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vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

When you say "cinematic", you may think of a particular tone, a fascinating light spot or a sense of sprint under a pan. However, how to shoot a cinematic image, do you have to have advanced equipment, professional team and a lot of manpower to complete? If this is really necessary, then for most people, to get a cinematic image is not an impossible task?

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

This is not the case. With today's technology, you don't really need a "long gun" to get a sense of cinema. This is not the case, the Vivo S15 Pro released on May 19 through a comprehensive upgrade of the image system, claiming to put the "cinematic portrait" in your pocket, we only need a Vivo S15 Pro, you can steadily pinch the "cinematic sense".

Recently, TechVision also got the Vivo S15 Pro, now let's see, will it become easy to shoot a movie quality picture?

Image: every shot has a sense of cinema

The S series of Vivo is recognized by young people precisely because of its excellent portrait photography technology. From ultra-clear night selfie to dual-color cloud level to photochromic, the S series of Vivo has been focusing on the niche track of portrait photography and even set up its own imaging R&D center in Japan. This time, Vivo even equipped the rear camera of Vivo S15 Pro with an industry exclusive 1/1.56-inch 50MP Sony custom IMX766V large base primary camera, as well as a 12MP ultra-wide macro camera and a 2MP black and white camera.

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The front camera remains superb with a 32 megapixel AF lens. Now let's see what surprising improvements the newly upgraded Vivo S15 Pro has in terms of image capture!

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-728; Aperture: f/16; Exposure time: 1/33s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-129; Aperture: f/16; Exposure time: 1/100s

Not surprisingly, we first look at the portrait samples of the Vivo S15 Pro, after all, the S series is a selfie debut. The performance is naturally very eye-catching since it is a traditional strength. The self-portrait of the lady is very good at handling details such as skin whether it is in sufficient light or weak indoor, and the color is balanced and the portrait looks more natural.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-1003; Aperture: f/2; Exposure time: 1/50s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-820; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/33s

What is surprising is that the rear portrait performance is also very distinctive, largely due to the IMX766V, the main camera with a large base, the image is clear and high resolution, and with the diverse portrait algorithm, it really produces an unparalleled chemistry. The little sister will no longer have to worry about only taking selfies to show your beauty, and her boyfriend who can't take pictures can easily take satisfying portrait photos.

After talking about portraits, let's take a closer look at the rear camera group of the Vivo S15 Pro. First of all, the main camera uses Sony's custom IMX766V sensor, which was first seen on the Vivo X70 series. In other words, the image upgrade of the Vivo S15 Pro is by no means a mere improvement in portrait selfies, but a comprehensive power-up of the entire image system.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

This Sony custom IMX766V sensor is said to have ceiling-level light sensitivity, its size is 1/1.56 inches, with 50 megapixels, single pixel size of 1μm, custom filter to improve the light intake 104.6%, full pixel focus makes every pixel point become the focus. Simply put, when Vivo S15 Pro adopts this sensor is not only big bottom and big pixel, the light capturing ability goes one layer further, no matter in day or night, it can easily capture any wonderful moment.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/504s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2.2; Exposure time: 1/482s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/400s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/143s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-183; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/100s

Thanks to the IMX766V large base sensor with a custom sensor filter, it is able to be thinner and more translucent, ensuring accurate reproduction of natural colors while also straightening out 50 megapixels of ultra-clear picture quality. Therefore, we see the above samples, in the daytime light environment shooting images have a good performance, excellent image quality, good detail retention, color reproduction is also high, no obvious color bias phenomenon, the overall look very natural.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-853; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/20s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-902; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/14s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-1998; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/33s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-1066; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/33s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-2028; Aperture: f/1.9; Exposure time: 1/50s

Also thanks to this IMX766V sensor, the vivo S15 Pro is able to handle night scenes or indoors where the lighting environment is more complicated. We can see that in night scenes, the brightness of the image is effectively improved, but there is no excessive unrealistic night scenes, while the highlights are still well suppressed and no overexposure occurs. The overall purity of the night scene image is very high, including in the indoor light complex environment, vivo S15 Pro also handles the overall light very well.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2.2; Exposure time: 1/382s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2.2; Exposure time: 1/458s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2.2; Exposure time: 1/565s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-100; Aperture: f/2.2; Exposure time: 1/371s

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Sensitivity: ISO-980; Aperture: f/2.2; Exposure time: 1/50s

The wide angle end of the shot, vivo S15 Pro also has a good performance. The color performance is still strong, restoring the color effect close to reality, and the ultra-wide angle vision brings more shocking sensory experience, which can meet our needs for large scene shooting. It should be noted that this ultra wide-angle lens is also capable of macro shooting, which is very effective.

Compared to its predecessor, the biggest change in the Vivo S15 Pro this time can be said to be that the gameplay has become much more. For example, the panning style in the portrait function, this type of effect usually requires a shutter setting on the camera, and then follow the subject to a certain magnitude of panning, and continuous shooting to obtain, and the success rate is unlikely to be 100%.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

pan-take

But now it's very easy on the Vivo S15 Pro, with the reverse use of optical stabilization to achieve a panning effect where the person being photographed is clear and the background shows a blasted bokeh. Shooting sports figures works especially well and is 100 percent successful. This professional operation that can be done by pressing the shutter is simply not too good.

The vivo S15 Pro image enhancements are not only in photography, there are also many changes in video recording. In addition to supporting the 4K shooting that everyone has, its video recording interface also includes film widescreen framing. Shooting in this mode, the black bar at the bottom of the screen seems to bring the film into the film movie for the film, bringing its own old movie flavor.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Movie Widescreen Frame Video

If you want to go more retro, you can use its color portrait function to change the background of the image to black and white, while keeping the colors of the subject, highlighting the main character and setting the mood of the entire film. In addition, we don't have to worry about handheld Vivo S15 Pro being unstable because it comes with an innovative optical stabilization feature - Hummingbird Super Anti-shake, which integrates active back-to-center OIS optical stabilization and EIS electronic stabilization. In one second, Hummingbird Super Anti-Shake can perform 500 calculations and up to 30,000 movements. We don't have to worry about the problem of shaky shooting in handheld situations, and a higher film success rate will produce more pleasing works.

Appearance: high value and higher recognition

In this era of face, the phone that does not fight face value will never be a good phone, and Vivo has always been known for its high value, and the S selfie series is always able to capture the attention of people on the street. The same is true for the Vivo S15 Pro, which has two colors: summer and black. First of all, I love the summer color scheme, but the black color scheme looks like traditional black, but the black is not ink black, but with a little bit of pine smoke ink shine, which is more attractive than the ordinary black body.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

The Vivo S15 Pro we got this time is the summer color, the machine as its name, this color scheme uses the new fluorite AG process and water ripple design, in different light and shadow change to different colors. If you have been to the beach, you will know that it is as if the summer beach side of the constantly changing color waves to our face, full of summer flavor.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

The front and back of the dual-curved body, 60 ° micro-curved to bring a more rounded and smooth grip, the addition of narrow bezels make the entire screen to 92.7%, the visual immersion is needless to say, in addition to the top of the screen centered single punch hole design is also very small impact on the visual.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

The screen size of vivo S15 Pro is 6.56 inches, the resolution is 2376*1080, the screen adopts the latest Samsung E5 light-emitting material, the highest local brightness peaks to 1500nits, supports DCI-P3 wide color gamut, 8000000:1 contrast ratio and HDR10+ display, and through the SGS low blue light eye protection certification, while the screen refresh rate The screen refresh rate reaches 120Hz and the touch sampling rate reaches 300Hz. From the screen configuration Vivo S15 Pro has already shown the posture of a flagship level phone.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

In the design of the rear camera module, which especially reflects the face of the phone, Vivo S15 Pro adopts a double mirror cloud window design, without the sense of clutter, looks very fresh and simple, and the recognition is also very high. In addition, the anti-shake button of Vivo S15 Pro can directly reduce the looseness feeling brought by pressing and greatly improve the stability of the button. This small detail makes users feel very thoughtful and enhances the feeling of use.

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As for accessories, the box of Vivo S15 Pro still maintains the classic style of Vivo's outer packaging. The entire box contains an 80W flash charger, power cable, card pin, warranty card and transparent case, which is now the basic standard for Vivo products.

Performance: dual-core excellent game outstanding

As we all know, Vivo S series form design and image capability are the best in the industry, but no one would expect that this time, Vivo S15 series will suddenly make an impact in terms of performance, especially Vivo S15 Pro, equipped with the Tiangui 8100 chip and independent display chip Pro, which has immediately raised the performance level of Vivo S series.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

The empty mouth is not evidence, we directly look at the Vivo S15 Pro score results. In the AnTuTu runtime test, vivo S15 Pro ran 817339 points, LuGuru ran 928396 points.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Then look at the flash memory test results, AnTuTu test results: continuous read speed of 1929.3MB/s, continuous write speed of 1798.4MB/s, random read and write speed can also reach 364.0MB/s read speed and 386.8MB/s write speed. AndroBench can achieve a sequential read speed of 1932.06MB/s, a sequential write speed of 1800.25MB/s, and a random read/write speed of 371.79MB/s and a write speed of 489.48MB/s.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

In the 3D Mark test environment, the Vivo S15 Pro scored a total of 5956 in the Wild Life test with an average frame rate of 35.70. During the test run, the power dropped by 1%, the temperature rose by only 2°C, and the frame rate ranged from 22fps to 43fps.

It is said that the Vivo S15 Pro is not a game phone in terms of gaming performance. In addition to the flagship chip Tiangui 8100, which is the "master of frame taming", it also has a unique display chip Pro, which must be clear to those who are familiar with Vivo, this unique display chip Pro has never been in the previous S series.

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So just how hardcore is it? Let's test it out in real life. The usual rules, starting with "Glory of Kings", the image quality and frame rate to the highest. The frame rate is stable throughout the game, basically maintaining around 120fps, while the screen is smooth, no lagging phenomenon, smoothly helping me to take the MVP of this game the best in the field. Of course, the temperature change is not very big, from the beginning of 37 ℃ to the end of 39 ℃, basically no obvious heat feeling, which is a very good performance in the room temperature has been about 25 ℃ environment.

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Next up was Elite Peace, still with the highest quality and frame rate settings. The game has no lag or lagging feeling, while the frame rate is always stable between 59-60fps. The addition of X-axis linear motor and stereo dual speakers makes people more sensitive when fighting, the opponent can hardly get close, and the success rate of shooting is higher.

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Faced with the extremely fine and effective graphics "Original God", I wonder how the Vivo S15 Pro will perform. We also pulled the picture quality and special effects to full, the game effect did not disappoint, not only to maintain the highest native frame rate of 60fps stable, the special effects in the hitting screen did not explode, the overall picture quality is clear and delicate, the experience is full of points.

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In addition, although the maximum frame rate of "Original God" is 60fps, it is not impossible to run at 90fps if you want. As we said earlier, Vivo S15 Pro is equipped with a unique graphics chip Pro, and with this chip you can achieve real-time game frame insertion, which not only makes the game smoother, but also effectively reduces the power consumption load of the processor. One of the most obvious comparisons is that we play "Original God" for half an hour after frame insertion than the same time before frame insertion, 90fps is significantly more power saving and slower warming speed.

In addition, the Vivo S15 Pro is equipped with a gaming-grade bionic cooling system comparable to gaming phones, with its 3002mm2 VC average thermal plate area and 44389mm2 total thermal area, allowing us to battle in various games without any significant heat generation.

Continuity: long-lasting with electricity Double battery core flash charging speedy battle

Battery life has always been the advantage of Android phones, and this time the Vivo S15 Pro is equipped with a large battery of 4500mAh and supports 80W dual-cell ultra-fast flash charging. In terms of battery life, we simulated the state of daily use, about 6 hours of heavy use of the phone, including 2 hours of large games, 1 hour of 4K film loop, 1 hour of video + photo shooting, 30 minutes of social media, 30 minutes of shopping site browsing and 1 hour of communication software text chat and other scenarios, the final remaining power is about 40%, which is believed to meet the average user about two days of I believe it can satisfy the average user for about two days.

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Even if you are a heavy cell phone dependent person, you don't have to worry, because even if the Vivo S15 Pro is used until there is little power left, we just need to use the 80W super fast charging to "renew" its life. It took about 34 minutes to charge the S15 Pro and it was fully charged and ready to go.

System: The more you use OriginOS Ocean, the better it gets

The OriginOS Ocean system released at the end of last year must be very familiar to you, and now it's even smoother with the Vivo S15 Pro. Now OriginOS Ocean not only looks good but also works better.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

It is worth mentioning that there is now a new icon toggle button for both minimalist and exquisite styles in the morpher, as well as an icon size control button. If you like the minimalist style, the kind that is so simple that even the app text can be omitted, then you can achieve it by setting the icon to the maximum in the morpher. Also in the morpher interface, slide to the left, we can see a system style adjustment point and a half, you can adjust the system color and UI style according to your own preferences.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

In addition, we can add atomic components to simplify the steps of using multiple apps and maximize the use of the desktop, allowing us to access the services and information we need with a single click. It's easy to use, just tap on the desktop and the system will pop up "Add" at the bottom of the screen, then you just need to select the component you want and drag it to the desktop.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Also received many people like the behavior wallpaper is very interesting to use. Through the series of wallpapers can be dynamic presentation of our exercise steps in the wallpaper, we take every step can be seen.

In this era of big data, the disclosure of personal information is unpreventable, so people are paying more and more attention to their privacy issues. For this reason, OriginOS Ocean brings a complete set of atomic privacy system, for example, there are features such as traceless browsing on cell phones, data isolation, and background protection, so that we can ensure that our local data will not be maliciously stolen, and at the same time, we can surf the Internet without worrying about the security of network information.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

Especially when we have some information that we do not want to share with anyone, we can also store it in the atomic privacy system, which must be opened by a password live fingerprint verification and other links.

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder

In addition, such as global window, split screen and other free switching can let us even in multiple tasks at the same time can also be handy. Atomic Notes, Atomic Reader and other features are beautiful and useful, and with the Quantum Suite, which supports mobile and computer co-editing and cross-device dragging and editing of files and photos, it is simply too convenient for mobile office workers.

Summary: Not the original S, but more than one step better

After reviewing the Vivo S15 Pro, I deeply feel that the Vivo S series is no longer the phone that once simply wanted to do a good selfie portrait, it clearly has a greater ambition and a more comprehensive strength to match. Whether its front and rear camera all-round upgrade, or in the performance of the dual-core injection of great energy, let people see vivo S15 Pro began to high-end flagship phone direction across, this is, perhaps, in the technical reserves have been well spurts of the inevitable result of the case. Good thing, this is definitely good for consumers, the price from 3699 yuan, you can have a full-featured flagship phone, who will not like it?

vivo S15 Pro review: more than a pocket movie master, more of an all-rounder