Vivo S1 Review
The Vivo S1 is the first smartphone to be powered by a Midia
Tek Helio P65 in India
HIGHLIGHTS
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The
in-display fingerprint scanner on the Vivo S1 is quick to unlock
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Vivo
has picked the media tek Helio P65 SoC power the S1
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The
4500mAh battery helps the Vivo S1 offer decent battery life
Vivo
recently launched the Vivo Z1 Pro in India and priced it quite well. This
smartphone managed to fare quite well when we reviwed it. Now, the Chinese
manufacturer has launched one more smartphone priced only a little higher,
dubbed the Vivo S1. This is a part of the new S series which stands for Style.
The Vivo S1 is stylish for sure, but does it have the performance to back its
looks? We test it to find out.
Vivo S1
design
Vivo
smartphone are usually sleek and well designed, and this one is no exception.
The Vivo S1 sports a 6.38-inch display with a tiny dewdrop-style notch at the
top. Vivo has opted for an AMOLED panel, and the Vivo S1 sports an in-display
fingerprint scanner. The display has thin bezels on the sides but the bottom
chin is comparatively thicker.
The Vivo S1 is available in two colours, Diamond Black and Skyline Blue and we had the Diamond
Black unit for this review. It has a laminate back with a striking diamond
pattern design and a gradient colour finish. Depending on how the light hits
the back panel, the diamond patterns emerge, which does look catchy.
However, we
aren’t a huge fan of the material that the back panel of the Vivo S1 is made
of, as it picks up scratches easily. The Vivo S1 has a triple camera module
which protrudes slightly but has a metal rim around it which should save it
from getting scratched.
Vivo has
opted for a plastic frame that is rounded which makes the smartphone
comfortable to hold in the hand. The back does not meet the frame seamlessly,
and you can feel rough edges when holding the phone. Vivo has positioned the
power button to the right along with the volume buttons, and they are all easy
to reach. The Vivo S1 also has a dedicated Google Assistant buttons just like
the one on the Vivo Z1 Pro.
We were
disappointed with the use of a Micro-USB port on the Vivo S1, considering that
most other smartphone at this price point have moved to USB Type-C. the
Micro-USB port is positioned at the bottom along with the loudspeaker and the
3.5mm headphone jack, while the SIM tray in on the left side.
Vivo S1
specification and software
The Vivo S1 is the first smartphone in India to be powered by the new Media tek Helio P65
SoC. The Helio P65 is a mid-range processor besed on a 12nm process. It has a
pair of ARM Cortex-A75 cores clocked at 2GHz, and six Cortex-A55 cores cloked
at 1.7GHz. for graphics, it has a Mali-G52 integrated GPU.
Vivo has
launched three variants of the Vivo S1 in India: the entry-level one with 4Gb
of RAM and 128GB of storage. Another with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.
These variants are priced at Rs.17,990, Rs. 18,990 and 19,990 respectively. We
has the top variant in for review and it had close to 100GB of storage
available out of the box. The pricing of the Vivo S1 pits it directly against
powerful phones such as the Realme X and the Oppo K3.
The Vivo S1
is a dual-SIM device and has two Nano-SIM slots as well as dedicated microSD
card slot. Connectivity option on the Vivo S1 include Bluetooth 5, dual-band
Wi-Fi, GPS, FM radio, dual 4G VolTE, and the usual sensors. The Vivo S1 packs
in a 4500mAh battery and you get an 18W fast charger in the box.
The Vivo S1
runs Funtouch OS on top of Android 9 Pie, which is heavily customized. If you
have used a vivo smartphone in the past, it won’t take long for you to find
your way around the device. There is no app drawer and all app icons are lineds
up on form the bottom of the screen to access. This is the exact opposite
action compared to other Android smartphones could be annoying to some people.
Vivo does
install a fair amount of bloatware on the device and we saw Daily Hunt, Helo,
Facebook, Gaana, Amezone Shopping, PhonePe, Paytm, and a few other apps
preinstalled. Thankfully, this phone did not have a notification spam issue
like the oppo A9 we recently reviewed. Vivo also has its own app store called
the V-appstore.
Vivo S1
performance, Battery Life, and Camera
The Media
Tek Helio P65 SoC powering the Vivo S1 does a good job and you won’t notice lag
or stutter doing day-to-day tasks. This smartphone is quick to launch apps and
can run most apps and games out there on the Google Play Store. We never had to
wait too long for an app to open. It also manages idle battery drain well, and
in our experience, the Vivo S1 did not lose too much of its charge when sitting
idle.
Multitasking
was quite easy considering we had the 6GB RAM variant of the device.The phone
never really had to close apps running i8n the background.
The AMOLED
panel on the Vivo s1 had good viewing angles and was bright enough to be
legible outdoors. However, the bottom-firing speaker isn’t that loud, causing
the Vivo S1 to fall short of being a good device to consume content on. We also
tested the in-display fingerprint scanner as well as the face recognition
feature on this device. The in-display scanner is quick to scan a finger and
unlock the smartphone, and rarely required a second attempt. Face unlock isn’t
the most secure way of unlocking the smartphone, but it is very quick and
convenient.
Vivo S1
managed to clock 146,142 in AnTuTu benchmark which wasn’t significantly higher
than the 145,999 scored by the Oppo A9. The Vivo S1 managed 1.853 and 6,034 in
Geekbench 4’s single-core and multi-core tests respectively. In graphics
benchmarks, the smartphone scored 36fps in
GFXBench T-Rex and 12fps in GFXBench Manhattan 3.1.
PUBG Mobile
ran at the medium preset on the Vivo S1 with the graphics set to Balanced and
the frame rate set to medium. We played the game for 20 minutes which did cause
the phone to get warm to the touch. We also noticed a 5 percent battery drop
after gaming for that long.
The Vivo s1
delivers good battrery life and we could go on for about a day and a half on a
single charge. During this cycle, we ran all our benchmarks, took a couple of
camera samples, and had an active WhatsApp account on the device. In our HD
video loop test, the smartphone managed to last for 16 hours and 38 minutes. We
put the supplied to the test and it managed to charge the battery to 34 percent
in 30 minutes and 65 percent in an hour.
Vivo has
opted for a triple camera setup on the back of the Vivo S1. This consists of a
1megapixel primary camera with an f/1.78 aperture, an 8-megapixel
ultra-wide-angel camera with an f/2.2. aperture, anda 2-megapixel depth sensor
with an f/2.4 aperture. At the front, the phone has a 32-megapixel selfie shooter
with an f/2.0 aperture.
The camera
app is similar to what we’ve seen on the vivo Z1 pro and has multiple modes to
choose from. It has quick toggles for HDR, Live Photo, Filters, aperture mode,
and a toggle to switch between the regular and the wide-angel lens. Apart from
the photo and video modes it offers Pano, AR Stickers, Fun Video, Document, and
a Pro mode. Fun video ads background audio while you record a video.
Photos taken
with the vivo S1 were below average for a smartphone at this price point, in
daylight, the phone focused quickly but we noticed that photos were
underexposed. Details were acceptable, and text at a distance was legible. The
same scene was exposed better when using the ultra-wide-angle sensor. However,
in thish case, photos lost out on details.
Close-ups
were good, and the vivo S1 could lock focus quickly and get the
exposure right, however, the colours weren’t always accurate. Portrait mode
offers different lighting effects which you can chose from before hitting the
shutter button. The output had good edge detection.
The camera
also has an Al Portrait Framing feature that helps you frame a scene properly.
Once framed correctly, the vivo S1 also takes the shot automatically. Low-light
camera performance was average, as the phone could not capture details very
well. We did not find a night mode in yhe camera app, and this could have
helped vivo improve its low-light camera performance. Selfies has good detail
but the vivo S1 tands to overexpose scenes. You can take portraits in selfie
mode as well, and the phone did manage good edge detection in our experience.
However, these shots were also slighty overexposed.
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