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Vivo Y18 Review

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β As one of the most popular smartphone brands, Vivo has been known for providing devices which they offer with a variety of ranges in accordance to user needs. And yes, this phone is available on Vivo Y18, one of the most recent phones that have joined and was ready to compete at an affordable price in terms of specifications backed by good performance and good design. This blog post will provide an overview of the key aspects of Vivo Y18 including design, specifications, camera and battery life, user experience etc.

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Vivo Y18Β Design & Build

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β So far, Vivo has managed to enter all the smartphone market with every attractive and competitive device it brought. This trend continues with its mid-range offerings, the Vivo Y18, which has a good design and build quality. The themes for this Y18 design and build aspected blog post will cover the aesthetics and materials, look and feel of this device.

Vivo Y18 Build

Design

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β With a modern and stylish design, the Vivo Y18 is ready to stand out. Its gently curved corners and sleek edges make it easy to hold and use. The back panel usually has some gradient or texture, to make it more interesting. Inspired by the aesthetic style of young generation, the Y18 carries forward elegant design that is composed with retro and modern elements, further allows you to be stylized in daily lives.

Construction

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Passing to the consumer its budget-friendly tag, the Vivo Y18 still hosts an proper build quality. It has a very well built frame, and feels solid in hand. Although the plastic materials are slightly cheaper and less quality than in flagships, still they provide good protection against everyday stress. The Durability of the Y18 makes it resistant to normal Maps wrinkles and cracked.

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Vivo Y18Β Display

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β For a budget smartphone like the Vivo Y18, the screen comes as to a surprise given its asking price. The Vivo Y18 offers a rich visual experience that will be nothing short of satisfying to the average consumer, as well as users who appreciate multimedia.

Vivo Y18 Display

Screen Size and Resolution

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Y18 also features a large 6.56 inches display, giving users ample space for content viewing, gaming and browsing purposes as well Its HD+ resolution (720 x 1612) delivers clear and detailed images, so anything from the text to graphics will look really sharp.

Brightness and Color Reproduction

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The display of the Y18 is one of its features, boasting rich color reproduction. This screen offers an expansive color gamut and it shows in vibrant poppy images onscreen. The Y18 provides a great viewing experience – whether you are watching movies, playing games or skimming through your pictures.

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Nor is the Y18 short in features, offering backlight level adjustment automation while letting you take advantage of customizable brightness levels as per your viewing condition. Regulate the brightness so that you can use your phone indoors as well outdoors on a very sunny day to find the right setting for ideal view.

Aspect Ratio and Notch

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β With a 20:9 aspect ratio, the Y18 has moved toward the trendy visual design direction and offers wider images for easier overall viewing. The added widescreen view is especially good for watching videos and gaming, with room on screen to show more content.

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β For screen-to-body ratio, the Y18 is equipped with a water-drop notch at the top of the display. Though some people also find the notch to be annoying, it is a necessary evil since this is how you get larger screen without making a bigger phone.

Additional Display Features

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β On the display front, the Y18 is missing out on it from the flagship features and that also reflects in the screen density. These may include:

  • Eye Comfort Mode, which is self-explanatory and one of the better blue light filters since not only does it filter the blue light out, but it also calibrates the colors to a warmer tone so that looking at your screen all day doesn't hurt your eyes literally.
  • Dark Mode: this Dark mode invert colors which improve peformance of our eyes and help in reducing light rays.
  • Adaptive Brightness: Displays the brightness of the screen to match the ambient light.

Overall Display Performance

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Its Vivo Y18 gave good overall display performance in its range. The display, which you can tune to desired levels of brightness and color vibrancy is a huge asset for gaming but also framed well for daily use including streaming movies/TV shows, web browsing and emails.

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Vivo Y18Β Camera

Camera Setup

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β It gets dual camera setup on the rear, which includes primary sensor and a depth sensor. This setup provides for different photography modes and effects ultimately boosting the image quality and flexibility.

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Primary Sensor: The primary camera is a 50MP sensor and 8MP front which retains the main image features. It has an f/1.8 lens to convince light to get on in there, even when the lights are low.

Vivo Y18 Camera

Camera Features

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Vivo Y18 features multiple camera capabilities suited for various photography functions including:

  • Night Mode: The latter is Night mode (which joins low-light snaps to boost colour accuracy, reduce noise and increase sharpness).
  • AI Scene Detection: The camera automatically detects different scenes such as landscapes, portraits and even food to improve image quality with the aid of AI.
  • Portrait Mode: This allowed the camera to capture selfies you could set Portrait mode and blur out the background, replicating a DSLR-like effect using only one lens.
  • Panorama Mode: Stitch your pictures together to create a panoramic, wide angle view.
  • Time-Lapse Photography: Time Lapse Video Shoot a series of photos over time and place them into one video, with a D3100 it is very easy to make a great looking timelapse video.

Image Quality

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Vivo Y18 back camera sank with excellent image quality that outperformed an average phone at that price. The main sensor takes sharp and detailed images with decent color reproduction, more than justifying its one-year-old existence. The dynamic range is also okay and manages to maintain a somewhat balanced exposure under difficult light conditions.

Video Recording

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Vivo Y18 2024 can record video in1080p at 30fps. Video quality here is pretty standard with reasonably stabilized footage and decent color accuracy. It will probably not fit professionally filming movie, but it's more than enough for casual recording of your daily life and share with friends.

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Vivo Y18Β Chipset

Processor: The Helio G85 Chipset

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Beneath the hood, there is an octa-core MediaTek Helio G85 processor that includes two high-performing Arm Cortex-A75 cores operating up to 2.0GHz and six power-efficient little Arm Cortex-A55 cores. The two A75 cores have been broken down and clocked at 2.0GHz, regardless of the six power-saving A53 cores which run at a rate of 1.8GHz. Running on this configuration, the Helio G85 performs well so it can handle gaming, multitasking and video playback.

Performance Benchmarks

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β In order to determine how the Vivo Y18 would perform, lets look at some of its benchmark scores. These are the best all-round results for its segment, it is well fired in standard benchmarks like 2.5L AnTuTu and Geekbench. Not surprisingly, these high numbers are largely due to the Helio G85's CPU and GPU cores.

Gaming Experience

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β One of the biggest positives of the Helio G85 is its gaming performance. The chipset architecture is especially gaming-optimized and ensures you will get high but constant frame rates without a big delay. The impressive 6.51-inch screen and trio of audio features ensure brighter colors, thrilling sound effects, all-out game immersion for casual and hardcore gamers alike.

Multitasking & Daily Use

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Helio G85 chipset of the Vivo Y18 is also good for multitasking and daily usage apart from just gaming. There are also very few compatibility problems with regard to running apps on the phone together, which is great for anyone notorious for juggling too many different things at once. Battery life gets a welcome boost thanks to the power-efficient Helio G85, so you can operate for long periods of time without any worries about the phone going dead.

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Vivo Y18Β Battery

The Power of 5000mAh

Vivo Y18 Battery

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Vivo has got an excellent strong 5000mAh battery, a trend developing in many budget-friendly smartphones. This large capacity provides enough power for the device to easily manage demanding operations. Whether you are a heavy gamer; enduring your favourite series on binge or using the smartphone for assorted tasks through the day, OPPO Y18 is built to provide uninterrupted battery juice.

Real-World Performance

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Now, let us see the battery life of the Vivo Y18 with respect to some real-world usage.

  • Performance - Heavy Gaming: On our PUBG Mobile and Asphalt 9 high-settings gaming tests, the Y18 manages to provide very good longevity within this use case. With the graphics settings pushed up, it would easily last a few hours of continuous gaming.
  • For Video Streaming: If you love streaming movies or TV shows on your phone, the Y18 has power for that too. You should be able to get several hours of video playback out of a single charge.
  • For social media and web browsing: If you do normal usage (Checking emails, browsing social media, Messaging Apps) than for everyday purpose battery on Y18 is more then enough. It provides you several hours of comfort before the need to recharge it.

Battery Optimization Features

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Besides having a huge battery capacity, Vivo Y18 also offers some optimalization so the battery life can perform extra better, of course. These features include:

  • Intelligence Battery Management- When our device is using it system will learning how you use your smartphone and extends the battery life meantime.
  • Low Power Mode: Minimize battery use by turning on Low Power Mode to disable some background processing while going back and forth.
  • Fast charging: The Y18 also supports fast charging, so if you want to add a few percentage points when in a rush.

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Vivo Y18 Software

Funtouch OS 14: There It is Again

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Vivo Y18 boast Funtouch OS 14 based on Android 14. It is something that users who already have a Vivo device will be familiar with and should find it comfortable. Vivo Funtouch OS 14 Our skin also looks clean and functional, and offers customization such as themes, app drawer and gestures.

Bloatware: Some Good, Some Bad

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Pre-installed with regular Android smartphone, pre-installed Google apps include Gmail, Maps, Chrome and Photos in the Vivo Y18. Vivo also bundles its suite of Vivo Cloud apps, a separate Game Center and Theme Store. Some of these applications serve a purpose, but many are likely redundant or useless to most people.

Performance: Smooth Sailing

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Good Performance for the price the Vivo Y18 likewise carries out quicker as well as much more receptive than the Samsung Galaxy Mini. Funtouch OS 14 is well optimized on the hardware, so browsing, scrolling and switching in between apps are smooth and fine without any performance issue. But playing some heavy game or multi-tasking is likely to make this device strain a lot more than its capabilities, causing it for lag in frames and not so well performance.

The Future of Software Updates

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Y18 runs on Funtouch OS 11 based on Android 11 out of the box and Vivo being known for pushing timely software updates, we expect at least a couple of major Android OS upgrades for the Y18. The device should also get periodic security updates, as well as at least one major Android update, so it will be relevant and secure for several years.

Conclusion

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β The Vivo Y18 is a very good all-rounder that provides great design & build and a lag-free experience. With a seamless design, use of high-quality materials, performance above average, the camera accurately captures and a price economy is an option rests for those looking for a cheap, essentially android smartphone.

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This content was last updated on 11 February 2025.

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