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Although Apple is still playing bangs, small bangs, and smart island on a candy bar screen, most Android manufacturers have already entered the battlefield of folding screens, bringing users a new experience innovation.
Data shows that folding screen mobile phones are capturing the hearts of more and more consumers. According to the latest forecast of research firm CINNO Research, the sales volume of folding screen smartphones in the global market is expected to reach 15.69 million units in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 107%. In 2025, the global sales of folding screen smartphones are expected to reach 57.4 million units, with an average annual compound growth rate of 66%.
The domestic market is also in full swing. In the first half of 2022, the cumulative sales of domestic folding screen mobile phones reached 1.3 million units, surpassing the 1.16 million units in the whole of 2021, with a rapid increase. In the second quarter alone, the cumulative sales of domestic folding screen mobile phones reached 587,000 units, a significant increase of 132.4% year-on-year.
At the same time, many manufacturers have entered the folding screen market strongly, and 2022 is called the first year of folding screen scale by industry insiders.
Although it started late, it only launched its first folding flagship machine X Fold in April this year, but vivo cleverly avoided the pits that friends have stepped on in the folding machine, learned from experience, and explored its own folding screen road. .
With the launch of the first-generation Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform, vivo also updated the vivo X Fold+ in September. In addition to the upgrade of the inner screen glass, the experience of performance, games, security, connection, video, audio, AI, etc. has also been realized. It has fully evolved to become a more capable high-end folding screen flagship product.
Vivo and Qualcomm have teamed up with Snapdragon 8+ to have a comfortable output environment
As a flagship folding screen, vivo X Fold+ uses UTG ultra-tough glass to achieve a smaller bending radius and improve the durability of the screen. The back inherits the classic plain leather back cover, making the phone more unique and recognizable.
In addition to paying attention to external beauty, X Fold+ has a strong “big heart”. Based on TSMC’s 4nm Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform, compared with Samsung’s Snapdragon 8, the power consumption has been greatly optimized. The power consumption of CPU and GPU is reduced by 30%, and the overall power consumption of SoC is reduced by 15%.
In order to ensure that the Snapdragon 8+ has a comfortable output environment, the X Fold+ is equipped with up to 12GB LPDDR5 3200MH memory and 512GB UFS3.1 flash memory. The fuselage is equipped with a VC soaking plate, PGS graphite thermal conductive sheet, nano thermal conductive gel, etc. The three-dimensional heat dissipation system composed of heat dissipation efficiency materials has a heat dissipation area of 27217 square millimeters.
Not only a high-end folding screen but also a top-level “game console”
It is reported that the super core frequency of the Snapdragon 8+ has been increased to 3.2GHz, and the Adreno GPU has achieved a frequency increase of up to 10% and a power consumption reduction of 30%, and the game life will be extended by up to 60 minutes.
Snapdragon 8+ supports more than 50 features of all fourth-generation Snapdragon Elite Gaming. The Adreno image motion engine optimizes motion estimation by using historical frame data and GPU. Games that support this feature can generate more frames, allowing games to double the frame rate. rate while maintaining nearly the same power consumption. Snapdragon Elite Gaming also continues to optimize and strengthen the game screen, supports the highest HDR quality, and achieves 10-bit color depth and more than 1 billion colors of game screen display, so that the current flagship models generally have a good screen to fully exert its strength.
In order to ensure a good gaming experience, after the vivo X Fold+ turns on the game mode, the touch sampling rate can be “overclocked” to ensure smooth control.
Taking the mainstream game “Honor of Kings” as an example, when the game is played for nearly 15 minutes with the highest picture quality and high frame rate mode turned on, the average frame rate is maintained at 119.4FPS, and the frame rate of the whole game has almost no fluctuation. Low load games run perfectly and smoothly.
In fact, the Snapdragon 8+ has optimized the GPU driver layer for the “Honor of Kings” 120FPS high frame rate mode and a variety of complex graphics effects, especially for HDR and key shaders. Delicate and clear.
In addition, the Snapdragon 8+ has also been optimized for chip-level games for the 90fps mode of “Peace Elite” and “Genshin Impact” 60fps. With the top-quality 8-inch 2K screen on the X Fold+, the look and feel is not good. One and a half star.
All-round reinforcement of privacy adds a sense of security
Today, privacy and security are a growing concern for consumers. In order to ensure user privacy and security, X Fold+ has customized the SPU security processing unit based on Snapdragon 8+, which can meet the security requirements of financial-level scenarios such as bank cards. At the same time, the confidentiality work has also been personalized: the stealth mode closes the access rights of the mobile phone sensor with one key, and the atomic privacy system can only be entered through the exclusive fingerprint.
This awe of security is also reflected in Qualcomm’s 3D ultrasonic fingerprint technology. Compared with the previous generation of vivo X Fold, Fold+ brings improvements in performance, design, and experience, and the dual-screen fingerprint recognition is the same.
In fact, as early as the previous generation of vivo X Fold, vivo equipped it with a dual-screen fingerprint recognition function. It has been half a year since the phone was released, but this technology can still only be seen on the folding screen of vivo.
It is understood that Qualcomm’s latest generation of 3D ultrasonic under-screen fingerprint technology, which emits ultrasonic waves through the bottom fingerprint module, scans the user’s fingerprint ridges and sweat pores, etc., can identify three-dimensional details and unique fingerprint features that cannot be identified by traditional fingerprint technology. Compared with other fingerprint recognition, this technology is more secure.
Not only that, the screen recognition area of ultrasonic under-screen fingerprint technology is 11.1 times that of traditional fingerprint recognition, the screen recognition area is larger, and it can still be quickly unlocked when the screen or fingers are wet.
Communication King: The First Dual 5G Dual SIM Dual Pass Folding Screen
As one of the technical pillars of the Snapdragon mobile platform, the full set of Snapdragon Connect features for the mobile terminal can bring the best 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection experience in the industry, Snapdragon X65 5G baseband and RF system, FastConnect 6900 mobile connection system, etc. , including greatly reducing the lag caused by poor network, and the short connection of peripherals caused by poor Bluetooth, which greatly affects the operation and smoothness of the game. It is no longer an extravagant hope that the game will never be dropped.
In particular, the X Fold+ supports dual 5G dual-card dual-pass, and is the industry’s first folding screen mobile phone to achieve dual 5G dual-card dual-pass. It turns out that although many 5G mobile phones are currently equipped with dual-card dual-standby function, many mobile phones are still single-pass, that is, only one primary and secondary card can be connected to the Internet at the same time, resulting in network interruptions when incoming calls.
Through the customized adjustment of the Snapdragon chip by vivo and Qualcomm, the X Fold + has completed the “three noes” – no missed connections, continuous calls, and continuous Internet access. In addition to greatly improving the Internet experience of ordinary consumers, it also For busy business people, it is free from worries in complex and multi-scenarios, and can be “all the way” smooth in dual-card concurrent scenarios such as calls, games, and data network usage.
Video camera king three swords combined
Photography has always been vivo’s strength. This time, the vivo X Fold+ is equipped with four lenses, achieving full focal length coverage for the second time in the flagship folding screen, and the effect of the film is very shocking.
Behind the excellent image quality, in addition to the joint research and development of Zeiss, the Snapdragon 8+ Snapdragon imaging technology is also indispensable. It adopts 18-bit triple ISP and can process 3.2 billion pixels of image data per second. The dynamic mode can be increased by up to 4 files, the night scene mode can be increased by 5 times, and it supports 8K HDR video shooting. With the powerful 18bit triple ISP guarantee, manufacturers have more room to adjust the camera.
In the era of computational photography, the importance of AI engines is also highlighted. The seventh-generation Qualcomm AI engine integrated by the Snapdragon 8+ has more than doubled the AI capability compared to the previous generation under the given power consumption. It goes deep into the photography level, blurring engine, super multi-frame synthesis, triple concurrent shooting, etc. Behind it, there is the powerful computing power of the new Snapdragon AI engine.
In addition, the battery life of the X Fold+ has also increased by more than 20% on the basis of the previous generation, thanks to the large equivalent 4730mAh long-distance battery, combined with the power consumption optimization of the Snapdragon 8+, the call duration is increased by 3.2h, and the large-screen view Shadow duration increased by 1.8h.
There is also powerful AI computing power to support vivo X Fold+ to bring Jovi-AI bilingual subtitles. The Snapdragon Sound of Snapdragon 8+ cooperates with vivo X Fold+ stereo dual speakers and independent HiFi DAC, and the audio experience is also clearer and more moving.
It can be seen that the vivo X Fold+ is not only a folding screen mobile phone equipped with a top-level chip, but a comprehensive and direct attack in the fields of industrial design, performance strength, game performance, audio and video quality, AI intelligence, network connection, security and privacy, etc. The pain point of users, the high-end flagship that deeply taps the potential of Snapdragon 8+, can be said to be the master of the moment.
It is believed that with the continuous self-evolution of the Snapdragon technology matrix universe composed of Snapdragon 5G network technology, Qualcomm artificial intelligence engine AI Engine, Snapdragon Elite Gaming gaming technology, Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, Snapdragon Sight Snapdragon imaging technology, etc., including High-end flagship phones including folding screens will bring users more amazing experience innovation in the future.
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