On June 12, Vivo took the wraps off the NEX line-up of devices. Since then, there has been a lot od speculation as to when the handsets would be made official in India. The answer to this has been revealed as an official post from Vivo has detailed that the NEX smartphones will be launched in select global markets this month.
As per a report by GSMArena, the company, in a press release announced that the NEX devices will be hitting stores across the globe. The first markets to receive it will be India, Russia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. They will be available by the end of this month and as of yet, no specific date has been provided.
Vivo NEX A and NEX S were launched recently and these handsets, included a crazy all-screen display, offering 91.24 per cent screen-to-body ratio, an in-screen fingerprint reader on the NEX S, an industry-leading Snapdragon 845 and a selfie camera that pops up.
Rumours have also put an approximate price tag of around Rs 40,000 on the NEX. The NEX S is the high-end variant and runs on Snapdragon 845 chipset aided by 8GB of RAM; while the NEX A is powered by the new Snapdragon 710 chipset paired with 6GB of RAM. Both the units offer 128GB of storage, but the NEX S offers a 256GB variant too.
the NEX smartphones feature a 6.59-inch AMOLED display panel (2316 x 1080 pixels) with an aspect ratio of 19.3:9. The dual rear camera system consists of a 12MP sensor and a 5MP sensor. Upfront, the handsets sport an 8MP selfie camera. The devices are backed by a 4000mAh battery and run on Android 8.1 Oreo layered by FunTouch OS 4.0 along with AI enhancements.
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