a couple of weeks ago i was with vivo and their expedition they called it a trip to berlin
for the global release here now of the x80 pro so this model here promises a lot especially in
the camera department they've partnered out with zeiss for the design of the lenses it's also using
the lenses on this model here their t-star coating which cuts down on unwanted reflections any flare
that's going to come through and it should block out a lot of that to improve especially low light
photography which of course i'll be covering in this review this model here is powered by
the snapdragon 8gen one it does have 12 gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes of storage
80 watt fast charging 50 watt wireless charging and the screen which is 120
hertz 1440p and screen ultrasonic fingerprint reader probably one of the best i've ever tested
when it comes to fingerprint readers and being an amoled screen here it's got deep blacks and
it's quite bright too they say it can top out at 1500 nits i'll be going through all the pros
and the cons but i wanted to make it clear full disclaimer here that yes i was flown out to berlin
with vivo but this is not my unit here to keep it's just a loan unit and i'm not being paid
for this video at all and because of the trip does not mean i'll be glossing over any cons of this
phone i'll let you know the full pros and cons the full truth here of the x80 pro the global release
in the box of the x80 pro you'll find the vivo flash charge and that's 80 watts maximum we've
got a type a to type c cable some headphones type c ones i briefly listened to them they sound
fine they're nothing exceptional but for an included set pretty good and most brands don't
actually include them at all sim tray tool paperwork we do get a case and some silicone
tips there for the headphones some spare ones the quality of this x80 pro is very good it's flagship
level definitely and you'd expect that considering the price tag 1200 euros in spain where i live
or 1300 in germany so yes very expensive it does weigh 215 grams we've got here a ceramic back now
this has a nice finish to it that it kind of sparkles when you look at it in the sunlight
at certain angles it's got the shimmering effect which i really do like i think it does look good
now the thickness of it it's not the slimmest it is 9.1 millimeters we have a middle frame around
the outside this is our volume up and down button power right there and the in screen fingerprint
reader i just want to demonstrate this one because it is really good it's probably one of the best
that i have reviewed in some time nice wide area it's ultrasonic and it has never failed me once
and it is just so accurate and quick now through the settings of the app you can actually set up a
secure app zone and you can use two fingers for the confirmation it's that large the area that
you're able to use two fingers there which is another uh bonus right there so the front-facing
camera here this one is 32 megapixels now it does not support 4k video unfortunately which
for me considering the price tag considering they're aiming for flagships going against say
the s22 ultra isn't great i do find that it should have at least 4k so this does have curved glass on
the edges our screen will cover in a little bit more detail shortly but it is 6.78 inches it's an
amoled panel 120 hertz cam peak they claim 1500 nits and it's a great screen it's lt po3 spec
2 as well and it's a 1440p plus resolution that it does have so the size of it in hand is good i can
easily get to that power button i can easily get to that finger print unlocking there as mentioned
just look at how good that is it's such a good fingerprint reader it is quite a large looking
camera module here but i don't mind the look of it i know some people say it looks ugly because it's
not really scented why is the periscope camera here why didn't they put it there why is the
zeiss branding uh next to where the laser focuses but the zeiss branding no i did go to the event
in berlin that zeiss did have a setup then went over and explained it so we've got a seven element
lens it does have their t-star coating which is a very good it's like a nano coating really great
coating on it to cut down on reflections you know how the iphone 13 pro max and iphone 12s all of
them seem to suffer a lot from those reflections especially in night shots well that coating
it's on these lenses here really does cut down on that and you'll see later on with my camera
samples so our periscope camera here this is a five times optical zoom camera that one's eight
megapixels a 12 megapixel two times optical camera 48 megapixel ultra wide and the main camera is
50 megapixels with a very bright f 1.6 aperture and the laser assist focus is right there now the
main camera does have optical image stabilization it all will be covered later on with my camera
samples it does stay here professional photography so you know that the cameras mean serious business
and we've got a microphone here ion transmitter you can see the antenna lines too along the bottom
usb port as usb 3.1 supports video out very fast data transfers and we have a sim slot here that
takes two nano sim so no micro sd card support unfortunately microphone loudspeaker there are
two loudspeakers one's also in the earpiece give you a sample of those later on too in this review
what about the panel that they're using in this one so it is a ltpo3 amoled and 120 hertz
it does have a 1440p resolution so this is the 3200 by 1440 it's sharp it looks really good i
don't have really any complaints with it at all just minor nitpicking and that is that because
of the curvature of the screen right on the edges you see how it's shifting out a little
bit of a blue tint there with the white you do get that now i'm someone that call me maybe
old school old fashioned whatever i prefer flat amoled or oled screen i still think they're the
best sure when you're holding it the curvature does feel a little bit better in hand and when
you're swiping especially with those gestures with the curved edge it does feel better and i do hear
people in defense of the curved screens also comment on that many times in my reviews so the
screen touch is very good to the touch response rate really good i've had no problems with it now
it is a a panel too as well that does have a lot of different settings in here that you're able to
adjust now most of them are your standard android 12 settings okay so i won't go over those we all
know them but we do have this so you can override the resolution now for the entirety of this review
and the time i've been testing this phone out i am using 1440p i mean after all that's what you're
getting so why would you downgrade the screen it's like buying a 4k tv and only playing 1080p
content on it you get the idea so refresh rate you can override this sadly there's no 90 hertz
option there so what about the screen brightness now they do say that it can peak at 1500 nets
i've never been able to measure anything close to that in direct sunlight it's perfectly viewable
and i'm getting just over 1100 nets so 1500 i'm just gonna have to take their word for it but
i don't think it's quite that high but it's still bright you can make it out and it
is an excellent screen that responds to touch really no problems with gestures either with it
this phone is running fun touch os 12 which is based off android 12. now i'll be honest here
and say that i never really did like fun touch not on the earlier vivos that i used to buy and review
but it is getting better and that's not just because i was sent this loan unit here from
vivo no it's just the way it has progressed it's evolving and it is getting a lot better too which
is great to see now we do have here some dedicated uh what they call like a ram expansion but it's
it's virtual memory so this is just a caching system so it's gonna aid in the fluidity now i've
noticed that the ui is very fast very fluid i have not experienced any lags or problems whatsoever it
might not have as many features as say miui but the stability and the fluidity of it is better
than definitely miui i really do actually like it and i'm getting used to it i used to have to
straight away when it was fun touch the older versions i would put apex launcher on this
straightaway nova launcher i would just completely get rid of it no i don't find a need to do that so
it is fine now what is missing from this compared to the chinese version with its origin os is we do
have some really handy widgets with the origin os chinese rom version that don't seem to have pulled
through with what we get on the global version right here so just show you that i mean there's
some really good ones they did have when it came to the camera you could jump straight
into the ultra wide with a simple tap of a widget so some minor things are missing
there now you see here with the global version i am picking up 5g just fine i can also get on to
lte band 20 with this so it is basically it's a global modem that they are using in this
and i like the fact that they do have the cutout for the front-facing camera centered
and not to the left like some other brands are presently doing so when i first got it in berlin
in the event they handed us all phones and tested it out when i first of course powered it on there
is quite a bit of bloatware so there's a few things to uninstall but not that much there
you can count maybe seven eight or so bloatware applications not as bad as other brands which
are certainly a lot worse than vivo now the charge time i've put a little note right here because it
did take 20 minutes for some reason at 65 percent it quickly cut out and then started charging again
but it did take 39 minutes to fully charge the 4700 milliamp hour battery for 80 watts that's not
too bad and anything that's under an hour i give a big thumbs up that's still quick in my books
speaking of fast well this is definitely really quite quick here and 2-2 you can see that the
gpu quite powerful and yes later on it does heat up a little bit the snapdragon 8 gen1
that is powering this is a hot chip and i'll get into gaming performance later on too
so the ufs 3.1 storage doesn't disappoint very quick there you can see good random writes reads
and installing apps is very fast and the sequentials they're really good
so definite flagship storage performance camera 2 api support is level 3 that's great open camera
gcam ports feel free to test those out they will be supported you do not need to gain root access
for that widevine level one suit and i am a broken record here netflix is working but amazon prime
videos in standard definition with literally every single chinese brand out there that i do test out
until they eventually get around to white listing these devices we do have a safety net pass there
is nfc on board banking apps will work so you do not need to worry about that battery life this is
the fixed test which is not real world it's not really realistic but it's a good way to gauge
and compare this to other phones so i did run this 1440p at 1440p and 120hz so it's not a good result
what i'm getting real world use with the 1440p and 120 hertz is about five and a half hours tops
of screen on time not great i wouldn't rate this as an amazing battery life but of course lower
the resolution down and use the smart switch you can then drag it out to about seven hours
and our audio so this phone just like other flagships sounds pretty much the same to me when
it comes to voice calls nice cancellation that's active that's present and i would rate it as
being well yeah the same as all of those ones now there's no 3.5 million headphone jack you can use
the type c headphones that they've included they sound they sound fine they're not amazing but
they're good enough for what they've included so i'd probably just use those or you can of course
use adapters type c to 3.5 millimeter now the loudspeakers just out of the earpiece here at
the top down the bottom here is a sample of these speakers at 100 they sound good they're not i
would say amazing but they're not bad either they're above average sounding loudspeakers
and a look at gaming performance now so again shin impact i have it on the highest possible settings
and this is just in the main town here now occasionally it lags a little bit but
the performance is looking very good on the top settings 60 frames per second gets close to that
but it does dip down you do see frame dips now if you swipe from the left here we do have this
gaming mode that comes up all the different toggles we've got a balance mode performance mode
is eagle eye view so just tapping that you'll see what it does is boost up the brightness and the
contrast a little bit you even have a watts app picture in picture if you send a lot of whatsapp
messages that's actually quite handy recording the screen screenshots uh you can lock the brightness
there too and we do have this which is another performance enhancer so this this is to do with
the game frame rate so we've got a frame rate boost and a stable frame rate mode too now i've
been testing both of them out and i don't really see to be honest that much of a difference from
them but maybe it does do something so what i'm more concerned about is just how hot is the gin
eight going to get snapdragon 81 sorry should i say after now about 1 hour 45 minutes of gaming
i'm gonna come back now and we'll see how hot will it get playing game chin impact so temperature too
high and gen chain impact on the maximum settings this is not great to see just how hot is it
getting so let's take a look at those temperatures there so 46 degrees uh we're seeing maybe a little
bit over that it's on the front of the screen uh it does feel actually hotter than that
so let's have a look at the back uh similar temperatures there 45 46.
so unfortunately it got that hot that it's thrown that overheating error there so i really wish that
the global version had the demensity 9000 in it which would probably be a little bit cooler than
the super hot snapdragon 8 gen 1 that i have seen overheating and the oneplus 10 pro the xiaomi 12
xiaomi 12 pro pretty much every single phone that uses it it will overheat you get the idea
moving over to the cameras now with the x80 pro if there's any camera i'm
disappointed in it's this 32 megapixel front facing camera especially for video
so for vlogs you can see right now it doesn't seem to have electronic image stabilization and i've
also noticed that you can only shoot 1080p which for a flagship and the price of this phone it's
simply not competing with its rivals for example the s22 ultra which does have front-facing 4k 30
and 60 and the electronic image stabilization so disappointing quality here with the front facing
vlog footage let's take a look at the rear cameras and how they fare main camera is 50 megapixels
you get 4k 30 4k 60 and you also do get 8k 30. now the stabilization is a combination of both
optical image stabilization and electronic it is very steady i've not noticed any problems with the
focus in video it's sometimes with the photos i see focus issues now and then but with video
it does seem to be very good the audio bitrate is 256 kilobits per second it's not bad at all
and overall i do like the video quality here that we get with the x80 pro i think it is good the
stabilization is great and i even just demonstrate jumping up and down here see that is quite steady
and you can even use other modes which are the super steady modes basically but it lowers down
the resolution the ultra wide is 48 megapixels and it does have just like the main sense of
some very impressive stabilization and when i pan around you occasionally see a little bit
of jutta come through this is a typical android trait so what i'm going to do now is jog ahead
and you can see that stability very good here with the vivo x80 pro
so as you saw from the camera samples that sometimes the focus can be out
sometimes a selfie cam can overexpose and what i did notice is that the vlog video performance
with this model just like the x70 pro plus is disappointing front-facing camera video footage
only 1080p no electronic image stabilization come on vivo you need to get that sorted out
now the overheating that i did see when gaming with very demanding games pushing it really
really hard here in summer ambient temperatures about 26 degrees celsius again that's not good
now it's a common issue with the snapdragon 8 gen in my experience i have seen so many phones now
overheating the only ones that don't overheat plain demanding games for long periods are the
fan cooled phones like red magic 7 and red magic 7 pro they're the only ones very hot chipset from
qualcomm so really it's a great fun there's a lot to like about it build quality the screen
the resolution of that screen very sharp looks great the cameras can take some really good
photos i do like the zeiss color profile which is the profile i used in the samples i showed you
it got plenty of versatility with the ultra wide the zoom cameras on there too as well
so it's really good and fun os is improving which is great fun touch os a lot better
than what it used to be so it's great to see that they are really they're really pushing ahead vivo
and i like what i'm seeing however the price point for this one ah 1200 euros here in spain for this
model or 1300 euros if you live in germany 100 euros more i don't know why i guess it's
local law taxes or whatever so it's a pricey phone i hope they can work on that pricing and some
firmware updates to help fix the overheating and just tweak and improve upon the camera performance
there so thank you so much for watching my review here the full story of vivo's x80 pro