VivosmartphoneLast featured Aug 2018
Vivo NEX S
I'd buy itI'd buy this.
Arun switched to it as his daily phone and thinks it could be the best phone you can buy for the right user, despite a mediocre camera and a rough China software experience.
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- Price when I covered it
- $800
- Featured in
- 4 videos · 2018–2018
- Category
- Phones · Flagship
What I liked
- six point six inch Super AMOLED screen
- nearly $100 cheaper than Find X
- no notch or bezel
- In-display scanner gets great reactions
- Fantastic 4,000mAh battery
- Very fast performance
What I didn't
- unreliable in-display fingerprint scanner
- dual cameras only okay
- Slowest of the five
- Higher error rate
- Must hit a very specific spot
- Screen must be woken first
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“the phone I'm using on a day-to-day basis right now”
“using any other smartphone feels like a compromise”
“given an option on a practical level I'd probably pick having the fingerprint scanner on the rear of the phone”
“I'm switching to using the NEX as my daily device to replace the S9 plus”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
4:20Top 10 BEST Smartphones of 2018 so far.His daily phone, with a superb bezel-free screen that makes other phones feel like a compromise despite a weak fingerprint scanner and cameras.
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2:21Xiaomi Mi A2 UNBOXING and REVIEW!An $800 phone whose low-light camera the Mi A2 gets close to.
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0:15The ULTIMATE Fingerprint Scanner SPEED Test.Its in-display fingerprint scanner is a cool feature but was clearly the slowest and least reliable, so it's not quite there yet.
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0:00The TRUTH about Vivo NEX - Full Review!Arun switched to it as his daily phone and thinks it could be the best phone you can buy for the right user, despite a mediocre camera and a rough China software experience.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Daily carry
“the phone I'm using on a day-to-day basis right now”
▶ 4:20 - Daily carry
“I'm switching to using the NEX as my daily device to replace the S9 plus”
▶ 0:15 - Battery hero
“the battery at four thousand milliamp hours is fantastic and in real-world usage is about 20% better than my s9 plus”
▶ 0:47
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