vivo X50 Review - Android

More and more smartphone manufacturers are releasing their premium mid-rangers. There’s the OnePlus Nord, the Huawei Nova 7 5G, and the OPPO Reno4, to...

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More and more smartphone manufacturers are releasing their premium mid-rangers. There’s the OnePlus Nord, the Huawei Nova 7 5G, and the OPPO Reno4, to name a few. From vivo, we have the vivo X50. With the spotlight more focused on its Pro version, how does the standard vivo X50 fare? Find out in our review.

Design and Construction

Right off the bat, the vivo X50 shares the same style and size as the X50 Pro. The unit we have is in the Glaze Black colorway, and it looks modern and premium with its glass back and reflective mirror gradient design. It’s subtle but looks very sleek. However, it’s also quite a fingerprint magnet, but you can also opt for the Frost Blue variant that has a matte finish on it.

The back keeps a vertically aligned protruding quad-rear camera module with the LED flash and color temperature beside it. If we look a little closer, we’ll see a tiny third microphone underneath the camera module. Other than that, we get some vivo branding here. The camera bump is a little thick, making the phone wobble when placed on surfaces.

Upfront, we get a 6.56-inch AMOLED display and a hole-punch cut-out that houses its front-facing camera. On top of that is a receiver, and we’ll also find on-screen its in-display fingerprint scanner.

There are no buttons on the left side while the right side houses the volume rocker and the power button.

Up top, we have a secondary microphone and a small text that says, “Professional Photography.”

We get its loudspeaker, USB Type-C port, primary microphone, and a dual Nano SIM-card tray underneath the device. There’s no expandable storage via a microSD card.

In hand, the X50 comes with a little heft, but holding it feels comfortable. However, users with small hands might have to use both hands to reach the screen’s top.

Display and Multimedia

More on its display, the vivo X50 inherits the same display as the Pro version. That’s a 6.56-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2376 x 1080px, and a pixel density of 398ppi. It is also worth mentioning that the display supports HDR10+ and has a 90Hz refresh rate option.

Expectedly, its display experience is excellent. With an AMOLED panel, we get vibrant colors and deep blacks. Plus, with the 90Hz refresh rate on, navigating the screen is buttery smooth. Keeping the display in Standard mode already looks vivid, but you can change it to Bright mode in the settings to make it look more vibrant.

The punch hole front camera is placed a little odd, we would’ve preferred to see it a little closer to the upper left corner, but then again, it’s not that distracting. Unfortunately, there’s no option to hide the punch-hole, but you can control specific apps if you want to maximize the whole display or not.

When it comes to audio, sound quality from the down-firing loudspeaker is pretty decent. It’s suitable for casual use, and gaming, and turning the volume to max doesn’t sound too tinny. Since there’s no 3.5mm audio port in sight, there’s a headphone jack to USB Type-C adapter to compensate in the package together with some regular earphones the company supplied out of the box.

Camera

One of the notable features of the X50 is its cameras. It comes with a quad-camera setup consisting of a 48MP Sony IMX598 primary shooter, a 13MP depth, an 8MP Super-wide angle, and a 5MP Macro lens. On its punch hole reside a 32MP front shooter.

If you’re used to vivo’s interface, then its camera app should be familiar to you. Nonetheless, if you’re new to it, we can say that you can quickly go around it with its easy-to-navigate look.

For photo quality, the standard mode noticeably produces clear and sharp images even when you’re not using the 48MP lens. We get good colors, especially under good lighting scenarios. And we found the super-wide-angle lens very useful to capture more range.