Vivo X50 Pro review: A new camera, and some specs to boot

Chinese smartphone maker, Vivo, has struggled to keep up with the pandemic to some extent. The company lost a spot amongst the top 5 smartphone makers in India, to Samsung, and it has had troubles with stocks and production thanks to lockdowns. However, the Vivo X50 Pro is perhaps the best way to keep consumer confidence alive and kicking.

The headline here is the camera, of course, but Vivo isn’t putting all its eggs in that basket. The phone has a pretty package to go with its flagship-class camera and does enough to hide the fact that it doesn’t use a chipset that users spending nearly 50k on a phone expect. The software is much more refined than many other Vivo smartphones so far (though not without some unnecessary bloatware), the design is undoubtedly flagship-class, and its battery lasts a full day without a hitch.

So, where the X50 Pro really sits apart is the fact that it doesn’t just have a good camera, something that Vivo and Oppo have done before, but also stands on its own as a darned good phone.