Android Advisor - UK (2021-08)

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%