The vivo Y19s was quietly unveiled earlier immediately. No, this isn’t a sequel to the Y19 (as a result of that one is from 2019), it’s as an alternative a follow-up to the Y17s from late final yr. The brand new mannequin isn’t a complete improve, however brings a number of vital enhancements – a extra rugged design, highly effective stereo audio system and a bigger 5,500mAh battery.
The Y19s grows barely with a 6.68” LCD. It’s a 90Hz panel that’s decently vibrant (1,000 nits in excessive brightness mode), however nonetheless gives solely HD+ decision. The selfie digicam is now inside a punch gap, however decision drops to a measly 5MP.
The rear digicam is generally the identical with a 50MP sensor and a helper cam. What’s new right here – and it’s arduous to overlook when it begins biking via the colours of the rainbow – is the RGB LED ring on the digicam island. This can be utilized for notifications or so as to add a little bit of aptitude to music.
Talking of, the vivo Y19s is provided with stereo audio system – in noisy environments, you may push them to 300% quantity. A gimmick, certain, however a enjoyable one. One thing else that’s cool to see is the three.5mm headphone jack on the underside (subsequent to the USB-C 2.0 port).
The cellphone has a drop-resistant design and is rated for IP64 – dust-tight and with primary water resistance. As well as, the gadget is MIL-STD-810H compliant. The battery is equally sturdy and is rated to retain at the least 80% of its authentic capability after 1,460 cycles (that’s a day by day cost for 4 years straight).
The capability in query is 5,500mAh, which is quite a bit for a cellphone of this measurement. It must be sufficient for 8 hours of PUBG gaming or practically 20 hours of watching YouTube movies, at the least based mostly on the official numbers. The battery prices at simply 15W, so that you higher be affected person. Be aware that the retail bundle features a charger, apart from items bought within the Philippines and Thailand.
The cellphone isn’t actually constructed for gaming, as it’s powered by the Unisoc T612, a 12nm chipset with a pair of Cortex-A75 cores and 6 A55, all working at 1.8GHz, plus a Mali-G57 GPU. The chip is paired with 6GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of eMMC 5.1 storage. The excellent news is that the cardboard tray can maintain two nano-SIMs and a microSD. The cellphone launches with FuntouchOS 14 (Android 14). The T612 is a 4G chipset, so there’s no next-gen connectivity.
vivo Y19s in: Pearl Silver • Shiny Black • Glacier Blue
The vivo Y19s isn’t out there in any shops but, so there’s no phrase on the pricing (however we are able to’t think about that it’s an costly mannequin).
