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The First Smartphone With A 'Gimbal' Camera System

Vivo just launched new flagship smartphones on Monday - The X50, X50 Pro, and X50 Pro+.  The X50 Pro and X50 Pro+ comes with a feature never seen on a phone before. It's called the 'Gimbal Camera System,' and it's a tiny gimbal module, "modeled after actual gimbals," Vivo says. The GCS moves the camera in the opposite direction of shaking motions, providing clearer handheld shots. Vivo says the system widens the rotation angle, as well as the anti-shake area, compared to other stabilization methods. That means it should be able to compensate for some very jerky movements. The results, the company claims, should be "super clear images." The X50 Pro and X50 Pro+ both have a quad camera setup on the back, with a periscope lens that allows up to 60x optical/digital zoom mix. Only the X50 Pro+, however, has Samsung's 50-megapixel 1/1.3-inch ISOCELL GN1 sensor as its primary camera, notable for Dual Pixel/Tetracell tech, which should help produce very