Chinese handset maker Vivo today announced two new flagship smartphones, the Vivo Nex S and Vivo Nex A. The smartphones have been in the news for some weeks now. After leaks of the handset revealed their design and specifications.
Vivo Nex S sports a third generation in-display fingerprint sensor that is 50 percent more accurate and 10 percent faster. Meanwhile, there’s an 8MP pop-up front camera that reveals itself only when you open the camera app.
In addition, the Vivo Nex S runs on Android 8.1 Oreo with Funtouch OS 4.0 on top. This device features a 6.59-inch full HD+ Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2316 x 1080 pixels.
This post reviews this flagship.
Design and Display
Vivo Nex S sports an aluminium design with a glass material on its front.
The Vivo Nex S smartphone has dimensions of 162 x 77 x 8 mm (6.38 x 3.03 x 0.31 in). With a weight of 199g.
The device also has a 6.59-inch Super AMOLED Capacitive Touch-screen, with 16M colours. With a resolution of 1080 x 2316 pixels, it has a 19.3:9 aspect ratio (~420 ppi density).
This flagship has Multitouch features, with Vivo’s Funtouch OS 4. In addition, there’s an in-display Fingerprint sensor. Also, it comes in two colour variants: Black and Red.
Hardware and Software
The Vivo Nex S Android smartphone comes with Android 8.1 (Oreo) operating system.
Vivo Nex S is powered by a Qualcomm SDM845 Snapdragon 845 chipset with a 64-bit processor. It also comes with an Octa-core processor configured at (4×2.7 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4×1.7 GHz Kryo 385 Silver).
Furthermore, it uses an Adreno 630 GPU for graphics handling.
This device offers 8Gb of RAM and 128/256 Gb of inbuilt memory. Also, the large RAM means that there’s no card slot.
Other sensors on this device are Fingerprint (under display), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass sensors.
Camera and Battery
Vivo Nex S features a Dual: 12 MP (f/1.8, 1/2.5″, 1.4µm, Dual Pixel PDAF) + 5 MP (f/2.4), 4-axis OIS camera. With phase detection autofocus, and dual-LED dual-tone flash.
Upfront, there’s a Pop-up 8 MP (f/2.0) camera.
As for battery life, there’s a Non-removable Li-Ion 4000 mAh battery. Also, a fast battery charging 22W feature is included.
Price
The Vivo Nex S Android smartphone sells for about 700 EUR. Which is equivalent to N293,268.
Full Specifications
Here are the full specifications of the Vivo Nex S.
| NETWORK | Technology | GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE |
|---|
| LAUNCH | Announced | 2018, June |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Coming soon. Exp. release 2018, June 23rd |
| BODY | Dimensions | 162 x 77 x 8 mm (6.38 x 3.03 x 0.31 in) |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 199 g (7.02 oz) | |
| SIM | Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) |
| DISPLAY | Type | Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 6.59 inches, 107.3 cm2 (~86.0% screen-to-body ratio) | |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2316 pixels (~388 ppi density) | |
| Multitouch | Yes | |
| – Funtouch OS 4 |
| PLATFORM | OS | Android 8.1 (Oreo) |
|---|---|---|
| Chipset | Qualcomm SDM845 Snapdragon 845 | |
| CPU | Octa-core (4×2.7 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4×1.7 GHz Kryo 385 Silver) | |
| GPU | Adreno 630 |
| MEMORY | Card slot | No |
|---|---|---|
| Internal | 128/256 GB, 8 GB RAM |
| CAMERA | Primary | Dual: 12 MP (f/1.8, 1/2.5″, 1.4µm, Dual Pixel PDAF) + 5 MP (f/2.4), 4-axis OIS, phase detection autofocus, dual-LED dual-tone flash |
|---|---|---|
| Features | Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama | |
| Video | [email protected], [email protected] | |
| Secondary | Pop-up 8 MP (f/2.0) |
| SOUND | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
|---|---|---|
| Loudspeaker | Yes | |
| 3.5mm jack | Yes | |
| – 32-bit/192kHz audio – Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic |
| COMMS | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
|---|---|---|
| Bluetooth | 5.0, A2DP, LE | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, BDS, GNSS | |
| Radio | No | |
| USB | 2.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go |
| FEATURES | Sensors | Fingerprint (under display), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
|---|---|---|
| Messaging | SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email | |
| Browser | HTML5 | |
| – Fast battery charging 22W – MP4/H.264 player – MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player – Document viewer – Photo/video editor |
| BATTERY | Non-removable Li-Ion 4000 mAh battery |
|---|
| MISC | Colors | Black, Red |
|---|---|---|
| Price | About N293,268 |
