If you thought we were done with the selfie craze, think again. The battle is still between mid-range smartphone munfactors is still raging, and Vivo has a new player, called the Vivo V5. Given its positioning in the market, the phone will complete
directly against the likes of the Gionee S6s and the Oppo F1s.
The Vivo V5 is the newest addition to Vivo V-series, right after the Vivo V3 and Vivo V3 max The V3 and V3 max offered good performance and battery life but faltered when it came to their cameras, clunky UI , and pricing. Let’s see if Vivo is improved on these fronts with the Vivo V5.
Vivo V5 design and build
The design of the Vivo V5 makes it look like a mashup of many popular phones in the market. There’s an unmistakable iphone6 influence in the back of the phone, and from the front, it could pass off as a OnePlus 3 or an Oppo model.Oddly, this works in Vivo V5 favourvso we really don’t mind.Build quality is good, with Corninhg Gorilla Glass protecting the display and the faux-metal chassis blending together very well. We also love the fact that it’s slim and light at just 154 grams, though we would have preffered real metal here.
The 5.5 incj IPS display is bright with good colour saturation, which almost makea it look like an AMOLED panel. The resolution of the screen is only HD but this doesn’t affect its performance too much as text is still fairly sharp and there’s barely any jaggedness around icons.The Vivo V5 comes with backlit capacitive navigattion buttons, and a fingerprint sensor was incredibily quick at authenticating us and always worked accurately. You can even use it to lock apps, in addition to unloking phone. ?