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Vivo created a new custom image sensor in partnership with Sony. That image sensor was made for Vivo’s upcoming Vivo X100 smartphone series. In other words, that sensor will be included in Vivo’s upcoming flagship smartphones.
Vivo and Sony partnered up to create a new image sensor for the Vivo X100 series
This new camera is a customized version of the LYT800 sensor. That sensor uses Sony’s stacked design, which separates the photodiodes and the transistors that read them into two layers.
What does that mean, though? Well, this sensor should offer better low-light performance, similar to 1-inch sensors. The Lytia LYT800 is a 1/1.43-inch sensor, in case you were wondering, and it’s a 53-megapixel unit.
Now, in addition to this Sony partnership, Vivo also partnered up with Zeiss to create the Vario-Apo-Sonner telephoto lens for the upcoming phones. This lens will have a floating design, which will allow the camera to focus on objects that are very close by.
Vivo and Zeiss have been partnered up for a long time. Zeiss optics have been included on a ton of Vivo phones thus far, usually flagship ones. Well, that partnership will continue with the Vivo X100 series.
Vivo recently announced the V3 ISP too
Vivo also recently announced the Vivo V3 ISP. That is a 6nm chip with advanced post-processing and support for portrait mode videos at up to 4K.
Having said that, the Vivo X100 specs did leak, well… partial specs. We still don’t have the camera info. One of the Dimensity 8-series chips is expected, along with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. A 120Hz AMOLED display will also be included, along with a 5,000mAh battery and 100W charging.
That seems to be info for the vanilla Vivo X100, though. More powerful variant(s) are also expected. We’re not sure when Vivo plans to launch the Vivo X100 series exactly, but stay tuned.