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Hands on: Vivo X Fold+ comes with sizeable screen, good camera for a foldable phone

Wilson Wong
Last updated: November 21, 2022 at 1:44 PM
Wilson Wong Published November 21, 2022
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The Vivo Fold Plus is only available in China for now. PHOTO: Wilson Wong

It’s taken a while but foldable phones are slowly coming of age. The latest to excite fans is the Vivo Fold+, which for now is available only in China, but is something that should excite fans of the new phone format.

To start with, this is a handsome phone. The faux leather at the back is a nice touch, complementing a huge 21:9 screen facing the front and an 8-inch Foldable AMOLED screen when the phone opens up from a clamshell shape.

For this article, I got a Chinese version of the smartphone from the company. It comes with 12GB of RAM, 512GB of storage and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor. Pretty much top-drawer stuff.

The front secondary screen is as big as most smartphones such as the Vivo V25 Pro (right). PHOTO: Wilson Wong
The screen’s fold crease is not visible and does not affect the image presentation, until you put it up against a light source. PHOTO: Wilson Wong
When closed, the phone folds flat without any gap. See this, Samsung? PHOTO: Wilson Wong
The OnePlus’s silent slider makes a comeback. It’s easier to silence the phone quickly. PHOTO: Wilson Wong

The smartphone opens up pretty easily with just a bit of resistance, giving it a very assured quality like the door of a luxury car. Closing the screen provides a very satisfying “thud” too.

You would immediately notice that the Vivo X Fold+ folds flat with no gap between the screens, unlike a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold. That, too, gives the device a perception of engineering sophistication. On the whole, the phone feels well-built like a Swiss watch.

The Vivo phone can be used easily, both closed and unfolded. When using the front-facing screen, the experience is identical to a typical smartphone, albeit with a thicker body.

Once I open the phone, the extended screen gives me more visual estate to read articles on websites and scan through PDF documents much more comfortably.

While the Samsung Z Fold 4 is already sizeable, the extra room that the Vivo X Fold Plus’s 8-inch screen resembles more of a tablet than a phone with a big screen.

The new phone comes with a capable camera system. PHOTO: Wilson Wong
Under natural light, the colours presented are very accurate. PHOTO: Wilson Wong
The night mode is excellent too showing details of the buildings here. PHOTO: Wilson Wong
Using the main camera for selfies improves the image quality drastically. PHOTO: Wilson Wong
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Vivo’s foldable phone comes with a 50-megapixel primary camera, a 48-megapixel ultrawide camera, a 12-megapixel zoom camera, a 32-megapixel front-facing camera and an 8-megapixel periscopic zoom camera co-engineered with renowned German imaging company Zeiss.

The image quality follows those of the Vivo X80 Pro. Shooting selfies using the main camera (for better quality) is easy because you can use the secondary screen to frame yourself.

Post-editing my photos and videos with the large screen is also a joy as I can easily see and correct details using the phone’s editing apps with fewer accidental touches. Then again, I wish the Vivo phone could work with a stylus for even more precise control on the app.

Since this is a phone for the Chinese market, where you don’t have Google services, you don’t get your Gmail and Maps out of the box. Obviously, you’d want and expect their availability if you’re outside of China.

Unfortunately, there is no news yet about the Vivo foldable phone’s global launch. Right now, it is selling in China for CNY 9,860 or (S$1,900). Notably, that is lower than the Galaxy Z Fold 4’s S$2,578.

Given that the the Vivo X Fold+ has a bigger screen that folds flat, a front-facing screen that is similar to a regular phone and the same impressive camera system as the Vivo X80 Pro, it should give Samsung a run for its money.

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Wilson Wong November 21, 2022
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Wilson is a self-taught photographer whose passion started with his father’s old Canon L Rangefinder camera. He now leads the 12,000+ strong Singapore Photography & Imaging Network group. His photos have won acclaim from Nikon and Fujifilm, and are featured in various books and exhibitions.
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