Zeiss partnered with Vivo; Possibility to terminate cooperation with Nokia

Thanks to its long-term partnership with Zeiss , Nokia has been able to further enhance the importance of smartphone camera lenses and take positive steps in this area. Nokia has repeatedly introduced phones that were equipped with high-quality optical elements that could capture great images.

The business relationship between Nokia and Zeiss also expanded to HMD Global; For this reason, phones such as the Nokia 9 Pureview and Nokia 8.3 were launched with Zeiss lenses. According to recent reports, Zeiss has partnered with another smartphone maker, Vivo.

According to Vivo on the Weibo social network, the Vivo X60 is supposed to be equipped with a Zeiss lens. Below, you can see the published images of Vivo:

The machine translation of the sentence seen in Chinese in the pictures announces that Zeiss has been selected as the camera lens supplier for the new Vivo phones. The company has previously partnered with HMD Global on Nokia branded software; For this reason, Zeiss may also be working on software for new Vivo handsets.

At this time, we do not know exactly whether the new contract between Vivo and Zeiss is an exclusive contract or whether HMD Global is still allowed to work with Zeiss. HMD issued a statement to the Android Authority media in response to recent reports, in which it neither confirmed nor denied the continuation of the partnership with Zeiss. 

“We welcome the fact that our friends at Zeiss have expanded into the smartphone market and we look forward to seeing their quality imaging experiences,” says HMD Global. Although nothing has been officially announced yet, it would certainly be bad news for HMD Global to miss the opportunity to work with Zeiss.

In an interview with Android Authority Media, Vivo also stated that it could not immediately provide details to the media about working with Zeiss, and that more information would be released in the future.

According to the news, the Vivo X60 series phones are supposed to be quality devices and the presence of Zeiss lenses in them is good news. It turns out that these phones will be equipped with Samsung’s new Exynos 1080 chip and an improved image stabilization system. 

Vivo will probably announce more details about the contract with Zeiss on December 17, 2020, and some time later, on December 29, 2020, it will officially unveil the Vivo X60 series handsets.