Vivo just launched its latest smartphone designed for “selfie” photography, the Vivo V5s. It was unveiled to the excited crowd during an event in Gurugram, announcing its release in the market.
According to the company, the pre-order for Vivo V5s is already available and will be on sale this May 6. However, only the Matte Black smartphone will be available since the Crown Gold one will only be available on May 20.
Tagged as a Selfie smartphone, the Vivo V5s has a powerful 20MP front camera with f/2.0 aperture. It is also equipped with the “Moonlight Glow” front light and the Face Beauty 6.0 app, giving it total dominance when it comes to “selfie photography”. According to Vivo, the “Moonlight Glow” flash is not like any other LED or screen flashes. It gives continuous diffused lighting that illuminates the face of the subject. Meanwhile, Vivo V5s has a 13MP rear camera equipped with dual-LED flash and PDAF.
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Not only is the phone powerful when it comes to photography (especially selfie photos), the phone is also equipped with an AK4376 Hi-Fi Audio chip. With this, the phone is able to provide clear and dynamic sound quality.
The latest selfie phone, a successor of the Vivo V5 launched in India and the Philippines on November 2016, is run by Funtouch OS 3.0, an OS based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It has dual-sim capabilities for both Micro and Nano sim, a fingerprint sensor located at its home button, and a faster version of the Vivo V5 with its processor, 1.5 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6750 SoC and 4GB of RAM. Vivo V5s has a 5.5-inch HD IPS display with 720×1280 pixels and a 267ppi pixel density, a 2.5D Curved Glass, Gorilla Glass protection.
The phone has a 64GB of built-in storage, expandable up to 256GB via microSD card. It has 4G VoLTE connectivity as well. All of these features and specs are powered by a 3000mAh battery.