Vivo X50 Professional Assessment

The Vivo X50 Professional is the primary addition to the corporate’s X-series in a really very long time. The final telephone to be added to the X sequence was the Vivo X21, which I reviewed manner again in 2018. The brand new Vivo X50 Professional incorporates a gimbal digicam system, which is the primary of its form in a smartphone, and is supposed to assist stabilise video and nonetheless photographs by compensating for the motion of your fingers. I put the Vivo X50 Professional to the take a look at to search out out if it is value your cash

Vivo X50 Professional design: Premium trying

The Vivo X50 Pro may be very effectively designed. It appears premium and feels sturdy within the hand. Vivo has opted for a curved show with skinny bezels throughout, which give it the impression of getting an edge-to-edge show. At first look, you could possibly mistake it for a Samsung system, because it has a curved show just like many premium Samsung smartphones, however the similarities finish there.

Vivo has gone with a skinny, metallic body for the X50 Professional, which is sandwiched between the curved show and the curved rear glass panel. This telephone appears glossy and will get chilly to the contact in an air-conditioned room. Vivo has used Schott’s Xensation Up glass on the back and front for scratch safety. I like the skinny body and the positioning of the facility and quantity buttons, that are straightforward to achieve.

Whereas the edges of the body are curved to assist the telephone sit effectively within the hand, the highest and the underside of the Vivo X50 Professional are surprisingly flat. It has a USB Sort-C port, SIM tray, major microphone, and speaker on the backside. The first microphone is just too near the SIM tray, so it may very well be mistaken for the ejector mechanism. On the highest, there is a secondary microphone together with inscriptions that say “5G” and “Skilled Images”.

The Vivo X50 Professional has a hole-punch show

 

The Vivo X50 Professional is accessible in a single color referred to as Alpha Gray. You’ll discover a slight shift in color when gentle bounces off the again panel. It has a matte, frosted end which helps conceal fingerprints and smudges fairly effectively. The rear digicam module will certainly seize eyeballs, as the first digicam lens is likely one of the greatest I’ve ever seen on a smartphone in current occasions. All the digicam module protrudes barely, so I might suggest that you just use the case supplied within the field.

The Vivo X50 Professional doesn’t have a three.5mm headphone socket, however comes with a pair of normal headphones and a USB Sort-C to three.5mm dongle within the field. It additionally comes with a 22W Flash Cost 2.zero charger.

Vivo X50 Professional specs: Future prepared

One of many first issues that caught my consideration on the spec sheet of the Vivo X50 Professional was the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC. The Vivo X50 Professional was the primary smartphone to launch in India with this processor, which we later noticed within the decrease priced OnePlus Nord (Review). It’s a 5G-ready SoC which delivers excellent efficiency, if the Nord is any indication. There is just one configuration of the Vivo X50 Professional in India, which has 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. You do not have the choice to develop storage however 256GB must be sufficient for anybody. Vivo has used the united states2.1 flash storage format, which is slower than the united states3.zero storage discovered within the OnePlus 8 (Review) and Xiaomi Mi 10 5G (Review).

The Vivo X50 Professional sports activities a 6.56-inch AMOLED show with a 90Hz refresh charge and 180Hz contact sampling charge. It is usually HDR10+ licensed. The show will get vivid sufficient open air and has good viewing angles. You do have the choice to tweak the color output of the show too.

The Vivo X50 Professional runs Funtouch OS 10.5 on high of Android 10

 

There’s assist for Bluetooth 5.1, dual-band Wi-Fi, three satellite tv for pc navigation programs, 5G, and twin 4G VoLTE. This telephone lacks an IPrating for mud and water resistance, and wi-fi charging; options that I count on from a smartphone priced at round Rs. 50,000 as we speak.

When it comes to software program, the Vivo X50 Professional runs Funtouch OS 10.5 on high of Android 10, and my unit initially had the Might 2020 Android safety patch, however I acquired a software program replace in the course of the evaluate interval with the July patch. I discovered plenty of preinstalled apps on the smartphone corresponding to Facebook, PhonePe, Amazon, VivoCloud, and V-Appstore, which is an alternative choice to the Google Play retailer. There is a GameCenter app which gives a curated checklist of video games to obtain. There’s additionally an ‘Extremely Sport Mode’ which clears reminiscence whenever you launch a sport, and allows you to mute incoming notifications and calls whereas gaming.

Vivo X50 Professional efficiency: 5G prepared

The Vivo X50 Professional supplied excellent efficiency and I by no means observed any lag or stutter whereas utilizing it. The UI felt clean, particularly once I enabled the 90Hz refresh charge for the show. I didn’t have to attend for lengthy to load heavy apps, and I used to be capable of multitask between totally different apps very simply. The fingerprint scanner was fast to unlock the smartphone, and face recognition by no means required multiple try and work . The show produced crisp particulars and I loved watching movies on the Vivo X50 Professional. The underside-firing speaker acquired fairly loud however stereo output was missed.

The telephone additionally posted some spectacular numbers in benchmarks. In AnTuTu Eight, it managed 2,63,410 factors. It additionally scored 624 and 1899 factors in Geekbench’s single-core and multi-core exams respectively. It is not essentially the most highly effective smartphone on this worth vary; the OnePlus Eight packs in a extra highly effective Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC, which managed 5,78,289 in AnTuTu Eight and 912 and 3362 factors in Geekbench. As for the GFXBench graphics benchmark , the Vivo X50 Professional managed 18fps and 32fps within the Automotive Chase and Manhattan three.1 exams ,respectively.

The buttons on the Vivo X50 Professional provide good suggestions

 

I performed PUBG Cell on the Vivo X50 Professional, and it defaulted to the ‘Excessive’ high quality preset, with graphics set to ‘HD’ and the body charge set to ‘Excessive’. The telephone might deal with the sport at these settings with none points and I didn’t discover any stutter whereas taking part in. It didn’t get too scorching and even after a 20 minute match, the telephone solely registered a 3 p.c battery drop.

Battery life on the Vivo X50 Professional was excellent, and it lasted past a day, while not having to be charged. I did discover that utilizing the gimbal digicam system drained the battery barely sooner. In our HD video loop take a look at, the Vivo X50 Professional lasted for 15 hours and 40 minutes, which is pretty good. The equipped 22W Flash Cost 2.zero charger is fast to cost the system, getting it to 50 p.c in 30 minutes and 91 p.c in an hour.

Vivo X50 Professional cameras: Revolutionary or only a gimmick?

The Vivo X50 Professional has a quad-camera setup on the again like most smartphones as of late, however the spotlight function is the gimbal stabilisation system for the 48-megapixel major digicam, which might scale back shakes whereas capturing photographs and video. The sensor can also be bodily larger than most different sensors utilized in telephones in current occasions. This gimbal system permits the digicam sensor to maneuver and rotate barely, compensating for unintentional shakes.

The first digicam sports activities a gimbal stabilisation system.

 

The opposite cameras are a 13-megapixel sensor for portraits, an Eight-megapixel ultra-wide-angle digicam, and an Eight-megapixel telephoto digicam. The digicam app has numerous options and also you get a number of capturing modes to select from. The gimbal digicam system may be toggled on or off from the digicam settings, and when it’s enabled the viewfinder offers you an overlay of a small circle with a white ball in it. Vivo says that so long as the tiny ball is within the circle, the Vivo X50 Professional ought to ship a well-stabilised shot. On the entrance of the telephone, you get a 32-megapixel selfie digicam.

The substitute intelligence (AI) on the Vivo X50 Professional is fast to recognise a scene and set the digicam up accordingly. It additionally gives suggestions for which sensor to make use of, based mostly on the scene.

Vivo X50 Professional daylight digicam pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

 

Vivo X50 Professional wide-angle digicam pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

 

In daylight, the Vivo X50 Professional managed good photographs with a good quantity of element. The ultra-wide-angle digicam supplied a wider subject of view however there was a notable loss intimately in comparison with photographs taken with the first sensor.

Vivo X50 Professional close-up digicam pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

 

Shut-ups turned out fairly effectively. When you’ve got hassle preserving your fingers regular whereas capturing, there is no such thing as a motive to fret with the Vivo X50 Professional because the gimbal system compensates very effectively, leading to a crisp shot almost each time. Nevertheless, the AI tends to spice up colors barely, which I wasn’t too proud of.

Vivo X50 Professional portrait digicam pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

 

Portrait mode on the Vivo X50 Professional makes use of the devoted 13-megapixel portrait digicam, which even gives a 2x zoomed-in view of your topic. The smartphone helps you to set the extent of blur, beautification, and elegance results earlier than taking a shot. The output had good edge detection and the Vivo X50 Professional might distinguish between the topic and the background very effectively.

Vivo X50 Professional macro pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

 

For macro photographs, the Vivo X50 Professional makes use of the wide-angle digicam. The telephone takes good macro photographs, and the upper decision of the ultra-wide-angle sensor means that you can enlarge and crop photographs if required.

Vivo X50 Professional telephoto digicam samples (faucet to see bigger picture)

 

The telephoto digicam gives 5x optical zoom and as much as 60x digital zoom. At 5x, photographs have good element, however at increased magnification ranges, there’s a slight dip within the stage of element however not very a lot grain. Giant textual content at a distance was nonetheless legible even at increased magnification ranges.

Vivo X50 Professional low-light digicam pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

Vivo X50 Professional Night time mode digicam pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

Vivo X50 Professional Night time mode close-up pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

 

Pictures taken in low gentle had good particulars, and the telephone managed to maintain noise and grain to a minimal. Enabling Night time mode enhanced the general brightness of photographs with higher particulars within the shadows. The gimbal system helped maintain the digicam steady whereas the telephone took a number of lengthy publicity photographs in Night time mode. There are a number of picture results obtainable too.

Vivo X50 Professional low-light portrait selfie pattern (faucet to see full-size picture)

 

Selfies taken with the 32-megapixel entrance digicam turned out effectively in the course of the day with good particulars. The digicam app does provide the choice to simulate a depth impact, such as you get with Portrait mode, however you can not set the extent of blur. Low-light photographs had good element, even after cropping.

Video recording tops out at 4K 60fps for the first digicam whereas the selfie digicam is restricted to 1080p. The gimbal digicam system helps stabilise video very effectively leading to steady-looking footage at 1080p in addition to 4K. It additionally managed to stabilise footage whereas I used to be pacing up and down, which was spectacular. There are a number of options for video corresponding to encompass audio recording which lets you choose between the front-facing, rear-facing and encompass audio results, whereas recording. Video shot in low-light can also be stabilised at 1080p in addition to 4K. Movies shot in low-light had good particulars and really low noise, and has occasional shimmer results when altering instructions whereas strolling.

Verdict

The Vivo X50 Professional is the primary smartphone to function built-in gimbal stabilisation. Whereas this can be a first-gen product, it does the job fairly effectively. Video stabilisation was fairly good and the gimbal system does make it tremendous straightforward to take photographs with Night time mode. Hopefully, this function will change into extra widespread sooner or later.

When you shoot lots of movies in your smartphone and do not wish to spend on a hand-held gimbal, the Vivo X50 Professional ought to attraction to you. Its digicam and video efficiency are undoubtedly highlights. Nevertheless, this telephone is not an all-rounder and falls a bit quick in a couple of key areas. The OnePlus Eight gives significantly better app and gaming efficiency at a lower cost. Equally, the Xiaomi Mi 10 5G and the OnePlus Eight Professional may very well be highly effective options to the Vivo X50 Professional.

When you do not care about having a flagship-level SoC however would a lot somewhat have one of the best stabilisation system in your telephone, then there’s nothing that comes near the Vivo X50 Professional, at the least not but.