VIVO NEX Dual-Screen Version Officially Announced

Today, VIVO held a new product launch conference in Shanghai and announced the much-anticipated flagship VIVO NEX Dual-Screen Version. Although the appearance has been exposed in advance, we still were eagerly waiting for it.

The company said that the VIVO NEX Dual-Screen Version adopts the concept of ‘virtual combination’, which combines the 16 miniature RGB colorful lights hidden under the star ring with the OLED screen. Actually, many users have been thinking the ring is a design element only. But the manufacturer has also added some interesting features to it. The phone is available in two colors of star purple and ice blue.

The VIVO NEX Dual-Screen Version not only provides two screens in terms of hardware but also opens the ‘dual-screen dual-world’ concept in terms of software. It is reported that the front and rear screens can open different application interfaces simultaneously, greatly improving the user experience and daily efficiency. For example, you can read on one side and pay on the other side.

It is worth mentioning that the VIVO NEX Dual-Screen Version also supports double-sided unlocking, front screen fingerprint, and back TOF face recognition. On the front, it comes with the fifth-generation photoelectric screen fingerprint of VIVO. The 2P lens is upgraded to a 3P lens, which is faster and more accurate. It operates in 0.29 seconds only. As said, the TOF zero-light face recognition is used on the back. In the absence of any light, the real all-weather face recognition is as fast as 0.35 seconds, and the effective depth information point is 300,000, which is 10 times that of structured light.

As for the key features, the VIVO NEX Dual-Screen Version comes with a 6.4-inch main Super AMOLED screen with a FHD+ resolution, a 5.5-inch secondary Super AMOLED screen with a traditional Full HD resolution, a Snapdragon 845 chip under the hood, a 10GB of RAM, a 128GB of non-expandable storage, and a 3500mAh battery supporting 22.5W fast charging. It runs on Funtouch OS 4.5 based on Android 9.0 (Pie).

In the ring area, the VIVO NEX Dual-Screen Version houses a triple camera setup of a 12MP main camera, a 2MP sensor for low light shots, and a Time-of-flight (TOF) 3D camera for facial recognition.  There is a lot to explore in the camera menu including AI scene recognition, Body and Face Shaping as well as the Pose Director mode which uses the rear display to show pose suggestions picked from VIVO’s image library.

12MP Dual PD rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, Sony IMX363 sensor, 4-axis OIS, f/1.79 aperture, secondary 2MP night vision camera with f/1.8 aperture, 2.9μm pixel size, 3D TOF camera with f/1.3 aperture

The device will go on sale from December 29 and is priced at 4,998 yuan ($725).