Hey, what’s up? Sami here. Today we are going to take a quick look at the vivo X Note,
which they target those rich middle-aged upscale business people.
And I will answer you the question at the end of this video,
is this massive 7” screen tablet-sized phone really that impressive?
Let's get started.
First things first, let’s unbox it. Special thanks to my boy Cherio and Kevin for sending
me the footage that without the subtitles, please subscribe to their channels, links
are in the description. The box is gigantic as you can see, I guess it’s even good for
its X Fold phone. The packaging is premium as you can see with this leather finish. Open
the box and we see the phone! It’s big, but not as big as you would imagine. To get
out the accessories, you have to pull the drawer out like the video shows, not like
other phones by moving the first layer. For accessories we have a leather case, a type-c
to type-c cable, an 80w fast charger, and a pair of wired earphones. That’s the unboxing,
seems vivo has spent a lot of budget on the packaging.
Moving to the phone, what we have is this blue color with a leather texture, what’s
more, we have several faux stitching lines on the back, which feels even more leather.
And then we have a metal finish vivo logo embedded there. As for the camera setup, here
is the design. We have a rounded lens module that’s attached to a black rectangular bump,
on it we have the ZEISS logo on the top right corner. For the specs, it features a 50MP
main, a 48 MP ultra-wide-angle, a periscope with 5x optical magnification (and up to 60x
digital zoom), and a 12 MP professional portrait lens. Vivo claims it offers enough power to
run face detection even if you’re taking a photo of a group of 30 people because the
camera is backed by the custom vivo V1 ISP. I will share some real photos later, let’s
check out what’s new about the design. As we can see though vivo adopted this curved
screen design, the middle frame feels not that thin, that means that curved screen is
not that dramatic. You know for business people when they are checking their stocks, if the
screen curved too much, they wouldn’t know how much they lost in the stocking market,
just like these two photos I’ve put here. Great design! Moving to the left side, we
have a DND physical key, awesome. One key silent all.
That’s basically the design. Now I will walk you through the specs very briefly. The
X Note has a 7” Samsung E5 AMOLED display with QHD+ resolution, the display promises
1,500 nits peak brightness and 112% DCI-P3 coverage and also won an A+ score from DisplayMate.
This handset is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and is cooled by a massive vapor chamber
(47,132 mm²) and a graphite sheet, gamers would love it. Regarding the battery life,
the capacity is 5,000 mAh and it offers 80w wired and 50w wireless charging.
Now about my first impression. I will answer the first question, would this phone offer
a similar pad or even mini pad experience since it has a 7” display? No, that’s
my straight answer, it is just a phone that’s extra longer and wider, but still far away
from a pad. Let’s compare it with the 7.9-inch iPad mini 5, if we put them together, the
iPad would have 57.5% more display area than the X Note because of the aspect ratio. Though
the iPad is only 0.9-inch longer diagonally. So if you really want better media consumption
and multitasking, go get a pad.
As for the camera performance, here I compared it with the vivo X60 Pro+, a phone from two
years ago. As we have a limited time when making this video, we haven’t got much time
to analyze each photo, but seems not a big difference, maybe the X Note has a little
bit better performance on the dynamic range and details on the dark part, but not too
much, and you have to know the vivo X60 Pro+ was two years ago.
Alright, that’s the video. It is true that the vivo X Note has become bigger but not
so many innovative things to demonstrate there that would wow me so much or really surprise
me, it is just yet another boring flagship phone with all those possible high-end specs
on the market right now. What do you think? Having said that, I have really high anticipation
for its X Fold folable phone, definitely I will do a review video about it. So please
subscribe if you haven’t, thanks for watching, I’m Sami and I will see you in the next
one.