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Vivo today launched V15 Pro with some amazing features and design. Vivo has been recently innovating at a high pace which is brilliant for them as well as consumers. They are trying to bring their innovations to at a lesser price and the V15 Pro is a result of that.

The main USP of the device is the 32MP front camera that also in a pop-up style just like the flagship Vivo Nex. It’s first of its time to come in a pop-up style which makes room for more screen and thus results in higher body to screen ratio. Other noticeable feature is the striking back design it has. Horizontal lines with shine looks good and resembles the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. In-display fingerprint scanner also makes its way into this phone and for that it has a Full HD AMOLED display. Talking about features, it also has a dedicated button for Google Assistant which when pressed triggers the Google Assistant like the Bixby button on Samsung phones (oops).Other specs includes triple camera 48 MP, f/1.8, 1/2″, 0.8µm; PDAF, 8 MP, 13mm (ultrawide) ;5 MP, f/2.4, depth sensor all camera loaded with AI and beauty mode. The battery is a chunky 3700mAh . It runs Android 9 pie with funtouch OS on top which Vivo’s skin for Android. It has 128GB ROM and 6/8GB RAM configurations.

The star running the show is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 which got recently leaked on AnTuTu benchmark and scored around 1,70,000 which is better then recent Snapdragon 600 series SoC(s). But benchmark only doesn’t determine speed of device. Software optimization also matters.

The phone is priced at Rs. 28,990 and is somewhat ok for the price

The Gadget Hub’s take/opinion on this:-

Gone are those days for Vivo in which they strictly focused on selfies and beauty modes. Vivo has evolved from the past in a positive way. This is the new Vivo and is going good things in terms of R&D. But every phone is not perfect therefore this also has some constraints. The UI that is funtouch OS is not user friendly for all. This is because of the UI has difference of day and night with stock android and many are familiar with stock android. Still the trend of Micro USB continues with the V15 Pro and at a price of Rs. 28,990 this seems unfair. Regarding the updates Vivo lags behind and the story might also continue with this model as well. In a nutshell, this phone might be good for people those want extremely good selfies and don’t care about the UI or updates much. Kudos it retains the headphone jack.

Read our Previuos post here