vivo launched the X Fold3 and X Fold3 Pro in March of last year, and it’s now apparently working on a successor, but there are two twists here. First, rumor has it there won’t be two book-style foldables from vivo this year, just one. Second, it will be called X Fold5, and not X Fold4 as you may have expected – blame tetraphobia.
A leak today says the X Fold5 will come with an 8.03-inch foldable AMOLED screen with “2K+” resolution and 120 Hz refresh rate, a 6.53-inch LTPO OLED cover display with 120 Hz refresh rate, and a 6,000 mAh battery with support for 90W wired and 30W wireless charging.
vivo X Fold3 Pro
Interestingly, the phone is said to be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, just like the X Fold3 Pro, and not the Snapdragon 8 Elite for some reason. This will be paired with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
The X Fold5 will allegedly sport a 50 MP main camera with Sony’s IMX921 sensor, a 50 MP ultrawide with autofocus for macro shots, and a 50 MP periscope telephoto with 3x optical zoom using the Sony IMX882 sensor. For selfies there will be two 32 MP shooters, one for each screen.
The device has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner embedded in the power button, a three-stage Alert Slider, and an IP rating that isn’t known just yet. It will be 4.3 mm thick when unfolded and 9.33 mm thick when folded.
So it looks like the X Fold5 will be a thinner X Fold3 Pro with a tweaked telephoto camera and a 300 mAh bigger battery. These specs are said to be for the global model, which first of all tells us that there will be one (it’s not always a given with Chinese foldables as you may know), but also that there could be a differently-specced Chinese version on the way too. Unfortunately, today’s rumor hasn’t revealed the phone’s launch timeframe.
