The X80 Pro and X80: A Camera-Centric Smartphone Experience

As I got to experience the X80 Pro, it was clear that this smartphone is designed with photography enthusiasts in mind. The device boasts an impressive camera system that rivals some of the best point-and-shoot cameras on the market. With the rear-facing camera, I noticed a significant difference in image quality compared to other smartphones. The Zeiss optics and lens design work in tandem to provide exceptional results, even in challenging lighting conditions.

In portrait mode, the X80 Pro shines with its advanced features, such as the Zeiss Mode, which offers unparalleled control over photography settings. This mode provides a unique perspective on capturing portraits, with stunning results that are sure to impress. When I switched back to regular photo mode, I was pleased to find that the night mode and other features were equally impressive. The natural colors option allows users to switch between two distinct color palettes, providing more flexibility in post-processing. This level of control is a welcome feature for photographers who demand the best from their smartphone.

The X80 Pro's camera capabilities extend beyond still photography into video recording as well. In this mode, I was delighted to discover features like 4K resolution at up to 60fps, making it an excellent choice for capturing smooth footage. The inclusion of Movie LUTs (Look-Up Tables) is a nice touch for advanced users, offering additional creative control over the final product. The Zeiss Cinematic Mode, which I was excited to test, delivered exceptional video quality, with the footage looking incredibly lifelike and well-balanced.

Some sample shots taken with the X80 Pro were particularly noteworthy. When shot indoors at regular 1x zoom, the image quality was outstanding. Switching to 2x or 5x zoom also produced excellent results, even at high magnification levels. The device's ability to capture high-quality images in a variety of lighting conditions is a testament to its capabilities. For example, shots taken during a hot air balloon ride came out stunningly good, with the Zeiss Portrait Mode producing impressive results.

The X80 Pro also shines when it comes to low-light photography. Shots taken at night, without any additional lighting, were surprisingly well-exposed and detailed. Even in very dark environments, such as my friend's house at 4am, the camera managed to produce high-quality images without any effort required on my part.

The front-facing camera, while not as widely used by photographers, still delivers impressive results. The Portrait Mode, even when shooting with the front-facing camera, produces stunning selfies that are sure to boost confidence. I was also impressed by the video quality captured at low light conditions, making it an excellent choice for capturing moments in dimly lit environments.

In conclusion, the X80 Pro and X80 are undoubtedly camera-centric smartphones that set a new standard for mobile photography. With their exceptional camera capabilities, advanced features, and high-quality image processing, these devices are sure to appeal to photographers of all levels. Whether you're an enthusiast or just looking for a reliable smartphone, the X80 Pro is definitely worth considering. As someone who has had the pleasure of using both the S22 Plus and the X80 Pro, I can attest that this smartphone delivers superior results in difficult lighting conditions.

What do you think about the X80 Pro and X80? Share your thoughts and experiences with these camera-centric smartphones in the comment section below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranjit and in this video we'll be having a look at the vivo x80 pro and the x80 in fact i have already opened the x80 pro because luckily i got this unit earlier because i went to dubai before that i got this so i could check it out take a lot of samples uh the regular x80 i just got yesterday evening so we'll do the unboxing but i'll share a lot more info and what is the camera samples with this one because i've used it and i've made a lot of pointers and definitely i would say uh both these phones the x80 pro and the x80 are camera centric smartphone with size optics so let's have a look at that and by the way guys both of them are reviewnuts so uh i don't know the exact pricing they have marked it out but considering uh the specs and what hardware it has the pricing will be sort of a flagship i'm assuming of course the pro will be a slightly higher and the x80 will be slightly lower uh moving to the processor the x80 is actually having the latest diamond city 900 soc this is the first time we are seeing the diamond city 9000 which is the flagship new flagship from uh what do you say mediatek and this one so this one is having that and this one is something the snapdragon 8gen1 but this also has one more extra chip and i think so some of the images that i'll show you and even videos came out really good they have an additional chip which is known as the vivo v1 plus chip that is used for imaging and ei separately so it actually has having this two chips so let's have a look at this i won't uh i'll show you this one later but let's unbox this vivo x80 and again both of them are 5g smartphones guys you don't have to worry and has a lot of 5g bands that are supported both of them let's open this up and of course this will also come in another color but this is the new color i would say it's a more lash on the green and a slight tint of blue mix of both and this one was also having a curved screen and uh this is nothing the six point seven eight inch screen and uh again so it looks like even on this one we are getting a lot of accessories so let's take out for a change we're getting a lot of stuff that generally we don't get okay extra ear tips so okay so you're getting uh uh type c uh yeah type c to a type c uh to a headphone i'm glad they are including we hardly find any accessories in the box generally with other smartphone vendors so nice at least vivo is giving us all we want and this is a massive 80 watt fast charging brick both of them the pro and the regular get that so that's what we have in the box at least for this one i'll just keep it to the side and it's similar for the x pro so at least you get a lot of accessories and this also actually feels nice to hold guys uh the big difference is uh this one the regular x80 is also having zeiss optics in fact uh when i went to the people from zeiss were there it's just uh what do you say sticker on this in fact these lenses were made in collaboration and zayas also had a lot of effort of course these are zeiss optics with the tea coating but also uh in the rear facing camera which is the highlight i would say in fact uh some of the modes were developed with xys and they have that special in fact i'll show you some camera samples to give you an idea uh so yeah this one is having a triple camera setup whereas the uh pro is actually having a quad camera setup with a 5x periscope lenses and front facing on both is actually 32 megapixel that you are getting and uh let me do one thing uh and again both are sort of flagship kind of devices uh you could say so let me know one thing let me actually quickly just set this up and then we'll have a look at this one in fact uh this was the x80 pro i've made a lot of notes uh so we'll have a look at this one and certainly for the camera on this one i'll show you uh some camera samples and even video uh this time i think so uh they also concentrated quite a bit on the video so we look at those samples and see what's uh it all about so guys i have even set up the regular x80 yeah here it is but i won't go too much over this because i have just set this up but here are all the specs for the x80 now it will be very interesting to see how vivo prices these smartphones as i've told as of now i don't know but i'll add the pricing details where i know in the description uh so uh let me just keep this x 80 to the side and let's have a look at this one because i have a little bit more experience with this one used it for a couple of days and again this is the true flagship vivo has put whatever uh the cutting edge hardware they have in this one in fact one thing that was very surprising on this smartphone is that if you notice the fingerprint scanner is ultrasonic fingerprints kind of very very responsive whereas the regular x80 is actually having a regular finger in display fingerprint scanner though it's accurate but what i've noticed with this one is that i have to say we have seen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners even on samsung flagships but here it's implemented very very well in fact to register it it is it it is so easy you have to just press it once and it resistor fingerprint i thought it was broken for example let me actually show you uh to give you an idea as you can see my uh right hand is registered with the fingerprint but if i use my left thumb it's obviously not register so it will not open let's register it and i'll show you how quick it is these are some of the small things that i've noticed on this one again it's a typical flagship comes with android 12 a fun touch that you are having but if i go to fingerprint finger print add fingerprint let's add it i'll just add my pin so it allows me and we'll add one more fingerprint add fingerprint and it says to register just notice guys so i'll say start inputting and you know you have to press multiple times but on this one i just stick my thumb and i press it hard once that's it done it's registered your fingerprint so let's try it now with this one so i was like why is it not asking me to actually uh put it multiple times it's a very accurate and fast ultrasonic fingerprint scanner in fact there is also a secure board in this one where you can have an area where you can use two of your fingers uh for unlocking so again they have gone crazy with the fingerprint scanner again another thing that i've noticed is this one this one has a regular again both of them having amoled screen 120 hertz not to worry about that but this one is a full hd plus whereas uh it's a proper 2k uh screen on this one this one is actually an e5 amoled and vivo says that this is about 25 percent more power efficient and this is also ltpo screen that means it can go down from one hertz to 120 hertz that's why uh even though i was just using it it does not consume and i put it in 2k guys not in the full hd you can go down to full hd but i'm using it currently with 2k and it's handling so in terms of screen quality they have put a good screen again both of them are having that slightly curved uh screen again i know it's a personal person some people like it or not but both of them are actually having a curved screen on this one and it's a big phone it's a 6.78 screen and here are all the specs for the x80 pro and fact if you notice it has almost every flagship specs in fact regarding charging it has a regular 80 watt fast charging i'm calling 80 watts regular this is what's wrong with me uh 80 watt fast charging uh and also wireless charging uh is supported up to 50 watts but you have to use a proprietary uh what is a 50 that special charge of 450 watt charging but it also does support backward compatible with regular uh wireless qi charging also has stereo speakers and all these things one thing again this is having a fun touch os comes out of the box with android 12 so that's not a problem but one thing i'm not liking is that though this is a flat ship again if you notice these are all the bloatways that are pre-installed on this phone so at least uh vivo should have removed that considering this is a flagship it's very smooth again this is having a snapdragon 8gen1 so performance is not an issue again uh it's uh what do you say uh lpddr5 ram 12 gigabytes of ram so performance was not an issue on this phone and i like left again a test we're going the google panel they have cleaned all that up but bloatware at this price point i don't know i'm going to increase the volume this is the max so as you can see good stereo speakers and also you have quite a bit of stereo separation on this one so that way they have done it well also now let's move to the camera because that is what i think is the big highlight of this smartphone and again if you notice at the back we have actually quad camera setup the main camera is a 50 megapixel uh this has ois and this is having a f-stop of 1.57 which is the main camera then we have a 48 megapixel that's ultra wide i'm really happy that they're going with a high megapixel con for ultra wide so we have that 48 megapixel f 2.0 and next this this camera that is there this is actually a 12 megapixel camera but this is having 2x portrait mode with the gimbal mode in earlier some of the vivo phones we had that gimbal mode so in the portrait mode with the 2x zoom they have the gimbal mode and lastly this one is the 5x periscope camera let me first show you the camera interface and here yes the what do you say optics are done by zayas but it's not just uh zayas integration is left to that even some of the software modes were exclusively uh developed in collaboration with scius so let me just show you this is a regular mode as you can see rear facing camera so you can go between ultrawide 1x 2x and 5x and this is all optical and of course you can go digital guys if you really want you can do that but this is all optical zoom that you're getting and you can easily move it uh one thing i completely forgot to mention the haptic motor is actually really really good on this one this is supposed to have x-axis uh haptic motor which is supposed to be a lot better than z-axis motor so haptic motor is very very good uh let me actually go to portrait mode uh portrait mode we have in video default will go to 2x but you can go to 1x and even 5x and here if you go to styles as you can see these are actually co-branded via zeiss and these actually have had a lot of effects on this one this zeiss cinematic is just amazing for example here are some of the samples that i have taken with this one and as you can see the pictures look incredible on this one uh so again the zeiss options in the portrait mode do make quite a bit of a difference and as you can see with the rear facing camera in the portrait mode you have a lot of mode it's exclusive to uh this one with the zeiss mode and if i go back uh let's go to the regular photo mode this is the night mode and all these things if you go in the photo mode also here we have the zeiss natural colors you can switch on to that because generally what happens is many of the smartphones they try to over saturate the colors uh let's say if you just want it for instagram you might like it but let's say you want it for your memories or something you don't want exaggerated colors or something you have that option so if you click of a button you can switch between the natural size colors and that boosted colors of course it has all the other options that you want what they have done is they have given a lot of control over the photography but i like the fact that it's not just photography but even in the video mode if you go this was interesting i didn't expect that because generally we know yeah 4k and all those things yes it has 4k and all this thing but if i go over here as you can see that's 4k 30 and even you can go to 4k 60 fps and even 8k don't shoot in 8k i feel is always a gimmick but yeah you have it if you want it oh but i like if you go to styles here also we have this zeiss cinematic mode and the video that you shoot actually comes out very very good on this one in fact we also have movie luts on this one uh if you are advanced user you know what is that so i like that not only in regular camera but even the video mode they have given us a lot of options and they have worked with zayas to give you uh those things so that is something that i like and of course you have the pro mode and all the other modes on this one but let me actually show you the some of the samples that i have taken with this smartphone some random shots are taken indoors now this was taken at regular 1x zoom this was that 2x zoom and this was that 5x zoom as it's optical even at 5x it's very good quality this was actually taken in the desired cinematic mode and the pictures come out incredible uh this was taken in regular mode and this was that ultra white notice that even ultra white there is no color distortion or anything this was when we went on the hot air balloon 1x this is that 2x and this is finally that 5x and again the pictures come out really good uh here is my friends ershad again in that zeiss portrait mode and they come out good now these were taken at night as you can see and i was impressed with the shots considering these were completely taken at night again this is that zeiss portrait mode uh now this was taken when we were on the board this is one x and this was a 2x zoom and again these are some more samples taken in completely at night and if you notice these were taken in my house again and that night and at night also i was surprised that i could get some very good shots with this one without any effort this was also taken very very low lighting and it came out very good now uh some samples with the front facing camera and this was in the portrait mode with the front-facing camera even the front-facing camera performance is very good shot some videos at four o'clock am no light was there no sunlight and if you notice still the video quality actually came out very good i was surprised considering how low the light was uh this i just shot when it was just uh moving around in the balloon and again the video quality also is pretty good so guys this is the x80 pro and the x80 certainly i would say these are camera centric smartphones in fact uh i would say the rear facing camera actually impressed me on this one even at night generally when some i took some photographs generally you get that camera flares uh that light when light is there you get the flare but that was reduced and i spoke to some zeiss officials and they said that they've really worked to do that so again yes the optics and the combination of the hardware is making a difference in fact i actually had the s22 plus with me in fact i would say in some of the difficult lighting and low lighting situation uh this one did perform better uh so camera is the highlight of this x80 pro but anyways what do you feel about the x80 pro and the x80 do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi guys this is ranjit and in this video we'll be having a look at the vivo x80 pro and the x80 in fact i have already opened the x80 pro because luckily i got this unit earlier because i went to dubai before that i got this so i could check it out take a lot of samples uh the regular x80 i just got yesterday evening so we'll do the unboxing but i'll share a lot more info and what is the camera samples with this one because i've used it and i've made a lot of pointers and definitely i would say uh both these phones the x80 pro and the x80 are camera centric smartphone with size optics so let's have a look at that and by the way guys both of them are reviewnuts so uh i don't know the exact pricing they have marked it out but considering uh the specs and what hardware it has the pricing will be sort of a flagship i'm assuming of course the pro will be a slightly higher and the x80 will be slightly lower uh moving to the processor the x80 is actually having the latest diamond city 900 soc this is the first time we are seeing the diamond city 9000 which is the flagship new flagship from uh what do you say mediatek and this one so this one is having that and this one is something the snapdragon 8gen1 but this also has one more extra chip and i think so some of the images that i'll show you and even videos came out really good they have an additional chip which is known as the vivo v1 plus chip that is used for imaging and ei separately so it actually has having this two chips so let's have a look at this i won't uh i'll show you this one later but let's unbox this vivo x80 and again both of them are 5g smartphones guys you don't have to worry and has a lot of 5g bands that are supported both of them let's open this up and of course this will also come in another color but this is the new color i would say it's a more lash on the green and a slight tint of blue mix of both and this one was also having a curved screen and uh this is nothing the six point seven eight inch screen and uh again so it looks like even on this one we are getting a lot of accessories so let's take out for a change we're getting a lot of stuff that generally we don't get okay extra ear tips so okay so you're getting uh uh type c uh yeah type c to a type c uh to a headphone i'm glad they are including we hardly find any accessories in the box generally with other smartphone vendors so nice at least vivo is giving us all we want and this is a massive 80 watt fast charging brick both of them the pro and the regular get that so that's what we have in the box at least for this one i'll just keep it to the side and it's similar for the x pro so at least you get a lot of accessories and this also actually feels nice to hold guys uh the big difference is uh this one the regular x80 is also having zeiss optics in fact uh when i went to the people from zeiss were there it's just uh what do you say sticker on this in fact these lenses were made in collaboration and zayas also had a lot of effort of course these are zeiss optics with the tea coating but also uh in the rear facing camera which is the highlight i would say in fact uh some of the modes were developed with xys and they have that special in fact i'll show you some camera samples to give you an idea uh so yeah this one is having a triple camera setup whereas the uh pro is actually having a quad camera setup with a 5x periscope lenses and front facing on both is actually 32 megapixel that you are getting and uh let me do one thing uh and again both are sort of flagship kind of devices uh you could say so let me know one thing let me actually quickly just set this up and then we'll have a look at this one in fact uh this was the x80 pro i've made a lot of notes uh so we'll have a look at this one and certainly for the camera on this one i'll show you uh some camera samples and even video uh this time i think so uh they also concentrated quite a bit on the video so we look at those samples and see what's uh it all about so guys i have even set up the regular x80 yeah here it is but i won't go too much over this because i have just set this up but here are all the specs for the x80 now it will be very interesting to see how vivo prices these smartphones as i've told as of now i don't know but i'll add the pricing details where i know in the description uh so uh let me just keep this x 80 to the side and let's have a look at this one because i have a little bit more experience with this one used it for a couple of days and again this is the true flagship vivo has put whatever uh the cutting edge hardware they have in this one in fact one thing that was very surprising on this smartphone is that if you notice the fingerprint scanner is ultrasonic fingerprints kind of very very responsive whereas the regular x80 is actually having a regular finger in display fingerprint scanner though it's accurate but what i've noticed with this one is that i have to say we have seen ultrasonic fingerprint scanners even on samsung flagships but here it's implemented very very well in fact to register it it is it it is so easy you have to just press it once and it resistor fingerprint i thought it was broken for example let me actually show you uh to give you an idea as you can see my uh right hand is registered with the fingerprint but if i use my left thumb it's obviously not register so it will not open let's register it and i'll show you how quick it is these are some of the small things that i've noticed on this one again it's a typical flagship comes with android 12 a fun touch that you are having but if i go to fingerprint finger print add fingerprint let's add it i'll just add my pin so it allows me and we'll add one more fingerprint add fingerprint and it says to register just notice guys so i'll say start inputting and you know you have to press multiple times but on this one i just stick my thumb and i press it hard once that's it done it's registered your fingerprint so let's try it now with this one so i was like why is it not asking me to actually uh put it multiple times it's a very accurate and fast ultrasonic fingerprint scanner in fact there is also a secure board in this one where you can have an area where you can use two of your fingers uh for unlocking so again they have gone crazy with the fingerprint scanner again another thing that i've noticed is this one this one has a regular again both of them having amoled screen 120 hertz not to worry about that but this one is a full hd plus whereas uh it's a proper 2k uh screen on this one this one is actually an e5 amoled and vivo says that this is about 25 percent more power efficient and this is also ltpo screen that means it can go down from one hertz to 120 hertz that's why uh even though i was just using it it does not consume and i put it in 2k guys not in the full hd you can go down to full hd but i'm using it currently with 2k and it's handling so in terms of screen quality they have put a good screen again both of them are having that slightly curved uh screen again i know it's a personal person some people like it or not but both of them are actually having a curved screen on this one and it's a big phone it's a 6.78 screen and here are all the specs for the x80 pro and fact if you notice it has almost every flagship specs in fact regarding charging it has a regular 80 watt fast charging i'm calling 80 watts regular this is what's wrong with me uh 80 watt fast charging uh and also wireless charging uh is supported up to 50 watts but you have to use a proprietary uh what is a 50 that special charge of 450 watt charging but it also does support backward compatible with regular uh wireless qi charging also has stereo speakers and all these things one thing again this is having a fun touch os comes out of the box with android 12 so that's not a problem but one thing i'm not liking is that though this is a flat ship again if you notice these are all the bloatways that are pre-installed on this phone so at least uh vivo should have removed that considering this is a flagship it's very smooth again this is having a snapdragon 8gen1 so performance is not an issue again uh it's uh what do you say uh lpddr5 ram 12 gigabytes of ram so performance was not an issue on this phone and i like left again a test we're going the google panel they have cleaned all that up but bloatware at this price point i don't know i'm going to increase the volume this is the max so as you can see good stereo speakers and also you have quite a bit of stereo separation on this one so that way they have done it well also now let's move to the camera because that is what i think is the big highlight of this smartphone and again if you notice at the back we have actually quad camera setup the main camera is a 50 megapixel uh this has ois and this is having a f-stop of 1.57 which is the main camera then we have a 48 megapixel that's ultra wide i'm really happy that they're going with a high megapixel con for ultra wide so we have that 48 megapixel f 2.0 and next this this camera that is there this is actually a 12 megapixel camera but this is having 2x portrait mode with the gimbal mode in earlier some of the vivo phones we had that gimbal mode so in the portrait mode with the 2x zoom they have the gimbal mode and lastly this one is the 5x periscope camera let me first show you the camera interface and here yes the what do you say optics are done by zayas but it's not just uh zayas integration is left to that even some of the software modes were exclusively uh developed in collaboration with scius so let me just show you this is a regular mode as you can see rear facing camera so you can go between ultrawide 1x 2x and 5x and this is all optical and of course you can go digital guys if you really want you can do that but this is all optical zoom that you're getting and you can easily move it uh one thing i completely forgot to mention the haptic motor is actually really really good on this one this is supposed to have x-axis uh haptic motor which is supposed to be a lot better than z-axis motor so haptic motor is very very good uh let me actually go to portrait mode uh portrait mode we have in video default will go to 2x but you can go to 1x and even 5x and here if you go to styles as you can see these are actually co-branded via zeiss and these actually have had a lot of effects on this one this zeiss cinematic is just amazing for example here are some of the samples that i have taken with this one and as you can see the pictures look incredible on this one uh so again the zeiss options in the portrait mode do make quite a bit of a difference and as you can see with the rear facing camera in the portrait mode you have a lot of mode it's exclusive to uh this one with the zeiss mode and if i go back uh let's go to the regular photo mode this is the night mode and all these things if you go in the photo mode also here we have the zeiss natural colors you can switch on to that because generally what happens is many of the smartphones they try to over saturate the colors uh let's say if you just want it for instagram you might like it but let's say you want it for your memories or something you don't want exaggerated colors or something you have that option so if you click of a button you can switch between the natural size colors and that boosted colors of course it has all the other options that you want what they have done is they have given a lot of control over the photography but i like the fact that it's not just photography but even in the video mode if you go this was interesting i didn't expect that because generally we know yeah 4k and all those things yes it has 4k and all this thing but if i go over here as you can see that's 4k 30 and even you can go to 4k 60 fps and even 8k don't shoot in 8k i feel is always a gimmick but yeah you have it if you want it oh but i like if you go to styles here also we have this zeiss cinematic mode and the video that you shoot actually comes out very very good on this one in fact we also have movie luts on this one uh if you are advanced user you know what is that so i like that not only in regular camera but even the video mode they have given us a lot of options and they have worked with zayas to give you uh those things so that is something that i like and of course you have the pro mode and all the other modes on this one but let me actually show you the some of the samples that i have taken with this smartphone some random shots are taken indoors now this was taken at regular 1x zoom this was that 2x zoom and this was that 5x zoom as it's optical even at 5x it's very good quality this was actually taken in the desired cinematic mode and the pictures come out incredible uh this was taken in regular mode and this was that ultra white notice that even ultra white there is no color distortion or anything this was when we went on the hot air balloon 1x this is that 2x and this is finally that 5x and again the pictures come out really good uh here is my friends ershad again in that zeiss portrait mode and they come out good now these were taken at night as you can see and i was impressed with the shots considering these were completely taken at night again this is that zeiss portrait mode uh now this was taken when we were on the board this is one x and this was a 2x zoom and again these are some more samples taken in completely at night and if you notice these were taken in my house again and that night and at night also i was surprised that i could get some very good shots with this one without any effort this was also taken very very low lighting and it came out very good now uh some samples with the front facing camera and this was in the portrait mode with the front-facing camera even the front-facing camera performance is very good shot some videos at four o'clock am no light was there no sunlight and if you notice still the video quality actually came out very good i was surprised considering how low the light was uh this i just shot when it was just uh moving around in the balloon and again the video quality also is pretty good so guys this is the x80 pro and the x80 certainly i would say these are camera centric smartphones in fact uh i would say the rear facing camera actually impressed me on this one even at night generally when some i took some photographs generally you get that camera flares uh that light when light is there you get the flare but that was reduced and i spoke to some zeiss officials and they said that they've really worked to do that so again yes the optics and the combination of the hardware is making a difference in fact i actually had the s22 plus with me in fact i would say in some of the difficult lighting and low lighting situation uh this one did perform better uh so camera is the highlight of this x80 pro but anyways what do you feel about the x80 pro and the x80 do let me know in the comment section below anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"