A 16:9 phone with a 200MP camera could be the most unusual device in Vivo’s next flagship wave. Digital Chat Station, a well-known phone tipster, says the handset is moving quickly through development, alongside a foldable and a standalone gimbal camera. Vivo has not commented on any of the three products.
Its specs, as listed: MediaTek’s Dimensity 9 family for the chip, thin bezels around a purpose-built 16:9 panel, and a 200MP main camera on a big sensor. That is a far wider shape than the tall screens on current phones, and the tipster says its development is speeding up.
The foldable is described as finished. Digital Chat Station gives it a 2nm Snapdragon chip, an inner screen that stays smooth with no crease showing, and a 200MP camera with gimbal-style stabilisation. Neither the foldable nor the 16:9 phone has a model name, price or release date in the post.
Of the three, the handheld camera has the shortest wait, with a year-end window. Vivo already builds a micro gimbal into the camera of some phones, so a standalone camera would be a new form for the technology, one that competes with handheld gimbal cameras rather than with other phones.
The post as quoted names no brand, and the report we read ties it to Vivo. Two of the three products share the same 200MP gimbal-style imaging, which makes that the common thread. Vivo’s next release in the line is the X500s, itself only tipped so far. The three would arrive after that phone.
