Following a launch in China late final yr, the Vivo X90 Professional is now setting sail and headed for the UK, amongst different areas in Europe and Asia. Whereas we don’t have a precise launch date but, this world announcement suggests the cellphone is coming very quickly, and we do know just about every part else about it.

Highlights of the Vivo X90 Professional embrace a 50MP f/1.75 1-inch digital camera sensor, which is a bigger dimension than you’ll discover on most telephones and should give it a photographic edge. That digital camera packs optical picture stabilization (OIS), and it’s joined by a 50MP f/1.6 portrait digital camera with 2x optical zoom and OIS, and a 12MP f/2.zero ultrawide.

There’s additionally a 32MP digital camera on the entrance and the cameras are all help by an ongoing collaboration with optics specialists Zeiss, together with the corporate’s personal V2 imaging chip; collectively enhancing the cellphone’s evening images and astrophotography expertise, amongst different issues.

Away from the cameras, the Vivo X90 Professional has a 6.78-inch 1260 x 2800 AMOLED display screen with a 120Hz refresh price, a 4,870mAh battery with speedy 120W charging (or 50W when wi-fi), a waterproof construct, a MediaTek Dimensity 9200 chipset, a black vegan leather-based again, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage.

These are all spectacular specs, which might see this be an actual various to the Samsung Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus, or probably even the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely, given the digital camera {hardware} right here.

The Vivo’s chipset isn’t fairly pretty much as good and the display screen isn’t as excessive decision because the S23 Extremely’s, however these are about the one weak hyperlinks on paper.

After all, loads will come down to cost and we don’t know that but, however for reference it prices MYR 4,999 in Malaysia, which converts to round $1,175  / £960 / AU$1,660, although as ever we wouldn’t count on the precise value in these areas to be a precise conversion.

We should always know the value and launch date quickly although, as on the time of writing there’s a launch countdown timer on Vivo’s web site (opens in new tab), set to finish at 6:30pm GMT / 10:30am PT / 1:30PM ET in the present day (February 3), or at 5:30am AEDT on February 4.

Evaluation: no signal of the Vivo X90 Professional Plus

The Vivo X90 Professional didn’t land alone in China – there was additionally a regular Vivo X90, which is about to hit different elements of Asia however at the moment nowhere else, and the Vivo X90 Professional Plus, which stays a China unique.

The usual Vivo X90 lacks the 1-inch digital camera sensor however is in any other case fairly just like the X90 Professional, whereas the Professional Plus makes use of a superior Snapdragon eight Gen 2 chipset and has the next decision QHD+ display screen. It additionally sports activities a quad-lens digital camera, including a 3.5x telephoto to the combination and changing the 12MP ultrawide with a 48MP one.

So it’s an actual disgrace this cellphone isn’t going world, as on paper that might simply rival the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely and iPhone 14 Professional Max.