 "Vivo V17 expected to launch on 9 December, may come with a punch hole display")
In September this year,
Vivo launched the V17 Pro smartphone in India
. The smartphone came with a pop-up dual selfie camera, and a 48 MP camera at the rear. Now, before the year’s closing, Vivo is reportedly planning to launch another smartphone in the same series in India — Vivo V17 — which has
already been launched in Russia
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Vivo V17 launched in Russia[/caption] Vivo has shared media invites for an event on 9 December. While the ‘Save The Date’ does not hint on what device could be launched that day, most bets are on the non-pro version of the V17 Pro. The little animation accompanied by the invite also hints that the purported smartphone will come with a punch-hole display that will house sport a selfie camera.
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Besides that, more images of the device
have been leaked by
91Mobiles
, which shows that in addition to a punch-hole display, the purported Vivo 17 will also have a different rear camera setup. Compared to the Vivo V17 launched in Russia (image above), the
camera design on the leaked image is very different
. The image shows that the Vivo V17 will sport a quad-camera setup at the rear. As seen in the leaked picture, the camera sensors will be placed in a protruding rectangle box on the top right corner at the back of the phone. While three sensors will be aligned vertically, one below the other, the fourth sensor — which looks like a ToF sensor — will sit on their left, with the LED flash above it. The report also claims to reveal the specification of the rear camera setup. Reportedly, the Vivo V17 will sport a 48 MP f/1.8 primary rear camera, an 8 MP f/2.2 secondary camera, and two 2 MP sensors. The leaked images also suggest that the Vivo V17 will come in two colour variants — black and white.
Vivo V17 Russia variant specifications
When launched in Russia, Vivo V17 featured a 6.38-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 X 2340 pixels. It had a waterdrop notch and it sport an in-display fingerprint scanner. It was equipped with a 4,500 mA battery and powered by Snapdragon 665 chipset. It offered 8 GB RAM and 128 GB internal storage, expandable up to 256 GB via microSD card. In terms of camera, the smartphone came with a diamond-shaped camera module at the back that houses four cameras. The rear camera setup included a 48 MP primary sensor, 8 MP ultra-wide-angle lens, 2 MP macro lens and 2 MP depth sensor. On the front, there is a 32 MP camera for selfies. Vivo V17 launched in Russia ran on Funtouch OS 9.2 based on Android 9 Pie.