Just days after Samsung launched its Galaxy S23 series of flagship smartphones, China’s Vivo is here to spoil the party. On Friday, the company launched the Vivo X90 and Vivo X90 Pro, a pair of powerful phones with a long and interesting list of features.
The X90 Pro is the more powerful of the two, with a 6.78-inch curved screen (yes, Vivo still makes curved screens even though Samsung has moved to flatter pastures) with a 120Hz refresh rate, a chip MediaTek Dimensity 9200/Vivo V2 combo, up to 12GB RAM and 256GB storage.
The phone has a massive 4,870 battery with 120W wired charging and 50W charging. take the phone from 1 to 100% charge in 29 minutes. But if you need even more speed, you can upgrade to fast charging, which will take the X90 Pro from 1-50% charge in just eight minutes and 10 seconds.
The X90 Pro has an interesting camera setup, housed in a huge circular camera bump on the back of the phone. The main shooter is a 50-megapixel ZEISS camera, paired with a 50-megapixel portrait camera and a 12-megapixel wide camera. Note that instead of opting for tons of optical zoom like Samsung, Vivo focuses on portraits, which might make sense if you prefer taking photos of people rather than photographing distant objects. The main camera should be pretty good too, as it uses Sony’s 1-inch IMX989 sensor, the largest sensor in the mobile industry to date (it’s the same sensor used in the flagship Xiaomi 13 Pro launched in December 2022). On the front, you’ll find a 32-megapixel front-facing camera hidden in a centrally positioned punch-hole cutout.
Other features worth noting are IP68 dust and water resistance, dual stereo speakers and a 24-layer liquid cooling system which Vivo says is the largest ever in one of its phones. “X-Pro”. The phone also has a black vegan leather back which should make it stand out from the sea of glass-backed devices.
The Vivo X90 will only be available in Asia.
The X90 is the exact same size and shares most specs with the X90 Pro, including the display, processor, and fast-charging battery (no wireless charging here, though). The main difference is in the slightly less powerful camera, with a 12-megapixel portrait camera replacing the 50-megapixel unit, and the design; the Vivo X90 has a glass back and is available in Breeze Blue and Asteroid Black colors.
Both phones will run on Vivo’s Funtouch OS 13, which is based on Android 13.
The Vivo X90 Pro will be available in Asia and Europe, while the X90 will only be available in Asian markets.
