With its Galaxy Z Flip and Fold phones, Samsung presently dominates the foldable market and has been instrumental in propelling the category ahead.
With foldables’ growing popularity and the form factor on the cusp of becoming mainstream, it’s no surprise that Huawei, Honor, Motorola, Xiaomi, and Oppo (shown above) have all experimented with them.
Vivo has teased the announcement of its first foldable device for early next week, indicating that another Chinese company is eager to test the waters.
The business posted the image on Weibo (via XDA) and it shows the foldable — though it’s difficult to tell the form factor from this stylized picture.
Thanks to some leaked hands-on photographs released on Weibo earlier this month (via GSMArena), we get a much cleaner look at the phone, which shows off a Fold-like architecture and suggests the phone could launch as the Vivo X Fold.
The foldable 8-inch display will reportedly include an ultra-thin glass layer on top and a 120Hz refresh rate, according to rumors.
Given that Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus are all owned by the same parent company, BBK Electronics, the X Fold is likely to borrow some design cues from the Oppo Find N.
Vivo is also likely to debut its first tablet, the Vivo Pad, during the next event, in addition to the foldable.
Unlike Oppo and Xiaomi, the company is based mostly in China and Asia.
Despite the company’s reputation for sleek design and superb camera performance, the X Fold seems unlikely to make its way outside of Asia, given its track record.
Vivo has now announced that their first foldable phone will be unveiled on April 11th, and that it will be dubbed the Vivo X Fold.
Vivo X Fold will debut on April 11th
On April 11th, the firm will have an event where we’ll see the phone in its whole, and a teaser trailer (via GSMArena) has given us a sneak peek at what to expect.
The video contains no major shocks – we only see the handset from the side – so don’t expect to learn anything definite until the actual unveiling.
To read our blog on “Vivo is working on a Samsung Galaxy Note rival,” click here.
