Vivo Z1x: The game has changed

Never before have smartphones in this price category been so much value for money as they are today. Vivo’s Z1s, despite its unnecessarily obtuse name, demonstrates that fact.

The Z1x looks rather good. Everyone is doing gradients and most of them are blue-purple-green combinations, but Vivo has had a good go at making their back panel look unique with a purple streak in the middle and more blue all around it. This variant, the one we received to review, is apparently called Phantom Purple and the colour seems quite aptly named.

It’s interesting that reviewers can no longer tell whether a back is glass or plastic and that’s wonderful. If plastic has caught up with glass, may as well stick with plastic which surely has to be more durable. I’m told it’s plastic but if you told me otherwise, I’d believe that too.