Android Advisor - UK (2021-08)

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58 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 88

REVIEWS


GFX Manhattan 3.1
Vivo X60 Pro: 82fps
Vivo X60 Pro+: 101fps
OnePlus 9: 60fps
Samsung Galaxy S21: 67fps
Xiaomi Mi 11: 54fps
Oppo Find X3 Pro: 40fps
Vivo X50 Pro: 30fps

You can see from the benchmarks that
the X60 Pro still essentially keeps pace
with the rest of 2021 flagship cohort,
along with a huge leap forward from
last year’s X50 Pro. Note though that
the higher frame rates on the graphical
benchmarks are in part thanks to the
lower resolution panel compared to the
Xiaomi Mi 11 and Oppo Find X3 Pro.
The X60 Pro ships with 12GB RAM
and 256GB storage. That RAM count
is enhanced slightly by new ‘extended
RAM’ software, which essentially
allocates un-used storage space as
temporary RAM when needed, effectively
giving the phone an additional 3GB. It’s
hard in testing to assess how much this
really helps, but I can at least say that the
phone handles multitasking with aplomb


  • the main time RAM gets strained – so
    something’s going right at least.


BATTERY LIFE
If there’s a weak spot to the X60 Pro,
it’s really here. The battery life itself is

essentially average for a flagship – it
shouldlastthedaymostofthetime,
butit willberunninga littlelowbythe
timeit gets there. That’s good enough,
but it’s not great.
Wired charging is capped at 33 watts,
which was enough to top the battery
up to 62 per cent in half an hour. That’s
faster than you’ll get from Samsung or
Apple for the most part, but rivals around
this price now often deliver 65-watt
speeds or even faster, and in fact you can
find faster charging than this on some
budget phones this year.
Just as importantly, this is now one
of the few flagship phones that doesn’t
offer any wireless charging at all. This is
definitely a convenience feature, but at
this point it really is expected in a phone
this price, and Vivo is long overdue
offering wireless support.

Battery life
Vivo X60 Pro: 9 hours, 33 minutes
Vivo X60 Pro+: 8 hours, 28 minutes
OnePlus 9: 9 hours, 6 minutes
Samsung Galaxy S21: 8 hours, 4 minutes
Oppo Find X3 Pro: 10 hours, 20 minutes
Vivo X50 Pro: 9 hours, 1 minutes

Charge in 30 minutes
Vivo X60 Pro: 62%
Vivo X60 Pro+: 82%
OnePlus 9: 95%
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