Review of smartphone Vivo U20: main characteristics, advantages and disadvantages

Color gray everyday life with Vivo!

Many want to repeat the success of Xiaomi and Oppo, but only a select few succeed. The Chinese brand Vivo is an up-and-coming newcomer that is releasing hot budget items right now with features that Honor has never dreamed of!

Today, the latest release of the Vivo U20 came to our strict and honest review. Let's find out about its advantages and disadvantages together!

Appearance

Vivo creates smartphones that meet modern standards, although often it is a sin to completely copy designs or cutouts. So the U20 model turned out to be a copy of Xiaomi, which in turn was inspired by Apple products (so to speak, a copy in a square), but the fact that the designers copied from the best gives them great advantages.

The appearance of the smartphone meets all the requirements of today. Impressive dimensions - 16 centimeters long, 8 wide. Standard rectangular shape and plastic, glossy finish. But, despite the attractiveness and cheapness of materials, it is necessary to lightly stroke the body, as greasy fingerprints appear at the same second, lowering the gadget from the luxury segment back to the ground.

The low price for Vivo manufacturers in no way means that you can release a dummy curve and make a lot of money. Quite the opposite, the U20 is free from backlash and creaking. It is comfortable to hold the phone in hand, but due to the smooth coating there is a high risk of dropping it and scratching the side edges. Therefore, we recommend that you immediately attend to the purchase of a cover.

Let's get back to the design! In the upper left corner of the back side there is a block of 4 cameras, not far from it is a cutout for a fingerprint. On the side ribs there is an unlock button and a volume swing. The brand did not forget about the frameless screen and the newfangled drop-shaped selfie camera. Overall, the company has made a serious effort to make the $ 275 phone look at least twice the price.

Equipment

Not more than 2 months ago, brands made it a habit to put a special silicone case for the phone in the kit. Fortunately for buyers, newcomer Vivo tries its best to keep up with the trends, so some boxes may well have some pleasant surprises. The rest of the equipment is standard:

• Coupon with certificates;
• Charging and adapter;
• A clip for removing SIM cards;
• Long usb cord.

You will have to choose only from two colors: rich blue with glossy tints and expensive-looking black.

Both colors are quite easily soiled, but the manufacturers did not provide us with anything else.

Specifications

Screen

Without deviating from the traditions of the budget segment, the Vivo developers have endowed the novelty with a liquid crystal IPS LCD matrix (agree, it sounds expensive). Undoubtedly adored by the celebrity cinematographers and editors of Hollywood, it is also appreciated by budget-conscious manufacturers for its low price and exemplary performance that surpasses premium AMOLED in many ways.

First of all, the IPS matrix is ​​good because it produces more saturated, vivid colors, which is especially important for flagships. Also, it wears out and burns out much longer. Of the minuses, the most significant are: a faded black color, the appearance of a negative with a strong deviation of the smartphone and fragility.

The latter drawback is extremely dangerous for the U20, because at least some protection, not to mention the advanced Gorilla Glass, is absent.

The display received the highest density of 395 ppi at a resolution of 1080 × 2340. Apart from the numbers, this means first-class quality, which is not gained by all gadgets for 20-30 thousand rubles. The diagonal is 6.5 inches. The screen occupied 85% of the total area. Imagine you are literally buying a mini-cinema! And watching movies with Vivo U20 is a pleasure. The characteristics of brightness and endurance go well beyond the average price category.

operating system

The flagship operates under the strict supervision of the advanced, though not the latest, operating system Android 9.0 (Pie). Many people dream of repeating or at least approaching its functionality. It implements a convenient system of gestures and predictions, a reliable system of passwords and accounts. Users note a change in color gamut and an improvement in reading mode. Much attention in the new version is paid to widget bugs, application loading speed, as well as smooth transition between them. In general, the smartphone based on it began to freeze less. The autonomy of the flagship has increased by 10% due to the adaptive brightness. The "adaptive battery" function of the same name will carefully monitor the activity of applications in the background.

The Vivo U20 models, in turn, were lucky to get into the ranks of the lucky ones who are equipped with the author's Funtouch 9.2 system. With its appearance, icons acquire smooth gradients, pastel shades. The long-awaited features of switching to a dark theme and customization of the desktop appear. When creating this system, the developers focused on the IOS operating system, so to some extent you get the Iphone, but at a huge discount.

Unfortunately, no updates to version 10 are expected.

Autonomy

Finally, we come to one of the most delicious parts of the review. Vivo is not like its Asian counterparts, because it is in its interests to recreate a powerful gaming smartphone with a high-quality camera, and not choose one thing. That is why significant amounts were spent on the filling.

Model U20 is equipped with one of the most powerful 8-core nanometer chips - Snapdragon Qualcomm 675. Experts have long recognized its exclusivity. Without even thinking, the Americans created a processor that surpassed not only its predecessors, but also the future 710 generation in terms of characteristics.Largely due to the powerful ARM architecture, which increases the speed of the smartphone by 40%, due to the division of processes into two clusters of 2 and 6 cores, respectively. The first, taking 2x2.0 GHz cores and Kryo 460 Gold, is responsible for heavy 3D games and applications. The second one supports the entire system as a whole.

Customers who had time to try the phone in business were upset by the overheating of the case and severe bugs while playing online shooters. On the other hand, a fan of Speed ​​Racing or WoW, on the contrary, praised the speed of the new items, and in fact they are often considered heavy even for a PC.

Vivo is amazing for selfie lovers and avid gamers alike.

Battery

The budget novelty never ceases to amaze us. She managed to snatch a non-removable battery with an excellent value of 5000 mAh. This capacity is quite enough for 2 days of using the Internet, social. networks, a full suite of applications, or 24 hours of active gameplay. The developers have done a great job on the seemingly cheap flagship. They also did not disregard the 18 Volt fast charging function. With such luggage in standby mode, he will live 5-7 days. The video plays for 21 hours, and is in the talk mode for about 16.

In addition, other factors influenced the charging consumption. For example, the Funtouch shell saves up to 10%, and the game acceleration system another 5%.

In general, the smartphone surpasses many equally powerful smartphones of various price segments in battery performance.

Camera and memory

We will not tire of repeating that the Vivo U20 has every chance of becoming one of the best in 2020 thanks to its exemplary performance. For example, the camera turned out to be quite good values ​​and fully satisfied the users' need for juicy selfies.

The rear panel houses the main camera block, which consists of three sensors. The main camera produces 16 megapixel quality, with the ability to shoot Full HD video in wide format at 30 frames per second. Aperture - f / 1.8, bright, without unnecessary noise. With it, daytime pictures in sunny and cloudy weather are equally clear and saturated. Let's turn to Funtouch again, with its help the phone can independently select the brightness of the photo, and automatically improve it after shooting. The camera interface is made entirely by the design of the Iphone. There are standard features to choose from: landscape, portrait, fireworks, bokeh, blur, sepia and b / w. They added flaw correction, color saturation adjustment, various warm and cold effects.

The second lens got 8 megapixels, as well as the ability to shoot video and photos with an ultra-wide viewing angle. This is a big plus for lovers of large-scale selfies and just lovers of travel photography. Also, the f / 2.2 aperture is known for its dislike for dark photos. With her, it will be easy to get a beautiful shot even at night. The main camera unit ends with a small 2 megapixel lens, which is responsible for macro shooting.

Even the front camera has been customized as much as possible by the brand. She will gladly give you unforgettable moments in 16 megapixel quality. Users and bloggers (the strictest judges) gave the lens a solid four. Colors are reproduced naturally, there are no highlights or broken proportions.

And you will certainly be able to save all the received frames with an incredible amount of internal memory - 64 gigabytes. If this is not enough for someone, then you can always use a memory card up to 512 GB.

Where to buy and at what price

The release of the smartphone took place only on November 23, 2019. Naturally, in such a short time, the model could not spread around the world. According to rumors, it will reach Russia 100% and will cost around 250 euros or 11 thousand rubles.

Advantages and disadvantages

• Beautiful appearance;
• Large screen with IPS matrix;
• Unique functions, author's shell;
• Advanced operating system;
• Decent performance
• Capacitive 5000 mAh battery;
• Powerful cameras;
• Large amount of memory;
• Full HD quality;
• Super Speed ​​USB Cord.

• Soiled body, prone to damage;
• A fragile screen without protection;
• Few colors;
• The body of the flagship gets very hot.

It is impossible to make a completely positive or negative verdict on this new product. She has impressive advantages and unique features that distinguish her from all models of the budget segment. The U20 phone will be a great assistant for both children and adults, because it is designed for office work and active games.