Today, Vivo had launched their latest flagship smartphone, NEX, in Malaysia! The NEX features a notch-free Ultra FullView Display which offers us a 91.24% screen-to-body ratio. This is Vivo’s premium line-up which is also the world’s first elevating front camera and bezel-less display in a smartphone. That means, the camera would slide out from the back, revealing the front camera. Keeping up with the latest technology and applying it onto the NEX, it is the next best thing to have in Malaysia!

“We’re very excited to bring this ground-breaking flagship to consumers in Malaysia,” said Mike Xu, Chief Executive Officer of Vivo Malaysia, “NEX is the culmination of many long months of developing breakthrough technologies like the Elevating Front Camera and In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology. With NEX, we hope to encourage our industry to continue pondering ‘What’s next?’ and inspire consumers to re-imagine the mobile experience.”

Below are the specifications of the phone:

Designing a Truly Bezel-Less Experience for Users

NEX’s Ultra FullView Display comes in the form of a 6.59-inch Super AMOLED display with a 91.24% screen-to-body ratio. Achieving this requires several technologies that help free up more space for the screen on NEX.

Th 8MP Elevating Front Camera hides in the body of the phone and elevates in just one second to allow consumers to take selfies exactly as they have in the past. NEX also replaces the traditional earpiece speaker entirely with its Screen SoundCasting Technology by turning the screen into a speaker. This technology not reduces the top bezels, but also enhances sound quality with more powerful bass, and soft, smoother treble. To further reduce bezels, NEX adopts Vivo’s 3rd generation in-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology that has improved in both accuracy and speed, following Vivo’s successes with the X20UD and X21. This technology hids the fingerprint sensor underneath the display while still delivering fingerprint access on the front of the phone.

AI Capabilities for a Smarter Mobile Experience

NEX incorporates AI technologies that make the smartphone truly smart. NEX features a left-side AI Button for Jovi strictly to a full range of AI services including Google Assistant and Google Lens. All these services are supported by Vivo’s latest AI Engine which tripples AI computing power when compared to its predecessors.

Google Assistant can help with everyday situations like map navigation, online shopping, travel arrangements, music, video and even social media, while Google Lens, backed by advanced deep learning algorithms, can let users search what they see.

Snap Amazing Shots with AI Photography

NEX has upgraded the camera with a new generation Sony IMX363 lens and high precision 4-axis Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) combined with Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS). Featuring a range of AI Photography features such as AI Scene Recognition, AI HDR, AI Filters and AI Portrait Framing, NEX helps users take great photos regardless of the surroundings.

Powerful Performance

NEX comes with a top-of-the-line Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and 8GB of RAM so it never hesitates, even when running the most intensive games. NEX also packs an Adreno 630 Graphic Processing Unit which is 30% more powerful than its predecessor, as well as more energy efficient.

The launch of NEX adds another milestone to Vivo’s list of industry-firsts. From being the first to put a Hi-Fi audio chip in a smartphone, launching the world’s thinnest smartphone at the time of its release, to taking the first In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology to market, time and again Vivo has revolutionized and propelled the mobile user experience to another leve. NEX demonstrates Vivo’s determination to test the limits and break industry conventions.

Availability

Vivo NEX will be available at RM2799 in all Vivo concept stores and authorized resellers nationwide from 28 July 2018 onwards.