this is vivo's new mid-range phone the v27 there's also the v27 pro but unfortunately DHL sent that
back it got stuck in customs long story short I won't be covering that one but this here which is
the cheaper model now it has a 50 megapixel main camera on the rear 50 megapixel selfie camera that
can even shoot in 4K video and has auto focus this phone is powered by the dimensity 7200 my
model that Vivo sent out to me has eight gigabytes of RAM and 256 gigabytes of storage it's ufs 2.2
spec and we do have a 66 watt charging with a 4 600 milliamp hour battery now the screen is 6.78
inches it's a AMOLED display 120 hertz and does support HDR 10 plus Inside the Box you will find
an 80 watt charger it is their Vivo supercharged but the phone charges at 66 Watts then we've
got our type c to type a cable a SIM tray tool important information and warranty card and then
a clear TPU case the v27 does have this glass back on it we've seen it before that changes the color
of it with UV light and I like it it's different it's something that is not like what other brands
are doing they're not only just a plain kind of color or they have it Sparkle or something like
that no it changes color and if you get a UV light you can even like write things on it it's just
timbery then it starts to change and shift the color again now the weight of it is very good it's
only 180 grams and then the thickness too nice and slim for once we've got a slim phone here that
is 7.4 millimeters it's a again a nice welcome change here to have a Slimmer lighter phone so it
curves off at the edges here the back glass the front glass two does have a curvature to it now
I'm someone who really likes to have a flat screen but I don't mind it too much it's not an excessive
curve cars do shift out a little now screen size we are looking at here 6.78 inches it's an AMOLED
120 hertz HDR 10 plus support I'll get onto that uh shortly now the bezels around the outside they
do look pretty good standard right there and we've got a interesting front facing camera now white
is interesting because it has autofocus at this price point very good it supports 4K video and
it's 50 megapixels I'll be testing it out later on in the video of course and it does support
face unlocking so the fingerprint unlocking I'll demonstrate that again that it is pretty quick
there you can see the animation slows it down makes it look a little slow do that one more time
that was very fast that time but on the bottom we have a SIM tray that does take two Nano Sims so no
micro SD card support microphone and a type c Port so it's USB 2.0 speeds only no video
out loudspeaker and up the top here you'll see we've just got a microphone and it does say here
professional portrait so what's missing this is one of the cons the downsides of this phone is it
doesn't have stereo loudspeakers so it's just this single loudspeaker down the bottom I don't know
why they've done this maybe it was the cost of having that 50 megapixel autofocus 4K front camera
then the rear cameras we've got a main camera that is 50 megapixels with Optical image stabilization
and also electronic with 4K but only this real one because electronic 4K with the front camera
doesn't seem to be working at the moment at the time of this video and 8 megapixel Ultra wide
yes another eight megapixel Ultra wide and 2 megapixel macro camera oh dear I really wish
they would stop doing this I'd rather have a improved 13 or 16 megapixel Ultra wide or even
a 12 megapixel one as long as it's got auto focus or it's even just better than the 8 megapixel and
then this here which is the aura light so it's a ring flash setup there which is more powerful a
little bit different from what we get with other phones now a little bit more on this screen as
I mentioned it is a 6.78 inch screen 120 hertz it is AMOLED and there is a curvature to the glass on
the screen that you do notice a little bit but it makes you could say yes the swiping the gestures
a little nicer now if I hold it at an angle you'll see it shifts out a little the color on the edges
it'll go darker here and brighter on that side depending how you look at it but when you're
normally looking at it straight on isn't too much of a problem but I will say that I would have
preferred a flat screen I'm just a flat screen type of guy I just love them screen refresh rate
can be overridden you can set it to 60 hertz if you want to save on battery unfortunately
there's no 90 Hertz option which would have been great to have now you're seeing here that
it doesn't mention anything about DC dimming now uh you can adjust the white balance here you've
got different color modes which is great but DC dimming does not seem to be listed anywhere here
not that I've actually needed it I have not seen any flicker with the screen at all so I'll dim it
right right down there and you can see that no I don't see any flicker even on camera it shouldn't
be happening at all now the brightness it tops out at about 700 NZ it gets quite bright and you
can make it out in direct sunlight so overall for an AMOLED screen very good touch response
has been excellent I can't complain about the screen and all now the resolution is just that
full HD Plus resolution so we're looking at 1080 by 2400 pixels which gives us a sharp 388 PPI
now it runs funtouch OS and it is there version 13 based on Android 13 and the performance very good
I would rate this as performance wise definitely better than me UI it has not exhibited any lags
now I've got four sorry eight gigabytes of RAM here with 256 gigabytes of storage and it's
good really good performance here now you get a lot of different options in the settings and
everything that I won't go through but I like how the toggles load in and your notifications
really quick you just don't get annoying lags and the fingerprint reader so far has been
pretty solid there so that is great and I am on the latest firmware at the time of this video
although where yes it is present sadly they have crammed on quite a few bloatware applications as
you can see like we've got Spotify Tick Tock a few other bits and pieces sure they've got their
Vivo apps on there as well so there's a little bit of that you need to clean up when you first
get it but it's team relatively tame compared to some other brands out there like real me for
example or xiaomi they put a lot of bloatware and I count sometimes over 20 applications over three
gigabytes worth now if you're recording video the audio bitrate is good to see here that it's 256
kilobits per second so they haven't given us that horrible 96 kilobits per second that can
sound quite scratchy and just a little bit too compressed wide Vine level one sir yes that is
present which is great and the internal storage here we are looking at a ufs uh three here 3.1
and good speeds and good random reads and writes sorry ufs 2.2 I believe it is I haven't actually
been given the exact ufs spec but I believe it's 2.2 I can kind of tell from those speeds there
because 3.1 would be a lot faster than that so for a mid-range chipset that is fine and
performance wise battery you're looking really good actually a lot better than I was expecting
um especially with this style of phone that I was surprised by this result here now 13 hours this is
not a realistic result but it's the test I do with my other reviews of phones realistically you're
looking around about nine hours of screen on time eight to nine hours so that puts it in par with
well on par with my Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra which can get similar kind of results up to about eight
hours now it will charge in this as cut short here it took about 41 minutes to fully charge it at
that 66 Watts the 4600 milliamp hour battery which isn't too bad at all anything that's under an hour
I don't find it as bad at all nowadays sure it doesn't beat some of those phones that have 120
watt charging that can do it in 20 minutes still a respectable speed however and then this this
is very good so it has the dimensity 7200 and the result here shows that it's pretty good
it's mid-range nowadays this kind of score but a couple of years ago that would have been almost
Flagship kind of scores over six hundred thousand but very decent and you'll see that where a lot
of the score is gained here is the GPU performance which is pretty good again for this kind of price
point you find it is better than other phones out there that are running the demensity 1080
no but this dimensity 7200 is a lot better in the GPU Department with the melee G 610 with its four
cores audio sadly there is no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so you need to use one of these
but the big downside to this phone is it's only got the single speaker down the bottom here now
the sample I will play you will be at 100 volume and you hear that it sounds alright but of course
it's just coming out there it would have been so good if we had a top stereo speaker there too as
well now voice calls fine I've had no issues so I'll play this track now for one of my videos at
100 volume just to give you an idea of what it sounds like [Music] [Applause] thank you gaming
performance with game chain impact on the top settings here the v27 performs well thanks to that
dimensity 7200 it doesn't really have any major lags now the frame rate's not amazing it's not
constantly 60 60 frames per second but more like in the 40s than I'm seeing with the performance
but it's so much better so much better than this phone right here with the dimensity 1080. this
is the red meat note 12 Pro Plus that I've just reviewed selling for about the same price and
it's often quite laggy and choppy with the same exact settings but no not here with the Vivo v27
over to the cameras so this x27 has 4K with the front facing camera however when you shoot
with 4K it doesn't have any electronic image stabilization so you probably want to use a
gimbal if you go over then to 1080p however you can shoot with electronic image stabilization
I'll test it out now this is now 1080p 30 and it's their steady phase electronic image stabilization
you can see it's a lot steadier than the 4K footage I just showed you before so if you're
going to be moving around a lot you probably want to shoot with this electronic image stabilization
versus the shaky 4K footage with the rear camera we do have electronic image stabilization 4K 30
4K 60 I'm shooting in 4k 30 because that matches my videos the timelines so this e-bike here that
we have is one that I'm going to be reviewing in the channel soon and it's called the Utopia cord
if anyone's interested so far it's really good 700c Wheels it's got even TPS and a few other
smart features and whatnot with it so this camera quality here is looking pretty good I'm just going
to jog ahead to show you that the stabilization fairly good this electronic image stabilization
and when I pan around don't really see too much of that annoying judder
not with this demented e700 7000 200 sorry the audio bit rate is 256 kilobits per second and
what we're looking at here if you're wondering well this is called fire this is a fire last fires
and the community Valencia and Spain this is something they do so they make these Effigies
and then later they end up burning them yes that's right they've burned these down
and some camera samples so this is the main camera here a shot of my cat Vera and you can see that
her white fur especially on the right side of her face is a little Overexposed with this particular
picture here front facing selfie shot here so it does tend to capture quite a bit of detail
of the selfie camera with the v27 thanks to that 50 megapixel shooter that it does have
rear camera portrait now this shot of my daughter here came out okay but you can see it's a little
bit blurry that's because it is low light at the moment and I do think she was moving about a bit
and I had people next to me moving so it's a good real world test too of the portrait mode
the weakness of the cameras is this the ultrawide which is eight megapixels and
this happens with a lot of other brands that I'm currently reviewing they use
these a two megapixel macro cameras eight megapixel cameras that are Ultra wides not
particularly amazing quality I mean we're great that we've got an ultra wide camera don't get
me wrong I just wish it was a bit better than this particular sensor and lens setup
this is our main sensor again so that 50 megapixel camera it's an okay shot perhaps a little bit
too bright there and then moving over to a low light I think the low light performance is quite
good it does take advantage of the optical image stabilization so it uses a slightly longer shutter
rate there to let in a little bit more light and it's of course taking various different photos
here and layering them all on top with the night mode so the night mode I think is pretty good in
the sign here neon sign in the background that blue one came out the blue it should have been so
the color balance tended to be reasonably correct over in Europe they use a lot of yellow lights not
white lights but yellow street light surf it's got a yellow tint to it that is actually more accurate
now I don't know the exact final EU pricing yet for it but I've got an idea I think it's going
to be just under 400 euros or maybe about say 460 or something now that puts it in the same
league as other mid-range phones like the xiaomi redmi note 12 Pro Plus that I have just reviewed
and covered in the channel this is superior this phone in every single way apart from the
charging rate of that phone which is 120 watts it takes about 20 minutes but this is not bad
it's around about 40 minutes to fully charge it with the 66 watt charging however you gain then
a much better front-facing camera that's got autofocus it's 4K you can shoot 4K video with
the front facing camera but sadly at the time of this video as you saw from my sample it does not
have any electronic image stabilization so I hope Vivo fixes that the rear camera can do it now the
end screen fingerprint reader there is working very well face unlocking is working fine there
battery life seems to be very good on this model so around about eight to nine hours of screen on
time is possible with the 4 600 milliamp hour battery and then the chipset the demensity 7200
not bad at all games really well and can play as I showed you demanding games like gen chain
impact with way less frame dips and lag that I did experience with a demensity 1080 which sells
for about the same price so I hope that Vivo does continue this trend of releasing phones that for
about the same price are a lot better than the competitors out there and even fun touch OS I'm
starting to enjoy it like it because it's really well optimized it doesn't seem to be any bugs
certainly better than MIUI and the only real big downside to this particular mobile is the single
loudspeaker at the bottom now I can tell that Vivo did up the volume of it they tried to make it the
best sounding as possible single loudspeaker setup but still it should have a secondary loudspeaker
so we get stereo there so thank you so much for watching my review here of the the Vivo v27