Vivo V5 / V5s review - unboxing, camera quality, battery

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Here is the Vivo V5 / Vivo V5s review. This review covers unboxing, design, features, gaming (modern combat 5 and Asphalt 8), benchmark (antutu), camera sample, camera video sample, performance and battery life. Vivo V5 / V5s review – with 20MP selfie Front Camera Vivo V5 / V5s, the selfies smartphone was recently launched in India. Key attraction is the 20MP camera on the front with Moonlight flash. Is this high resolution camera on the front worth it, read this review to know. V5 Unboxing Vivo V5 / V5s Box content : handset, user manual, warranty card, silicon case, data cable, SIM tray ejector pin, good quality earphone and travel charger (5V / 2A). SAR Value as mentioned on the box- 0.224 W/kg head and 0.767 W/kg body. Design and Display The V5 / V5s is packed inside a metal body. Build quality and finishing is very good. Handset is curvy on the sides, comfortable to hold and not at all slippery. Weight is 159 grams with 3000 mAh built in battery and dimensions are: 75.50 x 153.88 x 7.76 (mm). It’s a dual SIM Hybrid handset (Micro + Nano / Micro SD). 4G with VoLTE is supported. You can use micro SD cards of up to 128GB. There is LED notification and following sensors – accelerometer, light, proximity, gyro and magnetic. Vivo V5 / V5s comes with 5.5 inch screen with 2.5D curved glass, supporting 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. Color reproduction, viewing angles and touch response are good. Memory, Storage and OS The V5 is packed with 4GB RAM and 32GB ROM whereas vivo v5s comes with 64GB ROM. On an average you will get 2.4GB free RAM and on the first boot you will get about 22 GB free internal storage space. OTG works but you will need to enable OTG. How to enabled OTG on Vivo V5 / V5s? Go to settings more settings and look for OTG, switch it on and connect an OTG pendrive. Vivo V5 sails on Funtouch OS 2.6 over Android Marshmallow 6.0. Performance This handset is powered by MediaTek MT6750 octa core processor clocked at 1.5GHz coupled with Mali T860 GPU. Performance is smooth, lag free and heat up is under control – max battery temp – 42 degrees outdoor under the sun. Vivo V5 / V5s Benchmark Quadrant : 21135 AnTuTu : 40619 / 4703 – 2nd time 41292 / 4802 Nenamark 2 : 60.7fps Disk Speed : 130 MB/s read / 80 MB/s write Multi Touch : 10 point Gaming performance I tried both Modern combat 5 and Asphalt 8. Both games played well, without any lags. This hardware can play many high end games. Vivo V5 / V5s Camera Front camera is 20MP with front flash and rear camera is 13MP with rear flash. Camera quality is above average. Rear camera can shoot FHD videos at 30fps. You can also record slow and fast motion videos. The front camera comes with a higher megapixel and it is not an auto focus camera instead it is focused at the selfies distance i.e. objects that are far away will be out of focus / blurry. This is a perfect setting for selfies, wherein more weight is given to the selfie subject and background is slightly out of focus / blurred. Because of this limitation the front camera even though it comes with 20MP resolution, cannot be used like a rear camera. Do check the long shot in the front camera section to get an idea. Others There is finger print sensor – it is very fast and accurate. Reliance Jio worked with VoLTE. No other issues with WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. Sound was loud and clear. Multi window/ screen is supported and screen comes with eye protection option that filters out the blue light for comfortable use – less strain on the eye. Battery There is a 3000 mAh non-removable battery. On a full charge you will get 3 to 8 hours of non-stop moderate to heavy usage. With mixed usage you will get an easy over 24hours battery life. Vivo V5 Battery Performance (time / battery % drop / estimated battery temperature) Running Benchmark app : 10 minutes / 3% / 33 degrees Asphalt 8 + MC5 game play : 22 minutes / 11% / 40 degrees FHD video playback with full brightness (WiFi /4G on) : 32 minutes / 6% / 35 degrees. It took me 2 hours 19 minutes to charge this handset from 16% to 100% using the wall charger. Verdict The Vivo V5 / V5s is a good handset, has got a premium look, is powerful, camera is above average, heat up is under control and battery life is pretty good. The handset however is quite pricey. Rating 3.8 out of 5 Vivio V5 / V5s is available for Rs. 17,980. For updates visit https://www.gogi.in/video-review/vivo-v5-review.html