The Exynos 1080 will not debut with one of Samsung’s smartphones. The Vivo X60 series will be the first smartphone to use Samsung’s recently announced chipset. The upcoming Vivo flagship may break cover on December 28. The Chinese company will announce three models in the series – X60, X60 Pro, and X60 Pro+. All three phones will be powered by the Exynos 1080 SoC.
According to the information shared by a reliable source on the Chinese microblogging website Weibo, the Vivo X60 series will also use a Samsung-made Super AMOLED display. It will be a 120Hz panel with a centered punch-hole cutout for the selfie camera.
Vivo will offer the three models in multiple memory configurations with up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage. The phones may get three or four camera sensors on the back. However, details about the camera sensors are not known yet.
The Vivo X60 series will come with 5G connectivity as standard and feature an in-display fingerprint sensor. Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, and 33W fast charging are also part of the package. Pricing could start at around CNY 3,500 (~$535) for the base model.
Reports suggest that Vivo will only announce the X60 series later this month. The phones may not arrive in the market on the same day or even within a few days. Availability outside China may be further limited early on. The Vivo X50 Pro+ didn’t arrive outside the domestic market at least a couple of months after launch.
Vivo X60 will debut the Exynos 1080 SoC
Samsung unveiled the Exynos 1080 chipset last month. It is the first Exynos processor fabricated on a 5nm EUV-based FinFET process. Although it’s not quite a flagship processor, it is still a very powerful chipset. It features one Cortex-A78 core running at 2.8GHz, three Cortex-A78 cores running at 2.6GHz, and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores operating at a maximum frequency of 2.0GHz.
The chipset comes with an integrated 5G modem, capable of delivering “groundbreaking” downlink speeds of up to 5.1Gbps. It supports HDR10+ and a 144Hz screen refresh rate at Full HD+ resolution or a 90Hz refresh rate at QHD+ resolution. The Exynos 1080 can also support camera sensors up to 200-megapixel and is capable of HDR10+ video recording in 4K UHD.
During the announcement last month, Samsung said that the Exynos 1080 would debut inside a Vivo smartphone. We now have the name, along with some key details and launch date, of the upcoming phone. OPPO and Xiaomi could also launch Exynos 1080-powered smartphones early next year.
Not to forget, the new Exynos chipset will also power Samsung’s own upper-mid-range offerings in the Galaxy A series. The Galaxy A52 5G could be one of the first low-cost 5G offerings from Samsung in 2021.