The Vivo V30 Pro performs well in most day-to-day tasks and manages to click some good shots with the primary camera in daylight and nighttime as well. The 5,000mAh battery ensures the smartphone keeps running for a longer duration and the inclusion of 80W charging is a bonus as it charges the device fully in an hour. Here’s our full review of the Vivo V30 Pro.
Vivo’s V29 Pro, which was launched last year in India, was a pretty good smartphone on paper and in real-world use as well. Its successor, the new Vivo V30 Pro, also has a few new tricks up its sleeves with some interesting Zeiss-branded cameras. The trio of 50-megapixel cameras claim to offer some interesting portrait photography features called ‘Zeiss Style Bokehs’ that aim to mimic high-end Zeiss camera lenses. The brand has also stressed the inclusion of Zeiss-branded cameras, which, for the very first time, are available on a V series smartphone. But all these fancy camera features come with an above-average mid-premium price tag. After thoroughly testing out this phone, let’s find out if it’s worthy of its price tag and how well it stacks up against the competition.
The Vivo V30 Pro is available in two variants: one with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is priced at Rs. 41,999 and another with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, priced at Rs. 46,999. It comes in two colour options, Andaman Blue and Classic Black, in India, unlike the global variant, which is available in four colour options. The smartphone competes with the OnePlus 12R, Samsung’s Galaxy S23 FE and the Nothing Phone 2.
We received the Andaman Blue colour option, and this variant has a glossy glass rear panel, which, according to the brand, resembles the emerald waters of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The glossy surface is quick to attract fingerprints, but this bright colourway does not highlight them as much as a darker shade would. The smartphone doesn’t look very different from its predecessor. There is a squared-off aura light at the back below the camera module, unlike the circular aura light on the V29 Pro.
The raised camera module doesn’t protrude by much, so the smartphone does not wobble when placed on flat surfaces like a table. It uses a three-camera setup on the rear that is aligned in a rounded square with the newly added Zeiss branding.
The silver-coloured Vivo branding is at the bottom of the rear panel. The power and volume buttons are on the right of the curved chrome frame. The speaker grille, microphone, USB Type-C port, and SIM slot are at the bottom.
I also tried the Classic Black colour option. It feels a bit more premium and sports a shimmery black glass back panel that does not attract fingerprints. However, I liked the Andaman Blue colourway.
The smartphone has a premium in-hand feel, and the curved glass sandwich design offers good grip. It weighs 188 grams, which is very light for a smartphone with a 5,000mAh battery and a glass rear panel. At just 7.45 mm, this is a very slim smartphone.
The bezels on the left and right sides of the Vivo V30 Pro are almost non-existent as it uses a curved-edge display that blends with the curved sides of the frame.
The smartphone offers an IP54 certification for dust and water resistance. While it is nice to see Vivo offer this rating, it is quite basic as far as IP ratings go. Other smartphones, both at and below this price point, offer much better protection from the elements. Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 13 Pro+, which we recently reviewed, provides an IP68 rating at Rs. 31,999.
The smartphone comes equipped with the 4nm MediaTek Dimensity 8200 5G SoC, which is a slightly dated processor (launched in 2022) that competes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC available in some mid-range smartphones priced between Rs. 25,000 to Rs 30,000. The Vivo V30 Pro offers a maximum of 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage. It uses a dual-nano sim card tray to accommodate two 5G sim cards but does not have space for a microSD card.
Other features include Bluetooth 5.3 and a USB 2.0 Type-C port for charging the device and data transfers. The Vivo V30 Pro is powered by a 5,000mAh battery that can be charged using the provided 80W charging adapter.
On the software front, it runs on Funtouch OS 14 Global, which is based on Android 14. The interface is quite smooth across the board, but it still has a couple of pre-installed apps; not all of these can be uninstalled.
