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Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Putting the phone’s gimbal camera to the test

Our Verdict

Vivo goes in its own direction with the ultra premium Vivo x60 Pro Plus, which pays off when it comes to photography. Information technology's the unpleasant user experience and the poor availability that cost it a recommendation, though.

For

  • Zeiss-enhanced bokeh and zoom photos
  • Gimbal-stabilized video
  • Compact, classy blueprint

Against

  • Pocket-sized bombardment
  • Irritating software
  • Non sold in the U.S

Tom'due south Guide Verdict

Vivo goes in its own direction with the ultra premium Vivo x60 Pro Plus, which pays off when it comes to photography. It'due south the unpleasant user feel and the poor availability that cost information technology a recommendation, though.

Pros

  • +

    Zeiss-enhanced bokeh and zoom photos

  • +

    Gimbal-stabilized video

  • +

    Compact, classy design

Cons

  • -

    Small battery

  • -

    Irritating software

  • -

    Not sold in the U.Southward

Vivo x60 Pro Plus: Specs

Starting price: TBA
Display: 6.56 inches, FHD AMOLED (2376 x 1080)
Refresh rate: 60Hz/120Hz
Rear cameras: 50MP main (f/1.57), 48MP ultrawide (f/2.2), 32MP (f/ii.08), 8MP (f/iii.4)
Front end photographic camera: 32MP
Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
RAM: 12GB
Storage: 256GB
Battery: four,200 mAh
Charging: 55W wired
Operating system: Android 11 with Funtouch Os 11.one
Size: 158.59 × 73.35 × ix.10mm
Weight: half-dozen.seven ounces (191g)

You lot can't accuse the Vivo x60 Pro Plus of existence a by-the-numbers telephone. This tiptop-of-the-range Android handset may seem like other Ultra or Pro phones on the surface, but it boasts some unique tricks that could boost the phone's appeal, at to the lowest degree for a select audition.

The Vivo x60 Pro Plus comes with a built-in gimbal that delivers smoother video than what you'd run into from rival smartphones. Plus, Vivo'due south teammates at Zeiss take made sure the telephone takes withal images but equally skillfully.

Sadly, other parts of the Vivo X60 Pro Plus experience don't stand up up and then well. Besides that, the fact yous manifestly tin can't buy this phone in the U.K. yet, or in the U.Due south. at all, hurts its broad entreatment. Our Vivo x60 Pro Plus review finds a phone you accept to capeesh for its technical achievements, even if that doesn't interpret into a purchase.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Price and release engagement

Vivo phones are sold in the U.M., simply the Chinese phone maker has nevertheless to announce availability for the x60 range, including the Pro Plus. Vivo doesn't operate in the U.S., which means no affair how good this telephone is, yous're amend off buying a dissimilar phone rather than trying to import one.

The last generation, the Vivo x51 5G, started at £749, putting it on par with current phones like the Xiaomi Mi eleven. However the x51 used a Snapdragon 765G chipset, which is a pace below the Snapdragon 888 found in the x60. Therefore you should await the X60 Pro Plus' price to be college.

There'southward only a unmarried model of the x60 Pro Plus bachelor, which offers 12GB RAM and 256GB storage.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Design

With a primal punch-pigsty and curved edges on the display, blueprint and characteristic set of the Vivo X60 Pro Plus looks similar to the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, although Vivo's phone is much smaller.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review

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Information technology's more an ounce lighter than the Ultra, (half dozen.seven ounces compared to eight.ane), and about a 3rd of an inch smaller (vi.56 inches compared to 6.8 inches). While large phones have their place, it'south good to see Vivo brand a range-topping phone that'due south a more manageable size.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review

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You ordinarily have a selection of either Orangish or Emperor Blue vegan leather backs for the x60 Pro Plus, only bluish is the simply available finish in the U.K. A leather terminate is a swish manner of differentiating the phone from the average glass-backed flagship, as is the sharp-looking rectangular photographic camera block with its tiny Zeiss badge. It's i of the most mature-looking phones I've tried out this year.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Brandish

The x60 Pro Plus' display isn't quite as big as the vi.8-inch Galaxy S21 Ultra or vi.7-inch OnePlus 9 Pro, only at 6.56 inches, y'all've still got plenty of brandish to work with.. Vivo'southward screen likewise has a lower resolution than most equivalent phones —FHD instead of QHD.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review

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You can choose between 60Hz and 120Hz refresh rate modes, plus a "Smart Switch" choice to jump betwixt them to conserve battery. That's a welcome characteristic, merely information technology doesn't compare to the fully variable LTPO displays as y'all have on the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra or the OnePlus 9 Pro.

Watching the trailer for Netflix's The Irregulars showed that the x60 tin adeptly evidence off the show'southward strange twist on Victorian London, with well-baked shadows and brightly colored clothing. The phone's sound doesn't lucifer upward to the visuals, however, every bit Vivo only fitted the x60 with a unmarried speaker rather than the more than common dual-firing set-upwardly you get on most flagship Androids.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Cameras

Cameras are where Vivo wants the x60 Pro Plus to stand up out. You get 4 rear cameras with the x60 — a 50MP main shooter, a 48MP ultrawide lens, a 32MP portrait sensor with 2x zoom and an 8MP telephoto lens. That latter telephoto lens features 5x optical and 60x maximum zoom. There's a 32MP selfie cam on the telephone'south front.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review

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I tested the x60 Pro Plus against the iPhone 12 Pro, starting with a main sensor shot of the Readymoney Drinking Fountain in Regent's Park. The texture of the marble and granite comes beyond as well in both shots, simply I dislike how much darker the x60's paradigm is compared to the iPhone'southward.

I of Vivo's big new features this year is its new partnership with German lensmaker Zeiss. This brings Zeiss' imaging arrangement to the x60'southward cameras along with a T* anti-reflective lens coating, which should assistance avoid unwanted "ghosting" furnishings when you lot accept the photographic camera aimed at a bright object.

You lot can run into something is apparently different when comparing these two nighttime shots of Tufnell Park Underground station. The flare of light coming off of the street lamp is much less confusing in the x60 Pro'due south shot, and has a pleasant looking green tinge. Still looking at the unabridged photo, I'd say the iPhone offers a meliorate paradigm thanks to its overall brightness.

I used the ultrawide lenses to have a look inside this hollowed-out log, and establish the Vivo offers much amend colors, whether it'south the rain-slick exterior or the dry, darkened interior. That makes sense, since not but does the x60 offer more than megapixels (48MP to 12MP), its sensor is approximately 40% larger than the iPhone's, which makes a big departure when information technology comes to capturing light and color.

The x60's principal telephoto lens offers 5x optical zoom, which I used to peek over the argue into ZSL London Zoo to check out the Bactrian camel enclosure. There is no competition between the ii images since the iPhone'due south optical zoom maxes out at 2x, and has to use digital zoom to make up the rest, resulting in a lower resolution image.

There'south besides the Vivo's 2x zoom camera. While you lot can use this for telephoto shots, its stated purpose is for portrait-mode images. I fix a cocky-portrait with a tripod in my back garden, and the event is the all-time bokeh consequence I've e'er seen on a smartphone. The iPhone's image is dandy when it comes to color, and provides a nice background blur of its own, merely this is the x60 Pro Plus' strongest shot.

The only camera left to wait at is the selfie camera. These portrait style shots testify the iPhone is better at picking out the boundary betwixt my head and the sky and trees, making for an overall cleaner paradigm. Still I do quite like the natural highlights on the x60'south photo, more so than the flatter image Apple's post-processing has provided.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Video

The x60 Pro Plus' party trick comes from the ultrawide sensor'south Gimbal Stabilization 2.0, an evolution of the one found on the Vivo x50. Information technology's meant to act only similar the full-size stabilization systems you see used with professional video cameras, just this one'due south modest enough to fit inside the adequately slim camera block on the x60'southward back.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review

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About flagship phones, including the iPhone 12 Pro, offer optical image stabilization (OIS) on select cameras aslope electronic image stabilization (EIS) on all sensors. A gimbal is substantially OIS on steroids, merely the but unfortunate thing is that the gimbal is mounted on the x60 Pro Plus' ultrawide sensor rather than the principal sensor. It means you don't get admission to the better stabilization when trying to take normal photos.

To test the image stabilization, I recorded a brief walk through a tree-lined path virtually the peak of Primrose Loma. I noticed the gimbal'south influence quite hands compared to other smartphone videos considering the picture in the viewfinder was slow to change direction as the telephone tried to keep the image from shaking. Information technology felt like the frame was gently swaying, unlike the equivalent iPhone recording. While the iPhone-shot footage was still acceptably smooth, it more obviously impacted by each footstep.

Trying a sweeping shot from a bridge over the Regent's Canal, the impact of the x60's gimbal was less obvious. It's as well here that I noticed that the iPhone produced more bright color in its video, which is perhaps more of a priority for the boilerplate video-taking smartphone user than extra-shine footage.

All the aforementioned, the gimbal is an impressive accomplishment by Vivo, and its unique identify in the market makes the x60 Pro Plus more than highly-seasoned to smartphone videographers who desire their clips to stand out.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Performance

The Vivo x60 Pro Plus should exist a top performer. The phone offers the 2021 premium flagship staples of 12GB RAM and a Snapdragon 888 system-on-chip, plus Vivo'due south underground weapon, extended RAM mode. This allows for 3GB of virtual RAM to exist created within the x60'southward spacious 256GB of storage, giving the phone a heave when required.

All that horsepower looks to have had a modest result on our benchmarking tests. The x60 Pro Plus managed Geekbench five scores of 1,133 unmarried core and 3,756 multi-core, which beats both the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (ane,123 and 3,440) and the OnePlus 9 Pro (ane,126 and iii,685). Vivo's phone even beats the iPhone 12 Pro on the multicore exam, although Apple'southward A14 chip still beats the contest on single cadre performance (i,585 and iii,669).

Putting the x60 Pro Plus through the 3DMark Wild Life graphics benchmark resulted in a score of 5,712 and an boilerplate frame rate of 34.2 frames per second. That'south a niggling better than the Galaxy S21 Ultra (5,653 and 33.9fps), and a little worse than the OnePlus 9 Pro (5,756 and 34.5fps). It'south far behind the iPhone 12 Pro though (6,618 and 39.0fps).

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: 5G

Thank you to the congenital-in modem in the Snapdragon 888 chipset, the x60 Pro Plus has 5G past default. Nonetheless, the phone only offers compatibility with sub-6GHz frequency bands according to Vivo's official list of supported 5G bands. This won't exist a trouble for U.K. users, as all carriers currently use this range of bands, only looking at the available bands, merely T-Mobile 5G is supported amidst U.South. options. (Perchance some other reason the phone isn't probable to accomplish the U.S.)

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Battery and charging

The x60 Pro Plus' 4,200 mAh battery seems depression capacity for an ultimate flagship, even one that's smaller than many phablets. Running downwardly the battery from 15% to zero past playing YouTube videos took almost three hours and 51 minutes, which isn't that long in my experience. It makes sense when you lot call back the screen's 120Hz refresh rate taxes the x60 Pro Plus' bombardment.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review

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Vivo throws a 55W fast charger in the box, which fills the telephone up to 48% in 15 minutes, eighty% in xxx minutes and to 100% in 46 minutes. 55W is not the most powerful charger effectually, only given the smaller capacity of the x60 Pro Plus, it makes sense that you don't demand then many watts to charge it at an acceptably fast speed.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Software

Vivo's Funtouch Os xi is far from my favorite version of Android xi. There are many bloatware apps plus Vivo's own V-Appstore, which not but regularly bugs y'all to use information technology, merely then notifies y'all every fourth dimension it completes an update. It's very annoying.

The other cardinal part of the user experience, the haptic feedback, is weak. Tapping the keys feels nice and poppy but don't have the force that you go on the best systems like those in the Google Pixel v or the OnePlus 9 series.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus vs. Vivo x60 Pro vs. Vivo x60

Vivo includes two other models in the x60 range, the base X60 and the Pro version. The biggest differences between the three models involves the number of cameras, the charging speed and the chipsets. Curiously, the standard x60 gets the largest battery, although it is the just member of the range without a gimbal camera.

Vivo x60 x60 Pro x60 Pro Plus
Display half dozen.56-inch AMOLED, FHD (1080 x 2376) 6.56-inch AMOLED, FHD (1080 10 2376) half-dozen.56-inch AMOLED, FHD (1080 x 2376)
Refresh rate 60Hz/120Hz 60Hz/120Hz 60Hz/120Hz
Rear cameras 48MP principal, 13MP ultrawide, 13MP telephoto with 2x optical zoom 48MP gimbal-stablized principal, 13MP ultrawide, 13MP telephoto with 2x optical zoom 50MP main, 48MP gimbal-stabilized ultrawide, 32MP portrait telephoto with 2x optical zoom, 8MP telephoto with 5x optical zoom
Front camera 32MP 32MP 32MP
Chipset Snapdragon 870 Snapdragon 870 Snapdragon 888
RAM 8GB/12GB 12GB 12GB
Storage 128GB/256GB 256GB 256GB
Battery 4,300 mAh 4,200 mAh four,200 mAh
Charging 33W wired 33W wired 33W wired

What doesn't change is the overall size of the phones, including screen size, resolution and refresh rates. While the design of each phone is almost identical, the standard and Pro models use glass backs rather than the Pro Plus' vegan leather, and both offer alternative colors to the Pro Plus pictured in this review.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review: Verdict

Although not the most well-rounded Android phone we've seen, there are still reasons why U.South. smartphone shoppers ought to be a piddling jealous of the U.K. and other countries where the Vivo x60 series is offered.

Vivo x60 Pro Plus review

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Unfortunately, the x60 Pro Plus' total photo packet doesn't quite lucifer up to the best camera phones, and it's far less pleasant to use than other Android devices because of its chaotic custom launcher and below-average battery life.

However, the gimbal system on the Vivo x60 Pro Plus is really quite something, and would be a large asset for any smartphone videographer. Its dual telephoto lenses exercise a keen job for long-altitude and portrait shots, also.

I like how unique those headline features are, in what can experience like a homogenous Android flagship marketplace. However this time, the Vivo x60 Pro Plus tin can't break out past its niche appeal.

Richard is a Tom'southward Guide staff author based in London, roofing news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, sound and whatever else people need advice on. Following on from his MA in Magazine Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he's also written for WIRED U.Chiliad., The Register and Creative Bloq. When non at piece of work, he'southward likely thinking well-nigh how to brew the perfect cup of specialty java.

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