The midrange market is getting more competitive with each passing day with 5G devices coming in at more and more affordable price points. The latest member of company’s affordable Y-series is the vivo Y70s and it manages to combine 5G connectivity, triple cameras and a starting price of CNY 1,998 ($280). It’s also the first phone to run on the Exynos 880 chipset, which is essentially an underclocked Exynos 980.
The vivo Y70s features a 6.53-inch FHD+ LCD display with a punch hole cutout in the top left corner for its 16MP selfie cam. Around the back we find a 48MP main camera alongside an 8MP ultrawide snapper and 2MP depth helper. The right-hand-side houses the fingerprint scanner.
Under the hood we find the octa-core Exynos 880 SoC. It’s based on an 8nm process with two Cortex-A77 cores clocked at 2.0GHz alongside six small A55 cores working at 1.8GHz. The GPU is the Mali-G76 MP5.
The software front is covered by FunTouchOS 10 based on Android 10. The phone also comes with a 4,500 mAh battery and 18W fast charging.
vivo Y70s Specifications
Network Properties
- 2G bands: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
- CDMA 800 / 1900 & TD-SCDMA
- 3G bands: HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 2100
- 4G bands: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41
- 5G bands: 1, 41, 78 SA/NSA
- Speed: HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A, 5G (3.6+ Gbps DL)
Launch
- Announced: 2020, May 25
- Status: Coming soon. Exp. release 2020, June 01
Design
- Dimensions: 162 x 76.6 x 8.5 mm (6.38 x 3.02 x 0.33 in)
- Weight: 190 g (6.70 oz)
- Colors: Black, Blue, White
- SIM: Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
Display
- Type: IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size: 6.53 inches, 104.7 cm2 (~84.4% screen-to-body ratio)
- Resolution: 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~395 ppi density)
Operating System
- Android 10, Funtouch 10.0
Hardware
- Chipset: Exynos 880
- CPU: Octa-core (2×2.0 GHz Cortex-A77 & 6×1.8 GHz Cortex-A76)
- GPU: Mali-G76
- RAM: 8GB
- Internal Storage: 128GB
- Memory Card slot: No
- UFS 2.1
Cameras
- Main Camera: Triple
- 48 MP, f/1.8, 26mm (wide), 1/2.0″, 0.8µm, PDAF
- 8 MP, f/2.2, 16mm, 112Ëš (ultrawide), 1/4.0″, 1.12µm
- 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth)
- Features: LED flash, HDR, panorama
- Video: 4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps; gyro-EIS
- Selfie Camera: Single – 16 MP, f/2.0, (wide)
- Features: HDR
- Video: 1080p@30fps
Multimedia
- Radio: No
- Loudspeaker: Yes, with stereo speakers
- Audio 3.5mm jack: Yes
Connectivity
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
- Bluetooth: 5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX HD
- GPS: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO
- USB: 2.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go
Features
- Sensors: Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, proximity, compass
Battery
- Battery Type & Capacity: Non-removable Li-Po 4500 mAh battery
- Charging: Fast charging 18W
Models: V2002A
vivo Y70s Price and Availability
The vivo Y70s comes in black, blue and white colors and is currently listed on pre-order in China.
- 6/128GB version goes for CNY 1,998 ($280),
- 8/128GB version goes for CNY 2,198 ($308)
Official sales start on June 1.
