Vivo X50 Review

Vivo’s lately launched X50 collection is its most premium providing but. We lately reviewed the Vivo X50 Pro (Review), which turned out to be a wonderful 5G smartphone with a singular gimbal digital camera system. Today we’ll be testing its less-hyped sibling, the Vivo X50. It lacks the gimbal digital camera system and 5G SoC that its greater brother boasts of, however aside from these options, each telephones are very comparable. Add to {that a} Rs. 15,000 worth distinction between the 2 fashions’ base variants, and you’ve got a powerful mid-tier contender, on paper anyway.

Should you decide the Vivo X50 at its beginning worth of Rs. 34,990? I’ve been utilizing this telephone for a few week and it is time to see if Vivo has hit one other house run, similar to with its greater sibling.

Vivo X50 design and show: Very hanging

Just just like the Vivo X50 Pro, the Vivo X50 seems to be hanging from any angle and is well one the most effective trying telephones I’ve seen from the corporate of late. It feels premium and well-built too, due to the metallic body and frosted glass again. Fun truth: models within the Frost Blue color that I’ve are a tiny bit slimmer (7.49mm) and lighter (171.5g), than these within the Glaze Black trim. Vivo tells Gadgets 360 that the black variant makes use of a barely completely different anti-fingerprint coating method, which is why it is barely thicker, though it did not touch upon the burden distinction.

The Vivo X50 has a glass again and a metallic body

The matte end of the Frost Blue variant seems to be good and it not often attracted fingerprints in my expertise. Just just like the Vivo X50 Pro, the Vivo X50’s body is flattened on the highest and backside, lending it a definite look. On the underside, it has a twin Nano-SIM tray, a USB Type-C port (USB 2.0) and a single speaker. The quantity and energy buttons are on the correct of the telephone, and ship good suggestions.

The Vivo X50 has a 6.56-inch AMOLED show with a full-HD+ decision, 90Hz refresh fee, and HDR10+ certification. I like the very fact the bezels are pretty slim on all sides, together with the underside chin. There’s a hole-punch cutout for the selfie digital camera and an in-display fingerprint sensor. The latter could be very fast at authentication, and the identical goes for face recognition too.

Finally, the Vivo X50 does have a digital camera bump on the again, however its multi-tiered design masks the protrusion fairly effectively. Overall, the Vivo X50 is a really well-built smartphone with a premium in-hand really feel. The show is on the broader aspect, which might be an issue in case you have smaller palms. Luckily, there are many gestures in Funtouch OS to treatment this, which we’ll discuss subsequent. In the field, you get the same old equipment together with a case, a headset, and a Type-C to three.5mm headphone adapter.

Vivo X50 software program: Bloated however nonetheless good

The Vivo X50 runs the identical software program because the X50 Pro, Funtouch OS 10.5, based mostly on Android 10. There’s so much that is packed into this tradition Android pores and skin, beginning with loads of redundant apps corresponding to Vivo’s personal app retailer, browser, and electronic mail shopper — none of which may be uninstalled. My unit even had a couple of apps corresponding to TikTok and Helo, which have now been banned by the Indian authorities, however these may be uninstalled.

Funtouch OS on the Vivo X50 provides a variety of customisation choices

However, Funtouch OS additionally provides loads of interface customisation which actually allow you to fine-tune your expertise. The left-most homescreen may be set to point out you the Google information feed, or with a faucet of a button, you’ll be able to swap to Vivo’s Smart Launcher. This provides app shortcuts, Digital Wellbeing data, a calculator widget, and plenty extra. The ‘Dynamic results’ menu within the Settings app permits you to set customized lighting results for incoming calls and notifications. It additionally permits you to set an animation for when the telephone unlocks, and completely different animations for a fingerprint match, face recognition, charging, and so on.

You additionally get an always-on show function, with a pleasant collection of clock faces. There’s a one-handed mode, which is beneficial when that you must attain the acute corners of the show. Bloatware apart, Funtouch OS provides a variety of helpful options and customisation choices, which I fairly favored.

Vivo X50 efficiency: Good sufficient

The Vivo X50 makes use of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 SoC, much like the Redmi Ok20. It’s not essentially the most highly effective SoC for a telephone at this worth, particularly when you’ve gotten alternate options based mostly on the Snapdragon 855+ and Snapdragon 765G SoCs to compete with. It’s nonetheless a well-performing, power-efficient chip although, and it manages to carry its personal even with heavy duties.

The Vivo X50 is accessible in two variants — 8GB of RAM with 128GB of storage for Rs. 34,990, and 8GB of RAM with 256GB of storage for Rs. 37,990. I’ve been utilizing the bottom variant of the X50 for a few week and thus far, efficiency has been nothing however nice. Unlocking the telephone is fast and seamless, the interface is at all times snappy due to the high-refresh-rate display, and multitasking is not an issue. The AMOLED show will get very brilliant, colors look punchy, and I did not discover any off-axis tinting both.

The gaming sidebar in Funtouch OS on the Vivo X50 permits you to shortly entry varied features with out having to go away a sport

HDR movies seemed good when performed regionally or by YouTube. However, for some purpose the Netflix app did not detect the HDR functionality once I tried it. Still, movies typically seemed excellent. The backside speaker can get fairly loud for multimedia playback and even telephone calls, however a stereo setup is sorely missed.

I discovered gaming efficiency to be fairly strong too. The Game Space app organises all of your put in video games in a single place, however attending to this menu takes a few further steps, which feels pointless. You can deliver up the Game Space menu mid-game with a easy swipe gesture. This pop-up carousel permits you to block incoming calls, lock the display’s brightness, start a display recording, and so forth. Most of the video games I attempted ran simply effective. There was minimal heating, even taking part in heavy titles corresponding to PUBG Mobile. The Vivo X50 did effectively in benchmarks too, scoring 2,80,418 factors in AnTuTu and 68fps within the T-Rex check in GFXBench.

Vivo X50 battery life: A trooper

I discovered the battery lifetime of the Vivo X50 to be greater than passable. Even with gentle gaming and digital camera use, I used to be simply getting not less than a day and a half, and generally even as much as two full days on one cost. This decreased once I was testing the cameras, besides, I used to be simply making it by a day with sufficient left over for the subsequent. The 4,200mAh battery is a bit smaller than what you get within the X50 Pro, nevertheless it nonetheless ran for a great 15 hours and 42 minutes in our HD video loop check. The bundled charger helps Vivo’s 33W FlashCharge know-how, which was capable of cost the X50’s battery totally in beneath an hour.

Charging the Vivo X50 is fast, very fast

Vivo X50 cameras: There is potential

The Vivo X50 may not have the gimbal stabilisation system or the telephoto lens of the X50 Pro, nevertheless it nonetheless packs in a great set of cameras. At the again, you get a foremost 48-megapixel Sony IMX598 sensor with optical stabilisation and an f/1.6 aperture lens; an 8-megapixel extremely wide-angle digital camera with autofocus and a f/2.2 aperture; a 13-megapixel portrait digital camera with almost 2.2x the focal size of the primary one; and a 5-megapixel macro digital camera.

The foremost rear digital camera was fairly spectacular total. In daylight, panorama pictures packed in loads of element, colors have been vibrant, and publicity was balanced. Close-ups seemed glorious too, with sharp particulars and beneficiant background bokeh, due to that giant f/1.6 aperture. With AI scene recognition enabled, colors are usually boosted, so in order for you a extra pure look to your pictures, it is best to go away it off.

Vivo X50 foremost digital camera pattern (faucet to see bigger picture)

Vivo X50 extremely wide-angle digital camera pattern (faucet to see bigger picture)

Vivo X50 close-up digital camera pattern (faucet to see bigger picture)

There’s a most zoom vary of 20x, nevertheless whenever you transfer previous the 2x magnification mark, the Vivo X50 switches to its portrait digital camera, thereby successfully supplying you with 2x optical zoom after which hybrid digital zoom until 20x. Image high quality is first rate at 2x, however I discovered the autofocus to be a bit of inconsistent.

In low gentle, the primary digital camera routinely decreases shutter pace for higher publicity. There’s a little bit of grain, and brightly lit areas can look overexposed, however switching to Night mode fixes each these points. The X50 even has Night mode filters corresponding to Cyberpunk, which we noticed within the X50 Pro.

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The extremely wide-angle digital camera captured good particulars and hues in daylight. You can swap to this digital camera by tapping the ‘Lens’ button within the viewfinder and deciding on ‘Super Wide-angle.’ The benefit of getting autofocus for this digital camera is which you could seize excessive close-ups too. Tapping the ‘Lens’ button and deciding on ‘Super macro’ permits you to seize good high quality macros. This just about renders the devoted macro digital camera out of date, because it captures comparatively weaker colors and poorer particulars. Wide-angle pictures in low gentle have weaker particulars, in comparison with these captured with the primary digital camera. Night mode helps repair the publicity a bit, nevertheless it would not make a dramatic distinction.

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In portrait mode, the X50 switches to the 13-megapixel digital camera, which supplies you a extremely zoomed-in view of your topic. Pressing the 1x button provides you a wider shot (by switching again to the primary sensor). Before taking the shot, you’ll be able to alter the extent of background blur, and add magnificence results and filters. Portrait pictures of individuals and objects usually seemed good. Autofocus was a bit of gradual when utilizing the portrait digital camera (in 2x mode), however particulars and hues have been good.

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The 32-megapixel entrance digital camera captured high-quality selfies through the day. Bokeh mode additionally labored very effectively. Low-light selfies taken beneath synthetic gentle seemed first rate, however there was a noticeable hit in high quality. In excessive low-light conditions, you should utilize Night mode, however the last consequence wasn’t usually pleasing.

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The Vivo X50 can file as much as 4K 30fps stabilised video. Details have been sharp, noise was minimal, and hues seemed good. The extremely wide-angle digital camera can solely shoot as much as 1080p, and the standard is not so good as when utilizing the primary one, even through the day. The ‘Ultra steady’ toggle button is beneficial should you’ll be shifting round so much and wish good stabilisation. In low gentle, it is best to stay to the primary digital camera for good particulars.

The Vivo X50 additionally has some neat little methods for video. Smart Zoom, which may be activated through the little video digital camera icon, will routinely zoom out and in to comply with your topic, supplied you are an inexpensive distance from it. This works effectively however the autofocus is not fast sufficient to maintain up and pictures seems to be a bit grainy if there is not sufficient gentle. There’s eye detection autofocus, which labored very effectively. Object monitoring can be spectacular, and the X50 is ready to proceed monitoring the topic even when it briefly drops out of the body and comes again.

Verdict: Should you purchase the Vivo X50?

I’ve no hassle recommending the Vivo X50, because it has confirmed to be a reasonably strong all-rounder. It seems to be fashionable, is constructed effectively, and has good cameras. Battery life and the AMOLED show are additionally a few of its robust fits. However, I would like to deal with that at its beginning worth of Rs. 34,990, it is a bit of underpowered in comparison with telephones such because the Realme X2 Pro (Review) and OnePlus 7T (Review), which each have flagship-level SoCs. While this should not hamper day-to-day efficiency, it might forestall sure high-end video games from working at their full potential. Another miss from Vivo is the exclusion of stereo audio system.

If neither of this stuff trouble you, then I believe you would be pleased with the Vivo X50, particularly should you’re on the lookout for a great cameras and a premium design.

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