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continuing the race for thinnest and lightest Chinese manufacturer vivo seeks to bring these traits even to their latest mid-range offering hey guys film yer note with Android authority and this is the review of vivos x5 pro the design brings back again the seemingly popular glass sandwich design with smoothly polished aluminum sides slightly curving into carefully machined champers on the front and back the front and back panels meet the aluminum frame almost seamlessly leaving the glass panels rising just a bit higher than the frame along the aluminum frame on the left is clean with no peripherals up top only a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack rest solo on the right we have an aluminum volume rocker and power switch and then the SIM card slot which itself has two features on the one hand you can use the first since lot to store your standard SIM card then the slot above can take another SIM card if this phone maybe doubles as a work and personal device or you can use that second SIM slot for expandable storage up to 128 gigabytes it's a neat hardware feature that a few manufacturers have adopted giving more options and versatility to the consumer the front glass panel sports an 8 megapixel front face and a green lighting notification light with 3 capacitive buttons at the bottom an options key left home middle and back on the right on the back of the phone the camera module is in the upper left with a single LED flash the vivo branding sets square in the middle although oriented sideways the total result is a device that carries a premium design aesthetic is fairly pocketable and is relatively comfortable to hold despite being only six point four millimeters thick the x5 pro boasts a 5.2 inch 1080p Super AMOLED display at 424 pixels per inch and it's that Super AMOLED that really shines here the screen produces rich colors that look great indoors and especially outdoors the screens calibration leans slightly on the warmer side and the screens brightness while not the brightest on the market is certainly bright enough for my use normally kept at around 75% the very popular budget smartphone CPU the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 makes a return here in the X five pro bolstered with the Adreno 405 GPU and two gigs of ram while some of the other cheaper phones with lower resolution displays blazed through performance metrics with this EP you hear the x5 Pro stumbles every so often now opening apps almost always comes with a few seconds of delay before it finally gets you into the app and most times besides that it's a fairly fluid experience but there are times many in a day where it will lag up playing catch-up waiting before registering a scroll down a web page and stuttering a few times on its way down it doesn't happen so often that it makes the phone a headache but often enough that you'll notice it after use in a day now unfortunately the x5 Pro does only come standard with 16 gigs of storage but again you can ramp that up to 128 gigabytes through expansion now despite having to speaker grilles on the bottom the x5 Pro only has one speaker that fires from the left regardless it's loud enough for media consumption without headphones but lacks the richness in low-end to make it a solid choice for sharing music with friends and the battery here is on the smaller side especially given the larger footprint of this 5.2 inch display phone it comes in at 24 50 milliamp hours and is almost always a sure shot for full day's use with moderate by consistent use using mostly apps web browsing camera and phone calling I ended the day with about 40% left but on a day when I focused on app and video use consistently I ran the battery down by the end of the night to about 13% because the built-in UI doesn't allow for battery status checking or screen on time I had to use a third-party app which didn't seem to register as accurately as I'd hope the screen on time of three hours shown seems to be less than what I actually got on the day of heavy use vivos camera choice here is a 13 megapixel shooter it doesn't scream extraordinary but functions as most do in this price range well it shots turn out okay with colors tending to lack a bit of saturation appearing somewhat dull indoors without flash expect shots to have a great deal of noise and less steady hands can expect a bit of blur for those darker picks features like HDR and face beauty help add some pizzazz to your photos to help compensate for the sometimes dull standard shots and features like touch to capture help to facilitate the actual photo taking process on the front somewhat larger than average 8 megapixel camera takes high-resolution images but even in good lighting conditions finds focus difficult to achieve it almost never gets the image without a bit of blur vivos take on software is their fun touch OS 2.1 layered over 5.0 point 2 lollipop which in its basic appearance greatly resembles iOS with icons like music seemingly all too familiar and the quick settings accessed by way of a bottom swipe upwards although giving many more options like data on/off and recently used apps another unique feature is the left capacitive key which is an options key that changes based on the app you're using so if on the home screen it will behave partly like other Android phones when holding down anywhere on the home screen bringing up the widgets and page swiping effect settings on other apps like Chrome it'll bring up the list of options to select a new tab bookmark check history and so on now since the capacitive key is normally used to bring up the list of open apps vivo has implemented their own widget for this it shows the number of apps currently running the percentage of RAM used and the efficiency of the phone clicking on the wheel is the equivalent of clearing all unused apps tapping left allows you to go into the app giving more detail and allowing to clear any specific tasks a lot like windows task manager the theme app also makes a return here as well as a device manager app that grants or refuses permissions to certain apps expect the pricing of the vivo x5 Pro to be around just under four hundred and forty US dollars so a rich beautiful screen a great build and an interesting OS take on Android or some of the highly features to consider when comparing with other mid tier smartphones but will that be enough with budget smartphones consistently decreasing in price and rising in production quality well guys thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video or found it helpful at all please do give a thumbs up and also be sure to subscribe to android authority for more coverage of android devices and also check out the website too for more in-depth coverage as we are your source for all things Android