Just some weeks after its official unveiling, Vivo’s flagship mannequin is in our palms for an in depth assessment. The Chinese language cellphone maker introduced the brand new X90 and Vivo X90 Professional simply days after Samsung’s Galaxy S23 launch and there’s a motive for this. Vivo rely so much on the machine’s 120-watt charger and the 1-inch Sony IMX 989 most important digicam sensor.
Though Vivo isn’t as common as its different opponents, like Samsung and Apple, I guess that with this magnificence, it should certainly develop into quickly. The Vivo X90 Professional is a real gem by way of digicam specs, battery life and efficiency. Nevertheless it’s tormented by bloatware which might be simply fastened by uninstalling them while you open it the primary time.
Let’s see how the flagship mannequin – outfitted with 12GB RAM and 256GB of storage, fared throughout our 3-week assessment.
Predominant specs
- Model: Vivo
- SoC: MediaTek Dimensity 9200
- Show: 6.78-inch 120Hz 1260 x 2800 HDR10+ AMOLED
- RAM: 8GB, 12GB
- Storage: 2156GB, 512GB
- Battery: 4,870mAh
- Ports: USB Kind-C 3.2
- Working System: FunTouch OS 13, Android 13
- Entrance digicam: 32MP 24mm (broad) f/2.5
- Rear cameras: 50MP 23mm (broad) f/1.8 1.0″ with OIS, 50MP 50mm (telephoto) f/1.6, and 12MP 13mm (ultrawide) f/2.0
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, Infrared Port, GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS, NavIC
- Others: Zeiss T* lens coating
- Dimensions: 164.1 x 74.5 x 9.3mm
- Colours: Legendary Black
- Weight: 214.9g
- Charging: Included 120-watt GaN charger
- IP Score: IP68
Predominant package deal
Validating its title, the principle package deal of the Vivo X90 Professional is as premium because it ought to. Inside there’s the cellphone, a set of manuals, a SIM ejector device, a silicon case, the mighty 120-Watt quick charger and a USB-C cable.
One would imagine that the Vivo X90 Professional could be powered by essentially the most highly effective Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, however as a substitute it depends on the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 SoC, delivering related efficiency. It gives fairly first rate benchmark outcomes, mixed with 12GB RAM and 8GB extra from its UFS 4.0 inside reminiscence, permitting you to have an enormous 20GB whole for excessive multitasking.
Vivo X90 Professional Show
The model new X90 Professional sports activities a blocky design, a good mixture of flat and curved edges. Nevertheless it does exude a premium hand-feel expertise, with good non-slippery supplies throughout it.
Q9 luminescent materials allows larger brightness whereas saving energy. All-new Blue Diamond™* pixel arraignment with 452 PPI ultra-vision pixel density. Say goodbye to graininess and luxuriate in an beautiful ultra-high-def show. As much as 2,160 Hz pulse-width modulation (PWM) and brightness management expertise of Dimensity 9200 defend you from dangerous blue gentle and take higher care of your eyes in dim environments. The vivo Imaginative and prescient Well being Lab scientifically adjusts colour temperature (at night time) by anti-fatigue brightness adjustment strategies-a sensible selection for eye safety.
The smooth Skyline in a ceramic sheen adorned with silk display screen printing divides the again cowl, following a golden ratio that testifies to mathematical magnificence. By drawing inspiration from skilled cameras, Vivo turned the lenses into an built-in “Massive-Eye” digicam module with Halo Ring constructed from austenitic chrome steel. It reduces the danger of abrasions and paint peeling that’s generally seen on protruding digicam methods. The high-gloss C-angle enhances the delicate and premium really feel. The luxurious waxy pebbled vegan leather-based is sturdy and delicate to the contact, supplies a nonslip grip, and retains fingerprints and dust away.
Predominant Show options
- 6.78-inch 120Hz AMOLED show
- 2800 x 1260 decision
- 1300 nits peak brightness, HDR10+ licensed
- Twin stereo audio system
The primary time I activated the Vivo X90 Professional for the assessment, an exquisite 6.78-inch (2800 x 1260 pixels) AMOLED show appeared. It gives assist for a peak brightness of 1,300nits and full HDR10+ compatibility. It seems to be nice underneath direct daylight and gives nice viewing angles when watching FHD movies on YouTube. The colours of the topic and scene on the show come off as wealthy and vibrant, visually pleasing.
It’s extraordinarily brilliant, which is nice on sunny days, and the 120Hz refresh charge makes swiping across the working system look buttery clean. The audio system are spectacular, too. They’re not the loudest audio system round, however there’s some good stereo separation and a very good quantity of low-end response. They’ll positively get the job carried out while you’re watching Netflix round the home.
Efficiency – velocity – gaming
- Arm Cortex-X3 as much as 3.05GHz
- Arm Cortex-A715 as much as 2.85GHz
- First Arm Immortalis-G715 GPU
- MediaTek APU 690 AI processor: 35% sooner than earlier technology
- First LPDDR5X 8533Mbps: Quickest ever smartphone reminiscence
- First UFS 4.0 + MCQ
- 2nd Era TSMC 4nm+ chip manufacturing + thermally optimized IC design & package deal by MediaTek
On Geekbench 5, the X90 Professional scored 1377 factors on the single-core CPU check and 4264 factors on the multi-core CPU check. As per these numbers, the Vivo X90 Professional is presently one of the highly effective smartphones on the market, and we will anticipate to see related efficiency on upcoming telephones just like the OnePlus 11 and the Samsung Galaxy S23.
Gizchina Information of the week
Οur assessment unit is the top-end mannequin packing 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM with a further 8GB obtainable as digital swap reminiscence from the 256GB UFS 4.0 storage. It did a wonderful job in all day-to-day chores reminiscent of opening apps immediately, switching between a number of apps, working the digicam to file 4K movies and different duties. It even labored easily whereas taking part in video games and didn’t exhibit overheating points when taking part in within the shade open air or indoors.
The Vivo X90 Professional is provided with a 40 sq. cm vapor chamber, plus 24 warmth dissipation layers, permitting it to stay steady and keep away from thermal throttling. What’s extra spectacular is that its lowest loop rating continues to be larger than the very best rating the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ achieved throughout its first run. In comparison with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 flagships, it benchmarks marginally decrease, however not by any important diploma. In apply, I’m positive it will likely be actually exhausting inform the distinction.
Digital camera efficiency
- 32MP f/2.45 selfie digicam
- 50MP f/1.75 major (Sony IMX989 1-inch sensor)
- 50MP f/1.6 2x portrait
- 12MP f/2.0 wide-angle
Though it’s not aimed solely at digital photographers, the X90 Professional can simply please us with its imaging options – with the assistance of ZEISS. It packs a triple digicam with a most important 50 MP sensor (f/1.9, 23mm, 1/1.57-inch, 1.0µm pixel measurement, PDAF: Section Detection Auto Focus, OIS: Optical Picture Stabilization) backed by 50MP portrait lens (f/1.6, PDAF, 2x optical zoom) and a 12MP broad -angle sensor (f/2.2) with LED flash on the again.
Whether or not you’re taking pictures underneath the tough noon solar, in a darkish car parking zone, or inside a automobile with difficult lighting, you get clear, outlined photographs. The cellphone additionally emulates grainy movie effectively in darkish pictures, giving it a pure look. It gives loads of preset modes for taking pictures, together with Sports activities, Evening, Portrait, Panorama, Lengthy Publicity, Supermoon, Astrophotography, Panorama and Structure, Meals, and Double Publicity. You additionally get HDR, Zeiss Pure Colour, and Macro mode on the principle Photograph mode.
If you happen to’re trying nevertheless for the utmost of the cellphone’s digicam skills, you then’d should activate its ZEISS Professional Mode. It enables you to management all the things—from the fundamentals, like ISO, shutter velocity, and white steadiness, to focusing, metering, and publicity values.
You can too file movies at as much as 8K decision at 24 FPS. And though the Vivo X90 Professional’s video recording capabilities aren’t as wonderful because the iPhone 14 Professional Max, it gives a number of options, like Cinematic Mode and Extremely Stabilization, to assist it catch up a bit.
Selfies like a Professional – Astro Images
If you happen to’re into the enjoyable of selfies, then the X90 Professional can certainly accommodate you there. It gives three filter choices. The primary filter, Model, lets you apply 5 iconic Zeiss bokeh types—Biotar, Sonnar, Planar, Distagon, and Cinematic—and extra.
The second filter set is extra for beautification, make-up, and posture, whereas the final filter is synthetic bokeh. The wonder filter is sort of superior, permitting you to vary a number of settings, together with pores and skin tone, whitening, facial options, and so on. You additionally get a posture information within the second filter set as a way to make totally different poses on your selfies. Word nevertheless that the selfie digicam lacks autofocus, however the fastened focus did the work.
One of many options I cherished in regards to the Vivo X90 Professional was its Astro Images mode. With a simple interface, it allowed me to take photos of the celebrities with out the necessity for a tripod. There’s one other mode referred to as Supermoon, which retains the element within the moon throughout long-exposure night time photographs, and this additionally works effectively.
Software program and… some bloatware
In our assessment, the X90 Professional runs on FunTouchOS 13 – based mostly on the most recent Android 13 OS. It’s Vivo’s most important software program – everyone knows it. That is each good and unhealthy. Whereas the software program feels extremely optimized with no lags, I didn’t like the truth that it comes with many third-party bloatware apps. A few of them might be simply uninstalled, whereas apps like Browser, V-Retailer, iManager, and EasyShare can neither be eliminated nor disabled.
One other factor that affected my assessment expertise with the machine was the fixed look of notifications from these apps, asking me to both replace them or purchase some stuff from Vivo’s unique retailer. I simply muted them – however nonetheless, not what I’d anticipate from a flagship stage smartphone. Let’s hope that with well timed upgrades the Vivo X90 Professional has a safe and pleasing tenure so far as the software program goes.
Vivo fortunately confirmed after the assessment, that the Vivo X90 and X90 Professional would obtain three main Android upgrades together with 3 years of safety updates. Meaning you possibly can anticipate the cellphone to stand up to Android 16 (!), and all the mandatory safety updates till 2026.
Battery life throughout our assessment
To be sincere, just a few will likely be to see the utmost battery lifetime of this little beast when it’s charged by a 120W charger. Contained in the X90 Professional there’s a big 4870 mAh battery. The 120W quick charger can prime up 50 per cent of the battery in simply 8 minutes. It could possibly additionally go as much as 100% in simply 26 minutes! When it comes to battery life, I obtained roughly 5,5 hours of screen-on time with the decision capped at 2K together with 120Hz refresh charge. I used the cellphone for social media, some e mail, sure Google Sheets modifying and 45 minutes of Name of Obligation: Cell – as a result of why not?
Our assessment opinion
The Vivo X90 Professional has all the fitting stuff for you. It packs an environment friendly MediaTek SoC to ship clean efficiency and lengthy battery life. A crystal-clear show, and wonderful high quality construct. All of the above make it a top-tier machine worthy of the flagship smartphone title. What holds it again is the UI, full of bloatware. Most of this may be eliminated or hidden within the app drawer. However it might be good to not should undergo the effort. It’s not an inexpensive flagship additionally. The value in Malaysia is over 4,999 MYR (about €1077) so it’s definitely not low-cost.
If you happen to can overlook it, then you might have discovered a smartphone suited on your wants.
