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Vivo Said to Launch 5G Phone Powered by Samsung’s Exynos 980 SoC by Year End

Vivo Said to Launch 5G Phone Powered by Samsung’s Exynos 980 SoC by Year End 4m5k

Samsung’s Exynos 980 chip comes with an integrated 5G modem. 6ni2a

By Nadeem Sarwar | Updated: 24 September 2019 12:32 IST

Vivo Said to Launch 5G Phone Powered by Samsung’s Exynos 980 SoC by Year End

There is no word regarding the nomenclature of Vivo’s 5G phone 3w4262

Highlights

Vivo will launch a Exynos 980-powered 5G phone this year
It also plans to employ Qualcomm’s integrated 5G chips
The company has already launched a couple of 5G phones this year

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Vivo has so far launched a couple of high-end phones that 5G and come equipped with Qualcomm's 5G modems. Vivo is looking to further expand its portfolio of 5G-ready phones by launching products that will utilise the Samsung-made Exynos 980 SoC that comes with an integrated 5G modem and AI-backed processing hardware on a single chip. The first 5G phone from Vivo powered by the Exynos 980 chip will be launched by the end of the ongoing year, a senior Vivo executive reportedly revealed in a recent interview. However, it is not clear whether the 5G phone will be part of a new series or if it will an existing lineup.

As per an ITHome Samsung chip at the end of the ongoing year. The chip being talked about here is the Samsung Exynos 980 that s 5G as well as other network standards all the way down to 2G. It is claimed to provide a speed of 2.55-gigabits per seconds in the sub-6-gigahertz (GHz) 5G band.

Samsung Vivo among the first adopters to employ the chip in a 5G smartphone. However, it is not known if Vivo's Exynos 980-powered 5G phone will be part of a new lineup or if it will be a member of an existing series.

As for Vivo, the Chinese smartphone maker has already launched multiple 5G phones that employ Qualcomm's 5G modem. The announced plans to use the integrated Snapdragon 7 series processors in 5G phones.

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