The telephones in Vivo’s X collection have typically had alluring digicam capabilities and good efficiency; all at a decrease value than flagships from Samsung and Apple. With the X70 collection, Vivo determined to skip out on the non-Professional mannequin in India, nevertheless, this isn’t the case with the brand new X80 collection. The Vivo X80 has made its debut in India at a aggressive worth of Rs 54,999. At this worth, not solely does it pack an array of digicam and videography options in collaboration with Zeiss, nevertheless it additionally homes a flagship SoC – the Mediatek Dimensity 9000 – and comes with 80W quick charging assist. It’s protected to say, the Vivo X80 seems to be like a cut price deal, on paper, at the least. Nevertheless, how does it carry out and do the cameras match the hype surrounding them? Let’s discover out.
Vivo X80: Construct and design
The Vivo X80 seems to be just like final yr’s Vivo X70 Professional+ and nearly an identical to its dearer sibling – the Vivo X80 Professional. The one actual distinction between the Professional and non-Professional variant of the system is the lacking periscope lens on the Vivo X80. The cellphone is accessible in two color variants – Cosmic Black and City Blue. We received the latter for assessment and in our opinion, it’s the extra beautiful system.
The Vivo X80 has a curved back and front glass panel with an aluminium body. The cellphone exudes a premium air and feels implausible in hand. We requested Vivo in regards to the variety of glass they used for the rear panel and came upon that it comes with a fluorite AG glass with a tender contact anti-glare matte end. The matte floor resists fingerprints and smudges though the digicam island is kind of the fingerprint magnet.
The cellphone weighs 206 g and has a thickness of 8.3 mm, so it feels fairly glossy when utilizing it with out a protecting case. You do get a first rate protecting case in the retail field that matches the color of the rear panel although. The cellphone does really feel barely slippery, so despite the fact that we haven’t dropped it in two weeks of testing, chances are you’ll wish to use it simply to be protected.
The retail field additionally consists of an 80 W energy brick, a USB Kind-C charging cable, a USB Kind-C pair of earphones, additional silicone ear suggestions, a SIM ejector software, and documentation. In a day and age when smartphone producers are eradicating field elements, it’s refreshing to see Vivo pack a lot into the X80’s field.
The cellphone homes the ability button and quantity controls on the suitable, twin stereo audio system on the highest and backside and a USB C charging port and the SIM tray on the backside. The buttons are extraordinarily tactile and work flawlessly. There’s additionally an in-display fingerprint sensor that works with none hitches as nicely.
Vivo has additionally offered an IP53 mud and water resistance ranking which ought to shield it towards exterior components. The X80 Professional, then again, comes with an IP68 ranking however the cellphone additionally prices a lot extra. The IP53 ranking is sufficient to shield towards splashes of water and specks of mud. General, the Vivo X80 is one of probably the most attractive telephones we’ve used over the previous couple of years and feels each bit premium as you’d assume, or much more.
Vivo X80: Show Efficiency
The Vivo X80 options a massive 6.78-inch AMOLED show with Full HD+ decision and 120 Hz quick refresh price assist. The Full HD+ decision at this worth level could also be underwhelming at this worth level since some opponents such because the Realme GT 2 Professional comes with a QHD+ decision. Moreover, you additionally get an LTPO2 panel on the Realme GT 2 Professional which is absent on the Vivo X80, so the show received’t be capable to run as little as 1 Hz even when Good refresh price mode is on.
That apart, the Vivo X80 has a attractive show with crisp visuals and vibrant colors. The show is nice to look at content material on because it comes with HDR assist and loud, crisp-sounding stereo audio system. The show can also be Widevine L1 licensed, so you will get all of the HD goodness on streaming apps similar to Netflix and Prime Video.
Furthermore, the cellphone comes with a rated peak brightness of 1500 nits. In our testing, we discovered the height brightness to be 644 nits with out Adaptive Brightness enabled. Flip it on and this quantity shot as much as 902 nits, which is great. It’s protected to say that daylight legibility shouldn’t be a problem with the Vivo X80 with the system being loads vibrant even underneath harsh daylight.
Sadly, the show doesn’t come with Corning Gorilla Glass safety on the entrance or the rear panel. So our recommendation can be to make use of a case and a display screen protector to safeguard your buy. Fortunately, Vivo has preinstalled a display screen protector on the cellphone proper out of the field.
Vivo X80: Cameras
The Vivo-Zeiss partnership has been immensely profitable for the corporate’s X lineup of smartphones and the Vivo X80 shouldn’t be an exception to this rule. You get a implausible digicam array, which can appear dwarfed by the X80 Professional’s digicam stack, however nonetheless holds up extraordinarily nicely at this worth level. The digicam lenses have the Zeiss T* coating that works in the direction of decreasing glare and ghosting in pictures.
The cellphone options a 50 MP Sony IMX866 major lens with a sensor measurement of 1/1.49-inch. The first lens additionally comes with OIS (Optical Picture Stabilization) for sharp pictures. You get a 12 MP telephoto shooter with 2x optical zoom and a 12 MP ultra-wide shooter. There’s a 32 MP front-facing digicam for selfies as nicely. The Vivo V1+ chip works with the lenses to course of and improve pictures and movies.
In daylight, the cellphone shoots crisp and detailed HDR pictures with good dynamic vary. There’s loads of element in the shadows and highlights and the cellphone does a good job of not overexposing or underexposing any space an excessive amount of. The images’ color is saturated and appears social media-ready. The colors are unrealistic however they do pop and stand out. Nevertheless, if you’re on the lookout for extra natural-looking colors, the Zeiss mode will permit for simply that. With Zeiss Mode lively, the colors are a lot nearer to real-life with none influence on the element and dynamic vary. Shut up pictures look implausible with a good quantity of pure background blur.
Human topics, once more, look unnatural with Zeiss Mode off. The pores and skin tone typically seems to be washed out or orange, in some instances. The issue is promptly alleviated with Zeiss Mode, so we propose conserving Zeiss Mode on completely when utilizing the cellphone’s digicam to get extra true to life outcomes. Vivo additionally has a 50 MP mode which gives extra element, particularly once you zoom into images. Usually although, this is a superb level and shoot digicam in daylight that produces detailed and vibrant images even in probably the most difficult capturing circumstances. If you wish to get extra management over your images, the Professional mode is great for doing so.
Transferring on to portrait pictures, we weren’t very impressed with the cellphone’s efficiency right here. Portrait pictures taken by way of the first sensor are fairly good, with a good quantity of element and sharpness. The sting detection can also be fairly first rate, nevertheless, edges can seem barely distorted at instances. Additionally, Zeiss mode can’t be activated for portrait pictures so the pores and skin tone problem can’t be alleviated right here.
Portrait pictures by way of the telephoto lens are first rate however at instances, the sides have a watercolour impact that seems very unrefined. This problem is exaggerated in low mild. We actually hope Vivo can present some kind of repair for this problem by way of a software program replace. In regular pictures taken from the telephoto lens, you get good dynamic vary and element. In low mild, the lens does a good job letting mild in, nevertheless, you do get to see some graininess in the images in such conditions.
Low mild images with Night time Mode lively look wonderful with good readability and texture. Should you take the picture with out Night time Mode, the digicam nonetheless shoots a shorter model of the Night time Mode shot with prolonged shutter velocity, so sufficient mild is let in even then. There’s minimal noise and grain with Night time Mode lively in low mild, so you possibly can seize most scenes at evening with confidence.
The ultrawide lens shoots implausible pictures with good color with auto-HDR however they positively softer trying pictures than what the first lens outputs. The barrel distortion can also be manageable on the ultrawide lens and we have been significantly impressed with its efficiency.
The selfie digicam, sadly, has some variety of auto-beauty mode that tunes pores and skin tones even when magnificence mode is manually turned off. It’s a disgrace for the reason that digicam outputs wonderful images in basic with good element and sharpness, however the over smoothing of pores and skin textures and modifying of pores and skin tones hampers the general expertise.
Vivo dwelled a lot on the videography capabilities of the X80 with options similar to Film LUTs, Cinematic Video mode, Horizontal Line Stabilization, Professional Mode, and extra. The images and videography options in this cellphone are huge and fanatics might be fiddling with the digicam app for hours taking part in round with the assorted modes.
For video, the cellphone can shoot 4K at 30/60 fps and 1080p at 30/60 fps from the rear digicam. There’s additionally a slow-motion mode. For selfies, you get 4K and 1080p video recording at 30 fps. Movies look wonderful in the course of the day, some of the most effective we’ve seen on an Android cellphone. The stabilisation with Horizontal Line Stabilization mode is mind-bogglingly good. Nevertheless, with regular stabilisation mode, the footage isn’t as regular because the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE’s Tremendous Regular mode. Listed below are some picture and video samples taken from the Vivo X80.
Vivo X80: Efficiency
The Vivo X80 is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC paired with Vivo’s V1+ chip that shares some of the algorithm processing load. The X80 is the primary cellphone in India to characteristic the Dimensity 9000 chipset. That is paired with as much as 12 GB LPDDR5 RAM and as much as 256 GB UFS 3.1 storage. In artificial benchmarks, the cellphone performs exceedingly nicely. In AnTuTu, the cellphone is barely forward of the Realme GT2 Professional and it beats the iPhone 13 convincingly as nicely.
In GeekBench, whereas the cellphone does lag behind the iPhone 13, its efficiency matches as much as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 telephones on this listing together with the Realme GT2 Professional and the Vivo X80 Professional. In PCMarkWork although, it isn’t the most effective performer, with the Realme GT2 Professional and the iPhone 13 clocking in higher scores.
Transferring on to GPU exams, the cellphone scores blows its competitors out of the water in GFX Bench, scoring rather more than the iPhone 13, the Realme GT2 Professional and the Vivo X80 Professional. Nevertheless, in 3D Mark Wild Life, its dearer sibling – the Vivo X80 Professional – does handle to outdo its rating.
The cellphone’s efficiency in artificial benchmarks is commendable and compares to the efficiency of flagships such because the iPhone 13, Vivo X80 Professional and the Samsung Galaxy S22+. Nevertheless, what issues us is the SoC’s throttling underneath sustained masses. We ran the CPU Throttling take a look at and noticed that the cellphone throttled to 62 per cent of its max efficiency in round quarter-hour, which is fairly excessive. The Cortex-X2 core that runs at 3.05 GHz throttled all the way down to 1.3 GHz after quarter-hour of the CPU Throttling take a look at.
This type of chip tuning is normally finished to preserve battery well being and enhance the longevity of your system. Most of the apps you utilize on a day-to-day foundation received’t even present the consequences of this sort of throttling until it is intensive duties similar to taking part in Genshin Affect or rendering 4K movies. We performed different video games on the cellphone similar to Name of Obligation: Cellular and Asphalt 9 and confronted no points in any respect.
In Name of Obligation, we received 60 fps at 98 per cent stability utilizing Gamebench, whereas Asphalt 9 gave us 60 fps at 99 per cent stability. The cellphone did warmth up after half an hour of gaming, however there have been barely any body skips or lag points.
The cellphone performs admirably in nearly any scenario you throw at it in the true world, be it social media, internet shopping, video streaming, picture modifying, or gaming. The 120 Hz refresh price additionally makes for a clean expertise when scrolling via your feed or between screens.
Transferring on to the software program, the cellphone comes with FunTouchOS 12 with Android 12 on prime. The software program is riddled with tons of bloatware. Apps similar to Byju’s, CRED, Dailyhunt, Josh, Moj, and others are pre-installed on the cellphone. When you can uninstall these apps, it does take away from the premium expertise of the cellphone. Plus, there are a few advertisements that pop up every so often in the notifications as nicely, which marred the expertise as nicely. FunTouchOS wants a lot of work and restructuring for it to supply a really premium expertise.
Vivo X80: Battery life
The Vivo X80 packs a 4,500 mAh battery with assist for 80 W FlashCharge. The cellphone lasted 16 hours in our video loop take a look at, which is great and matches the efficiency supplied by flagships. The cellphone’s battery depleted by 8 per cent when taking part in Name of Obligation: Cellular for quarter-hour and it went down by 5 per cent when streaming a video on Netflix. The cellphone charged from zero to full in simply 42 minutes.
The Vivo X80’s battery life received’t disappoint most customers. It gives sufficient juice in one cost to get most customers via a day’s utilization with ease. Nevertheless, for those who’re taking part in intensive video games or clicking footage/capturing movies in the course of the day, count on about 4-5 hours of display screen on time. With regards to charging although, do observe that the cellphone doesn’t come with PD charging assist, so for those who use a third-party quick charger, the cellphone will solely cost at 10 W.
Vivo X80: Verdict
The Vivo X80 exudes panache and might be one of the best-looking telephones in its worth vary. Not simply that, it’s also an especially dependable performer, gives good battery life with speedy 80 W quick charging, and snaps nice footage. The plethora of images and videography options on provide is bound to excite most fanatics. Nevertheless, the bloatware-riddled FunTouch OS does stand out like a sore thumb and takes away from the premium expertise. The digicam system, whereas versatile and entertaining, does current some inconsistencies similar to distorted edges in portrait mode and unnatural pores and skin tones. Regardless of these nitpicks, the Vivo X80 is a well-rounded package deal that may serve most customers nicely. Whether or not you need a cellphone for gaming, images, content material consumption or simply calling, the Vivo X80 accomplishes most of these with ease.
