Vivo has launched these two new phones here we've got the v25 with a 6.44 inch flat amoled screen
90 hertz powered by the dimensi 900 and then the v25 pro powered by the demensity 1300 a larger
6.56 inch amoled screen it's got a curvature to it either side of the screen and 120 hertz
battery difference well 4630 versus 4500 charging difference as well 66 watts versus
44. the camera modules well they're the same but the back at least looks the same because it's
got the same cameras in them too 64 megapixel main sensor with optical image stabilization
eight megapixel ultra wide two megapixel macro and then the front facing cameras where we've got a
teardrop design versus a cutout so the pro model gets a 32 megapixel selfie camera with autofocus
and then the non-pro v25 has a 50 megapixel camera with auto focus i'll be going over their
key differences performance differences battery life sound and cameras compared side by side to
let you know the differences between the two of the v25 series now what is included with both of
these phones is very similar it's pretty much identical here so we've got a tpu case but of
course it's going to be slightly different on the other model because it's not rounded it's got the
square edges to it there is a warranty card and important information the charges are about the
same size as you can see here the only difference is we've got 66 watt charging with the pro model
the non-pro model is 44 watts now i really like this that they have included here obviously a
type a to type c cable but we get some headphones now these headphones are 3.5 millimeter ones but
before you get your hopes up no it doesn't have a 3.5 millimeter phone jack on both of these
but they do include this which is a type c to 3.5 millimeter adapter so you get exactly
the same things with the v25 and then the v25 pro so what are the other differences well when
you look at them the design wise very different here size difference in the screen so 6.44 inches
versus 6.56 so they're both full hd plus displays both amoleds but this one is
flat so the non-pro version flat we've got the teardrop design there and larger looking bezels
because it doesn't have the curvature to it now the frame around the outside you can see is also
flat there too but i like it i actually do kind of like the build and look of the non-pro model
a little more compared to the pro here so the pro has curved at the back where it's all squared off
with the non-pro v25 here camera modules are in the same location and then these cameras they're
pretty much the same on the back here so we're looking at a main 64 megapixel sensor with optical
image stabilization eight megapixel ultra wide and two megapixel there for uh depth macro and i mean
that's yeah pretty average there they're still using the two megapixel cameras i really wish
they wouldn't do that and instead give us a better ultra wide camera would be good so there's another
little trick up the sleeve too with the non-pro version with this color here which actually
changes and i'll demonstrate it that is this back is color changing to uv lights and i happen to
have a uv flashlight here so once i flash this on it just go over the outline of the stencil here
just to give you an idea very quickly do this and once i take this off you'll be able to see that
woman there on the surfboard come through on the back which is kind of neat that you can do this
now this is temporary eventually in a matter of minutes or so that will start to fade away but
still it's kind of a cool thing that you can use stencils on the back of it to do this
so it's a glass material but it's got that color-changing uh chemical that effect to it which
uh yeah i like it it's different you can also get the pro version with that color changing glass
just that i happen to have the black version now the black one here it shimmers this material in
direct sunlight you can see and even bright lights and i do like it it's a nice material
does not show any fingerprints at all it will be a little bit slippery however in winter of course
once your hands get a little bit cooler which is normal but for the phones do have a plastic frame
around them we've got our two loudspeakers there is no secondary loudspeaker unfortunately that's
just it the type c port microphone and then a difference here with the sim tray so on the v25
pro it does not take any micro sd card so it's two nano sims however if you give up on a nano scene
with the v25 the normal or should i say non-pro model you can add a micro sd card which is good
then up the top we have secondary microphones so it does have nice cancellation and calls
and stereo for video now with the displays there is a difference here in the refresh rate so we're
looking at 90 hertz versus 120 hertz so you can see a little bit of banding coming up and down a
little bit more on the v25 versus the v25 pro both of them do not have a dc dimming option which is
sad i really do like that because people that are more susceptible to flicker or that banding if you
do see it especially at low brightnesses you may see it on both of these phones here so brightness
wise they are a little bit apart they're not as similar as you would think we're looking at
on the non-pro version so the v25 of a slightly brighter screen this one does pump out just over
nits versus about 660 nits of brightness that i'm measuring here with the v25 pro because they
are amoled panels the colors are uniform you can see with whites here with different colors there
that you are going to see that there's no like pixel dimming around the edges like ips panels
five screens do have the same settings the biggest one of course is this to do with the refresh rate
so the 90 hertz versus the 120 of course the 120 when you're scrolling in menus does seem a little
bit smoother but it's not a massive difference 90 to 120 as the difference you get from say
60 to 120 now of course you can use 60 if you want to save on battery life both of them have their
screen color mode here with fun touch os so you can go in and tweak the color temperature those
white balances then the fingerprint reader in both models is the same the location is a little
bit too low for my liking i wish it was a bit higher but we are looking at about the exact same
speed between both of them they are using the same hardware with the fingerprint readers both are on
android 12 both run fun touch os latest versions had some firmware updates come through already
for them so there's a big difference in the hardware because we are looking at the demensity
900 with eight gigabytes of ram versus right here we have then the demand city 1300 with 12
gigabytes of ram now both of them do have some virtual ram allocated in fact eight gigabytes
it's quite a bit but this is basically a caching system so performance wise yes it is a little bit
more quick and snappy the pro model as you would expect a little more fluid because of the 120
hertz 120 frames per second versus 90 frames per second but there's not a huge huge difference but
yes it is noticeable i will mention that so when you go into the settings if you have a
quick look under we can find here ram and storage there is that option there so you can see that
it's got the virtual allocated eight gigabytes more the caching and eight gigabytes there just
to help speed things up so the gestures have been very good on both of them and they both run
very smooth and fluid no real noticeable lag at a couple of times i may have seen the dementia 900
have a little micro starter with the animations but that has really been it they both perform
really solidly but let's jump into some synthetic benchmarks and a few other things too both models
come with a bit of bloatware installed you can see we've got linkedin spotify tick-tock a few
things to uninstall and i really wish brands would toe down tone down on the amount of the bloatware
that they do pre-install when you first power it on so both of the phones the 225 gigabyte versions
here that i do have you're looking at about 225 gigabytes of free available space however
micro sd card support on the non-pro model we don't have it with the pro which is a real shame
that they removed it so charge time we are looking at only a difference of nine minutes so the 44
watt charging versus 66 watt charging that's it even though this has a larger battery okay that
kind of evens out a bit so larger battery means it needs a little more time there's not really
that much of a difference at all and that's when it comes to the battery life which you see here
really any difference and we're talking only two minutes so how can that be well we do have 330
milliamp hours more on this particular model here but because it's a more powerful chipset that's
why now both of the displays were calibrated to 200 nits of brightness and they're almost
identical there when it comes to the battery life uh so it's kind of we're looking at about nine
hours of on-screen time with very light tasks on these or around about eight hours so the battery
life is pretty good actually on both of them so they both do support wide vine level one
as you'd expect there with these and then the power difference between them well of course we're
going from a flagship while mid-range to flagship chipset as expected there is quite a bit of a
difference here so with the v25 pro if you intend to game a lot it's probably the one to go for
the demand city 1300 versus the demensity 900. the vincity 900 however is a much cooler running chip
you can see it only heated up and only went up 3.6 degrees versus 7.4 doing the same exact test there
so there is a bit of a difference now the things i can mention that camera 2 api it's only full not
the level 3 so you might have a bit of trouble getting gcam ports and because they're both
mediatek phones you will run into a bit of a problem there i think to try and find gcam ports
or use open camera and things like that for third-party camera launchers camera software sorry
applications as for audio now well there is a bit of a difference even though they've both just got
single downwards phone loudspeakers such a shame we don't have a secondary one in the earpiece type
c to 3.5 millimeter quality sounds very similar however the pro model is louder and that loudness
pulls through with the loudspeaker too that it does sound a little bit better to my ears here
and this one not quite as loud on the v25 now voice calls on both of them they sound pretty
much the same to me they are probably using the exact same hardware when it comes to microphones
and earpieces i believe they probably would be and that's why they sound the same there so i'll just
give you a quick sample first the pro and then you'll hear the v25 which is noticeably quieter
moving over to the cameras now so for the front-facing video quality we do have just 1080p
30 and 1080p 60. they probably would have noticed that it is shaking around a little bit as i walk
that is because there is no electronic image stabilization so this is disappointing to see
i do hope that they can add this with a firmware update now the audio bit rate on both of these
here is 256 kilobits per second and that buzzing you're hearing in the background
it's nothing to do with the audio quality that is a cicada so they're pretty loud here
in summer at the moment so the difference between the megapixels or the front-facing
cameras i mentioned before when we looked at the design we've got 50 megapixels on the vivo v25
whereas the v25 pro does then have a 32 megapixel front facing camera both
of them do have auto focus you can see i'm in focus here but then you can focus on the
background and then i can go back to myself here and it's going to get the lock on me so
it's a good handy feature to have that autofocus but please vivo add electronic image stabilization
rear cameras have optical image stabilization it's a 64 megapixel sensor and it can shoot 4k 34k
60. they both seem pretty similar but there i think are a little bit of a differences some
differences with the software optimization the way it looks probably could just be the screens
here as i'm recording so quite steady footage and auto focus on both of them seems to be pretty good
i haven't really encountered any problems and i'm just a jogger here testing out that stabilization
it's good to see we do have optical it should make a difference as well with low light
photography which i'll get on too the ultra wide camera can only do 1080p so no 4k the quality
from the 8 megapixel sensor is definitely the weakest point with the cameras with these vivo v25
series here that it's not amazing quality but at least it does have electronic image stabilization
as i walk ahead it's just a shame that it's not a sensor capable of 4k video then it would look
quite a bit better onto some camera sample so portrait mode very different on both of them
looks warmer on the v25 pro it also crops in a little more more pleasant photo then side by side
here with the main camera but two times digital zoom the v25 pro looks the best and here were the
selfie shots um yeah looks like i'm wearing makeup so a lot of skin smoothing going on not so good
and vera again is the difference in the color more warmer on the v25 pro same with the ultra
wide ultrawide is the poorest and warmer colors here with the v25 pro and then night shots i'll
just give you this one sample because on both of them it's terrible lots of noise on the v25
pro yuck looks yellowish and then it just doesn't come out great on the v25 so they need to do quite
a bit of work when it comes to their night shot mode and gaming performance so this one's obvious
that a demanding game like gen chin impact is noticeably running a little bit slower here than
the v25 pro because well it's got about half the power of the gpu it doesn't mean it can't play
a game like gen chain impact here which is on the highest possible settings at the moment set to 60
frames per second but clearly it's not actually running at 60. it's more like 30 something 40s
and you do notice just those frame dips now and then coming through a lot more than the pro model
then of course with the v25 pro it is noticeably faster smooth a good gameplay now what does really
surprise me is not the performance is the fact that it doesn't really seem to throttle and
the thermals are excellent they're really good even after playing for 30 minutes the phone is
barely getting warm so then of course there is a difference in pricing i don't know the exact
prices yet but this of course is the cheaper model with the more low-powered chipset
so i actually prefer the screen in this one it's a little brighter 90 hertz for me is still fine
okay i wish it had 120 but being slightly brighter and a flat amoled i do actually enjoy it a little
more and the squared off design i really do like it a little bit lighter but you really don't
notice that much of a difference between both of them so what doesn't really have too much of a
difference is the cameras we still have the same shortfall shortcomings with the ultrawide camera
looking pretty average especially with video quality front-facing vlog footage oh dear no
electronic image stabilization that's a shame and we don't get 4k support either which the chipset
does support but they didn't want to add it for the front-facing cameras so a big surprise there
with the battery life like i thought well surely the more powerful maybe more efficient chipset
and the slightly larger battery life i mean it's got a better size sorry 330 milliamp hours should
do a lot better but it's identical battery life basically just goes to show you that it's not
always going to be as clear-cut as you think when you compare these models so build quality on both
of them is very good i do like the fact we get a micro sd card slot with the v25 which you don't
with the promo unfortunately and both are lacking uh dual loudspeakers only single loudspeakers and
no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack but of course if i was going to pick one personally i would
probably go if you game a lot i would go for the v25 pro that domencity 1300 is an
impressive chipset what i like about it is you get performance around that of a snapdragon 8 or maybe
the 870 and similar thermals to the snapdragon 870 the fact that it really doesn't get hot it doesn't
throttle gets barely warm so really good thermals uh with both of these phones here including that
dimension 900 barely heats up at all it gets slightly warm to the touch that's after you gain
for about an hour so incredible thermals with both these they both do have very nice screens
on them there's just those shortcomings there with the cameras really that i've pointed out
so there we go that's the difference between the v25 and the v25 pro from vivo