Week 8 in review: India gets iQOO 9 series, Find X5 Pro official
As the final week before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona ends, let’s take a look at the biggest stories.
The Oppo Find X5 and X5 Pro became official. Both phones feature Oppo’s new 6nm MariSilicon X image processing chip and Hasselblad Natural Color Calibration. The Find X5 Pro has a 50MP 1/1.56″ main camera with a 3-axis sensor-shift and 2-axis lens stabilization, a 50MP ultrawide, and 13MP 2x tele. The Pro gets a Snadragragon 8 Gen 1 chip, while the X5 uses a Snapdragon 888.
The Oppo Find X5 is on sale from March 14, starting at €1,000 for the 8/256GB model. The X5 Pro’s sole 12GB of RAM and 256GB configuration is €1,300, on sale March 14.
The vivo iQOO 9, 9 Pro, and 9 SE debute in India too, starting at INR 43,000, INR 65,000 and INR 34,000, respectively. They’re all capable smartphones with the SE relying on a SD888, the 9 on a SD888+, and the Pro on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip. Sales in India start on March 2.
A major leak revealed that the Poco X4 Pro 5G will feature a Snapdragon 695 chip and 108MP camera. The phone will be unveiled on February 28.
Finally, the OnePlus 10 Pro became available in White Extreme edition. The phone itself was featured in a durability test, which it didn’t survive, snapping in two during the bend test – ouch! That’s it for these past seven days, see you next week with the wrap up of the MWC week!
AI and image processing is offloaded to the MariSilicon X chip. Also, the ultrawide camera has both lens and sensor shift image stabilization.
We’ve heard this chip referred to as the 8 Gen 1+ and it might run cooler – important for a relatively small device.
No, not the 4S Pro, just the 4 Pro. It will be available through the official site and through Amazon.
The GT Neo2 had a SD 870 and a 64MP cam with no OIS. A GT Neo3 Gaming Edition also leaked recently, that one with a Dimensity 9000 (allegedly).
It’s expected to come with the Snapdragon 680 SoC, while the 5G model is rumored to have Dimensity 700 chip at the helm.