Vivo X50 Pro Review

 Vivo X50 Pro Review

 Vivo X50 Pro Review: The gimbal camera stabilisation is your party-piece for the Vivo X50 Pro. 

The Vivo X50 Pro is the first addition to the company's X-series in a really long time.   

The newest Vivo X50 Pro includes a gimbal camera program, that's the very first of its kind in a smartphone, and is meant to help stabilise movie and still shots by compensating for the motion of your handson.  I put the Vivo X50 Pro to the test to Discover if it's worth your money

Vivo X50 Pro layout: Premium looking

The Vivo X50 Pro is well designed.  It looks premium and feels sturdy in the hand.  Vivo has opted for a curved display with thin bezels around, which give it the impression of getting an edge-to-edge display.  

At first glanceyou could mistake it for a Samsung device, because it has a curved screen very similar to many premium Samsung tablets, but the similarities end there.

Vivo has gone using a thin, metallic framework for the X50 Pro, which is sandwiched between the curved display and the curved back glass panel.  This phone looks slick and gets chilly to the touch in an air-conditioned room.  

Vivo has utilized Schott's Xensation Up glass to the front and back for scratch protection.  I like the thin frame and the positioning of the volume and power buttons, that are easy to reach.

While the surfaces of the framework are curved to help the phone sit nicely in the hand, the very upper and the base of the Vivo X50 Guru are surprisingly flat.  It has a USB Type-C interface, SIM tray, primary microphone, and speaker at the bottom.  

The main microphone is too near the SIM tray, so it could be mistaken for the ejector mechanism.  On the top, there is a secondary microphone together with inscriptions that state"5G" and"Professional Photography".

The Vivo X50 Pro is available in a single colour Named Alpha Grey.  You'll begin to see a small shift in color when light bounces off the rear panel.  It has a matte, frosted finish that will help conceal fingerprints and smudges quite well.  

The rear camera module will surely catch eyeballs, as the primary camera lens is one of the greatest I've ever seen on a smartphone recently.  The whole camera module protrudes slightly, so that I would advise that you utilize the case supplied in the box.

The Vivo X50 Pro does not have a 3.5mm headphone socket, but includes a set of regular headphones and a USB Type-C into 3.5millimeter dongle from the box.  It also will come with a 33W Flash Charge 2.0 charger.

One of the first things that caught my attention about the spec sheet of the Vivo X50 Pro was that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC.  The Vivo X50 Pro was the first smartphone to launch in India with this processor, which we saw in the reduced priced OnePlus Nord.  

It's a 5G-ready SoC that delivers very good performance, if the Nord is some indication.   You do not have the option to expand storage but 256GB should be sufficient for anyone.  Vivo has utilized the UFS 2.1 flash storage arrangement, which can be slower than the UFS 3.0 storage found at the OnePlus 8 Rs 41,999 and Xiaomi Mi 10 5G.

The Vivo X50 Pro sports a 6.56-inch AMOLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate and 180Hz signature sampling rate.  It is likewise HDR10+ certified.  The display becomes bright enough outside and has great viewing angles.  You have the option to tweak the color output of the display too.

This phone lacks an IPrating for dust and water resistance, and wireless charging; features that I expect from a smartphone at approximately Rs. 50,000 today.

Concerning software, the Vivo X50 Pro runs Funtouch OS 10.5 on top of Android 10, and my device initially had the May 2020 Android security patch, however I received a software update during the inspection period with the July patch.  

I discovered a number of preinstalled programs on the smartphone like facebook, PhonePe, Amazon, VivoCloud, and V-Appstore, which will be another alternative to the Google Play store.  There is a GameCenter app which supplies a curated list of games to download.  There is also an'Ultra Game Mode' which prevents memory once you launch a game, and enables you to mute incoming notifications and calls while gaming.

Vivo X50 Pro functionality: 5G ready

The Vivo X50 Pro provided very good performance and that I never seen any lag or stutter when using it.  The UI felt smooth, especially when I allowed the 90Hz refresh rate for the screen.  I did not have to wait for long to load thick apps, and I was able to multitask between different apps very easily.  

The fingerprint scanner was fast to unlock the smartphoneand face recognition never required more than 1 effort to work.  The screen produced crisp information and I liked watching videos on the Vivo X50 Pro.  The bottom-firing speaker got very loud but stereo output was missed.

In AnTuTu 8, it handled 2,63,410 points.  In addition, it scored 624 and 1899 points in Geekbench's single-core and multi-core tests .  It is not the most powerful smartphone in this price range; the OnePlus 8 packs in a stronger Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC, which handled 5,78,289 in AnTuTu 8 and 912 and 3362 points in Geekbench.  

As for the GFXBench graphics benchmark, the Vivo X50 Pro handled 18fps and 32fps from the Car Chase and Manhattan 3.1 evaluations,respectively.

The telephone could manage the game at these settings without any problems and I did not notice any stutter while enjoying.  It did not get overly hot and even following a 20 second match, the phone only enrolled a three percent battery drop.

Battery life on the Vivo X50 Pro was very good, and it lasted beyond a day, without having to be charged.  I did note that using the gimbal camera system drained the battery marginally faster.   The furnished 22W Flash Charge 2.0 charger is fast to control the apparatus, getting it to 50 percent in 30 minutes and 91 per cent in one hour.

Vivo X50 Pro cameras: Revolutionary or Only a gimmick?

The Vivo X50 Pro features a quad-camera setup in the back like most smartphones nowadays, but the highlight attribute is that the gimbal stabilisation platform for the 48-megapixel primary camera, which can reduce shakes while shooting video and photos.  

The detector is also physically larger than most other sensors used in mobiles in recent times.  This gimbal system allows the camera sensor to move and rotate slightly, compensating for casual shakes.

Another cameras are a 13-megapixel detector for photos, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera, and also an 8-megapixel megapixel camera.  The camera app has lots of features and you get multiple shooting modes to pick from.  

The gimbal camera system may be toggled on or off from the camera configurations, and when it is empowered the viewfinder gives you an overlay of a small ring with a white ball in it.  

Vivo claims that as long as the tiny ball is in the ring, the Vivo X50 Pro should deliver a well-stabilised shot.  On the front of the phone, you receive a 32-megapixel selfie camera.

The artificial intelligence (AI) on the Vivo X50 Pro is quick to recognise a spectacle and set the camera up accordingly.  It also offers recommendations for which sensor to use, dependent on the scene.

In daytime, the Vivo X50 Pro handled great shots with an adequate amount of detail.  The ultra-wide-angle camera provided a broader field of view but there was a remarkable loss in detail compared to shots taken with the primary sensor.

 In case you have trouble keeping your hands steady while shooting, then there's no reason to be worried about the Vivo X50 Pro as the gimbal system compensates very well, causing a crisp shot nearly each moment.  

However, the AI tends to enhance colors marginally, which I wasn't too happy with.

Portrait mode on the Vivo X50 Professional uses the committed 13-megapixel portrait camera, which offers a 2x zoomed-in perspective of your subject.  The smartphone allows you set the level of blur, beautification, and design effects before taking a shot.  

The output had great advantage detection and the Vivo X50 Pro could differentiate between the topic and the background really well.

For macro shots, the Vivo X50 Pro utilizes the front-facing camera.  The phone takes great macro shots, and the higher resolution of the ultra-wide-angle sensor allows you to magnify and crop shots if required.

The telephoto camera offers 5x optical zoom as well as 60x digital zoom.  In 5x, photos have good detail, but at higher magnification levels, there is a slight dip in the degree of detail but not very much grain.  Substantial text at a distance was still legible even at greater magnification levels.

Photographs taken in low light had good details, and also the phone was able to maintain grain and noise to a minimum.  Enabling Night mode enhanced the general brightness of shots with better details in the shadows.   There are multiple photo effects available also.

Selfies taken with all the 32-megapixel front camera turned out well during the afternoon with great details.  The camera app will not give you the option to simulate a depth effect, like you get with Portrait mode, but you cannot set the degree of blur.  Low-light shots had good detail, even after cropping.

Video recording tops out at 4K 60fps for the key camera while the selfie camera is restricted to 1080p.  The gimbal camera program helps stabilise video quite well leading to steady-looking footage at 1080p also as 4K.  Additionally, it managed to stabilise footage while I had been pacing up and down, which was remarkable.  

There are multiple attributes for movie such as surround sound recording that lets you pick between the front-facing, rear-facing and surround audio effects, while still recording.  Video shot low-light can be stabilised at 1080p as well as 4K.  Videos shot in low-light had good information and very low sound, and contains occasional shimmer consequences when changing directions while walking.

Verdict

The Vivo X50 Pro is the first smartphone to incorporate built in gimbal stabilisation.  Even though this is a first-gen solution, it does the job rather nicely.  Video stabilisation was quite good and the gimbal system does make it super easy to take shots with Nighttime style.  Hopefully, this feature will become more prevalent later on.

If you shoot a lot of videos onto your smartphone and do not need to invest to a hand-held gimbal, the Vivo X50 Pro should attract you.  Its camera and video performance are definitely highlights.  However, this phone isn't an all-rounder and falls somewhat short in a few key areas.  

The OnePlus 8 provides better app and gaming functionality at a lower cost.  In the same way, the Xiaomi Mi 10 5G and the OnePlus 8 Guru could be powerful options to the Vivo X50 Pro.

In case you don't care for having a flagship-level SoC but would much rather have the very best stabilisation system on your phone, then there's nothing that comes near the Vivo X50 Guru, at least not yet.

Good

• Really good build quality
• All-day battery lifetime 
• 90Hz AMOLED display
• 5G-ready

Bad

• No IP rating or wireless charging

Vivo X50 Pro Key

• Display: 6.56-inch
• Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G
• Front Camera: 32-megapixel
• Rear Camera: 48-megapixel + 13-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 13-megapixel
• RAM: 8GB
• Storage: 128GB
• Battery Capacity: 4315mAh
• OS: Android 10
• Resolution: 1080x2376 pixels