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Vivo on Wednesday at the start of MWC Shanghai 2017 showcased its new Under Display Fingerprint Scanning Solution, as well as its Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Photography Solution targeted for backlighting and night scene photography, and a Hi-Fi solution with an customised DAC decoding chip. As of now, no Vivo device with the fingerprint scanning tech is in production, but will be showing the tech on prototype devices. The  Vivo  Under Display Fingerprint Scanning Solution is based on  Qualcomm  technology, and the US-based telecommunications giant  separately detailed  its own display, glass, and metal fingerprint scanning solutions at the tradeshow. Qualcomm will be showcasing its own under display fingerprint scanning technology at MWC Shanghai 2017 using the Vivo Xplay6, as seen in the above image. Like Qualcomm Fingerprint Sensor for Display, Vivo's solution can scan through 1200-micron thick OLED display stacks. Vivo claims its under-display fingerprint solution is
Snapdragon 450 Starting with the new Snapdragon 450 Mobile Platform, the SoC sports an octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU chips built on the 14nm FinFET process that results in 25 percent increase in compute performance compared to its predecessor Snapdragon 435. Additionally, the integrated Adreno 506 GPU delivers a 25 percent increase in graphics performance over the Snapdragon 435. The Snapdragon 450 is claimed to offer up to 4 hours more battery life than its predecessor as well as up to a 30 percent reduction in power consumption when gaming. It supports LTE Cat. 6 connectivity with its Snapdragon X9 LTE modem, up to full-HD+ (1440x2160 pixels) resolution, USB 3.0, and Quick Charge 3.0 (zero to 80 percent in about 35 minutes) as well. It also comes with support for a large number of mobile networks with Snapdragon All Mode, and 802.11ac with MU-MIMO support. Qualcomm also notes that this is the first chip in the Snapdragon 400 Mobile Platform tier to support real-time Bokeh. This
Huawei's e-brand Honor has announced the availability of its flagship Honor 9 smartphone in Europe. The handset was announced in China a few weeks ago, and is now heading to Europe as well. The Honor 9 starts at £380 in the UK for its entry-level variant. Pre-orders for the Honor 9 will begin soon and the phone will be available from the company's Vmall store. Sales are expected to begin sometime next month. Apart from the UK, the smartphone will also be available in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. The Honor 9 is designed similar to its predecessor with an all-glass casing and reflective 3D effect on the back. The handset offers a slightly smaller 5.15-inch full HD display and the company has moved the fingerprint sensor to the front like the one found on the Huawei P10. The smartphone is powered by Huawei's flagship Kirin 960 processor and comes in two storage options: 4GB RAM variant with 64GB storage and 6GB RAM opt