Vivo X Fold Plus Smartphone Review

Vivo X Fold Plus Smartphone Review – The Vivo X Fold Plus is the upgraded version of the Vivo X Fold that brings a lot of interesting features under its hood. Although there’s no denying that Vivo hasn’t been around as long as Samsung and other brands in the foldable smartphone segment. However, the X Fold-series looks promising and provides stiff competition in the premium foldable smartphone segment. Besides this, the company doesn’t use the same foldable options as Samsung.

Instead, you will find a hinge mechanism to fold this phone. Not only that, but working with Zeiss has made Vivo’s cameras the best in the industry, so they can compete with Apple and Google smartphones easily. The Vivo X Fold Plus’s first impression is mindblowing as it offers top-notch features from display to battery department, and we only covered surface-level information. Let’s head toward the Vivo X Fold Plus review to find out more details about this phone.

Vivo X Fold Plus Smartphone Review

Highlights

1. The phone comes with an outer 6.53-inch AMOLED display with an 8.03-inches foldable LTPO AMOLED display for media consumption.
2. Under the hood, the Vivo X Fold Plus comes with Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset with impressive graphic support.
3. In terms of the software end, you are getting Android 12 with Origin OS Ocean custom skin support.
4. In terms of camera, a 50MP flagship-level quad camera appears on the back with a 16MP selfie lens.
5. Lastly, the phone equips a Li-Po 4730mAh battery capacity with 80W wired and 50W wireless charging speed.

Design and Display                  

The vegan leather design on the Vivo X-Fold Plus gives the phone an immersive holding experience. But at the same time, the phone does feel heavier than the regular foldable phone, as its weight reaches 311 grams, compared to Samsung foldable phones, it does feel bulky. However, there’s no denying that it gives a premium feel to the hands. As for the color options, you can choose between Red, Blue, and Black.

Each of them looks good with a circular camera cut out on the back panel in which you will also find the Zeiss branding with a shiny Vivo logo. Moreover, the device comes with a tall-aspect body and a 6.53-inch outer display offering an AMOLED panel. Through this, you will obtain unique colors with proper contrast while watching your favorite content. Following this, the phone also holds a 120Hz refresh rate same as the foldable screen.

On the other hand, the foldable screen is equipped with an 8.03-inches LPTO AMOLED panel, which means you will notice immersive colors and sharp contrast. Furthermore, you won’t face any trouble watching HDR 10+ quality content. Alongside this, the Auto-refresh rate mod will make the overall user experience more appealing. As for the security factor, you will find an under-display fingerprint reader on the foldable screen as well as on the outer screen.

Memory and Internal

The performance end comes with the most remarkable 4nm Qualcomm SM8475 Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset that can handle heavy gaming and extreme performance usage in a pretty simple manner. Plus, the phone is designed to perform well with the advanced dual-screen format so that you can easily multitask your work on the foldable screen. Not to forget that this chipset won’t have that many heating issues as compared to the previous-gen chip, but also provide better processing and graphics units.

Although, it’s not confirmed that the company will release this phone outside china since the phone only got Origin OS Ocean interface based on the Andriod 12, which is predominately exclusive to Vivo’s Chinese variant smartphones. The interface will offer Chinese centric application ecosystem so if you are familiar with those apps, the android experience would be great. Besides this, you will find different custom perks to modify the interface according to your wish.

On a side note, this foldable phone is the pinnacle of what you can get from Vivo. The company has put lots of resources to renders a decent user experience with better 5G connectivity. Following this, 12GB RAM support will ensure that you gain a mesmerizing performance output with 256GB to 512GB UFS 3.1 internal space. With those options, you won’t face any particular issue with storing media files as much as you want.

Camera

The camera department is also quite fabulous and impressive according to the standards of the flagship segment’s camera quality. Furthermore, the second most noteworthy thing about the Vivo X series phones is that you will receive Zeiss optical lens support so that you can capture decent photos and videos. Moreover, the company also provides an ample quad camera setup, which includes a 50MP lens as the primary sensor.

The main lens offers optical image stabilization support so that you click photos and videos of your friends and family without any hassle. The vibrant colors with decent exposure make the overall image quality. As for the daylight situation, the photos are quite appealing and have crisp contrast with fine details. In terms of lowlight photography, you won’t notice noise during taking photos.

On the other hand, the 8MP periscopic telephoto lens can go up to 5X zooming ability, which also offers ample details in each shot. Whereas, the 12MP telephoto lens will grant impressive portrait images with proper blur and natural skin tones. As for the wide-angle view, the 48MP ultra-wide lens will render immersive details with enhanced dynamic range so that you can easily take wildlife or urban architecture photos with good enough exposure.

Last but not least, the 16MP selfie lens will work pretty great with the native camera application. With this combo, you will obtain lots of different perks that will make your selfie session superb. Furthermore, you can record up to 1080p resolution videos with the selfie camera setup. Aside from this, the primary camera module can record 8K videos with fabulous gyro-EIS.

Battery and Others

The battery life comes from the Li-Po 4730mAh cells is quite decent and you can easily get more than six hours. Besides this, you can play Call of Duty and PUBGM at the highest graphics and resolution settings, even after a few hours of gaming sessions, the phone will have 30% battery life left. Furthermore, you will obtain 80W wired charging support.

With that, you will notice that the phone requires less than 35 minutes to refuel the battery capacity from scratch (0% to 100%), which is phenomenal. Plus, you are gettings 50W wireless charging support on this phone, while the sound output is good, but can’t be considered loud as other flagship phones. Anyway, the Vivo X Fold Plus smartphone arrives with a price tag of $1400 (Rs. 1,15,000 in India), which comes out a great deal as a premium foldable phone.

Vivo X Fold Plus Pros and Cons

Vivo X Fold Plus Specifications Detail

Down below you can see the full specifications of the Vivo X Fold Plus smartphone.

Conclusion

So far, the company hasn’t made any statement regarding the official release of the Vivo X Fold Plus smartphone to the global market. But they are exploring their regional mainland China market first so that they can cater to a wider range of users in the upcoming years. But if you prefer Vivo camera quality and want to try the flagship-level foldable smartphone experience, the X Fold+ is a brilliant deal.

On the other hand, X Fold+ is a great upgrade from the previous Vivo X Fold as it replaces the SD 8 Gen 1 to SD 8+ Gen 1, which does boost overall performance to some extent. But still, there are tons of different options in the foldable smartphone range available. You can check out Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 as it brings well-rounded features in a decent price range.