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they managed Gary Sims from Android Authority and as you could see from the introduction today we're going to be looking at the vivo x6 plus now you probably haven't heard of the VEVO brand they're a Chinese company that are looking to make inroads into the Western markets now the X 6 and the X 6 plus were announced recently and as you can imagine the X 6 plus is the bigger of the two devices in fact it has eight 5.7 inch display that's full HD super amoled now powering this phone is a qualcomm snapdragon 6 1 v that's an octa-core processor along with the Adreno 405 GPU there next to that you find 4 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of on-board storage so we have full HD super amoled octa-core processor 4 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of on-board storage this has got all the makings of being an excellent device however let's dig a bit deeper and see what we find out so looking around the device we have the 5.7 inch full HD Super AMOLED display on the front on the bottom are three capacitive keys that are not backlit and of course at the top you have the front-facing camera around the sides you have the volume rocker and the power button on the right-hand side and the SIM tray card on the left hand side looking at the bottom of the device we find the single speaker grille some holes for the microphone and a micro USB port while at the top we find nothing other than the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack flipping the phone over you'll see that you have the camera the fingerprint reader and the vivo logo so when you look at the back of this device you'll see that it does bear a striking resemblance to another type of smartphone made by a company with a fruity logo now I'm sure that's pretty intentional by vivo because this is aimed for the Chinese market and the way the Chinese market works is a bit different to how it is here in the West so really we're looking at this okay you have to admit it's not original in its designing even these bars here at the top and the bottom are very very similar to the iPhone however if we get past that we can see what else we can see about this phone now while this phone does use an octa-core processor is not a high-end octa-core processor a high-end octa-core processor today we're probably using four cortex a 72 cores and four cortex a53 calls however the Snapdragon 650 eight cortex a53 called which means going to be slower than many of the other leading processors so to test the performance I ran some benchmarks and a full benchmark results are in the written companion that goes along with this video and you'll find that over at andrew authority calm now just to give you an example of what kind of performance we can expect from this phone I ran Geekbench 3 now the single core score for Geekbench 3 was 759 while the multi-core score was 3000 161 now that score is actually slower than many of the octa-core phones I was testing in 2015 and in fact it's slower than some of these Snapdragon 801 phones I've tested during 2015 so overall this phone isn't a high-performing bone because of that Snapdragon 61 5 processor now if the performance of the 605 is a bit of a disappointment it power efficiency isn't this phone has a 3000 milliamp hour battery and because of that Qualcomm 6-1 5 processor you get excellent battery life now unfortunately there are no battery usage pages on the software on this version of Android that's running on this phone so I've done some tests now for example I ran some 3d games and according to my calculations you can run 3d games for around four and a half hours on this phone that's quite impressive because there are other phones available but don't even give you four and a half hours of on-screen time in general before you even go near 3d gaming now in fact when you try to do lighter tasks like browsing the web and watching youtube videos I found you can actually get over 15 hours of usage out of this phone and that's quite amazing now what that basically means is you will really get a full day's battery life without any problems whatsoever and depending on your users you may even get two days of battery life so really a thumbs up for vivo for putting in such a big battery along with that power efficient processor now when it comes to charging the battery vivo who installed a piece of technology in this phone called dual engine quick charging now basically that's a variation of the different quick charging technologies that exist today and the idea of course is that up to eighty percent the phone charges very quickly now I did some charging tests and this is what I found out the phone overall takes two hours to charge which isn't that quick however to get to 50% it only takes 23 minutes which of course is quite impressive if you want to charge to 80% that only takes 55 minutes however to go from 80% to 100% takes another hour a little bit more than another hour so you can see this quick charging technology is very good to 50% to 80% you're going to get there very quickly however a full charge is going to take just over two hours now on the software side we're dealing with thumb touch OS and this is vivos custom version of Android based on android 5.0.2 lollipop now it really is quite different to stock Android again because it's aimed at the Chinese market for starters there's no app drawer but after that a lot of the icons are more reminiscent of maybe the iOS interface rather than the and stock Android interface also there are some new pages to do with the fingerprint reader and to do with smart motions and you can do a swipe up from the bottom as well so there's quite a lot different things going on here and if you're not used to it it does take a while to learn how to use this phone now unfortunately there are no Google services that means you get no gmail no YouTube and no Play Store now it is possible to install the Amazon Appstore which I did and that with that I was able to download and install many of the apps I've been using for my testing now it's also possible to download Google Play via vivos own app store now I've done that and I have some success with it I was able to install some app but a lot of apps kept giving me errors saying they were incompatible with the phones that's something to watch out for if you're buying this phone here the West and the two more things I want to mention one is the fingerprint reader the fingerprint reader on the vivo x6 plus is excellent in fact I would say it's just as good as the fingerprint reader you find on the wall a mate s and the Huawei mate 8 it really does open the phone quickly and you can just put your finger on the fingerprint reader and roll the phone in one swift move and it's lightning fast so that's a really good feature of this phone now on the other side I'd like to mention the network coverage this phone does not cover the networks that you need in the USA or that you need in Europe so I was able to get two G GSM I was able to get three G however with my carrier I was unable to get 4G now as always you should check the compatibility of a phone with your carrier before you go ahead with any purchase now the camera that comes bundled with the vivo x6 plus is excellent it's got a load of different range of modes including HDR and panorama and for some automatic mode but it also has a professional mode which is really a manual mode the manual mode you can change things like the shutter speed and the ISO settings and the white balance but you can also do manual focusing it's quite good fun playing with the camera I'm focusing in all things manually yourself that's really good actually for close-up shots I found having said that the camera itself doesn't seem to take great photos now as a caveat I must say that I've been taking these under a cloudy sky drew my time testing this phone I haven't had a sunny day so all the outdoor pictures are taken with a very heavy cloudy sky now knowing that I could give the camera the benefit of the doubt however I really do have a feeling that the pictures lack punch the colours really aren't that bright now again if you go over to the & Roth or 'ti website you'll find the article that goes to this video and there you'll be able to see all of the pictures that I've taken during my testing of this phone what does all this mean on the plus side we've got a nice Super AMOLED display got four gigabytes RAM we've got 64 gigabytes of internal storage and there's a very good fingerprint reader now those are good aspects of this device however on the negative side we've got fun touch OS which is really quite different to stock Android and really is aimed at the Chinese market there's no Google services 4G coverage for the West just isn't there and the camera is maybe underperforming now in terms of availability this phone will be available first of all in Asia that's its primary market and it will be available for around five hundred and fifty dollars however that price is not yet confirmed now there is a rumor that vivo working on an international version of both the X 6 and the X 6 plus and maybe that will solve some of the problems like stock Android and the Google Play services and the 4G coverage so where that version does ever come out this phone will definitely worth be looking at for those of you in the West my name's Gary Sims from Andrew authoritative IDEO if you did please do give it a thumbs up also don't forget to subscribe to and royal thora T's YouTube channel also please use the comments below to tell me what you think about the vivo x6 plus and as for me I'll see you in my next video you