OnePlus Open 2 backed to beat Vivo rival to launch in 2025
The Vivo X Fold3 Pro could be thought of as a 'kitchen sink' type of premium Android foldable smartphone, in that it is a class-leading thin and light IPX8 device with everything from a deceptively huge, cutting-edge 5,700mAh silicon-carbon battery to ultrasonic fingerprint sensors in both its main 8.03-inch and secondary 6.53-inch 120Hz AMOLED screens.
According to influential leaker Digital Chat Station (DCS), its successor will have all of that and more - an even bigger battery, upgraded triple 50MP Zeiss-branded rear cameras and an upgrade to the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor included.
It could even still have a physical Alert Slider - although it just might be capacitive (or "press-type", as DCS puts it) this time, as an answer to Apple's Camera Control.
There is one thing the Vivo "X Fold4" (or Fold5) might not have, and that is a secondary variant - instead, it is now tipped to consolidate all the best aspects of the experimental Fold3 series that consisted of vanilla and Pro versions into 1 device.
Therefore, if there is something this alleged next-gen X Fold could have standing in its way in 2025, it might be the equally premium Oppo Find N5.
It is also now tipped to overcome the looming depression that has reportedly gripped the foldable smartphone market in China to launch as planned in early 2025, then again thereafter as the OnePlus Open 2 for the international market.
Its Vivo alternative, by contrast, might lose the initiative by launching later in the year, even later than the X Fold3 Pro that did not make it to a global release until mid-2024.
Meanwhile, the OnePlus Open now starts at $1,199, or $500 off its original price, on Amazon.
