Vivo’s new flagship has a bigger, better in-display fingerprint sensor

Vivo has introduced its newest flagship cellphone, the X80 Professional, and its most outstanding new {hardware} function is a bigger in-display fingerprint sensor. The lively space is much greater than the small sensors discovered on most Android telephones lately, that means it’s simpler to unlock the cellphone with out trying on the display to align your thumb.

The scanner has a number of benefits past simply being bodily bigger. You possibly can register every fingertip with a single press on the display, as a substitute of getting to elevate and press it a number of instances as with typical telephones. It really works in a short time, even when your fingers or the display is moist. The bigger floor space additionally means you’ll be able to set the cellphone as much as require two simultaneous fingerprints for an additional layer of authentication.

The “3D Ultrasonic Giant Fingerprint Sensor” expertise truly comes from Qualcomm, which calls it “3D Sonic Max” and has touted its inclusion in a current cellphone from Vivo’s gaming-focused sub-brand iQOO. The X80 Professional represents essentially the most mainstream deployment of this expertise thus far.

As an organization, Vivo has carried out greater than some other to popularize in-display fingerprint sensors, having launched the world’s first implementation on a delivery cellphone in 2018. Vivo has demonstrated bigger scanning floor areas in “Apex” idea telephones, together with a “full-display” model in its 2019 mannequin, however the X80 Professional is among the first business units to really ship with a module that’s bigger than the tip of your thumb.

Vivo can be more and more identified for its digital camera prowess lately, and it’s an enormous focus with the X80 Professional. The Zeiss-branded digital camera {hardware} (full with trademark T* coating on the lenses) is much like what we noticed with final 12 months’s X70 Professional Plus, although Vivo hasn’t introduced a Plus model of the X80 Professional but. There’s a 50-megapixel fundamental sensor, a 48-megapixel ultrawide, a 12-megapixel 2x telephoto, and an 8-megapixel 5x periscope telephoto, all housed in a big digital camera bump. One distinction is that the 2x lens now makes use of Vivo’s gimbal-style optical stabilization.

Vivo can be making use of a brand new customized imaging chip referred to as the V1 Plus. Like Oppo’s MariSilicon X chip launched earlier this 12 months, the V1 Plus’ {hardware} is designed to deal with picture processing in tough conditions like night-time video seize. One other processing-intensive use case on the X80 Professional is a “cinematic video bokeh” mode designed to emulate the oval bokeh seen in scenes with shallow depth of area shot on Zeiss anamorphic lenses. Vivo says the chip additionally permits for lowered energy consumption.

The X80 Professional’s different specs are typical of a 2022 flagship Android cellphone. There’s a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. The display is a 6.78-inch 1440p curved OLED panel with a refresh fee of 120Hz. The battery is 4,700mAh and chargers at as much as 80W with a cable or 50W wirelessly by Vivo’s proprietary FlashCharge system.

We don’t have pricing or regional launch info for the X80 Professional but. It’s more likely to hit Vivo’s typical markets of India, Europe, and east Asia.