Vivo X Fold 3 Professional First Impressions: The Good Foldable?

Vivo has certainly come a great distance within the Indian market. What began off with the Vivo X1 in 2012 has now lastly moved previous the premium section into the ultra-premium section with the launch of its first foldable gadget, the X Fold 3 Professional. The latter, being the corporate’s newest providing, packs in just about what one would count on from a foldable that is meant to compete with the OnePlus Open and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 (and shortly Galaxy Z Fold 6). Similar to its BBK sibling, OnePlus, Vivo has skipped launching a smaller clamshell foldable and straight gone with a book-style foldable as an alternative. Has Vivo executed something in a different way? Let’s discover out.

The Vivo X Fold 3 Professional is priced at Rs. 1,59,999 in India, which makes it the model’s most premium providing ever after its Vivo X100 Professional (a daily bar-shaped smartphone), which was launched earlier this yr. With a price ticket this excessive, consumers will definitely count on nothing however the perfect.

The Vivo X Fold 3 Professional has a two-stage alert slider that may change between the gadget’s two (silent/ringing) sound profiles

 

The telephone seems not too thick when folded however tremendous slim when open. That is primarily right down to the brand new hinge which helps the show with a minimal crease and lets each halves lay flat in opposition to one another. The telephone measures simply 5.2mm when unfolded, which is mainly as skinny as its USB-C port on the backside. When folded, this doubles as much as 11.2mm, which, regardless of showing a bit chunky, doesn’t really feel too uncomfortable to carry. That is primarily right down to its weight, which feels nearly like a daily premium flagship at 236 grams. For reference, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 weighs 253 grams (which is a bit over 1 / 4 of a kilo), whereas Apple’s iPhone 15 Professional Max (a daily bar-shaped smartphone) weighs 221 grams.

The Vivo X Fold 3 Professional has three rear-facing cameras, out of which two function optical picture stabilisation or OIS

 

Whereas not as distinctive because the camera-focussed OnePlus Open (with its fake leather-based rear panel), it is nonetheless not as primary as Samsung’s Galaxy Fold 5. You have got a curved edge cowl show which bends little or no over the proper fringe of the telephone, and the identical goes for the rear panel (which is made from a plastic fibre) and bends over its left edge. When opened, the larger-than-usual foldable, with its huge 8.03-inch folding AMOLED panel, regardless of its dimension, feels snug to carry. Like many different options of this foldable, it too get’s the “largest on the block” bragging rights. The interior show has a 4:3.55 facet ratio, which makes it higher than the OnePlus Open’s almost sq. type issue, which, as identified in my [review], was not good for media consumption.

The Vivo X Fold 3 Professional’s entrance and rear panels have curved edges on their proper and left sides

 

The marginally rectangular interior folding show does make the 6.53-inch AMOLED cowl show a bit narrower (21.1:9 facet ratio) than the OnePlus’, but it surely’s not as slender because the Galaxy Z Fold 5’s remote-control-like (23.1:9) panel which felt a bit squished whereas typing. The foldable additionally has two fingerprint readers for comfort. There’s one embedded into the quilt show, whereas the second sensor is offered upon unfolding the primary show within the backside space of the proper half of the panel.

The telephone’s design additionally focuses on sturdiness. Vivo affords an IPX8 water resistance ranking, which is identical as that of Samsung’s telephone.

For its core {hardware}, Vivo has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. There’s 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The telephone additionally has area for 2 nano SIM playing cards. There is a huge 5,700mAh battery which is the most important we’ve got seen on any foldable thus far in India. And it prices up utilizing a 120W charger at 100W. Vivo’s additionally thrown within the kitchen sink and affords 50W wi-fi charging as properly, which occurs by way of its particular charging dock (offered individually).

The Vivo X Fold 3 Professional’s cowl show has a really skinny bezel

 

Vivo was by no means shy about digital camera efficiency with its premium units, with each new era trying to outdo the opposite in our opinions of its X collection smartphones. Its first foldable in India additionally will get the Zeiss branding together with its T-star coated lenses. There is a 50-megapixel major digital camera with OIS accompanied by a 50-megapixel ultrawide digital camera and a 3X 64-megapixel telephoto digital camera (OIS) as properly. Selfies are dealt with by two 32-megapixel fastened focus cameras, one situated within the cowl show and the second in the primary show. As with each Zeiss-branded gadget from Vivo, this one additionally comes with quite a few Zeiss lenses and kinds within the numerous digital camera modes.

Vivo has executed issues a bit in a different way from OnePlus in relation to software program. Aside from providing the newest Android 14-based Funtouch OS 14 out of the field, there are additionally a number of new generative AI integrations within the notes and recording apps, together with language translation. Vivo has additionally used AI for the telephone’s folding skills to make them smarter.

The Vivo X Fold 3 Professional’s foremost folding show is the biggest one we’ve got seen on a foldable thus far at 8.03 inches

 

Certainly, Vivo has a strong contender for Samsung within the foldables area this yr, packing in a number of segment-leading {hardware} options. Whereas Samsung has already taken a success on a world degree because of Huawei’s reemergence, there’s so much banking on this yr’s new foldables from Samsung, which can be anticipated to reach in a brand new ‘Extremely‘ flavour as properly. For now, Vivo clearly appears to have sufficient in relation to bragging rights, given its {hardware} specs. However we must put the telephone via its paces to see the way it all comes collectively when used as a every day driver and is subjected to the wear and tear and tear of every day utilization. So, keep tuned to our detailed overview of the Vivo X Fold 3 Professional, which might be out quickly.

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