5 best Vivo smartphones for January

Vivo is a Chinese technology company that designs, develops, and manufactures smartphones based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. It makes low-cost Android phones, and those in the mid-range segment of the market. Let’s see what is the best that Vivo offers.

1. Vivo V7

In the first place is the Vivo V7. The V7 has roughly the same specs as the bigger V7+ at more aggressive and competitive price point. With everyday use, the Vivo V7 is a very good performer, and can handle most tasks very well. The Vivo V7 features a 5.7-inch IPS fullview display (720 x 1440 pixels) and (282 ppi). As far as hardware goes, you’re looking at a Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 octa-core processor with 4GB of RAM and the Adreno 506 GPU. The phone packs 32GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 256GB. The Vivo V7 runs on Funtouch OS 3.2, which is a fork of Android 7.1.2 Nougat.

The rear of the phone holds the 16MP rear camera with f/2.0 rear aperture and LED flash, along with the fingerprint scanner. The main selling point of the V7 is its front camera and we have a 24MP, f/2.0 front-facing sensor which has a selfie portrait mode and supports HDR. Selfies, are for the most part, clear and crisp, which is not surprising, given the focus of Vivo’s phones on delivering good selfies. The battery life for the V7 is pretty good (3000 mAH), there is no fast charging here, but you’ll be safely back at home before the power bar goes critical. Altogether, a good investment that will cost you around $360.

2. Vivo X20 Plus

The next one is Vivo X20 Plus. The Vivo handset come with the company’s Full View Super AMOLED 6.43-inch display with full-HD+ resolution (1080×2160 pixels) and (376 ppi density). If we talk about the highlight features there is definitely a camera, the rear dual camera setup  comes with a 12MP primary sensor with f/1.8 aperture and a secondary 5MP sensor. At front, the handsets sport 12MP shooter with f/2.0 for taking selfies. Moving on to the other specifications, the phone run FunTouch OS based on Android 7.1.1 Nougat, the battery is Li-Ion 3900 mAH and the X20 Plus is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 660 SoC coupled with 4GB of RAM. The Vivo X20 Plus come with 64GB of built-in storage, which is further expandable via microSD card up to 256GB. You can find this model by price of $540, which is not a bit but you get what you pay for.

3. Vivo V5s

Another Vivo arrives, this time it is V5s. Vivo V5s is equipped with IPS 5.5-inch display with resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and density of (267 ppi). Inside is a Mediatek MT6750 processor clock frequency of 1.5GHz, Mali-T860MP2 GPU, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal flash memory  expandable up to 256GB. For power supply V5s use non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAH battery. The phone runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) operating system on top of which is Funtouch OS 3.0 interface. The Vivo V5s has front-facing camera of 20MP (f/2.0, 1/2.8″), 1080p, while main camera has 13MP f/2.2, with phase-detection autofocus, LED flash and HDR. With this configuration goes solid and quite good price of about $330.

4. Vivo X9s Plus Vivo X9s

The big highlight of both the smartphones are their dual selfie camera setups. The primary differences between the Vivo X9s and Vivo X9s Plus are their screen size, processor, and battery. Both the smartphones runs on Android 7.1 Nougat based on FunTouch OS 3.1. Vivo X9s features a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) AMOLED display and is powered by the Snapdragon 652 octa-core SoC paired with Adreno 510 GPU and 4GB of RAM while at Vivo X9s Plus is powered by Snapdragon 653 SoC. The phones offers 64GB of inbuilt storage without the possibility of expansion. The Vivo X9s Plus is slightly larger with a 5.85-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) AMOLED display.

As for camera, the rear camera sports a 16MP sensor with LED flash and PDAF. The big highlight is the dual selfie camera setup with a primary 20MP sensor and secondary 5MP front camera coupled with soft-LED flash on both phones. The Vivo X9s packs a 3320 mAH battery with fast charging while X9s Plus comes with Li-Ion 4015 mAH battery and it also supports fast charging. The X9s comes at a price of $420 while X9s Plus may be yours at a slightly higher price of $470.

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Alright, those are top 5 Vivo smartphones that we would like to introduce to you today. At the moment this is the best that Vivo offers on the market. What do you thin about them? Share with us.