<p style="text-align: justify;">A huge hoard of Chinese smartphone makers have entered India and while you might have not even heard of Vivo, it has got the title of making the world’s first smartphone with a 2K (2560x1440) resolution display and also one of the slimmest smartphones in the world. The company is fairly new in the market and has about a dozen phones under its portfolio. Their latest handset for the Indian market is the X5Pro.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The handset is made out of glass panels on the front and back and a metal frame sandwiched in between. Now this does make the handset slippery but it gives an elegant look. Sony brought this design philosophy with its refreshed Xperia series and it has definitely caught on. The X5Pro uses a 2.5D glass for the display which means that the glass protecting the actual display has a slight curve on the edges, but it is entirely curved like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge or the Galaxy Note Edge. This makes swiping a little more comfortable and also gives the handset a nice smooth finish. The display itself is bright and sharp as Vivo has used a Super AMOLED display, same as Samsung, which offers high contrast and slightly warmer tones. The overall finish of the handset feels impressive and very solid and it isn’t that heavy either thanks to its slim design.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/vivo-x5pro-2.jpg"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the inside the X Pro features a Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM, a 5.2-inch full HD Super AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 3, 16GB of expandable storage, a 13MP rear and an 8MP front cameras combo and a 2,450mAh battery. The handset runs on Android Lollipop with Vivo’s own Funtouch OS 2.1. The UI is quite similar to most of the Chinese smartphone UIs that we have seen which skips an app drawer menu, offers a themes store (which doesn’t work for India) and a bunch of features and apps. The quick settings toggles have been moved to the bottom (like the iPhone) so you need to swipe up to get access to them. This also shows you the apps that are currently running in the background and just swiping them out closes them. The UI is smooth and didn’t show signs of lags but somehow seems too cluttered and gives a slight unfamiliar feel. The lockscreen comes with a round icon in the middle which can be assigned to show your profile picture and your name to add a bit of personalisation.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/vivo-x5pro-3.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 513px;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The camera works well and turns out be the best feature apart from the design of the smartphone. The focusing is fast and even the shutter doesn’t offer any lag, it snaps instantly. The camera app offers modes for different environment and also slow and fast video recording modes. Surprisingly there are no options to fine tune your image like no exposure compensation or white balance, which seems quite odd as almost every smartphone offers these feature. Probably Vivo thought of keeping the camera app simple for the user to understand rather than tinkering around with the setting.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/vivo-x5pro-34.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 479px;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of battery life it isn’t the best in the market and with a 2,450mAh battery pack, you get about a day of charge on light usage and heavy tasks lead to about half a day or even less. Heavy tasks also lead to a lot of heating which is a very well-known fact of the Snapdragon 615 chip. At a price of nearly Rs. 27,000 this is an overpriced smartphone without offering a strong USP. Similar and even more powerful handsets like the OnePlus 2, and the Asus Zenfone 2 are available at a much affordable price. </p>
