Today 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.
