/ Asahi/Guangzhou, April 13, 2022 -- On the evening of April 11, vivo unveiled its first foldable phone, the X Fold, priced from 8,999 yuan, aiming at the high-end market together with the X Note large-screen phone. It is understood that vivo X Fold assembled a number of industry-leading technology, in screen crease optimization, hinge durability and other aspects to solve the pain points of folding screen products. At the same time, vivo X Fold also carried a series of flagship configurations in screen technology, chip performance, battery life, image system and other aspects, leading the folding screen market into the 2.0 era.
vivo also debuted its first tablet, vivo Pad. As vivo's first tablet computer, vivo Pad has been carefully polished for two years. It not only carries the industry-wide flagship product configuration, but also optimizes the system comprehensively for large-screen applications, and carries out targeted function matching according to different application scenarios such as office and study.
Folding screen mobile phones have been faced with two bottlenecks, namely screen materials and hinge technology. The pain points reported by users mainly focus on screen creases, display failures, cracks, etc., which is also an important reason why folding screen mobile phones are still relatively small. These two bottlenecks are broken in vivo X Fold folding phone.
As a key component of foldable screen mobile phone, the hinge is directly related to the overall performance of foldable screen mobile phone. According to reports, vivo X Fold aerospace grade floating wing hinge, after the Rhine three hundred thousand folding worry-free certification, folding three hundred thousand times after the crease is still very good control, this for ordinary users, even if it is folded 80 times a day, vivo X Fold can still be used normally for 10 years. vivo X Fold's hinge contains 174 parts and uses six space-grade materials, including liquid metal zirconium alloy and FS53 aviation high-strength steel, to perform well in smoothness, strength and impact resistance.
In order to optimize the crease, vivo X Fold adopts a floating center plate design. The floating center plate can rise when the phone is opened to hold up the center crease of the screen, making the screen more flat; When the phone is closed, the floating center plate drops to provide ample room for the screen to bend while protecting the screen, making the phone more durable. vivo X Fold also features UTG ultra-tough glass with a unique interleaved structure, and a drop-shaped hinge with the smallest 2.3mm bend radius in the industry. Combined with multiple technologies, vivo X Fold crease is not only narrow and straight, but also does not appear bulging phenomenon.
In addition, vivo X Fold internal screen and external screen are both using the top screen technology, 8.03 inch folding giant screen and comparable to the straight screen 6.53 inch curved external screen combination, bring comparable tablet viewing and operation experience, the use of office scenes is more calm. The micro-curved screen with an aspect ratio of 21:9 is also the largest in the industry, which is more suitable for users' normal usage habits. Excellent screen quality, vivo X Fold achieved the world's first 19 Display Mate performance records, and got the overall A+ level certification, which means that the performance of this screen has reached the current industry top level.
Different from conventional mobile phones, foldable mobile phones need two screens to switch between inside and outside, which has higher requirements on the consistency of color and display effect between the two screens. Therefore, vivo X Fold internal and external screens support 120Hz high refresh rate, and the use of E5 luminous material, with independent research and development of internal and external screen color calibration scheme, internal and external screen whether brightness, fluency or color consistency is higher, greatly solve the folding screen before the internal and external screen visual effect inconsistency problem, The internal and external screen switch is more coherent and smooth. Moreover, LTPO adaptive refresh is equipped on the inner screen, which can better control the power consumption while ensuring the display effect.
At the same time, vivo X Fold is also the world's first 3D ultrasonic dual screen fingerprint folding screen phone, on the one hand broke through the industry's identical side unlock, on the other hand support dual screen unlock, in the use of convenience, anti-interference and security have a breakthrough and improvement, 3D information recognition accuracy of nearly 100%. Compared with the traditional photoelectric unlock speed 38.7%. vivo X Note, launched at the same time as vivo X Fold, is equipped with a 3D large-area ultrasonic fingerprint, whose identification area is 11.1 times that of a single point photoelectric fingerprint, making it faster and more accurate to unlock.
vivo X Fold also made great efforts in configuration. It is equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen1 SPU custom flagship chip with 4nm MEP technology. Compared with the previous generation of Snapdragon 888 processor, CPU performance is improved by 10%, GPU rendering speed is increased by 30%, and running score is more than 1 million. With overclocked version of UFS3.1 flash memory and enhanced version of LPDDR5 storage, vivo X Fold write, read faster. vivo X Fold is also equipped with a self-developed triple time-domain performance engine, which makes the overall operation smoother, more stable, and more energy saving.
According to Omdia's "Smartphone Model Market Tracker for the fourth quarter of 2021" report, 11.5 million foldable smartphones have been shipped globally by the end of 2021. Especially since the second half of 2021, sales of foldable phones began to grow rapidly, with annual shipments reaching 9 million units in 2021, up 309% year on year. With the improvement of user acceptance and the increasing maturity of relevant technologies in the industry, the domestic folding screen mobile phone market may usher in a new outbreak in 2022.
Source: Economic Daily
