New Vivo smartphone with Snapdragon 625 SoC and 4GB RAM spotted on Geekbench

“The new smartphone is expected to be a new variant of the Vivo V9”

Vivo recently launched V9 (review) with a notch display and octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 SoC in India. The smartphone happened to be the first Android phone in India to come with a notch display. Now, it seems that the brand might be working on a new variant of the handset. A recent spotting on the popular benchmarking website, Geekbench revealed a mysterious smartphone with an identical spec sheet.

The new Geekbench spotting is seen with a model number ‘Vivo 1850′. The listing reveals that the handset comes powered by MSM8953, which points to the Snapdragon 625 chipset. Further, the smartphone is seen with a 4GB RAM and Android 7.1.2 Nougat pre-installed. The smartphone managed to score 760 points in the single-core test and 3,873 points in the multi-core test. While nothing else is known at this point in time, it is being speculated that the new smartphone could be a slightly toned-down variant of the Vivo V9.

Speaking of the Vivo V9, the smartphone comes with a 6.3-inch notched full HD+ display and is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 SoC. The chipset has been mated to 4GB RAM and 64GB native storage, which can be further expanded up to 256GB using a microSD card. In the imaging department, the handset offers a 16-megapixel + 5-megapixel setup on the back and a 24-megapixel camera on the front. The handset runs Funtouch OS 4.0 based on Android 8.1 Oreo ad is powered by a 3,260mAh battery. For security, the phone gets an AI-based face unlock and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner.

It remains to be seen whether the new listing on Geekbench is a variant of V9 or a completely new handset. We will bring you more details as and when they emerge, so stay tuned.

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