Vivo V50 Review

Vivo V50 A Sleek Midrange Powerhouse

Vivo has kicked off 2025 with the impressive launch of the V50, an elegantly designed midrange smartphone with a strong emphasis on photography, immersive visuals, and robust battery life. Here’s everything you need to know about this refined model.

Enhanced Photography Experience

The Vivo V series has long been praised for delivering exceptional photo and video quality within a midrange budget. The new V50 continues this tradition, offering:

• A trio of 50MP cameras with Zeiss optics across all lenses.
• An upgraded OV50e sensor for improved main camera quality.
• A significantly larger Aura light, enhancing nighttime and low-light photography.

Premium Design and Durability

Vivo refines the V50’s aesthetics further, creating a sleeker form factor complemented by practical upgrades:

• Slim and elegant design consistent with Vivo’s high standards.
• New Dimond Shield Glass developed with Schott, promising up to 50% more drop resistance compared to last year’s model.

Immersive Display

The Vivo V50 features a large 6.77-inch AMOLED display. While the resolution slightly drops from the previous year’s 1260p to 1080p, the screen maintains vivid colors and deep contrasts, still offering a highly engaging visual experience.

Exceptional Battery Life

One of the most notable improvements in the Vivo V50 is its battery:

• A substantial upgrade to a 6,000mAh battery, ensuring extensive daily usage.
• Fast 90W charging capability, significantly reducing downtime and enhancing convenience.

Consistent Performance

The V50 carries forward the reliable Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset, ensuring smooth performance for both daily tasks and more intensive usage scenarios. Memory and storage configurations remain robust, with the highest option offering 12GB RAM and 512GB storage, mirroring previous generations.

Verdict

The Vivo V50 expertly combines premium photography capabilities, solid build quality, and impressive battery performance. Despite a slight downgrade in display resolution, its enhancements in camera performance, durability, and battery capacity more than compensate, making it a highly attractive option in the midrange market.

The V50 retains a triple 50MP camera setup: a 50MP main sensor, a 50MP autofocus ultrawide on the back, and a 50MP autofocus selfie camera on the front. The main camera now features a new OmniVision sensor, and all cameras are equipped with Zeiss optics. As before, the focus remains on delivering high-quality Portrait mode photography.

Powering the V50 is a larger 6,000mAh silicon-carbon (Si/C) battery with support for 90W fast charging. The device runs Android 15 with Funtouch OS 15 on top and is promised three major software updates going forward.

While the V50 may not excite current V30 or V40 users—both released in 2024—it does offer a more refined overall package that could position it more competitively against rival brands.

One puzzling decision, however, is the downgrade in display resolution—from 1260p (453ppi) to 1080p (388ppi). Still, it’s possible the new display excels in other areas, which we’ll explore in detail during our testing.

Body:

• Dimensions: 163.3 x 76.7 x 7.4 mm
• Weight: 189g
• Build: Glass front, glass or plastic back
• Protection: IP68/IP69-rated — dust-tight and water-resistant (withstands high-pressure water jets and immersion up to 1.5m for 30 minutes)

Display:

• Size: 6.77-inch AMOLED
• Features: 1B colors, HDR10+, 120Hz refresh rate
• Brightness: 1300 nits (HBM), 4500 nits peak
• Resolution: 1080 x 2392 pixels (~388 ppi)
• Aspect Ratio: 19.93:9

Chipset:

• SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (SM7550-AB, 4nm)
• CPU: Octa-core
  • 1x 2.63 GHz Cortex-A715
  • 3x 2.4 GHz Cortex-A715
  • 4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
• GPU: Adreno 720

Memory & Storage:

• Variants:
  • 128GB + 8GB RAM
  • 256GB + 8GB RAM
  • 256GB + 12GB RAM
  • 512GB + 12GB RAM
• Storage Type: UFS 2.2

Software:

• OS: Android 15 with Funtouch OS 15
• Updates: Promised up to 3 major Android upgrades

Cameras:

• Rear Cameras:
  • Main: 50 MP, f/1.9, 23mm, 1/1.55″, 1.0µm, PDAF, OIS
  • Ultra-wide: 50 MP, f/2.0, 15mm, 119˚, 1/2.76″, 0.64µm, AF
• Front Camera:
  • 50 MP, f/2.0, 21mm, 1/2.76″, 0.64µm, AF

Video Recording:

• Rear: 4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps, with gyro-EIS & OIS
• Front: 4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps

Battery:

• Capacity: 6000mAh (Silicon-Carbon)
• Charging: 90W wired (PD), reverse wired charging supported

Connectivity:

• 5G
• Wi-Fi 5
• Bluetooth 5.4
• NFC

Other Features:

• Optical under-display fingerprint scanner
• Stereo speakers