Vivo X Flip the first flip smartphone launched by Vivo in China

Alongside the X Fold2, Vivo has also launched its first clamshell foldable, the Vivo X Flip. Here’s everything you need to know about Vivo’s first-ever flip smartphone. The vivo X Flip is the company’s very first clamshell foldable phone. Both the new foldable phones come braced with powerful specs and cameras to charm the buyers aside from their folding mechanism.

Vivo X Flip Specs

Display

It offers a functional and crisp 3-inch AMOLED cover display, which can handle everything from texts to social media to navigation apps. Hence, most of the phone’s tasks can be handled by this handy little screen without opening up the device for the internal display.

On the inside, there is a 6.74-inch LTPO FHD+ AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. It comes with a Waterdrop hinge mechanism in order to minimize the creasing issue. The phone with its larger sibling both claim an invisible crease on the main display.

Camera

The Vivo X Flip equip with the same primary 50MP Sony IMX866V sensor with OIS as that of the X Fold2, and it is paired with a 12MP ultra-wide snapper. The flip-style foldable phone also offers a 32MP front-facing camera. The X Flip can be propped on a flat surface with a half-fold on a right angle for hands-free selfies.

Hardware and Software

The vivo X Flip packs in a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor paired with 12GB RAM and up to 512GB of internal storage. It boots on Origin OS3 based on Android 13 and draws power from a 4,400 mAh battery pack with 44W fast charging support. The device offers up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

The Vivo X Flip offers connectivity features, such as dual SIM, 5G, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, dual-frequency GPS, dual stereo speakers, and a USB Type-C port. The X Flip has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner.

Pricing and availability

The new vivo X Flip is available in China in two variants and three gorgeous color options –

• Color Options are Diamond purple, Silk gold, and Diamond black. Ling purple is a three-dimensional leather craft
• 12GB + 256GB: ¥5,999 ~ $872 ~ ₹71,400
• 12GB + 512GB: ¥6,699 ~ $973 ~ ₹83,300

As of now, Vivo hasn’t revealed anything about the global availability of any of these two foldable phones.

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