Vivo V5The latest phone of the V-Series of the Chinese company is. Earlier, Vivo V3 (Review) and Vivo V3 Max (Review) were launched. V3 And V3 Max Can be considered good in terms of performance and battery life. But the camera, the strange user interface and the price disappointed. Now it has to be seen whether Vivo has improved this department through Vivo V5.
Vivo V5 Design & Build
The design of Vivo V5 appears to be a mixture of many popular phones of the market. The effect of iPhone 6 on the back of the phone is clearly visible. And seeing on the front panel, OnePlus 3 or any Oppo phone will be remembered. All this goes in favor of Vivo V5. We were not disappointed with this. Build quality is good. Corning Gorilla Glass has protection on the display. We also liked that the phone is slim and light. Weight is just 154 grams. If the real metal was used, we would like it more.
The 5.5 -inch IPS display is bright. Its color is also good. Because of this it looks like an Emolade panel. The result of the screen is HD but does not affect the performance. Text looked very sharp. The Vivo V5 comes with a capacitive navigation button. And the fingerprint sensor in the home button is integrated. The sensor works very fast. He did accurate work almost every time. Apart from unlocking the phone from it, you can also lock the app.
The design of Vivo V5 has a lot of harmony. Despite being slim, its grip is good. The lower part of the phone is full. Headphone sockets, micro-USB ports and speaker grills have found here. The backpanel has been given a matte finish. However, during the review we found that fingerprint or other stains were very easily installed. There is a dual-sim tray on the left. It is also possible to use microSD card up to 128 GB in its second slot. In the box, you will also get a 10 watt charger which we found excessively larger. It will be accompanied by a data cable, silicone case, headset and SIM Ejector Tool.
Vivo V5 Specification and Feature
The octa-core MediaTek MT6750 chipset has been used in Vivo V5. Oppo F1S also comes with this chipset. You will get 4 GB RAM and 32 GB storage. This is enough for the best Android experience. We have no complaint with its performance. Talking about the benchmark test, it got 40,916 in Antunu and 21 FPS in GFXBench.
Other features of Vivo V5 include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, USB OTG, GPS and FM Radio. The Vivo V5 comes with the company’s Funtch OS 2.6 based on Android Marshmallow. Other features also have Nau on tap and battery optimization. Due to Vivo’s UI customization, it is not easy to tell which version of Android in it. The look of Vivo V5’s software and the style of working is the same as we have seen in other V-series phones.
For the first time, people using Vivo’s phones may get a little confused with a look like iOS. It is possible to access the recent app screen and togle switch when swipe upwards from the bottom. The homescreen customization menu comes out when pressed the capacitive button given on the left. The difficulty is that the menu is very small. In such a situation, it is not easy to find the widget of some apps. The drop down shed can only be used for notifications. Other features of Vivo V5 are Vivo V3, which we mentioned in the review. This includes viewing notifications on folkkin and split screen.
Vivo V5 Performance
As soon as you will get to know about Vivo’s Android avatar. There will be no problem in using this phone. We used this phone for a few days and are happy with its common performance. Vivo V5 does not take much time to load the app. Performance is not weak even during multi-tasking. You will also be able to play the game. However, while playing high-end games you have to make some changes in the settings. We liked one thing very much. The phone is never hot. Even during benchmarking, this phone was a little heated. The call quality was good and the 4G network worked well. Vivo V5 has support for voice over LTE.
Like other Vivo’s other phones, the company works strongly on audio quality. The Vivo V5 has an AK 4376 audio chip which has been built by the company itself. You can activate it with a high-Fi option by going to Settings app. It starts working on plugging headphones. Apart from default music and video player, third apps like MX Player, YouTube and Google Play Music will be able to take advantage of this feature.
The most important feature of Vivo V5 is a 20 -megapixel front camera using the Sony IMX 376 sensor. It is equipped with F/2.0 aperture and fixed focus lens. It supports full-HD video recording and also has face beauty shooting mode. In daylight, the front camera takes a lot of details and very good color reproduction pictures. However, indoor shots in artificial lights were slightly granny. Lack of quality is clearly visible. The shutter also lags. For this reason, there will be difficulty in taking pictures of movable things.
In Vivo V5, the company has given a moonlight flash which works to give more light to your face. If you are taking a selfie by keeping the phone a little distance, then it is not very powerful. However, it works better than common LED flash and screen flash. The performance of selfie camera in low light was sometimes good and sometimes bad. You will be able to improve your selfie through one-tap makeover feature.
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On using the primary camera of Vivo V5, we felt that the company did not pay attention to it as much as a selfie camera. This camera brought very average pictures. Landscape photos were lacking in daylight. Macro shot sharp does not appear. The color reproduction is fine. The pictures taken in low light are worse than average. It has color noys and there is a huge lack of details.
You will be able to record 1080 pixels videos. Its quality was good. Shooting mode includes Panorama, HDR, Night, Profession, PPT, Motion and Hyper Laps. The effect of iOS appears in the camera app. Actually, the old logo of Siri has become a shutter button in this app.
The Vivo V5 has a 3000 mAh battery which lasted for 11 hours 41 minutes in our video test. In common use, we can easily use it for more than a day. The standby of the phone’s battery is excellent. If you are not an active user then it will last for 2 days. Fast charging support will not be available. But the 10 watt charger charge the battery 25 percent in an hour. This is slower than our expectation.
Our decision
There is no doubt that the Vivo V5 is better than the old phone of the company’s V-series. But it does not mind its rivals all four. The most important feature of this phone is a 20 -megapixel front camera which attracts, but it is not revolutionary from anywhere. The selfie does not look so much meaningful for the camera, if you do not want to get a print out of your selfie A4 size paper.
Vivo V5 also has some features, such as display, battery life and beautiful Android performance. However, Oppo F1S (review) is a better option for you for Rs 17,980. Because, its build quality is good and cameras are also excellent. Gionee S6S is also a good option if you have a little less money to spend. If you are ready to wait, then Oppo F1S’s 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage variants will be able to buy Rs 1,000 more in December.