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The world’s first Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phone is the Vivo X90 Pro Plus

    • It apparently took “Xtreme Imagination” to design the Vivo X90.

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    • Vivo is definitely going for point-and-shoot vibes here.

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    • The front looks normal.

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    • That’s a big camera bump.

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    • That big camera bump has big camera sensors, like the 1-inch Sony sensor highlighted here.

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    • Don’t mind the ad text (I think it describes the display model number?), we’re only interested in the bottom.

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    The world’s first smartphone with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC is the Vivo X90 Pro Plus. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will power most of the flagship Android phones coming out in 2023, but BBK’s Vivo beats everyone and is due out before the new year. The phone will be released in China on December 6 for CNY 6,499 (approximately $910).

    For specs, there’s a 6.78-inch, 3200×1440, 120HZ OLED display, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, a 4700mAh battery with an 80W fast charger, and a rare signature of Qualcomm’s super-sized 3D Sonic Max in- display fingerprint sensor. The cameras are also very large, with Sony’s 1-inch IMX989 sensor on the front, along with a 50MP portrait camera, a 48MP ultrawide and a 64MP 3.5x telephoto.

    As for fun new stuff the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 enables, that storage is UFS 4.0, a new, faster flash storage standard that can hit 4,200 MBps read speeds and 2,800 MBps write speeds (although there’s no benchmark on this phone yet) . We were looking forward to Wi-Fi 7 support, but this phone only supports Wi-Fi 6. It’s hard to tell what’s going on with the Chinese-language spec sheet, but it should have AV1 support.

    The design is, er, interesting. Vivo is more or less going for a point-and-shoot look with a big, round camera bump, an elongated angle-mounted flash design, and a leatherette texture on the back. The circle is off-center, which looks a bit odd, and a scrapped metal strip runs across the back with “Xtreme Imagination” written across it. Aside from the metal strip, you can see how this BBK phone will be a close cousin to the rumored OnePlus 11. BBK owns Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, and iQOO, and they all share a lot of parts.

    As for the OnePlus variant, that phone is rumored to be out before the end of the year, but like last year, it may be a China exclusive for a few months.

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