vivo may already be lining up a fourth phone for its X500 family. Digital Chat Station, a phone tipster, says an S-series flagship expected to be called the vivo X500s will run a Dimensity 9-series chipset, carry a bigger battery than last year’s model and use a 64MP periscope telephoto camera. Nothing here has come from vivo.
Screen size came from a post late last month: roughly 6.85 inches, with LTPO technology, 2K sharpness and a 144Hz refresh rate. His latest post adds the chip, battery and camera but names no exact chipset and no battery capacity, only that the cell is larger.
The yardstick is the vivo X300s, whose battery is 7,100mAh. Any bigger cell than that would put the X500s above 7,100mAh, though by how much is unknown. The X500s label is the expectation of the reports that picked the post up, not a name vivo has used.
The standard X500, X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max debuted in global markets last month. The X500s would come after them as a further, separate model. In another leak, vivo’s X500 Ultra is still reportedly planned for March or April, so the line may keep growing well into next year.
vivo has given no release date, price or market for the X500s. The S-series naming suggests a mid-cycle refresh rather than a new generation, but that is our reading, not vivo’s. Until the company teases the phone, the display, chip class and 64MP periscope are the only details on record, all from one tipster.
