Hi guys so i've been using this now for the last week that is Vivo's top dog the x70 pro plus now
this one has the zeiss optics the four cameras on the rear ranging from your main 50 megapixel
shooter all the way up to a eight megapixel five times optical two times portrait and 48 megapixel
ultra wide now this does have the snapdragon triple eight plus my model here that i bought
from trading shenzhen it's an import version does have 12 gigabytes of ram and 512 gigabytes of
storage ufs 3.1 spec of course the screen this one is a amoled screen 120 hertz very bright one
of the better screens i have reviewed this year so the hype about the cameras on this one is it
the best out there well i'll give you a bit of a spoiler for stills from the rear cameras
it certainly has produced some excellent results if you missed my camera comparison
against the iphone 13 pro max and me 11 ultra so great presentation in the box lifting this up you
will see i do have the vegan leather orange model here i think it's the best looking one from them
and i'll get onto the design and the build of this phone shortly but just under this you will find we
then have a case so a nice case that also has the leather-like finish to it or the vegan leather on
the back of it and here we have our power supply which is 66 watts but it only charges at 55
watts and we do get these here some tws earbuds included and our power cable which i've already
pulled out which is type a to type c build quality of this phone i absolutely love it i do think this
is one of the better build qualities that i've seen definitely from Vivo this is their top yet so
we've got vegan leather on the back now it's not a light phone it's 213 grams and the thickness of it
isn't that bad i mean it's about nine millimeters is what i'm measuring now i think they've overdone
it a little bit here with the pro plus because this is the thing that makes it stand out from
of course the non-pro plus model should i say just the pro model and i think it's a little overdone
here with all this okay uh if people know their phones then they will recognize it straight away
but i don't think it's really necessary so this material feels great it adds a bit of grip to it
and of course no fingerprints at all will be visible with that now with the camera modules on
the back of course we have four cameras so there's no hiding that yes it's got a huge camera module
here now you see the zeiss branding right there we have the t coating over these lenses which i think
later on in camera samples definitely does help out and this really does have the best stills i
have seen from a mobile phone to date with this phone so 50 megapixel main camera with an f 1.6
aperture we've got an 8 megapixel periscope so that's got optical image stabilization
all the cameras do five times optical zoom 12 megapixel telephoto that's our portrait camera
two times optical 48 megapixel ultra wide which does have that gimbal optical image
stabilization which they mark it as a micro gimbal because it's of course very small inside there
full metal frame around the outside and i need to comment on the ip68 rating that this does have so
it's supposed to be able to last uh for about 30 minutes up to 1.5 meters which is something and
another first there for Vivo which is great so downwards firing loudspeaker there's also one in
the earpiece antenna line our type c port does dis support video out so that gives us a clone
display microphone and our sim tray which does support two nano sims so no expandable storage
no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so at the top there a little hard to read because it's very
tiny the text it does say professional photography we do have an ir transmitter secondary mic this
part along in the middle along here is plastic and you can see the two other antenna lines
now i haven't had any problems with the range reception and everything with this with wireless
you'll see later on outstanding speeds and i even pick up 5g not a problem here in spain
so on the right side you'll find a power button antenna lines you can see one there one in there
so volume up and down now i can easily reach this when i have it in my hand to get to that power
button so that's good and it feels comfortable in hand due to the curvature of this so the screen
colors right at the ends especially white on the edges here sorry you will see that it shifts out
a little bit and then on the left side there are no buttons or anything just two antenna lines so
excellent build with this phone and i'll cut out right here you can see that this one is
relatively small the size it's not the smallest i have seen but it does house a 32 megapixel sensor
unfortunately this is the letdown of the phone with the cameras that this one only supports 1080p
with video and i do find that the portrait photo stitching is not that great it is definitely the
worst camera out of all of them Vivo did go with a stunner here in the x70 pro plus so this screen
brightness tops out at close to 1 000 nets i am measuring like 974 this is excellent very
good result there now will even increase up to about 1500 in the right conditions with the high
brightness mode so it supports hdr 10 120 hertz is a quad hd plus resolution there is of course
your ambient light sensor you've got all those different scaling modes and everything that
you'd expect with an android phone there now the resolution can be changed to a lower one
which is full hd plus if you want to save a little bit on the battery life here with it
and then this here too is the refresh rate you're able to change now smart switch will be then an
adaptive refresh rate if you wanted that my only complaint with the screen it's a fantastic screen
is just because of the curvature you do get darker edges you can probably see that on camera that it
shifts out a tiny little bit i wish it was a flat screen i think flat would have been better overall
for the user experience but still it has to be one of the better displays that i have seen it does
run origin os so a little different here it's not fun touch os which the global models will have
now i have 12 gigabytes of ram it's ufs 3.1 storage everything is very very quick and
i've had no issues with performance it does have a virtual ram as well which is basically a caching
that it has is an additional four gigabytes now you're able to adjust that if you didn't want to
so we have here you'll find that we've got a turbo mode as well that you're able to just tweak a few
things boosted performance a lot of brands are doing this so i won't go into too much detail
with the os here just the performance is great however there are a few little annoyances and
teething issues with notifications and things with origin os i finally fixed that i'm getting all my
notifications and it's not too bad i could in the end i could put up with this particular skin but i
do think xiaomi's miui is a little bit better than this we just get a few more features and you'll
notice that you do eventually get a few things come up in chinese you need to kill some of the
chinese notifications for some of the apps some of the apps you just cannot install and that's the
minor inconveniences that we do get when we run origin os but yeah performance is just so quick
on this very fast everything at the 120 frames per second 120 hertz i've noticed no issues uh with
any problems with say the frame rate some certain applications here you might find could be running
in 60 like youtube comments doesn't seem to be 120 hertz so i'm on the latest firmware of origin os
and yes you can see the change log there is in chinese of course now free available space i've
got the 512 gigabyte version here is approximately 100 sorry 480 on first boot which gives you
ample ample space there for all your music your files your 4k and even 8k videos that this can
record too so that's a bit of the junk you can see that we get with this on first boot there's a lot
of applications that i went through and removed and uninstalled and you really need to set aside
10 minutes to do that it's not too much of an issue and there are guides online how to get all
those notifications set up and working now for some of the applications you want to install it
may ask you to sign into your Vivo account which is another minor annoyance for me with origin os
and i believe maybe fun touch also does this which uh yeah that's annoying so antutu scores here wow
so quick i mean look at the gpu it is the snapdragon triple eight plus so performance
here is of course great and well some of the best scores here you will find
with android excellent geekbench another top score here very good performance and you'll find
to the internal storage absolutely solid scores especially when you look at those random reads and
writes they're some of the highest that i have seen very good okay this is just lazing quick
it's not going to be held up by anything and still speeds for applications are great load times for
apps are also just fantastic everything loads up really quick so we've got a widevine level
one cert which you're probably thinking oh great so that means we're gonna have everything
in full hd we do with netflix but amazon prime video no it's in standard definition so at least
netflix is there and you can see that i tested it out and this is the result here for our playback
with netflix so a lot of people will be happy with that so we've got dual frequency with the gps and
this means it works well it sees a huge amount of satellites but the accuracy will not surpass the
typical three meters qualcomm limitation very very quick wireless 6. if you connect up to a wi-fi 6
router i was able to push here you can see over a gigabit speeds that is great and even downstairs
my lower point that i test a lot of phones will struggle to get 150 or 200 megabits per second
this is doing double that so great antennas in this very pleased with the wireless performance
now battery life i must stress that this battery life test here was run with it with the variable
refresh rate okay so if it's at 120 hertz forced you will get a different score so for a 4 500
milliamp hour battery that's not actually too bad there 2 hours and 45 minutes real world use you're
looking around eight hours of on-screen time again with that variable refresh rate if you force 120
hertz your on-screen time will be about seven hours which is yeah it's not wonderful charge
times well it took me uh just 27 minutes to go to 15 percent to 86 and then to finally fully charge
the last like 10 percent is quite slow charging at 55 watts here wide and 50 wireless well it
took me 40 minutes so that's good anything under an hour for me is still an excellent charging time
youtube performance well it can run you'll see now here that if i go and check the settings for the
quality it will run it high picture quality 1080p that's it it doesn't seem to want to go to 1440p
now with audio we don't have this sadly goodbye i'm shooting tears still for the old
analog 3.5 millimeter support however i've been testing out these which are the one more color
buds too that i'm going to be reviewing soon in the channel and they work just fine
with this and the latency is really great too so no real problems with that so we have
a speaker down the bottom as i showed you and then the earpiece up the top doubles as a secondary
speaker now voice call quality i would rate as just like any other phone i'm noticing really
no difference it seems to be perfect the other end said it was fine to them too so now i'm
going to play the speakers at 100 volume and i think they sound great they've got
a decent amount of mids a little hint of bass there too as well and overall good volume
camera performance so the rear four cameras are very good they take some of the best stills i
think even the best that i have seen now i have done a comparison between the iphone
13 pro max and the me 11 ultra so do check that out because i think it's better you look at this
to see a side-by-side comparison of what this can do the x70 pro plus in low light especially
i think it's definitely one of the top three phones out there for that
now with the video performance the front-facing camera
i do find very disappointing it does not seem to have any electronic image stabilization
the audio bit rate is poor only 128 kilobits per second overall the video performance is
good but it certainly will not better an iphone 13 pro or pro max so do check that camera comparison
for more gaming performance so snapdragon 8 plus with 12 gigabytes of ram and this is pubg now it
lets us have the extreme frame rate option which is really good to see now if i swipe here from the
side you can bring up the game mode you're able to then see the cpu performance the gpu the load that
is under the system here and then set basically what is the governor here from being balanced to
performance which will lock in those top turbos to get maximum performance now using that mode
and then higher frame rates i have noticed that it will reach about 50 degrees it gets quite
warm on the back but let's jump into some gameplay now of pubg and i'll show you just how it runs
no surprises here at all the performance is really good must have just been another bot and
frame rate just constant steady there is no lag i haven't experienced any lag and just mentioned
before the only thing is that when you do play for quite some time with the higher settings is more
noticeable too when you push that performance mode it does get warm so up to about 50 degrees celsius
and that's really what i'm seeing i've actually seen hotter on other phones for example like the
me 11 ultra can get quite warm the snapdragon triple eight and then the triple eight plus they
are very hot chipsets and it's just kind of normal for them unfortunately that's just the way it is
well biometrics we have face unlocking and the fingerprint reader you can see there isn't exactly
the fastest i have come across but it is accurate and seems to work every single time for me like 10
out of 10 times no problems so face unlocking i'll just quickly demonstrate that so you tap and then
get it to see you your face and it unlocks then now then should you get the phone so i would say
yes for a few things for the performance for the camera just for stills for me so far is the best
that i've seen but bear in mind that i don't have a pixel 6 pro i did not get sent one for
free i'm not part of team pixel there but i may be buying one i have to import one in though because
they don't sell them in spain maybe do a camera comparison but no promises up against this so far
from what i've seen i think it is the one to beat for the still performance for the low light
especially now it can almost over brighten overdue low light shots so it doesn't even look like night
time ends up looking like daytime with this now there are areas that definitely need improvement
so audio bitrate from Vivo with their video is 120 kilobits per second and that is poor the
microphones sound poor compared to other phones that use better mics or better bit rates too
front facing camera for selfies the colors are way off too much skin smoothing skin tones are off
too i looked a little bit too white and then the video for vlog performance 1080p only was this
that's a disappointment but the big one is where's the electronic image stabilization it doesn't seem
to work it's grayed out in the settings and isn't present there now the screen on this is very very
good okay we are looking at almost a thousand nits with a peak of up to about 1500 depending
if you're out in direct sunlight it will really crank out that brightness 120 hertz
the ui performance is excellent but i think for me the ui is one of the cons the origin os has
quite a few little ningling things there that i don't really like there's uh bits and pieces
in there with the chinese software you get some apps in chinese there's a lot that does need to
be sorted out now you can get the notifications working we've got netflix in full hd at least
and there is the wireless charging support with this phone build quality excellent i really do
like the look of this well apart from this area i think next to the camera they went a little
overboard with that huge big plastic shining plate there but i like the vegan leather on
the back and this orange color definitely makes it stand out as a different phone
so for a flagship attempt the best yet from Vivo they have really done it they've added so much
with this particular model here i'm looking forward to what would be the successor to
this i just hope that they improve upon software experience video performance in this
and if they do that they definitely next year in 2022 are going to be a brand to contend with for
the top android phone that is flagship level one with the amazing camera performance and i hope
they continue this partnership with zeiss with their optics and that special coating
on the lenses i think is what is setting this one apart from the rest and that image
processing chip they have that custom isp on board so there we go that's my thoughts there
on the Vivo x70 pro plus thank you so much for watching do check out the camera comparison i
have with this model up against the iphone 13 pro max and the mi 11 ultra that is where you
can see this one for still photography really does stand out as one of the top camera phones of 2021