On March 1st, vivo held a special event in China to
announce its next flagship lineup - the vivo Xplay 5. As it turned out the
Xplay 5 will launch in two different models - vivo Xplay 5 and vivo Xplay 5
Elite.
vivo Xplay 5 Elite
vivo Xplay 5 Elite is
a more powerful model, made entirely of metal and using Gorilla Glass 4 to
cover the dual-curved 5.43" Super AMOLED Quad HD screen. It is powered by
a Snapdragon 820 chipset with the insane 6GB RAM and integrated non-expandable
128GB storage right out the box.
The Xplay 5 Elite has a rear 16MP (Sony IMX298) snapper with
phase-detection AF and dual-tone LED flash, plus an 8MP selfie snapper at the
front. The Xplay 5 Elite is a dual-SIM device, supports LTE networks, Hi-Fi 3.0
(2*ES9028+OPA1612), and comes with a 3,600 mAh battery.
Finally, the Xplay 5 Elite has a rear
fingerprint scanner on the back.
The Xplay 5 Elite runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop, skinned with
the latest Funtouch launcher with split-screen multitasking support. It will
launch on March 8 in China and will set you back CNY 4,288 ($655).
vivo
Xplay 5
The vivo Xplay 5 is a more affordable version of the
Elite model, which retains the same design, 5.43" Super AMOLED QHD
display, camera setup, and 128GB storage, but downgrades the chipset to
Snapdragon 652 with 4GB of RAM. The Hi-Fi chip configuration is also of a
different kind - CS4395+AD45257.
vivo Xplay 5 will launch in China on March 8 for CNY 3,698 ($565).
In case you are not familiar with the
Snapdragon models - the 652 flavor offers an octa-core processor with
4xCortex-A72 at 1.8GHz + 4xCortex-A53 at 1.4GHz, and Adreno 510 GPU. The 820
flagship chip packs a custom quad-core Kryo processor and Adreno 530 GPU.
There are no details on international availability, but we
guess both models will expand their market reach later on.
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