Top 5 reasons why you should not buy the Vivo Nex

Vivo today launched the much anticipated Vivo Nex smartphone in India. The highlights of the smartphone include its pop-up selfie camera and the in-display fingerprint scanner. It is the latest flagship offering from the company but here are the top 5 reasons why you should avoid this one.

Pop-up camera

The Vivo Nex comes with an all-screen design up front and to achieve that the company had to hide the front-facing camera. As the selfie camera mechanically pops out, the durability and the longevity of the camera, as well as the whole mechanism, is questionable.

Earpiece

Just like the Xiaomi Mi Mix, the Vivo Nex also uses a small vibration motor which is hidden under the display and transmits the sound wave through the whole screen. Though the technology feels futuristic, it is not as good as a normal earpiece. So if you are someone who is always on calls and need a really good audio quality, you might wanna skip this one.

Biometrics Unlock

Unlike the Oppo Find X, the Vivo Nex does not require to pop out the camera everytime the user needs to unlock the phone. This is possible due to the in-display fingerprint scanner on the smartphone. An in-display fingerprint scanner is a futuristic approach but it is not as fast and reliable as a typical capacitive fingerprint scanner.

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Software

The Vivo Nex runs on Android 8.1 Oreo-based FuntouchOS 4 out of the box. The custom UI on the Nex does bring a ton of features like gesture controls. However, it also brings a lot of bloatware and slows down the device eventually. If you are a kind of a person who prefers stock Android, then this phone is not for you.

Price

Vivo Nex is currently priced at Rs. 44,990 and will be exclusively available via Amazon India starting July 21. The smartphone is not overpriced but considering the fact that this is the first Vivo smartphone to cross the Rs. 30,000 price mark. Also, at around Rs. 45,000, customers can get much better options.