Vivo V7 Plus — a smartphone that is of interest

New smartphone nowadays, few people can surprise. Sometimes recognized market leader can provide something that will be of interest, but in the middle segment usually more or less stable. However, the new smartphone from Vivo deserves its share of attention. And it has its own reasons.

Many people know that Vivo is the manufacturer who is able to fully realize the integration of a fingerprint scanner in the smartphone and showed it at CES 2018. In many ways, so it seems that the brand can work at the implementation level of innovation and offer interesting solutions.

Additionally, in Russia the brand is known for being the official sponsor of the world championship on football which will pass in the summer of 2018.

What do we have today?

We in the editorial was the smartphone Vivo V7+, which is not so expensive, but some options to put it mildly, surprised.

The cost of a smartphone is 21 990 rubles. And interest is the 24-megapixel camera, Snapdragon processor 450 and its own operating system Funtouch OS based on Android 3.2 7.1.

What is in the kit

Vivo V7+ — it is that pleasant case when easier to say what’s in the box with the phone there than to list quite a rich delivery set of the device.

Except the smartphone, in a simple white box from under it you find the following:

power adapter
charging cable
headphones
transparent case
protective film (already applied to screen)
“a paper clip” to eject
brief instructions

The appearance of the smartphone

Externally Vivo V7+ is similar to many other smartphones, but it’s more of an inevitability than a manufacturer desire to copy someone’s design. In our time to come up with something new in the design of mobile devices is almost impossible. Nevertheless, the guys of Vivo still tried to give your smartphone some interesting design innovations.

Very nice and cool on the body looks double chrome bar at the top and bottom housing parts. This has not happened. Rare and square fingerprint scanner, which is located on the rear of the V7+. Thanks to these elements the design looks much fresher than most similar devices.

Charging is done via microUSB. The headphone Jack in place and is located on the bottom edge. All the buttons on the right, and the tray of cards on the left. Especially nice that it is not combined, and each of the two simok has its place, and for a memory card with up to 256 GB.

Interesting features

The smartphone is running its own operating system Funtouch OS 3.2, which is based on Android 7.1. The shell looks very simple and clear. The notification center and control are separated in different directions. First, in the sky, swipe from the top of the screen, and the second, on the contrary, from the bottom. It is comfortable but a little unusual to those accustomed to the traditional Android.

Funtouch OS does not imply the application menu. All apps and folders are on the desktop. It is convenient and in recent years often found in other manufacturers.

Navigation keys you can not only change places, but also to change the color of their substrate, and for more comfortable use there is a mode in which the screen is not locked, when you look at the smartphone.

For greater comfort there is a game mode in which the smartphone will not distract from the gameplay, displaying information about the incoming call on the whole screen, just show notification.

In addition, the manufacturer has not forgotten about cloning applications, and Smart Split 3.0, which allows, for example, while watching a video reply to a received message, the messenger from running in the second workspace.

The most desirable function

Anyway, and unlocking your face has become nowadays a real trend. Many manufacturers are trying to use it in their smartphones, but it turned out it is not at all. Vivo have succeeded.

Unlocking is fast, and after unlocking it is not necessary to take any action. Once a person commits, the lock screen immediately change the screen.

For unlocking no need to hold your smartphone in front of the face vertically. Unlocking occurs at any position, even upside down. The smartphone is not rasplachivaetsya, if the eyes of the owner are closed, which eliminates unlocking without his knowledge. Recognition distance sufficient to ensure that even with the arm to identify the user and unlock the smartphone.

Big screen

Screen Vivo V7+ has a diagonal of 5.99 inches and a resolution of HD+ i.e. 720 by 1440 pixels. From this we can conclude that the aspect ratio of the screen equal to 18:9. Frame at the edges is less than many other smartphones, and the screen occupies almost 85 percent of the area of the front panel.

Despite the small resolution, the screen doesn’t look bad and I feel like it lacks detail. If strongly to look at and compare with any flagship smartphone, we can see that the screen is not as detailed, but in real life it was almost not noticeable, and the resolution is enough.

Brightness is not the highest, but sufficient for comfortable use. In the bright sun can be difficult, but in daylight even on the street won’t be a problem.

A few words about the performance

Works Vivo V7+ running Snapdragon 450. It is still rare processor, which, however, is equipped with the usual Adreno graphics 506. This will allow him to show good results in the games.

Processor OCTA core, and its frequency is 1.8 GHz. RAM 4 GB and 64 GB constantly. But if that’s not enough, it can be increased using memory cards with up to 256 GB.

The processor in combination with the features of the operating system has a good energy efficiency, allowing you to use your smartphone up to two days even with active use. Of course, if you turn all background services while playing for hours in the Asphalt, and similar games, then it won’t work, but the autonomy is still at a very high level, although the battery and has a capacity of only 3225 mAh. But it supports fast charging.

The most detailed selfies

Front camera resolution not just big, but very big. It is 24 MP. Thanks the pictures are more detailed, but the aperture the camera is a little lacking, and really good pictures are obtained only in good light.

For low light has a front facing flash that can fix the situation, but still unlikely to work wonders.

But portrait mode is implemented very well. Cases where it is not blurred what’s right, or blurred not something that should be rare. Blurred background looks nice and harmoniously.

To improve image feature “Beautiful face” of 7.0, which can be turned off if not needed. But it works gently and not very Intrusive, as sometimes happens.

To improve the person can and during video calls. It supports most popular instant messengers including WhatsApp, Viber and Facebook Messenger.

In addition, there is a long list of settings that will allow you to configure the shutter release on the gesture and voice command, but for more variety there is support for Live Photo.

The main camera

The main camera has a lower resolution than the front. It is only 16 MP. So on front camera for me. She just takes off at the level of key competitors.

The pictures are detailed and sharp, but sometimes the automation is wrong with the white balance. In the dark, as well as the front camera, not enough light, so images can sometimes get blurred.

For greater granularity, there is a mode that allows you to take pictures with a resolution up to 64 Megapixels. But in this case it is better to shoot with a tripod or some stand. Otherwise, if you do not lock the smartphone, the picture can only get worse than in normal mode. This happens due to the fact that the four images are combined, and the less between them there will be differences, the better.

For those who like to shoot in manual mode, there is a corresponding mode, which has the basic settings. In addition, there are several modes of shooting. But you can shoot videos only in FullHD resolution, 4K is not supported.

There you have it

In the end we can say that the Vivo V7+ was not just interesting smartphone its price category. It has features that distinguish it on the background of many of its competitors.

The features include a nice operating system with a simple and intuitive interface that works well for the face detection and front camera with great resolution.

All this is 21 990 rubles, which is actually not so little, but still a set of functions for this value is very decent and once again spurred the interest in this device.