vivo NEX S review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys, people took most of the smartphone industry by surprise when availing its apex concept phone and releasing it as a full-fledged product. Only a few months later, the result, the Villon excess as a really innovative design, but is any good as an actual daily driver and will for GSM marina, and this is our VIVO. Next s review the VIVO Nexus has a gently sloped glass back in an aluminum frame from this angle. It doesn't seem too out of the ordinary for a 20-18 phone, but flip it over, and you start to see what the buzz is all about. A huge display takes up the whole front surface with minimal bezels and no notch part of what makes this possible is the innovative set up for the selfie cam. It sits inside the body and pops out when you need it sort of like the periscope of a submarine.

Unlike a submarine, though this device isn't watertight, but the cameras up-and-down motion is smooth and actually sort of fun. It even has some optional sound effects. The assembly feels sturdy and VIVO boasts. They can withstand up to 100 pounds of force, but probably better not to sit on it. There's no earpiece taking up precious space on the front of the NEW s.

The phone relies on an internal Piero electric setup to generate sound for calls, and it doesn't sound bad. Another futuristic feature aiming to shave off. The bezels are the under display. Fingerprint reader, sadly, is pretty slow compared to traditional readers and not too reliable. It feels bad to have to try multiple times to wake up your phone.

There is no face unlock feature available on the next s. All of these space-saving innovations have come together to allow for the next SS massive screen. It's a six point, six inches AMOLED with a 1080p resolution in a tone, 19 point 3 by 9 aspect ratio. Even though it's only 1080p and with 388 PPI, the display still looks amazingly sharp and has punchy colors and really deep blacks. It isn't too color accurate with no options for making color adjustments.

You'll have to get used to the saturated, reds and yellows. Maximum brightness in the default mode is just shy of 460 nets and sunlight. Legibility is great: we've seen a few phone scores higher, but the next s is perfectly usable in the Sun. The screen also has an always-on display, showing you the time and notifications is convenient and can be customized in settings. Not everything is next-gen on this phone, and we saw have a 3.5 millimeter jack for headphones volume is below average, but there's almost no distortion. Otherwise, we have a single loudspeaker on the bottom.

Next to the USB port, a stereo setup would be nice but tough to deal with this all screen design. In any case, the speaker is pretty loud and music has little to no Distortion. The Nexus runs on a state-of-the-art Snapdragon, 845 chipsets and eight gigs of RAM. As expected, it runs great and there are no surprises and benchmarks. The phone keeps cool, and it performs just as well as this flash of competitors storage wise.

The Nexus has either 128 or 256 gigs of internal memory depending on the model. This is an expandable, though now under vivas OS, it's fun touch 4, /, Android, 8.1 Oreo, and about as far from stock as we've seen in an Android phone. Looking more like iOS with a bunch of added features, you can navigate using the regular on-screen buttons or opt to use gestures, swipe up from the center to go home and swipe up and hold to open the task. Switcher swiping up from the left side goes back and swiping up from the right opens the control center so yeah, instead of having settings and quick toggles in the notification shade at the top here, the house in the control center at the bottom, just like iOS, along with a row of recent apps, the default app package is pretty huge on this phone. Without Google Play Services in China, people had to develop quite a few things by itself some standard apps at the phone app album and video player work well, but others like the browser, are clearly not set up for a Western user experience in the Chinese ROM.

There's a lot of other bloatware too. This has why beau Baidu and Ally pay there's actually an entire folder, just full of random apps, even more stuff is hidden away behind the scenes, as various services, thankfully most can be. Uninstalled swiping over to the left opens customizable panels which can display things like weather news and reminders as part of vivas digital assistant named Jodi and like Samsung's mix B, it has its own dedicated Hardware button and no, it can't be remapped for now. Jodi operates in Chinese, but is supposed to set alarms, make reminders for events and tumble and switch certain settings by voice control. It's also present on the camera and can analyze the on-screen content and provide searches, sort of like Bixby vision, but speaking of dedicated buttons.

The smart click feature is pretty convenient. You can map any custom feature or action to a long press of the volume down button. One major issue we found with the OSS is heavy security, which prevents you from side loading, apps or a new launcher without a complicated process involving a Chinese phone number. It's really stingy about permissions. ? sometimes asking you to authorize a new app every time you launch it.

The Nexus has a big 4000 million power battery and is pretty power. Efficient is scored an excellent 101, our endurance rating and our proprietary tests charging this large battery isn't a problem either with the provided, 20 2.5 watt charger. We went from zero to 50% in half an hour. There is no wireless charging, though the VIVO Nexus has the dual camera setup, though the 5 megapixel secondary camera is only used to provide depth in portrait mode. The main camera is F.

One point 8 and 12 megapixels with dual pixel face: detection, autofocus and O is there's a pro mode for still photos. We can adjust ISO shutter, speed, white balance and manual focus in daylight. Photos come out okay, but we expected more out of a flagship device. Noise suppression is quite heavy, and resolve detail is rather low with some softness throughout the frame, but even in good lighting, there is still some visible noise and dynamic range is surprisingly limited. Clouds and shadows often get clips even with the AI driven HDR turned on the portrait.

Both shots using both cameras, all right, but not all that impressive. The background is nicely out of focus, though the edges around the subject sometimes end up blurry in low-light we again weren't impressed with INS, despite having IS everything gets particularly blurry and fuzzy, and often even out of focus now on to the 8 megapixel selfie cam, which has fixed focus. While we applaud VIVO for its cool mechanics, the actual performance of the front-facing snapper is rather disappointing. Selfies come out soft with limited dynamic range. There's some noticeable noise and shots often come out overexposed.

It has its own portrait mode too, and the D focusing looks about as convincing as that on the main camp. Video can be recorded in 4k or 1080p at 30fps. There's no 60 FPS option on this phone. The next s actually does a pretty good job. Here there is some noise and a tendency to overexpose the quality is flash great and the 4x sons grands decent stabilization, even in 4k.

So the next s, we've got to hand it to Viva for stepping out of the box and delivering a fresh new smartphone design with an awesome bezel list Nautilus display. We also get great battery life, a loudspeaker and the fast processing you expect from a flagship. It's not perfect, though there's no waterproofing, the fingerprint reader can be frustrating, and we expected more from the camera, but the future that could be a turn-off for users is fun, touch OS sure it provides a lot of features, but as current state, it's overwhelming, and a bit chaotic out-of-the-box users shouldn't be expected to make a bunch of customizations bypass security or side load apps and files just to have something that feels friendly and usable. Until VIVO revises the OS or releases an international ROM. We can't really recommend this phone, but still it showcases a neat design that has us hopeful for the future.

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