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Chinese smartphone Vivo launched the Vivo V15 smartphone in Thailand on Monday. The Vivo V15 is priced at 10,999 Thai Baht (about ₹24,500). The Vivo V15 is essentially a stripped down variant of the V15 Pro, which went on sale yesterday in India at ₹28,990.
The Vivo V15 sports the same pop-up camera mechanism, display and design as the V15 Pro but lacks a few key features. The V15 skips the 48MP primary rear camera and goes for the traditional rear-facing fingerprint sensor instead of an in-display sensor found inside the V15 Pro. The V15 runs MediaTek's Helio P70 processor while the V15 Pro runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 675 SoC.
Design and display:
The Vivo V15 and V15 Pro offer the same design—a notch-less display at the front, a glossy back with dual tone gradient in the same colours. A centrally black strip holds the rear-facing camera module together, giving the smartphones a rather unique look. The back of the V15 Pro is clean otherwise while V15's back panel is interrupted by a fingerprint sensor.
The two phones have the same 6.39-inch Ultra Full View AMOLED display at the front with a resolution of 2340x1080. The V15 Pro gets an in-display sensor underneath the notch-less display.
Hardware:
The Vivo V15 is powered by a MediaTek Helio P70 processor paired with up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The Vivo V15 Pro comes with the same storage and memory but is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 675 processor.
Other features of both smartphones include dual nano-SIM slot with VoLTE 4G support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Both devices are powered by 4,000mAh batteries.
Camera:
The Vivo V15 has a lower-spec triple camera setup at the back. It has a 12MP primary sensor, an 8MP secondary super wide-angle camera along with a 5MP depth sensor.
The Vivo V15 has a 48MP primary sensor, 5MP depth sensor and 8MP super wide sensor. The 48MP sensor allows pixel binning, which means it can combine four pixels during low light scenarios to offer a bigger effective pixel size which in turn results in better low light performance. Combining four pixels also means the effective resolution of the sensor is reduced to 12MP.
The Vivo V15 and V15 Pro both have 32MP selfie cameras in motorised enclosures, similar to the Vivo Nex. Vivo claims the pop-up camera takes 0.46 seconds to arise completely.
