting. Another highlight of vivo X100 Ultra's video capabilities is "stability", aiming at the needs of video shooting such as exposure, color, focus, clarity, image stabilization, fluency, etc., through a multi-party software and hardware integration design, to ensure that users can use vivo X100 Ultra to continuously and stably output high-quality videos, even for night scene videos with higher difficulty in stabilization, vivo X100 Ultra has almost no dragging, stable and pure, and the video ability is unrivaled in the Android camp.
This time, vivo X100 Ultra also brings a humanistic street photography camera mode, selecting24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm five major humanistic street photography focal lengths, including vivo bright colors, Zeiss natural colors, and vivo texture colors, and exclusively launched a new black and white color, bringing a more street documentary feeling. In addition, vivo X100 Ultra continues the full-range portrait advantages of the X100 series, and further upgrades the 85mm high-pixel close-up through ZEISS 200 million APO super telephoto and vivo's self-developed portrait algorithm to create ultra-high-definition portrait works. vivo has been exploring the boundaries of mobile imaging, expanding greater photography freedom for users, and innovating leading experiences such as diving photography[2], AI visual effects, and 3D photography[3], making vivo X100 Ultra a veritable flagship of mobile imaging.
The core configuration is all full, creating a new representative of high-end flagship
The true Ultra is to achieve All Ultra. In addition to the industry-leading imaging in the mobile phone industry, the other core features of the vivo X100 Ultra have also achieved a higher standard.
vivo X100 Ultra screen adopts the industry-leading Samsung 2K E7 ultra color accuracy screen, and optimizes the key parameters that affect the visual effect of the human eye, such as uniformity, dragging, and afterimage, to better achieve better results, and 100% restoration of P3 and sRGB color gamuts through self-developed image-level color management technology, bringing better image display effects. The vivo X100 Ultra is also equipped with an industry-leading ultrasonic fingerprint unlocking function, which can quickly unlock the phone with one click from the screen.
The vivo X100 Ultra also has industry-leading communication capabilities, equipped with a newly upgraded 25-antenna global signal amplification system, which increases the signal strength of the low frequency by 91%, and supports the 5.5G network with a three-fold increase in network speed. Even if you are at the concert site, you can not only produce the film through the telephoto stage function, but also share it in seconds with the help of powerful signal capabilities. The vivo X100 Ultra is also equipped with a Wi-Fi Super Zoo mode for the first time, which can maintain a stable connection at an ultra-long distance of 150m. In addition, vivo X100 Ultra also supports two-way satellite communication and provides a one-key professional rescue mode, which can be connected to the blue sky rescue team with one click, so that no matter where you are, the communication is always online.
On the premise of being equipped with an industry-leading camera module, the vivo X100 Ultra still has a 5500mAh blue ocean battery life system. At the same time, due to the use of semi-solid-state second-generation silicon blue ocean batteries, it can support shooting in extreme scenes of minus 20 degrees.
vivo X100 Ultra is also a performance beast, equipped with Qualcomm's third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform with 4nm process technology, with a large core architecture, rapid performance improvement, and easy control of power consumption; LPDDR5X ultra-high-speed data transmission, the theoretical read and write speed has been increased by 33%; UFS 4.0 also doubles the sequential read speed, cuts files of the same size in half the time, and improves energy efficiency by 46%. Powerful performance and 3D VC ice field heat dissipation, with the help of double ice heat dissipation and quick freezing, keep the phone cool at all times.
The appearance and performance have been fully upgraded, and the vivo X100s has been awarded the high-value straight-screen flagship
The newly released vivo X100s has been comprehensively upgraded in terms of appearance, performance, image, and comprehensive experience. It adopts a 7.80mm ultra-thin straight screen design, which visually presents a unique thinness and elegance. Qingyun, titanium, white moonlight, and space gray four colors coexist elegantly and smartly, among which the Qingyun color taken from the south of the Yangtze River is matched with a unique camera decoration ring with a green floating glass body, like a curved moon hanging in the clouds, and you can see thousands of clouds flowing by turning slightly, and the artistic conception of "good wind with strength, send me to Qingyun" is directly expressed in the chest. The titanium color highly restores the current hot titanium primary color texture, and the low-key and elegant metal primary gray back cover is simple and elegant, reaching the origin of things.
The vivo X100s is not only good-looking, but also powerful. Its world premiere is equipped with the Dimensity 9300+ flagship platform, through the joint development and tuning of the blue crystal chip technology stack, the performance has jumped again, the peak performance of the all-large core CPU has been increased by 40%, the power consumption has been reduced by 33%, the GeekBench multi-core score has reached 7743 points, and the Antutu score has exceeded 2.3 million, making vivo X100s directly seal the performance masterpiece of the straight-screen flagship in the current mobile phone market.
vivo X100s inherits the flagship imaging power of vivo X100 Ultra, also equipped with blueprint images, and puts Zeiss super telephoto into a thin and light body of only 7.80mm.
vivo X100s is also equipped with an ultra-clear primary color eye protection screen, with a peak brightness of 3000nit, equipped with self-developed full-high frequency dimming technology, making this screen clearer, more eye-friendly, more accurate, and more power-saving. The vivo X100s also adopts a new global signal amplification system, with 21 broadband multi-mode antennas surrounding the fuselage, and the average signal strength can be increased by more than 76%, making it the most stable mobile phone in vivo's history. At the same time, vivo X100s is adapted to the OriginOS 4 operating system, bringing a smoother and more intelligent interactive experience. Support the Blue Heart AI voice recorder to access QQ, WeChat, DingTalk, Feishu and other chat conference software, which can intelligently identify the recording content and generate file names for easy search; The vivo office suite can realize seamless data flow across screens, experience seamless cross-screen office, and open 57 professional file formats such as Pages, Numbers, Keynote, CAD, PS, Xmind, etc., enriching the experience and comprehensively upgrading it, achieving an ultra-thin vertical screen flagship masterpiece.