Vivo X80 Professional Evaluate: Nonetheless Remarkable?

Final 12 months’s X70 Professional+ was once all about Vivo proving that it would cross head-to-head with two of the largest smartphone producers corresponding to Samsung and Apple within the top rate section. In my overview of the X70 Professional+, I used to be utterly satisfied of its superb digicam efficiency and its much-hyped gimbal stabilisation device, making it an excessively distinctive providing within the top rate section. Vivo additionally in spite of everything added stereo audio system, wi-fi charging and an respectable IP68 score to the X70 Professional+, that have been lacking at the earlier technology and thus, finished the top rate package deal. However, how do you construct a successor to this kind of feature-packed smartphone this is nonetheless very related even a 12 months later?

Meet the Vivo X80 Professional. It is lacking the “+” in its title, however do not be fooled as for all intents and functions, it’s the religious successor to the X70 Professional+ essentially on account of its an identical specifications and price ticket. Whilst I first of all felt it was once just a small improve to the X70 Professional+ in relation to {hardware}, I am now satisfied that it is nonetheless a stable one nevertheless after having examined it during the last few weeks, and this is why.

Vivo X80 Professional value in India

The Vivo X80 Professional, identical to the X70 Professional+, is to be had in one configuration and may be priced in a similar fashion. It comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of garage priced at Rs. 79,999 in India. Retaining its value in thoughts, the telephone will compete immediately with the Samsung Galaxy S22+ (Evaluate) which is to be had from Rs. 84,999 onwards.

Vivo X80 Professional design

The Vivo X80 Professional’s total design is similar to the X70 Professional+. It is just to be had in Cosmic Black in India and this color has a slight sparkle within the end when uncovered to shiny gentle, however another way seems matte black. The Fluorite AG glass at the again and the Schott Xensation Up scratch protecting glass over the show have curved facets which meet the aluminium-alloy body, which additionally has a matte end. Whilst those matte surfaces are superb in relation to rejecting fingerprints and smudges, it additionally makes the Vivo X80 Professional very slippery. Fortunately, Vivo has added a top rate faux-leather case within the field, which provides excellent grip.

The Vivo X80 Professional appears similar to the Vivo X70 Professional+

The again of the telephone is the place one will realize lots of the design adjustments. There is a huge ‘window’ for the cameras, which appears similar to the only at the iQoo 9 Professional (Evaluate). It does not get up an excessive amount of from the again panel and because it takes up all the width, it prevents the telephone from wobbling when put on a flat floor. The main, ultra-wide and one of the vital telephoto cameras take a seat inside of a round ring, whilst the periscopic telephoto digicam is positioned slightly under it.

In spite of the relatively recycled design, the Vivo X80 Professional nonetheless appears distinctive and feels top rate when in comparison to some other smartphone in its magnificence. There may be additionally an IP68 score and wi-fi charging, identical to its predecessor. The curved quilt glass masking the AMOLED show does draw in mud and smudges simply, however those may also be wiped off simply.

Vivo X80 Professional specs and instrument

The Vivo X80 Professional will get upgraded to the most recent Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC, which is located in smartphones each above and under this value level. Vivo turns out to have neglected out at the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, which was once lately introduced and would have made for a excellent improve from the Snapdragon 888+ SoC within the X70 Professional+. The corporate has added a 2d technology of its V1 imaging chipset referred to as the V1+, which it claims is helping with low-light imaging, video recording and gaming.

Conversation requirements come with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC and enhance for the standard satellite tv for pc navigation programs. The Vivo X80 Professional’s inside garage can’t be expanded. The telephone now includes a 4,700mAh battery, which is an improve over the 4,500mAh unit within the earlier type and may also be charged temporarily with the 80W adapter that is supplied within the field. The telephone has a 6.78-inch AMOLED show with WQHD+ answer (3,200 x 1,440 pixels). It includes a 120Hz refresh charge and a 300Hz contact sampling charge.

Funtouch OS 12 is in keeping with Android 12 and Vivo guarantees 3 generations of Android OS updates and 3 years of safety updates

The Vivo X80 Professional runs Funtouch OS 12 which is in keeping with Android 12. Vivo guarantees to enhance the telephone with 3 generations of Android OS updates and 3 years of safety updates, which is excellent news for patrons. Vivo’s X70 Professional+ was once up to date to Android 12 in January 2022, so I am hoping Android 13 additionally makes its approach to the X80 Professional in a well timed method.

Funtouch OS 12 is just about what you would be expecting from any contemporary Vivo smartphone. Android 12 provides a definite stage of customisation however the OS nonetheless has an excessively robust Vivo flavour moderately than inventory Android 12. Whilst the instrument works easily with out a hiccups in anyway with common use, I did stumble upon some instrument insects (discussed under) which I am hoping are resolved with long run updates.

There may be now a theme engine which works the colors of widgets and the keyboard to the chosen wallpaper. Vivo has added a UI color picker, similar to what you get on Samsung’s One UI 4.1, however it is restricted to converting the color of simply the keyboard and now not the accessory color of the widgets at the homescreen. The one approach to power the widgets to observe the theme color is through restarting the smartphone.

Darkish mode was once just a little buggy too as despite the fact that the background of the app drawer modified to black, the textual content did not transfer to white, making it laborious to learn the labels of apps. Excluding the visible insects that I encountered, there is additionally a number of preinstalled third-party apps corresponding to MX TakaTak, Josh, BYJU’s, Moj, and so on, which I will have completed with out on a telephone that prices just about Rs. 80,000. Then again, you’ll uninstall all of them if wanted.

Vivo X80 Professional efficiency and battery lifestyles

The Vivo X80 Professional’s E5 AMOLED show produces natural-looking colors and is shiny sufficient to take on direct daylight when outside. Textual content and photographs seem sharp and I didn’t in finding the display’s curved edges distracting when looking at films or taking part in video games. That is the primary smartphone show now we have come throughout that makes use of the most recent LTPO 3.0 generation which guarantees even higher energy potency. The X80 Professional has a most refresh charge of 120Hz and a minimal refresh charge of 1Hz.

I realized that the show simplest hit 1Hz when the Settings app was once open and that too simplest underneath shiny daylight. With common use, the show’s refresh charge normally dropped right down to 10Hz and fluctuated hastily relying at the on-screen content material or app. Sensible Transfer we could the show robotically transfer between refresh charges relying at the content material however you’ll power the show to run apps at 120Hz always if wanted.

The Vivo X80 Professional has a 6.78-inch E5 AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh charge and a big 3-d Ultrasonic fingerprint reader

The Vivo X80 Professional’s show additionally has an HDR10+ playback certification and helps the similar in apps corresponding to Netflix, Amazon High Video and YouTube. The stereo audio system get loud and the readability is maintained even at top quantity, which along side the brilliant show, makes the X80 Professional ideally suited for looking at films or TV displays with out requiring a couple of earphones.

The bigger-than-usual 3-d Ultrasonic fingerprint reader (first to be had at the iQoo 9 Professional) was once a satisfaction to make use of. Registering a fingerprint took one unmarried faucet and unlocking the tool labored flawlessly all the way through my overview length. I additionally discovered Vivo’s Fast Movements characteristic somewhat to hand, which helps you to release any local or third-party app the instant you unencumber the tool. Vivo has additionally thrown in a two-finger verification device for added safety and it labored as anticipated. Excluding the lockscreen, you’ll use your registered fingerprints for authenticating locked apps in addition to hidden ones.

With Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC inside of, I didn’t face any hassle when it got here to benchmarks and the Vivo X80 Professional delivered very excellent efficiency as anticipated. The telephone controlled a rating of 9,69,340 issues in AnTuTu, along side 1,236 and three,631 issues in Geekbench’s unmarried and multi-core assessments, respectively. The Vivo X80 Professional’s efficiency within the benchmarks was once certainly on par with the contest however was once simplest marginally upper than what closing 12 months’s X70 Professional+ (with its Snapdragon 888+) controlled.

Gaming efficiency was once best notch. The telephone was once greater than able to working well-liked cellular video games corresponding to Name of Accountability: Cellular and Asphalt 9: Legends on the best possible settings, and it did so with out breaking a sweat. What inspired me was once the Recreation interpolation characteristic, which labored smartly. There may be just a handful of smartphones which are able to working Name of Accountability: Cellular above 60fps and Vivo’s Recreation interpolation characteristic (mainly MEMC for video games) which may also be enabled by means of the slide-out console inside a sport, controlled to render it at 90Hz which made the sport really feel smoother to play.

Vivo additionally claims that the telephone consumes much less energy when the usage of this mode as in comparison to in reality working the sport at this kind of top body charge. The disadvantage to that is the quite reduced contact sensitivity which I didn’t in finding to be an issue in Name of Accountability: Cellular. The characteristic would require you to regulate the in-game graphics settings (body charge set to “Max or upper”) but it surely appears visually smoother when it really works.

The Vivo X80 Professional has 4 rear cameras, all of which can be somewhat spectacular

I didn’t have any problems with the Vivo X80 Professional’s battery lifestyles. I controlled to get an afternoon and part of heavy use with the show’s refresh charge set to Sensible Transfer. Forcing it to 120Hz additionally didn’t appear to have any damaging affect on battery lifestyles. The telephone controlled to closing 16 hours,quarter-hour in our HD video loop take a look at and I used to be ready to rate it from empty to complete in 36 mins when the usage of the bundled 80W charger, which is somewhat excellent. The telephone additionally helps 50W wi-fi charging, however you are going to want Vivo’s proprietary wi-fi charging dock this is bought one by one.

Vivo X80 Professional cameras

The Vivo X80 Professional has 4 rear cameras identical to its predecessor, however with a slight trade. There is a new 50-megapixel number one digicam that makes use of a customized Samsung GNV sensor with optical symbol stabilisation (OIS), a 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle digicam with autofocus, a 2X telephoto portrait digicam with Vivo’s gimbal stabilisation device and in spite of everything, a 5X periscopic-style telephoto digicam with OIS. Selfie tasks are treated through a 32-megapixel entrance digicam which makes use of a fixed-focus device.

The digicam interface is all very acquainted and identical to the X70 Professional+, the digicam app has smartly laid out controls and a few of them are customisable. There may be the standard Professional mode for each stills and video, and a brand new Astro mode, which ended in some actually fascinating footage.

Vivo X80 Professional sunlight samples from the rear cameras (faucet to look complete measurement)

Vivo X80 Professional hybrid zoom digicam samples (faucet to look complete measurement)

The main digicam captured superb footage with excellent main points and bold dynamic vary (because of the Zeiss T* coating) in a wide variety of lights stipulations. In low gentle particularly, it carried out similarly smartly with diminished noise within the footage. Lens flares and robust glare emanating from shiny side road lighting fixtures, neon indicators and different assets of sunshine had been saved underneath regulate, which helped spice up dynamic vary and element within the shadows.

Night time mode at the primary digicam additionally delivered noise-free footage along side colors that had been very just about the real scene. The Astro mode which is in most cases intended to seize the celebs within the night time sky (in the proper climate stipulations) was once somewhat spectacular. Whilst it is intended to paintings when the telephone is fastened on a tripod, I controlled to seize a couple of hand-held footage with this mode they usually appeared similarly excellent, with low noise and excellent element.

Transferring to the ultra-wide-angle digicam, it captured footage that had excellent main points and dynamic vary. There was once strangely little or no barrel distortion, however the high quality of the footage was once now not precisely on par with the principle digicam, particularly when capturing in low gentle, even with Night time mode. This might be right down to the loss of an OIS device for this digicam, which was once provide at the X70 Professional+. Regardless, those had been nonetheless one of the most absolute best searching ultra-wide-angle footage, individually.

Vivo X80 Professional low-light samples from the rear cameras (faucet to look complete measurement)

Vivo X80 Professional digicam samples: Astro mode (best) and macro picture (backside) (Faucet to look complete measurement)

The ultra-wide-angle digicam may be able to taking macro footage as much as 4cm out of your topic. The consequences had been somewhat excellent and I am satisfied that Vivo selected to head with this implementation as an alternative of the usage of a devoted macro digicam. The colors in macro footage had been similarly spectacular, that have been similar to the consequences from the principle digicam.

Vivo’s selection of the usage of the gimbal stabilisation device on its Portrait digicam is a curious one, but it surely delivers excellent output for essentially the most phase. The emblem’s aim in the back of the similar was once to allow a consumer to shoot higher low gentle portraits with the assistance of its 5-axis gimbal stabilisation. In sunlight, the consequences from this digicam had been superb, with spectacular edge detection along side excellent sharpness and element. The colors had been just a little saturated in auto mode however switching to any of the Zeiss Types or the Herbal Taste filters resulted in additional true-to-life colors. In low gentle, the consequences had been nonetheless somewhat excellent however the main points had been just a little cushy. I anticipated them to look similarly sharp in low gentle, given the stabilisation device in position, however that wasn’t actually the case.

As for the telephoto digicam, the standard of the footage had been very similar to X70 Professional+. The OIS-stabilised periscope digicam device captured excellent high quality footage at 5X optical zoom in sunlight. Footage taken in low gentle gave the impression just a little murky, however switching to Night time mode produced higher high quality footage with sufficient element and dynamic vary.

The only factor I actually favored was once how shut the color tones had been between footage captured through the entire 4 rear cameras. Additionally, when you are not keen on the quite saturated colors that this telephone captures through default, you’ll allow Zeiss mode, which captures extra true-to-life colors with all cameras.

The selfie digicam captured sharp footage with excellent element in sunlight. The threshold detection in Portrait mode was once spot on and so was once the dynamic vary, with the topic and background uncovered accurately. Low-light efficiency was once similarly excellent as photographs appeared sharp and hues had been rendered smartly.

Vivo X80 Professional selfie pattern considering Portrait mode (faucet to look complete measurement)

The Vivo X80 Professional can shoot as much as 8K movies at 30fps which appeared crisp, with superb element and dynamic vary. However the photos lacked stabilisation so movement was once a bit jerky. Movies recorded in sunlight at 1080p and 4K had excellent main points, distinction and bold stabilisation, particularly at 30fps. 4K photos appeared the most productive because it packed sufficient main points and in addition appeared somewhat sharp.

HDR 10+ photos appeared excellent however had oversaturated colors and was once simplest to be had when capturing at 1080p and 4K 30fps. In low gentle, main points had been just a little low however noise was once underneath regulate supplied the scene was once sufficiently lit. I didn’t just like the output of the AI-enhanced video because it lacked stabilisation and didn’t have a gentle bitrate.

The brand new ‘Cinematic video Taste’ offered through Vivo robotically blurred the backgrounds of topics for a cinema really feel. It simplest labored smartly underneath excellent lights and may seize photos at 1080p answer simplest. The important thing to excellent cinematic video is monitoring your topic as they transfer and whilst items gave the impression high-quality, the brink detection fumbled so much when monitoring human faces, and was once nowhere just about Apple’s Cinematic video mode.

Verdict

The Vivo X80 Professional isn’t a big improve over the X70 Professional+ (Evaluate), which was once already a super telephone initially in relation to imaging and function. In case you personal a X70 Professional+, the X80 Professional may not appear too spectacular. For a brand new purchaser although, the X80 Professional is certainly value getting over the X70 Professional+ as Vivo hasn’t but dropped the cost of the older type. The X80 Professional is a correct top rate smartphone for 2022 with the most recent SoC and show tech, and has a novel set of cameras this is like no different at this value level.

As for the contest, there is lots to choose between. The Samsung Galaxy S22+ (Evaluate) is a stable contender and is packed to the brim with top rate options, however lacks the versatility of the X80 Professional’s cameras and may be priced upper (from Rs. 84,999). Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Extremely (Evaluate) could also be a 12 months outdated, however may also be discovered for round Rs. 76,000 on-line and provides loopy zoom capacity and excellent battery lifestyles along side the entire options you may be expecting from a top rate flagship.

In case you are on a tighter price range, the OnePlus 10 Professional (Evaluate) is a great selection because it provides an outstanding set of cameras for its value, minus an respectable IP score. At the iOS facet, Apple’s iPhone 13 (Evaluate) is some other excellent possibility. It is going to lack the versatility of Vivo’s quad-camera setup, but it surely provides rock-solid consistency, a sensor-shift stabilised primary digicam, Cinematic video and Dolby Imaginative and prescient video recording, all at quite decrease marketplace value than the X80 Professional.