After few weeks of teasing and showing off the handset from their best angles, also exhibiting the camera performance, we finally have Vivo announce their all new X30 and X30 Pro smartphones in China. Both the new releases from Vivo will come out of the box supporting dual-model NSA/SA frequency bands of 5G network based on an industry first Samsung manufactured Exynos 980 chipset built over the A77 architecture, offering 20% improvement on the same frequency performance. You will also find a Mali-G76 MP5 graphics processing unit, also with an high performance NPU or Neural Processing Unit for improved AI performance upto 2.7 times.
The devices also brings along Vivo's zero-sensing water-cooling heat dissipation technology 2.0, which consist of thermal conductive gel for high thermal conductivity, allowing rapid cooling of the internals. Thanks to the 5G modem integration on the SoC, we will be treated to 3.55Gbps speeds standard on both the smartphones, letting users watch 4K ultra high definition videos without waiting for cache to load.
The Vivo X30 Pro will go up for grabs starting December 24, 10:00 local time, and will be available in two variants, sealed in 8GB RAM/128GB internal space costing about $572.56 and 8GB RAM/256GB of memory setting you back for around $615.52. The Pro version will get a paint job in Mithril, which is a glaze of blue and silver, then Feiyun that is more of a coral orange shade and lastly Vermiculit, with which Vivo offers mysterious and rare black flowers on the back of the phone.
Now for the vanilla X30 model, the handset will only come out in the 8GB RAM/128GB option for a price of $472.31, with similar color options from it's Pro iteration. The sale for the non-Pro version of X30 will commence four days later on December 28 at 10:00 local time. You can pre-order these smartphone now from the phone maker's official webstore in China and if you do so, you will get the W7 Bluetooth headset plus 6 months of Vivo Care for the device free and also 2 years worth of interest-free payments.
Now lets talk about the internal specifications and the most highlighted camera details of the smartphones. The Vivo crafted X30 and X30 Pro will arrive with a 6.44” SuperAMOLED screen of 1080 x 2400 resolution display that will house a 2.98mm punch hole style front facing camera featuring a 32MP secondary selfie sensor. Vivo claims their new XDR display on the X30 series are to a new level far beyond the standard HDR, traiting 800 nit of screen brightness and 1200 nit of maximum brightness.
The only difference between these two smartphones both technically and appearance-wise is from the camera department, where you will skip the 13 megapixels periscope telephoto lens with 5X optical zoom that offers 135mm of full frame focal length and 60X digital Super Zoom on the vanilla variant, only getting the 20X zoom reception. Other than that both the siblings will embrace an 8MP ultra wide angle sensor with an aperture of f/2.2 and 112 degrees of lens viewing angle. Below that sits the 64MP primary lens with 26.4mm full frame focal length and f/1.8 aperture and lastly we have another 32MP professional portrait lens being a part of the vertical triple camera setup that can shoot at 50mm full frame focal length and at an aperture of f/2.0.
Apart from the photography pinnacle, Vivo's X30 and X30 Pro will pack a 4350mAH powered battery equipped with 33W Flash Charge technology and runs on Android 9 Pie based FuntouchOS. You will also find a 3.5mm headphone jack and USB Type-C connectivity alongside.
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