Vivo smartphone shipments among top 5 worldwide: IDC

“We’re very pleased that our team’s hard work and dedication has been recognised by IDC in their latest industry survey,” said Alex Feng , senior vice president of Vivo. “Over 100 million end users around the world have chosen our smartphones, and we expect that number to grow as we roll out new technologies and 5G-compatible features in future smartphone models.”
To drive future breakthroughs that will take their smartphones’ performance and user experience to the next level, Vivo has established seven R&D centres worldwide, including two in Silicon Valley and San Diego , as well as five in Shenzhen , Dongguan , Nanjing , Hangzhou and Beijing, China, where it will continue to develop in-house smartphone technologies including 5G, mobile camera, and Hi-Fi music technologies that appeal to its customers.
At Vivo’s Beijing R&D centre, the company engages in the research of new 5G technologies. 
Some of the group’s work was presented at the 2017 Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) Summit on February 23 in Barcelona . The company disclosed its breakthrough high-power user equipment technology.
Talking about the future of smartphones, Qin Fei, director of Vivo’s 5G research institute, said, “Vivo believes that as the computational abilities of smartphones increase, these devices will be capable of deep learning. Future smartphones will have enhanced communication abilities and will be able to cooperate with intelligent computing centres within the 5G network to provide intelligent services for consumers. The interaction of smartphones and the cloud computing centre will require higher performance, higher speed and lower cost from 5G radio networks.”