Vivo X80 Professional Evaluation: Nonetheless Distinctive?

Final 12 months’s X70 Professional+ was all about Vivo proving that it might go head-to-head with two of the most important smartphone producers resembling Samsung and Apple within the premium section. In my evaluation of the X70 Professional+, I used to be utterly satisfied of its glorious digital camera efficiency and its much-hyped gimbal stabilisation system, making it a really distinctive providing within the premium section. Vivo additionally lastly added stereo audio system, wi-fi charging and an official IP68 ranking to the X70 Professional+, which have been lacking on the earlier technology and thus, accomplished the premium bundle. However, how do you construct a successor to such a feature-packed smartphone that’s 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 non secular successor to the X70 Professional+ primarily due to its related specs and price ticket. Whereas I initially felt it was solely a small improve to the X70 Professional+ when it comes to {hardware}, I am now satisfied that it is nonetheless a stable one nonetheless after having examined it over the previous few weeks, and this is why.

Vivo X80 Professional value in India

The Vivo X80 Professional, identical to the X70 Professional+, is on the market in a single configuration and can be priced equally. It comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage priced at Rs. 79,999 in India. Maintaining its value in thoughts, the cellphone will compete straight with the Samsung Galaxy S22+ (Evaluation) which is on the market from Rs. 84,999 onwards.

Vivo X80 Professional design

The Vivo X80 Professional’s total design is similar to the X70 Professional+. It is solely accessible in Cosmic Black in India and this color has a slight sparkle within the end when uncovered to brilliant mild, however in any other case seems matte black. The Fluorite AG glass on the again and the Schott Xensation Up scratch protecting glass over the show have curved sides which meet the aluminium-alloy body, which additionally has a matte end. Whereas these matte surfaces are glorious in the case of rejecting fingerprints and smudges, it additionally makes the Vivo X80 Professional very slippery. Fortunately, Vivo has added a premium faux-leather case within the field, which presents good grip.

The Vivo X80 Professional seems to be similar to the Vivo X70 Professional+

 

The again of the cellphone is the place one will discover many of the design adjustments. There’s a big ‘window’ for the cameras, which seems to be similar to the one on the iQoo 9 Professional (Evaluation). It does not stand up an excessive amount of from the again panel and because it takes up the whole width, it prevents the cellphone from wobbling when positioned on a flat floor. The first, ultra-wide and one of many telephoto cameras sit inside a round ring, whereas the periscopic telephoto digital camera is positioned slightly below it.

Regardless of the considerably recycled design, the Vivo X80 Professional nonetheless seems to be distinctive and feels premium when in comparison with another smartphone in its class. There’s additionally an IP68 ranking and wi-fi charging, identical to its predecessor. The curved cowl glass masking the AMOLED show does entice mud and smudges simply, however these may be wiped off simply.

Vivo X80 Professional specs and software program

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

Communication requirements embrace Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC and help for the same old satellite tv for pc navigation techniques. The Vivo X80 Professional’s inside storage can’t be expanded. The cellphone now includes a 4,700mAh battery, which is an improve over the 4,500mAh unit within the earlier mannequin and may be charged rapidly with the 80W adapter that is supplied within the field. The cellphone has a 6.78-inch AMOLED show with WQHD+ decision (3,200 x 1,440 pixels). It includes a 120Hz refresh fee and a 300Hz contact sampling fee.

Funtouch OS 12 is predicated on Android 12 and Vivo guarantees three generations of Android OS updates and three years of safety updates

 

The Vivo X80 Professional runs Funtouch OS 12 which is predicated on Android 12. Vivo guarantees to help the cellphone with three generations of Android OS updates and three years of safety updates, which is sweet information for patrons. Vivo’s X70 Professional+ was 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’d anticipate from any current Vivo smartphone. Android 12 provides a sure stage of customisation however the OS nonetheless has a really sturdy Vivo flavour moderately than inventory Android 12. Whereas the software program works easily with no hiccups in any way with common use, I did encounter some software program bugs (talked about under) which I hope are resolved with future updates.

There’s now a theme engine which matches the colors of widgets and the keyboard to the chosen wallpaper. Vivo has added a UI color picker, very similar to what you get on Samsung’s One UI 4.1, but it surely’s restricted to altering the color of simply the keyboard and never the accent color of the widgets on the homescreen. The one approach to power the widgets to comply with the theme color is by restarting the smartphone.

Darkish mode was a bit buggy too as despite the fact that the background of the app drawer modified to black, the textual content did not swap to white, making it onerous to learn the labels of apps. Other than the visible bugs that I encountered, there’s additionally a number of preinstalled third-party apps resembling MX TakaTak, Josh, BYJU’s, Moj, and so on, which I might have performed with out on a cellphone that prices practically Rs. 80,000. Nonetheless, you possibly can uninstall all of them if wanted.

Vivo X80 Professional efficiency and battery life

The Vivo X80 Professional’s E5 AMOLED show produces natural-looking colors and is brilliant sufficient to sort out direct daylight when outside. Textual content and pictures seem sharp and I didn’t discover the display screen’s curved edges distracting when watching films or taking part in video games. That is the primary smartphone show we have come throughout that makes use of the most recent LTPO 3.0 know-how which guarantees even higher energy effectivity. The X80 Professional has a most refresh fee of 120Hz and a minimal refresh fee of 1Hz.

I seen that the show solely hit 1Hz when the Settings app was open and that too solely below brilliant daylight. With common use, the show’s refresh fee normally dropped all the way down to 10Hz and fluctuated quickly relying on the on-screen content material or app. Sensible Swap lets the show mechanically swap between refresh charges relying on the content material however you possibly can power the show to run apps at 120Hz on a regular basis if wanted.

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

 

The Vivo X80 Professional’s show additionally has an HDR10+ playback certification and helps the identical in apps resembling Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube. The stereo audio system get loud and the readability is maintained even at excessive quantity, which together with the vivid show, makes the X80 Professional ideally suited for watching films or TV reveals with out requiring a pair of earphones.

The larger-than-usual 3D Ultrasonic fingerprint reader (first accessible on the iQoo 9 Professional) was a delight to make use of. Registering a fingerprint took one single faucet and unlocking the gadget labored flawlessly throughout my evaluation interval. I additionally discovered Vivo’s Fast Actions function fairly useful, which helps you to launch any native or third-party app the second you unlock the gadget. Vivo has additionally thrown in a two-finger verification system for added safety and it labored as anticipated. Other than the lockscreen, you should use your registered fingerprints for authenticating locked apps in addition to hidden ones.

With Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC inside, I didn’t face any hassle when it got here to benchmarks and the Vivo X80 Professional delivered very good efficiency as anticipated. The cellphone managed a rating of 9,69,340 factors in AnTuTu, together with 1,236 and three,631 factors in Geekbench’s single and multi-core exams, respectively. The Vivo X80 Professional’s efficiency within the benchmarks was undoubtedly on par with the competitors however was solely marginally larger than what final 12 months’s X70 Professional+ (with its Snapdragon 888+) managed.

Gaming efficiency was prime notch. The cellphone was greater than able to working in style cell video games resembling Name of Obligation: Cellular and Asphalt 9: Legends on the highest settings, and it did so with out breaking a sweat. What impressed me was the Recreation interpolation function, which labored effectively. There’s solely a handful of smartphones which might be able to working Name of Obligation: Cellular above 60fps and Vivo’s Recreation interpolation function (mainly MEMC for video games) which may be enabled through the slide-out console inside a sport, managed to render it at 90Hz which made the sport really feel smoother to play.

Vivo additionally claims that the cellphone consumes much less energy when utilizing this mode as in comparison with really working the sport at such a excessive body fee. The draw back to that is the marginally lowered contact sensitivity which I didn’t discover to be an issue in Name of Obligation: Cellular. The function would require you to regulate the in-game graphics settings (body fee set to “Max or larger”) but it surely seems to be visually smoother when it really works.

The Vivo X80 Professional has 4 rear cameras, all of that are fairly spectacular

 

I didn’t have any points with the Vivo X80 Professional’s battery life. I managed to get a day and half of heavy use with the show’s refresh fee set to Sensible Swap. Forcing it to 120Hz additionally didn’t appear to have any unfavourable influence on battery life. The cellphone managed to final 16 hours,quarter-hour in our HD video loop take a look at and I used to be in a position to cost it from empty to full in 36 minutes when utilizing the bundled 80W charger, which is kind of good. The cellphone additionally helps 50W wi-fi charging, however you will have Vivo’s proprietary wi-fi charging dock that’s bought individually.

Vivo X80 Professional cameras

The Vivo X80 Professional has 4 rear cameras identical to its predecessor, however with a slight change. There is a new 50-megapixel major digital camera that makes use of a personalized Samsung GNV sensor with optical picture stabilisation (OIS), a 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle digital camera with autofocus, a 2X telephoto portrait digital camera with Vivo’s gimbal stabilisation system and at last, a 5X periscopic-style telephoto digital camera with OIS. Selfie duties are dealt with by a 32-megapixel entrance digital camera which makes use of a fixed-focus system.

The digital camera interface is all very acquainted and identical to the X70 Professional+, the digital camera app has effectively laid out controls and a few of them are customisable. There’s the same old Professional mode for each stills and video, and a brand new Astro mode, which resulted in some actually fascinating photographs.

Vivo X80 Professional daylight samples from the rear cameras (faucet to see full measurement)

Vivo X80 Professional hybrid zoom digital camera samples (faucet to see full measurement)

 

The first digital camera captured glorious photographs with good particulars and spectacular dynamic vary (due to the Zeiss T* coating) in every kind of lighting situations. In low mild particularly, it carried out equally effectively with decreased noise within the photographs. Lens flares and robust glare emanating from brilliant avenue lights, neon indicators and different sources of sunshine have been saved below management, which helped enhance dynamic vary and element within the shadows.

Evening mode on the primary digital camera additionally delivered noise-free photographs together with colors that have been very near the precise scene. The Astro mode which is usually meant to seize the celebrities within the night time sky (in the suitable climate situations) was fairly spectacular. Whereas it is meant to work when the cellphone is mounted on a tripod, I managed to seize a couple of handheld photographs with this mode they usually regarded equally good, with low noise and good element.

Transferring to the ultra-wide-angle digital camera, it captured photographs that had good particulars and dynamic vary. There was surprisingly little or no barrel distortion, however the high quality of the photographs was not precisely on par with the first digital camera, particularly when taking pictures in low mild, even with Evening mode. This might be all the way down to the shortage of an OIS system for this digital camera, which was current on the X70 Professional+. Regardless, these have been nonetheless a few of the finest wanting ultra-wide-angle photographs, in my view.

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

 

Vivo X80 Professional digital camera samples: Astro mode (prime) and macro photograph (backside) (Faucet to see full measurement)

 

The ultra-wide-angle digital camera can be able to taking macro photographs as much as 4cm out of your topic. The outcomes have been fairly good and I am glad that Vivo selected to go along with this implementation as an alternative of utilizing a devoted macro digital camera. The colors in macro photographs have been equally spectacular, which have been similar to the outcomes from the first digital camera.

Vivo’s alternative of utilizing the gimbal stabilisation system on its Portrait digital camera is a curious one, but it surely delivers good output for essentially the most half. The model’s intention behind the identical was to allow a consumer to shoot higher low mild portraits with the assistance of its 5-axis gimbal stabilisation. In daylight, the outcomes from this digital camera have been glorious, with spectacular edge detection together with good sharpness and element. The colors have been a bit saturated in auto mode however switching to any of the Zeiss Types or the Pure Type filters resulted in additional true-to-life colors. In low mild, the outcomes have been nonetheless fairly good however the particulars have been a bit gentle. I anticipated them to look equally sharp in low mild, given the stabilisation system in place, however that wasn’t actually the case.

As for the telephoto digital camera, the standard of the photographs have been much like X70 Professional+. The OIS-stabilised periscope digital camera system captured good high quality photographs at 5X optical zoom in daylight. Pictures taken in low mild appeared a bit murky, however switching to Evening mode produced higher high quality photographs with sufficient element and dynamic vary.

The one factor I actually appreciated was how shut the color tones have been between photographs captured by all of the 4 rear cameras. Additionally, if you happen to aren’t a fan of the marginally saturated colors that this cellphone captures by default, you possibly can allow Zeiss mode, which captures extra true-to-life colors with all cameras.

The selfie digital camera captured sharp photographs with good element in daylight. The sting detection in Portrait mode was spot on and so was the dynamic vary, with the topic and background uncovered appropriately. Low-light efficiency was equally good as pictures regarded sharp and hues have been rendered effectively.

Vivo X80 Professional selfie pattern taken with Portrait mode (faucet to see full measurement)

 

The Vivo X80 Professional can shoot as much as 8K movies at 30fps which regarded crisp, with glorious element and dynamic vary. However the footage lacked stabilisation so movement was a bit jerky. Movies recorded in daylight at 1080p and 4K had good particulars, distinction and spectacular stabilisation, particularly at 30fps. 4K footage regarded the perfect because it packed sufficient particulars and likewise regarded fairly sharp.

HDR 10+ footage regarded good however had oversaturated colors and was solely accessible when taking pictures at 1080p and 4K 30fps. In low mild, particulars have been a bit low however noise was below management supplied the scene was sufficiently lit. I didn’t just like the output of the AI-enhanced video because it lacked stabilisation and didn’t have a gradual bitrate.

The brand new ‘Cinematic video Type’ launched by Vivo mechanically blurred the backgrounds of topics for a cinema really feel. It solely labored effectively below good lighting and will seize footage at 1080p decision solely. The important thing to good cinematic video is monitoring your topic as they transfer and whereas objects appeared tremendous, the sting detection fumbled so much when monitoring human faces, and was nowhere near Apple’s Cinematic video mode.

Verdict

The Vivo X80 Professional will not be a huge improve over the X70 Professional+ (Evaluation), which was already an awesome cellphone to start with when it comes to imaging and efficiency. When you personal a X70 Professional+, the X80 Professional will not appear too spectacular. For a brand new purchaser although, the X80 Professional is certainly price getting over the X70 Professional+ as Vivo hasn’t but dropped the value of the older mannequin. The X80 Professional is a correct premium smartphone for 2022 with the most recent SoC and show tech, and has a novel set of cameras that’s like no different at this value level.

As for the competitors, there’s a lot to select from. The Samsung Galaxy S22+ (Evaluation) is a stable contender and is packed to the brim with premium options, however lacks the pliability of the X80 Professional’s cameras and can be priced larger (from Rs. 84,999). Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Extremely (Evaluation) could also be a 12 months outdated, however may be discovered for round Rs. 76,000 on-line and presents loopy zoom functionality and good battery life together with all of the options you’d anticipate from a premium flagship.

If you’re on a tighter finances, the OnePlus 10 Professional (Evaluation) is an effective alternative because it presents a formidable set of cameras for its value, minus an official IP ranking. On the iOS aspect, Apple’s iPhone 13 (Evaluation) is one other good choice. It might lack the pliability of Vivo’s quad-camera setup, but it surely presents rock-solid consistency, a sensor-shift stabilised most important digital camera, Cinematic video and Dolby Imaginative and prescient video recording, all at barely decrease market value than the X80 Professional.

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