vivo hosted a expansive lawsuit contiguous successful Gurgaon, India, wherever it unveiled the V80 and S2 FE and introduced the X Fold6 to the Indian market. We utilized the vivo V80 for a fewer days, and here's however it performed.
Design
The vivo V80 is built astir a 6.59" 1,260p 144Hz AMOLED display, surrounded by 1.25mm bezels.
The show has a centered punch-hole for a ZEISS-tuned 50MP selfie camera.
The V80's show besides has a 3D ultrasonic fingerprint scanner embedded, which was accelerated and close during our use. It supports swipe-based fingerprint enrollment, and we similar however it's placed acold from the bottommost bezel, facilitating a comfy phone-unlocking experience. However, determination were times erstwhile the telephone experienced insignificant lag aft unlocking it. It doesn't hamper the idiosyncratic experience, but it's inactive thing worthy mentioning.
Turn the V80 around, and you spot what vivo calls a "Floating Camera Module." vivo says it's a "contemporary instrumentality connected the classical quadrate camera layout, softened with rounded corners for a lighter, much balanced expression." The marque besides said that the "transparent decorativeness adds ocular depth, making the plan consciousness modern, distinctive, and effortlessly refined."
This camera module features an LED flash, a circular airy called Aura Light, a ZEISS logo, and 3 ZEISS-tuned cameras - a 50MP primary, a 50MP telephoto, and an 8MP ultrawide.
The V80 wobbles erstwhile utilized connected level surfaces; however, the bundled transparent lawsuit does a large occupation of minimizing it.
The V80's rear plan differs from its predecessor, but it whitethorn punctual immoderate of Apple's iPhone Pro Max models, particularly the Sunrise Anthem model, which is the taxable of this hands-on and shows antithetic shades depending connected lighting and the space astatine which it reflects light. The different 2 colors are Horizon Blue and Stellar Black.
The V80's level backmost sheet and camera module are covered with a solid coating, and the decorativeness feels identical to the vivo X300 FE. You can't archer the 2 phones isolated without looking astatine them.
vivo V80's Sunrise Anthem exemplary shows antithetic shades depending connected lighting and the space astatine which it reflects light
We similar the vivo V80's finish. It feels premium, provides a bully in-hand experience, and keeps the backmost sheet smudge-free.
The V80's "high-strength aluminum alloy" framework has a matte decorativeness and stays smudge-free similar the phone's backmost panel. On the right-side framework are the measurement rocker and powerfulness fastener - some with bully feedback. At the bottommost is the USB-C port, flanked by a SIM paper slot, a microphone, and a talker grille. On the apical is the secondary mic with an IR blaster and different talker outlet.
vivo V80's ports and controls
The vivo V80 besides has IP68 and IP69 ratings. We similar its wide design. The smartphone is sturdy, feels premium successful the hand, and has a bully finish. It's besides not hard to usage with 1 hand.
Display
The vivo V80 features a 6.59" AMOLED display, surrounded by 1.25mm bezels. The show - protected by Schott Xensation Core solid - has a 2,750x1,260-pixel resolution, 459 ppi pixel density, and supports 1.07 cardinal colors.
It besides supports HDR, HDR10+, and HLG codecs, and is Widevine L1-certified, enabling 1080p video streaming connected compatible apps. Our portion didn't play HDR videos connected YouTube, though.
The V80's show has a section highest brightness of 5,000 nits, portion HBM brightness is 1,800 nits. It tin besides dim down to 1 nit for a comfy low-light speechmaking experience. The show was sufficiently bright, and we had nary issues watching contented adjacent nether beardown sunlight.
Furthermore, the V80's show supports up to 144Hz refresh rate. It tin power betwixt 60Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz, and 144Hz, which is restricted to gaming. The show settings paper offers 3 refresh complaint options - Smart adaptation, Standard (60Hz), and High (144Hz).
When you prime High, you get the "Custom app refresh rate" enactment successful that menu, which lets you prime the apps you privation to tally astatine 120Hz. Until OriginOS 6, the database besides included games installed connected the phone, but successful OriginOS 7, you lone spot apps. Games are present listed successful Ultra Game Mode. We find this somewhat inconvenient, arsenic having each the apps and games listed successful 1 spot is some time-saving and convenient.
With Standard mode selected, everything expectedly refreshes astatine 60Hz. But with High mode, the refresh complaint bumped from 60Hz to 120Hz erstwhile interacting with the show and remained astatine 60Hz the remainder of the time. This behaviour was accordant crossed astir strategy menus and apps, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google Play Store, Google Chrome, and Google Photos.
Smart adaptation mode works similar High mode, but it limits the maximum refresh complaint to 90Hz erstwhile utilizing Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Google Chrome.
What astir games? Well, Sky Force: Reloaded, Dead Trigger 2, and Call of Duty: Mobile - the games we usually play connected astir of our reappraisal devices - ran astatine 120Hz successful High mode. In Smart adaptation mode, lone Call of Duty: Mobile ran astatine 120Hz.
In our experience, Sky Force: Reloaded, Dead Trigger 2, and Call of Duty: Mobile each ran astatine 60 FPS successful Smart adaptation mode. In High mode, Call of Duty: Mobile and Dead Trigger 2 ran astatine 60 FPS, portion Sky Force: Reloaded reached a maximum of 101 FPS.
Hence, the High refresh complaint mode is your champion enactment if you privation the smoothest acquisition imaginable connected the vivo V80.
Software and Performance
The vivo V80 is powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 SoC, which is the aforesaid spot that powered the vivo V70 launched earlier this twelvemonth and the V60 that came past August. We would've liked a newer, much almighty spot wrong the V80, but that could person raised the phone's price, which whitethorn beryllium wherefore vivo stuck with the aforesaid spot it utilized successful a two-generation-old phone.
That said, the vivo V80 comes with 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage. Our portion has 8GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage.
On the bundle side, you get Android 17-based OriginOS 7, making it the archetypal V-series smartphone to tally OriginOS 7 retired of the box. It comes with the committedness of 4 Android OS upgrades and six years of information updates. vivo told america that information updates volition beryllium released each period for the archetypal 2 years, quarterly for the 3rd and 4th year, and each six months for the 5th and 6th year.
It's besides worthy noting that our reappraisal unit, an Indian model, came pre-loaded with conscionable 1 third-party app - Booking.com. It didn't person immoderate different third-party apps oregon games pre-installed. That's awesome for a Chinese brand! We privation different brands to travel suit.
OriginOS 7 doesn't travel with a large plan revamp, but it does bring caller features, including Wiggle Theme, StickIt, and Snap Notes. We'll instrumentality a elaborate look astatine OriginOS 7 successful our afloat review.
In presumption of performance, the vivo V80 worked reliably successful mundane use. It wasn't arsenic snappy arsenic the vivo X300 Pro oregon the X300 Ultra, of course, and it did stutter a fewer times, but wide we person nary complaints. The V80's gaming show was besides bully enough, and it remained reasonably chill aft playing games specified arsenic Call of Duty: Mobile for implicit an hour.
You tin cheque the charts beneath to spot however the vivo V80 performed successful synthetic benchmarks.
And present we person a mates of screenshots showing the vivo V80's sustained show successful a GPU accent test.
GPU test
We besides ran the CPU Throttling Test app connected the V80 to spot however it would execute successful a 1-hour CPU accent test, but the trial ne'er completed, arsenic the telephone got precise blistery aft a 15-minute run, prompting its strategy to adjacent the app and hold for the telephone to chill down to usage it again. The telephone prevented each apps from opening until it cooled down.
Camera
The vivo V80 features 4 cameras - 1 connected the beforehand and 3 connected the rear. All are co-developed with ZEISS and person ZEISS optics.
The beforehand camera is called "ZEISS Group Selfie Camera" by vivo. It uses a 50MP sensor and has autofocus, an f/2.0 aperture, 92° FOV, and a magnification scope of 0.8x - 2x. It tin besides grounds videos successful up to 4K solution astatine 60 FPS. vivo hasn't revealed the sensor utilized for the selfie camera.
The triple camera setup connected the rear comprises a 50MP "ZEISS OIS Main Camera," a 50MP "ZEISS Night Telephoto Camera," and an 8MP "ZEISS Ultra Wide-Angle Camera."
The superior camera uses the Sony LYTIA 700V sensor, has an f/1.88 aperture, OIS, an 84° FOV, and is susceptible of signaling videos successful 4K solution astatine 60 FPS. The telephoto camera - having OIS, an f/2.65 aperture, 3x optical zoom, and 100x integer zoom - uses the Sony IMX882 sensor. The ultrawide camera has an f/2.2 aperture and 115° FOV, but vivo hasn't revealed the sensor it uses.
The 8MP solution of the ultrawide camera is the aforesaid arsenic the erstwhile 2 generations of phones, and it's astir clip we got upgrades successful that department.
That said, immoderate noteworthy camera features the vivo V80 comes with see 4K Cinematic Video, AI Creative Camera, and AI Diwali Portrait 2.0 (India-exclusive). It besides comes with ZEISS Multifocal Portrait, supporting 5 focal lengths - 23mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, and 100mm.
We are leaving the elaborate investigation of the vivo V80's camera strategy for our afloat review, but we did click immoderate pictures with the smartphone, which you tin cheque below.
Daylight Photos
Let's spot the daylight pictures first, captured with the vivo V80's 8MP ultrawide camera, followed by the 50MP superior camera.
Ultrawide camera, 8MP, 0.6x magnification.
Ultrawide camera, 8MP, 0.6x magnification
Primary camera, 12.6MP, 1x magnification.
Primary camera, 12.6MP, 1x magnification
Primary camera, 50MP (High resolution), 1x magnification.
Primary camera, 50MP (High resolution), 1x magnification
Low-light Photos
We besides took immoderate photos successful debased airy with the vivo V80's cameras.
Ultrawide camera, 8MP, 0.6x magnification.
Ultrawide camera, 8MP, 0.6x magnification
Primary camera, 12.6MP, 1x magnification.
Primary camera, 12.6MP, 1x magnification
Primary camera, 50MP (High resolution), 1x magnification.
Primary camera, 50MP (High resolution), 1x magnification
Battery
Keeping the vivo V80 up and moving is simply a 7,200 mAh Si/C battery, which is an upgrade implicit the 6,500 mAh artillery the V70 packed. However, portion the artillery capableness has increased, the wired charging velocity remains the aforesaid astatine 90W. What's besides retained is bypass charging.
We couldn't tally our modular artillery tests connected the vivo V80, arsenic we tin lone bash those astatine our HQ, and the telephone was tested successful India. However, the smartphone should easy get you done a time connected a azygous charge.
The vivo V80's artillery is advertised to complaint to 50% successful 30 minutes successful Fast Charging Mode with the bundled 100W FlashCharger. That wasn't the lawsuit successful our charging tests, though.
In our testing, the vivo V80 charged from 1% to 21% successful 15 minutes, 45% successful 30 minutes, 50% successful 32 minutes, 94% successful 1 hour, and 100% successful 1 hr and 2 minutes. It took different 5 minutes for the artillery afloat presumption to look connected the screen. Note that your mileage volition apt alteration depending connected usage and the ambient somesthesia erstwhile charging the vivo V80.
Conclusion
The vivo V80 has a agleam display, reliable performance, caller software, a large battery, and a sturdy build. We liked its design, too, adjacent though it could punctual immoderate users of different fashionable smartphone that doesn't tally Android.
The superior camera doesn't instrumentality atrocious photos, but we'd similar vivo to fine-tune it for much accordant colors crossed Photo and High-Res modes, particularly successful low-light conditions. The High-Res mode could besides beryllium optimized to trim processing clip betwixt consecutive clicks.
The vivo V80 comes successful Sunrise Anthem, Horizon Blue, and Stellar Black colors. All models person 3 representation options - 8GB/128GB, 8GB/256GB, and 8GB/512GB.
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