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vivo Introduces vivo V80 Featuring Cold-Carved Glass Design, Advanced ZEISS Portrait Imaging and Exceptional Battery Life

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SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — vivo today introduced vivo V80, unveiling a stunning new V series design language and a leap in battery life, along with new advances in portrait imaging technology. vivo V80 features a 50 MP ZEISS Super Telephoto Camera and ZEISS 100 mm Center-Stage Portrait that lets users take the spotlight, while front and rear 4K 60 FPS video captures cinematic moments in smooth detail.

vivo V80 is made from a stunning, single piece of sculpted glass, giving it a strong and polished finish. This design lets users skip the usual phone case and enjoy the feel and engineering of their device. With advanced cameras for portrait and video, users can capture moments in great detail. The device is also equipped with vivo’s latest battery technology, offering more power in a slim design for all-day confidence.

vivo V80 runs on the all-new OriginOS 7, delivering smarter AI-powered productivity tools, deeper personalization, and seamless cross-device connectivity. OriginOS 7 is engineered for a 72-Month Smooth Experience, keeping the device fast and responsive long after purchase.

Simpler One-Piece Glass Design, Bolder Colors, More You

vivo V80 features a refined design that prioritizes comfort, durability, and visual simplicity. It uses Flagship One-Piece Cold-Carved Glass, in which the back and camera area are shaped from a unified piece of glass. This creates a seamless transition around the Floating Camera Module, with a smooth surface that feels natural in the hand. Cold carving also makes the glass significantly stronger than traditional hot-bent glass, and its form helps protect the lens assembly during a fall.

Contrasting the minimal design, the V80 maximizes color vibrancy with a collection of beautiful finishes that make the device a statement piece. vivo V80 introduces Starwish Purple, an industry-first Laser Holographic Lithography finish. vivo engineers spent two years testing more than 20 custom materials to etch 3,600 4K images into the back cover using nano-scale lithography. The result is a True 3D Stellar Design with real spatial depth rather than a printed pattern. With each tilt, the stars shift, the colors change, and the light moves like a galaxy. V80 is also available in Wander Green, Sunrise Anthem, and Vast Gray.

Durability is also built into the design. V80 features an aerospace-grade metal frame, while the ultra-tough drop-resistant glass co-developed with SCHOTT on the front screen and the High-Toughness Reinforced Back Cover Glass add extra protection. The device has also passed the rigorous Swiss SGS drop and impact resistance tests, earning SGS Overall Unit Drop Resistance Certification. vivo V80 offers flagship-grade IP68 and IP69[1] dust and water resistance, delivering complete peace of mind in any environment.

Take Center Stage with ZEISS Portrait

The 50 MP ZEISS Super Telephoto Camera brings subjects closer with 3x optical zoom and up to 10x digital zoom. Equipped with a large 1/1.95-inch Sony IMX882 sensor and optical image stabilization, it preserves detail in low light and minimizes blur from hand movements, making it ideal for capturing genuine, spontaneous moments from a distance.

The ZEISS 100 mm Center-Stage Portrait captures expressive close-ups with ZEISS Planar Style Bokeh and a soft, low-saturation platinum tone. The 100mm focal length naturally frames out passersby, keeping the focus entirely on the subject. ZEISS 85 mm Portrait offers a wider composition with ZEISS Sonnar Style Bokeh and warm-cool cinematic tones, ideal for three-quarter-length portraits. For night photos, CCD Flash Portrait uses flash and a classic CCD-inspired effect to make faces stand out against deeper backgrounds.

The 50 MP ZEISS OIS Main Camera with a 1/1.56-inch Sony LYTIA 700V sensor is ideal for everyday and low-light photography. The front 50 MP ZEISS Group Selfie Camera combines a wide-angle lens with autofocus to fit more friends into the frame. AI Best Face lets users choose a better expression from the frames of a Live Photo when someone blinks or looks away. Front and rear 4K 60 FPS video brings the same attention to detail to vlogs and shared moments, with smooth motion on either side of the camera.

V80 offers even more ways to edit and personalize photos. The AI Creative Camera adds new lighting and atmosphere to photos taken in AI Creation mode. Users can choose effects such as Glow, Sunlight, or Top Lighting before shooting, then change the look in Albums. The Color Palette tool makes it easy to adjust a photo’s tone by swiping to change saturation or contrast.

AI Retouch helps refine the result. AI Erase removes unwanted objects or reflections, AI Magic Move repositions a subject, and AI Image Expander extends the composition. Creative Sticker Collage lets users cut moving people or pets from a Live Photo and combine them with another, creating a new way to share a memory.

Exceptional Performance for Immersive Entertainment

vivo V80 delivers a leap in battery life with a breakthrough 7200 mAh BlueVolt battery[2], using 4th-Gen Silicon Anode Technology to achieve record energy density while maintaining the V series signature slim look. The accompanying 90W FlashCharge[3] charges the device to 50% in 30 minutes, while Multi-Scenario Bypass Charging[4] for smart thermal management during charging enables an uninterrupted experience for intensive video streaming and prolonged gaming sessions.

vivo V80 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon® 7 Processor, delivering silky-smooth daily performance and ultra-stable high-frame-rate gaming up to 144 FPS. Combined with 8 GB + 16 GB Extended RAM[5], it ensures seamless multitasking.

vivo V80 features a 1.5K 144 Hz Eye Protection Display with up to 5000 Nits Local Peak Brightness. Its 1.5K resolution and up to 144 Hz refresh rate provide a crisp, fluid visual experience. The screen is vivid with 1.07 Billion Colors and supports 1 Nit Ultra-Low Brightness for Eye Protection, ensuring comfortable browsing and reading in the dark.

It features Dual Stereo Speakers with Immersive Surround Sound, Gaming Hypersense Audio, and Signal Boost technology. This means better sound for music, movies, and gaming, and more reliable connectivity even in places with weak signal, like when hiking or in crowded venues.

Intelligent Productivity, Deep Personalization, and Cross-Device Connectivity

V80 runs on OriginOS 7, bringing invisible intelligence and deep personalization options to the daily user experience. Powered by the Origin Smooth Engine and Advanced Storage Compression, the system optimizes memory usage and response times to ensure a 72-Month Smooth Experience[6].

OriginOS 7 brings AI-powered productivity tools that help users capture and organize information more intelligently. Snap Note turns a quick photo, or a series of photos, of a whiteboard or handwritten note into a fully structured, editable document right on their phone, with AI automatically recognizing text and understanding content structure. For live discussions, AI Recorder delivers role-aware meeting transcriptions and six multi-template smart summaries for lectures, interviews, and calls.

Users can personalize the phone with StickIt custom stickers for lock screens and Always-On Displays, and the new motion-responsive Wiggle Theme. Adding a layer of warmth and personality to daily smartphone interactions, the display is now also home to Pet Pals, a dedicated virtual companion built directly into the system interface. This animated pet reacts when the user taps or shakes their phone and changes its behavior based on their daily routine, like waking up, eating, or going to bed. It also responds to things like low battery, charging, or playing music, making every unlock a bit more fun.

OriginOS 7 enables a new level of cross-device flexibility, bridging vivo products with both Apple and Android ecosystems. Enhanced by vivo Office Kit, it offers exclusive capabilities like phone-to-iPad screen mirroring and cross-device note sync. Furthermore, OriginOS 7 introduces Apple Watch[7] health and notification synchronization, a feature currently unique to vivo, alongside Spatial Audio support for AirPods and seamless, zero-data photo transfers with Shake & Share.

With strong emphasis on long-term reliability and privacy, vivo V80 incorporates Security Shield, a two-layer defense system that proactively blocks sideloading threats, identifies malicious USB connections, screens spam calls, and detects unsafe browser URLs. vivo V80 is backed by six years of annual security updates[8], ensuring the device stays protected against system vulnerabilities over time.

Availability

vivo V80 will gradually be available in India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and other regions. Availability, pricing, and specifications may vary according to local market conditions and consumer preferences. For more information, please visit vivo.com.

About vivo

vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a user-oriented value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company’s core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.

While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi’an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by nearly 600 million users worldwide.

*”Benfen” is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo’s mission to create value for society.

Stay informed of latest vivo news at https://www.vivo.com/en/about-vivo/news

[1] This product has been tested under controlled laboratory conditions and is rated as IP68 and IP69 under IEC standard 60529. The dust and water resistance is not permanent and may be reduced with daily use. Damage caused by liquid ingress is not covered by warranty.

[2] 7200 mAh is the typical battery capacity. The rated battery capacity is 7015 mAh.

[3] In 90W wired charging mode, the maximum output power of the charger is 90W. The actual charging power is dynamically adjusted based on the scenario and is subject to actual usage.

[4] A battery level above 20% is required to prevent abnormal shutdown caused by charging slower than discharging at low battery.

[5] Extended RAM is realized by software.

[6] 72-month smooth experience indicates that this product has gone through an all-around technological optimization at both hardware and software levels and has passed 72-month smoothness testing in vivo labs. 72-month smooth experience does not mean no latency at all. Actual experience may vary depending on the network environment, personal usage habits, and other factors.

[7] This feature relies on third-party services. Its availability or functionality may change due to factors related to these services.

[8] The 6-year period is calculated from the product’s initial global launch date. The availability and duration of security updates may vary by device model and market.

 

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JinkoSolar Unveils Tiger Neo 5.0 All-Black Residential Solar Module with 25.52% Efficiency

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SHANGRAO, China, Oct. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (“JinkoSolar” or the “Company”) (NYSE: JKS), today unveiled Tiger Neo 5.0, an all-black residential solar module built on its all-new TAC technology. The first version to reach the market, an all-black 48-cell module, delivers a maximum power output of 510 W with a module efficiency of 25.52%. It was designed to redefine the upper limits of what a scenario-specific module can deliver in both appearance and efficiency for premium homes and other architecturally refined residences.

The module showcases a deeper, more uniform and more refined black appearance than conventional back-contact (BC) modules. Semiconductor-grade low- and high-temperature processes bring the power temperature coefficient down to -0.24%/℃, meaning stronger energy yield in high-temperature environments.

TAC technology combines the excellent carrier transport of TOPCon with the low-temperature processing and positive electrode passivation of HJT, pushing peak cell efficiency to 28%, approaching the theoretical limit of monocrystalline silicon cells. Together with a zero-gap cell layout and hidden-ribbon technology at module level, the module achieves an efficiency of 25.52%. Compared with conventional BC products, it delivers approximately 30 W more power, and a lower temperature coefficient. Its deeper, more premium black appearance blends seamlessly into residential rooftops— especially dark-colored ones — making it a standout in the residential module category for both power and aesthetics.

“Our vision for Tiger Neo 5.0 was to develop a panel tailored to premium residential rooftops. It pushes the boundaries of both performance and aesthetics with innovations in cell technology, passivation processes, structural design, module format and interconnections. With this launch, we aim to help move the industry toward solutions tailored to specific applications,” said Charlie Cao, CEO of Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.

About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.

JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is a holding company combining clean energy industrial operations and strategic investment in emerging technologies. Its industrial foundation is a controlling interest in Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. (SSE: 688223), a global leader in clean energy technology. The Company makes disciplined strategic investments in renewable energy, advanced materials, artificial intelligence, commercial space and other frontier technologies, drawing on its industrial experience and its ability to identify emerging technologies and bring them to commercial scale.

Through Jinko Solar Co., Ltd., the Company distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and other countries and regions.

JinkoSolar has over 10 production facilities globally, over 20 overseas subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Mexico, and other countries, and a global sales network with sales teams in China, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Vietnam and India, as of June 30, 2026.

To find out more, please see: www.jinkosolar.com 

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This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates” and similar statements. Among other things, the quotations from management in this press release and the Company’s operations and business outlook, contain forward-looking statements. Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in JinkoSolar’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its annual report on Form 20-F. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

Ms. Stella Wang
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 21-5180-8777 ext.7806
Email: pr@jinkosolar.com

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AGFUND wins international award for excellence in inclusive banking and social impact

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 Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal credits the founders of AGFUND’s microfinance banks for laying the foundations of its development impact

BANGKOK, Oct. 17, 2026 /CNW/ — The Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) won the “Excellence in Inclusive Banking and Social Impact” award at the 2026 Sustainable Development Goals Awards, organized by the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) in cooperation with the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG).

AGFUND CEO Hammam bin Nasser bin Juraid accepted the award in Bangkok, Thailand, alongside the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group.

HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, President of AGFUND, said the recognition acknowledges AGFUND’s experience using financial services to empower underserved communities, strengthen livelihoods and promote economic independence.

He credited the founders of AGFUND’s microfinance banks, particularly the late Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, for establishing institutions centered on empowering people.

He added that the award reflects over two decades of commitment, the dedication of financial inclusion banks and partners, and clients who transformed financing into businesses and family income. He emphasized expanding opportunities and measuring success through lasting improvements in people’s lives.

Prince Abdulaziz stressed that the recognition reflects the value of institutions reaching excluded populations and encourages broader access and economic opportunities for families.

AGFUND’s financial inclusion banking network has served more than 1.3 million clients and disbursed over US$1.37 billion in financing since inception. Women represent 59 per cent of borrowers, demonstrating its contribution to economic empowerment.

Presented by WSBI, established in 1924, together with ESBG, the award recognizes an approach linking financial services, social impact and sustainable development.

Following its first bank in Jordan in 2004, AGFUND expanded across nine countries: Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Mauritania and Sierra Leone, focusing on communities underserved by conventional financial institutions.

The network has issued more than 1.5 million loans, opened over 927,000 savings accounts, established 112 branches and employed more than 1,500 people. Its services finance micro and small enterprises and income-generating activities, improving livelihoods and economic independence.

AGFUND plans to strengthen development partnerships, advance digital solutions and innovative financial products, and integrate financing with training, capacity development, market access and risk protection.

It is also exploring geographic expansion, particularly in Africa, through institutional partnerships that adapt successful approaches to local needs and extend sustainable financial inclusion to more communities.

Website – https://agfund.org/

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GAC Showcases Multiple Models at Canton Fair: Systemic Global Expansion as a Response to High‑Level Opening‑Up

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GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On 15 October, the 140th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) kicked off in Guangzhou. Dubbed “China’s No.1 Exhibition” with a 70‑year history, it serves as a vital window for global merchants to understand China, and one of GAC’s stages to connect with the world. For international buyers, GAC serves not only as a sourcing platform but as a trusted channel for experiencing Chinese automotive innovation and building long-term local partnerships. Having made its debut in 2012, GAC has participated in the fair 30 times to date. Together with the Canton Fair, it has witnessed the transformation of Made‑in‑China products into Chinese global brands.

This transformation is reflected in GAC’s global expansion journey through a string of continuously refreshed sales figures. Overseas sales stood at 90,000 units in 2024, hit 130,000 units in 2025, and exceeded 197,000 units in January‑September 2026, representing a year‑on‑year surge of 138.9%. GAC is sprinting full steam ahead toward its annual target of 300,000 overseas units. GAC has accomplished a shift from “product export” to “system‑level global expansion”.

At the GAC booth, XT80, AION i60 and AISTALAND GX7 showcased intelligent driving, three-electric systems and premium cabins. The energy-ecology zone featured DC ultra-fast charging piles, 7 kW smart home chargers, multi-in-one electric drive units and PV-Storage-Charging-Swapping Technology, addressing range anxiety. Opening day drew buyers from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Africa. At the Music & Cuisine Festival, GAC built three immersive spaces blending smart mobility, Cantonese cuisine, camping and sports. The XT80, AION N60, GAC S7 and AISTALAND GT7 served as lifestyle carriers, letting guests enjoy morning tea, global cuisines and intangible cultural heritage.

GAC will advance its ONE GAC 2.0 strategy, deepening localized operations and expanding its systematic global layout. As a tribute to the Canton Fair’s 70th anniversary and a new business card for China’s auto industry, GAC will help drive Chinese intelligent manufacturing onto the global stage.

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