vivo is one of the top smartphone makers yet the brand is not well known outside of its key markets – China and India. That will change next year as the company expands into Europe and Africa.
To bolster its position, vivo signed a $4 billion memorandum of understanding with Qualcomm. This will entail technical partnership and patent sharing to bring 5G phones to market and diversify biometric authentication features.
vivo was the first to do demo a fingerprint reader below the display, but the two companies also want to develop 3D facial identification (think iPhone X), along with…