Vivo V20 Pro 5G Midnight Jazz, 8GB RAM, 128GB Storage
- The Vivo V20 Pro features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC
- The 44-megapixel main selfie camera captures very good photos
- Battery life is very good and this phone charges quickly.
Vivo's latest addition to its V20 series is the Vivo V20 Pro. It's an upgraded Vivo V20 with a more powerful SoC and a second selfie camera for a slightly higher asking price. This makes it a direct competitor to the OnePlus Nord. It's priced at Rs. 29,990 for the sole configuration which has 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.
Just like the Vivo V20, the Vivo V20 Pro focuses on design and cameras. Vivo claims it's the slimmest 5G smartphone in its segment, which should appeal to many buyers looking for a slim and light smartphone.
Vivo V20 Pro 5G design
The Vivo V20 Pro looks more or less identical to the Vivo V20. It's slightly shorter but just as wide, and relatively slim. The Sunset Melody colour that I have is 7.49mm thick, but if you pick the Midnight Pass trim, the phone is a tiny bit slimmer at 7.39mm. It's also light at just 170g thanks to the plastic frame, which feels quite sturdy.
The patterns created on the Sunset Melody colorway when light hits the back panel look very funky. Vivo has used a matte-finish back made of Corning Gorilla Glass 5, so it doesn't pick up fingerprints easily, and should offer good protection against scratches too. The camera module doesn't protrude much, which is nice.
The display on the Vivo V20 Pro is once again very similar to that of the V20. It is a 6.44-inch full-HD+ AMOLED panel with Schott's Xensation Up cover glass. Colours are rich, it gets very bright, and there's HDR support too. There's no high refresh rate, which is something the OnePlus Nord has the upper hand with. Then there's the notch. Due to the second selfie camera, the V20 Pro has a wide notch which makes this phone look rather old-fashioned. A dual hole-punch cutout would have been a better choice.
Overall, the Vivo V20 Pro is a well-built and good-looking smartphone. It's slimmer and lighter than the OnePlus Nord, making it a bit easier to manage one-handed.
Vivo V20 Pro 5G performance and software
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G in the Vivo V20 Pro gives this phone a much-needed performance upgrade over the Vivo V20. Not that the latter was a slouch, but above Rs. 25,000, it's good to have a more competitive SoC. With 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM, the V20 Pro breezed through benchmarks. Real-world app performance and multi-tasking are also handled very well. The lack of a high refresh rate is a bit jarring, especially if you're coming from a phone with a 90Hz display, but otherwise the experience is good. The Vivo V20 Pro also has dual-band Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 5.1 and GPS, but no NFC or FM radio.
Videos look great on the Vivo V20 Pro thanks to the vivid AMOLED panel. HDR videos on YouTube play smoothly, but some streaming apps such as Netflix failed to detect this display as HDR-capable. The volume level of the speaker could have been better, especially for listening to media outdoors, and the sound quality is quite average.
Vivo V20 Pro 5G battery life
The Vivo V20 Pro features a 4,000mAh battery which lasted for a little more than 16 hours, in our HD video loop test, which is more than what the OnePlus Nord managed. You also get 33W fast charging, so the V20 Pro can be charged up to roughly 93 percent in an hour. With my typical usage, I was easily able to make this phone last for about a day and a half, or sometimes a bit more.
- Octa core (2.3 GHz, Dual Core + 1.8 GHz, Hexa Core)
- Snapdragon 720G
- 8 GB RAM
- 6.44 inches (16.36 cm)
- 409 PPI, AMOLED
- 64 MP + 8 MP + 2 MP Triple Primary Cameras
- Dual-color LED Flash
- 44 MP Front Camera, Screen flash
- 4000 mAh
- Flash Charging
- USB Type-C Port
- Gorgeous AMOLED display
- Sleek design
- Selfie shooter and daytime photography is good
- Android 11
- Refresh rate locked at 60Hz
- Could have used a better chipset
- Bloatware is still an issue
- Night photography could be improved
