Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

Verdict

An unordinary idea executed well, yet it's as yet insufficient to pull most away from increasingly traditional plans 

Experts 

Incredible selfies 

Second screen lets your subject see the structure 

The two screens are of high caliber 

Cons 

Just OK low light pictures 

Double screens have constrained employments 

Over-arriving at interface programming 

Key Specifications 

Audit Price: £ 600 

6.39-inch 2340 x 1080 pixel Super AMOLED screen 

5.49-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel back Super AMOLED screen 

Snapdragon 845 CPU 

12-megapixel back camera 

2-megapixel profundity camera 

ToF camera 

10GB RAM 

128GB capacity 

3500mAh battery 

What is the Vivo NEX Dual Display? 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display is perhaps the most peculiar telephone you'll see in 2019. 

This telephone has two screens. There's one on the front, another on the back. It's a response to the telephone structure problem existing apart from everything else: how would you fill the entire front of a telephone with screen when the world is fixated on selfies? Where are you going to put that selfie cam? 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display arrangement is to simply utilize the one camera cluster. Push a screen on the back and you can consider your to be face as you present away for Instagram. 

It appears pointless excess, and perhaps it is, however most telephone configuration patterns existing apart from everything else, punch opening presentations and screen sliders, are there to "fix" a similar issue. 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display will probably locate a little band of geek contrarians who love its crackpot style. In any case, except if you're a motivating influencer, the moderately regular Honor View 20 is most likely a superior wagered. Its camera is progressively adaptable, battery life is far superior and the punch opening screen is a considerably more "ordinary" way to deal with fitting in a selfie camera. 

While not promptly accessible in the UK, the Vivo NEX Dual Display costs around 700 Euro. At the hour of composing it's accessible online for around £ 600. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

Vivo NEX Dual Display - Design and Display 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display is a really surprising telephone. Front-on it has a ultra-attractive all-screen look. A couple of millimeters of fringe at each side mean it won't have a remarkable visual effect of the Samsung Galaxy S10, yet this telephone isn't exactly as costly as a top level brand leader either. 

Its back is a totally extraordinary story. In the event that you didn't think about this telephone you may expect some prankster had stuck a hover of clear plastic on the back. In any case, this is a plate of glass, and it sits over the two essential back cameras. 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display's back resembles another telephone's front, yet one something somewhat abnormal has happened to. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

What may befall the Vivo NEX Dual Display after some time is somewhat of a worry as well. Telephones with glass on the front and back are very normal, yet you can't conceal the back with a case without removing the NEX's motivation to exist. 

In the wake of utilizing the telephone for seven days, the back has grabbed a couple of scrapes towards the base of the back glass and, maybe all the more worried, on the camera glass circle. At the point when the front has a splendidly applied screen defender, you need to ask why there isn't one on the back as well. The undeniable answer is "plastic doesn't feel as pleasant". 

A telephone shrouded in screens is intriguing and hazardous in equivalent measure. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

The manner in which you utilize the Vivo NEX Dual Display's two screens requires no extraordinary scholarly jumps, personality. It has two power catches, one on each side. Approach the power catch like any right-thinking, right-gave individual and the screen presently pointing at you will switch on. Essentially, just each screen remains on in turn. 

What's more, truly, around 35 percent of the time you'll wind up utilizing an inappropriate one. For fast in and out message checks, it doesn't make a difference. Anything you do on the fundamental screen should be possible on the back one. In any case, run an application and the view will shrivel a piece since Android thinks this telephone has an extra-long 19.5: 9 screen. 

The back screen has a 16: 9 angle. Keep in mind those? To prevent applications from having a temper tantrum, the view crushes down to fit, as opposed to mistaking those applications for consistently evolving goals. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

Strangely, you can skip between two applications by exchanging between these sides, on the off chance that you like your performing various tasks as cumbersome and awkward as could reasonably be expected. In any case, this isn't the real trick. The double screen is here for selfies. Be that as it may, as this may appear purchasing another house since you don't care for the shade of the present one's dividers, Vivo has likewise stuffed in some additional utilizations for the double show. 

There are consistently on screen shows for the two sides, an entire pile of the things. You can demonstrate a backdrop on the back or a progression of simple and computerized clock plans. 

Taking somewhat less of a conspicuous methodology, you can make the screen load a social application when you play a game and afterward flip the telephone over. Not exclusively can I not get this to work, it's an element that nearly appears to be a joke about what a horrendous relationship we as a whole have with innovation. 

Camera use is the main extraordinary application for the back screen at present. Vivo attempts its best to make a greater amount of the double screens, in any case falls flat.

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

It's a great job, at that point, that the real screen quality is extraordinary. Both have Full HD-grade goals Super AMOLED boards. The front is a 2340 x 1080 pixel screen, the back has 1920 x 1080 pixels. 

Ordinary of an OLED, hues pop and differentiation is incredible. Be that as it may, in the event that you need an increasingly loose "sRGB" style look, you can't get it with a Vivo NEX Dual Display. There are no shading modes, just temperature tweaking. Most will be content with the default look, however. 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display screen additionally has an in-show finger scanner. These are utilized in a couple of telephones currently, including OnePlus 6T and Oppo RX17 Pro. This is one of the less great finger scanners of this sort, however. It's quite meticulous, and regularly possibly works on the off chance that you press decently solidly on the screen. 

All things considered, it seems to improve as you become accustomed to how it gets a kick out of the chance to be dealt with. It might even tweak the unique finger impression profile with further use, as the scanner's unwavering quality appeared to improve in the principal week. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display - Software 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display runs Android 9.0 and a custom interface called Funtouch. It's one of the more intrusive UIs. There's no application cabinet. You have to keep over how you arrange your applications somewhat more subsequently. 

In latest Androids, a swipe up from the base of the screen takes you to this application cabinet. Be that as it may, in the Vivo NEX Dual Display, it opens up the brilliance control screen total with switches for highlights like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

I moved toward the Vivo NEX Dual Display as new as could be allowed, to get the experience you'd have when first firing the thing up. It took me a few days to try and understand this was a piece of the UI. I was nearly surrendered to the thought Vivo had thought it was a smart thought to expel the element flips totally just as the application cabinet. 

Parting from standards can be incredible, however it makes the Vivo NEX Dual Display a less instinctive telephone. 

Vivo additionally includes its very own homescreen, a look of gadget like boards that demonstrate the climate, some application alternate ways, your schedule occasions and updates from "Jovi". This is Vivo's endeavor at cobbling together a marked AI. It isn't excellent. 

Jovi can enlighten you regarding up and coming games on the off chance that you disclose to it what groups you like. Any ambiguously "simulated intelligence" portions of the camera are likewise called Jovi, and there's a game mode that adjusts the Vivo NEX Dual Display's conduct while you play. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

Be that as it may, none of this is truly "simulated intelligence". It's just an endeavor to cause regular highlights to appear to be uncommon by giving them a name and connecting them, anyway freely, to the idea of man-made reasoning. This is an over-reach on Vivo's part, if an innocuous one. 

There are parts a few people typically like in custom UIs, however. You can alter the interface a lot, changing application symbol shapes and the matrix design of your homescreens. A topics application gives you a chance to download new searches for your Vivo NEX Dual Display, total with various backdrops, symbols and timekeepers. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display - Performance 

All telephones as ground-breaking as the Vivo NEX Dual Display run well. It has a Snapdragon 845. That CPU may have been supplanted by the Snapdragon 855 as of now, however a significant number of the best 2018 leaders utilized a similar processor. 

It has eight centers, a magnificent Adreno 630 illustrations processor, and Vivo jolts a gigantic 10GB RAM onto it. This is, apparently, to permit more applications to remain open out of sight, should you leave one trundling endlessly on the back screen. Either that or it's an instance of great tech pointless excess, which is famous among Chinese brands like Vivo, hoping to build their unmistakable quality in different domains. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

A telephone this ground-breaking removes the preparation wheel-like confinements you'll find in a couple of spots. PUBG will keep running at "High" illustrations ". You can play Ark: Survival Evolved at "Epic" illustrations without it winding up annoyingly jerky. 

This telephone is by all accounts hindered from utilizing Geekbench 4, however there's no new equipment to cover here. We're incredibly acquainted with the Snapdragon 845 and its capacities. While on out, this is an extraordinary CPU. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display - Camera 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display camera is befuddling in a few regards. How about we manage the undeniable one first. 

There's no front camera, which means you take selfies with the best sensor on the telephone. Be that as it may, If you all of a sudden need to take a selfie, regardless you need to flip the Vivo NEX Dual Display over. Maybe two months into owning the telephone, this won't feel abnormal. Be that as it may, regardless it does following a little while. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

The basic equipment is odd as well. There are three cameras. The primary one uses a superb 12-megapixel Sony IMX363 sensor, with a f/1.8 focal point. No issue here, that is a decent combo. 

Next to the primary camera are a 2-megapixel profundity sensor with a F/1.8 focal point and a ToF camera, now and again called a "3D" camera. The clumsy connection between these two shows how significant ToF equipment is probably going to be later on, and how strange it appears at present.

Both these cameras are viably profundity cameras. My supposition that is the 2-megapixel profundity sensor is utilized for foundation obscure pictures, and the ToF camera is utilized for… nothing at this moment. 

ToF represents time of flight. In the Vivo NEX Dual Display it seems to utilize the IR transmitter next to the camera itself. This "lights up" the scene outside the scope of our eyes' recognition, and the camera sensor examines the deferral of the returned sign to work out the distance away articles are. It resembles a camera laser self-adjust help, yet for the whole scene instead of a solitary point. 

Charming as the equipment may be, Google's enlarged reality stage ARCore doesn't at present help ToF equipment. In any case, it, obviously, presumably will do in a major manner in 2019. 

Organizations like Vivo, Oppo, Honor and conceivably Samsung likely know something we don't. They have every single made telephone with ToF cameras. This equipment is generally hugely futile as the present moment, in February 2019, there's no unmistakable use for ToF equipment in Android. 

The principle camera creates commonly decent photographs. In sunlight there's a strong measure of detail, shading finds some kind of harmony among punch and a characteristic look, and the Auto HDR is equipped for managing dubious high light differentiate scenes. 

A few issues stop the Vivo NEX Dual Display from stressing the top tier cameras, however. Picture sharpness lessens fundamentally towards the edges of the casing, a sign the f/1.8 focal point isn't tremendous. The telephone's introduction metering is likewise conflicting. Shots can wind up looking excessively splendid, or even somewhat overexposed, even after the dynamic range changes have been made. 

Two or three years prior the Vivo NEX Dual Display's low-light execution would have been considered "excellent", however nowadays it falls a route behind the best. The telephone has all the equipment it needs. Its principle camera has 4-hub adjustment, which you can see doing something amazing even as your skillet the camera over a scene. 

Be that as it may, around evening time it doesn't have almost the smart powerful range boosting of the best, and can't light up genuinely dim scenes enough to make them usable. It's outflanked by the less expensive Honor View 20 and OnePlus 6T. For every one of its cases about Jovi AI, Vivo hasn't put the most intriguing uses of "computer based intelligence" computational photography into the NEX Dual Display. 

A few pieces of the camera application are unfortunately odd as well, maybe featuring the social contrasts between the UK/US and China, Vivo's nation of origin. There's a whole segment on the top layer of the camera application called Poses. It offers a list of stock pictures of individuals under classifications like "Stylishman", "Hot" and "OnlineCelibrity", so you can coordinate them present for posture. 

The ingenuity of influencer culture exposed, anybody? 

There is an a lot more brilliant persuading of our narcissism, however. The back screen can be exchanged on even as you shoot a photograph of another person, giving them a chance to perceive how they are confined in the camera. They'll should be genuinely near observe plainly, yet this might be helpful on the off chance that they need to perceive how light and shadow lie over their face. 

Selfies are, nothing unexpected here, superb gratitude to the extremely top notch sensor. I am still increasingly intrigued by the tech of the Google Pixel 3 XL's exhibit, which uses two cameras to offer two fields of view and improve low-light picture quality. In any case, this high caliber, settled camera is difficult to beat. 

When shooting video, the Vivo NEX Dual Display can catch film as far as possible up to 4K goals, 60 casings for each second. Be that as it may, the sort of adjustment it uses relies upon the setting utilized. At up to 1080p, 60 casings the telephone executes programming adjustment to expel hand judder and smooth out container. At 4K goals it returns to the 4-pivot optical adjustment. This is exceptionally helpful, yet isn't exactly as viable as the product arrangement. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display - Battery Life 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display has a 3500mAh battery. This is a genuinely traditional size for a telephone with a 6.4-inch screen. That Vivo has not needed to diminish limit much so as to fit in the subsequent screen is a consolation, and confirmation of how clever Samsung OLED screens are. The two shows on the telephone use Samsung boards. 

Life span is fine here, if just that. The telephone should last an entire day even with medium-to-overwhelming use. In any case, on a few events the battery level has been left at 2-3 percent at 11:30 pm, as I unwisely viewed another YouTube video in spite of endeavors to restriction telephones from the room inside and out. 

Over the most recent couple of weeks I have utilized the Honor View 20 and Motorola Moto G7 Power. Both are far longer-enduring telephones than this, and I don't class the Vivo NEX Dual Display's stamina as anything over worthy.

Its charger is somewhat bizarre as well. An on-screen message recommends the Vivo NEX Dual Display has two batteries just as two screens. This tech is utilized to extraordinary impact in the Oppo R17 Pro, where an exceptionally high control 50W charger takes the 3700mAh battery from level to full in record time. Two cells are utilized to abstain from overheating. 

Nonetheless, as the all out charger yield here is just 22.5W. On the off chance that there are two battery cells inside, there's very little point to it. Like having two separate profundity cameras, it's a head-scratcher. The Vivo additionally needs remote charging, yet with screens in the manner, this bodes well. 

Vivo NEX Dual Display Review

Why purchase the Vivo NEX Dual Display? 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display isn't a telephone simple to prescribe to numerous individuals. Tech mammoths need strive for the sort of wonderment climbers of Everest accomplish. For what reason did you climb it? Since it's there. For what reason did you make the Samsung Galaxy S10? Since we could. 

The telephone doesn't make an incredible contention for double screens, much as its execution, as far as the nature of the presentations, is more than sound. Such an item characterizing highlight needs a few valid justifications to exist, and Vivo has not discovered enough of them. 

Its camera exhibit is likewise confounded, with three sensors however one in particular that is really valuable. Furthermore, the glass lodging is excessively inclined to scrapes. 

The Vivo NEX Dual Display is at last exactly what is appears. It's an analysis moderately few individuals are probably going to, or should, become tied up with. Notwithstanding, it could have been a ton, part more terrible and has a genuine intrigue for yearning influencer types. 

verdict

An abnormal idea executed well, yet it's as yet insufficient to pull most away from increasingly traditional structures