Vivo V70 Elite Review: A Capable Addition to Vivo’s Premium Segment

In 2026, smartphone manufacturers are struggling to adhere to their tight segments (and margins) in order to maintain a high memory price that is increasing. This explains the obvious shift of rising price tags and lower value with this. In this crisis, Vivo is launching the ViVO V70 series in new flavours to tackle this problem. There is a standard V70, which only exists in the name of itself. Compared to its old premium V40 Pro model it is priced as much as the older one and hopefully has enough value to justify its new premium price tag.

Its second device is the new Vivo V70 Elite, which now carries the V series into a completely new territory of sub-Rs. Affluent flagships 60,000 premium models by . Despite the fact that the 12+256GB variant will sell at Rs., Vivo has smartly priced the 8+512GB version at its price of Rs 51,999 in India. 56,999999. Among other competitive offerings from Motorola and OnePlus, this second variant is also very close to Vivo’s own X200T.

Is a Vivo V70 Elite worth the money? Or is it desperately needed for re-priced? Read on to know!

Vivo V70 Elite Design: A premium feeling compact

• Dimensions – 157.52 × 74.33 × 7.59mm
• Weight – 194g
• Durability – IP68 + IP69

The rebrand comes with a new moniker, and the design of is fresh. It appears Vivo has gone out of the box with the ViVO V70 Elite, a design that distinguishes it from the rest of this V series and even the X series. In comparison to the V60 and V40 Pro, the Vivo V70 Elite has flat, rounded corners as it does with the Vavo’s. The front and rear panels are perfectly flat, the same applies to the sides of .

The Vivo V70 Elite gets a fresh new design for a V-series handset

The phone, unlike the V40 Pro, is a well-crafted premium phone that uses glass for the Sand Beige and Passion Red finishes; while the Authentic Black model has ‘glass-fibre back’. Eventually, the frame is made of aluminium alloy with a matte finish that makes it look premium and feel very slippery.

Fit and finish are the best, with no gaps or sharp edges; IP68 and IP69 ratings on the phone allow it to be absorbed in water. But since water ingress is not covered under warranty, we advise readers not to do so unless it’s inevitable.

The telephone itself is also quite compact, as does . While this is not considered a ‘mini’ smartphone, it’s more in line with modern flagships. The smaller footprint of the V60 and its larger counterpart, compared to the Pro40 Pro, is one of those factors that contribute to this feeling. The other two are slimer and certainly will be a good choice for those tired of big devices, looking for something small. Only the OnePlus 13s, about 2 seconds shy of being lighter and closest to , is the only other device that comes close. Shorter but 0 63mm shorter . A 6mm thicker is. The V70 Elite is also 9 grams lighter than the 13s, which has a similar weight of 9.

It feels a bit smaller than your usual flagship but not “mini”

Its compact dimensions make Vivo V70 Elite a good fit for one-handed use, but it would sometimes take the extra time to reach the top of the display.

Vivo V70 Elite Display: A bit too close for comfort

• Display size – 6.59-inch, 1,260 x 2,750 pixels, 459 PPI
• Display type – AMOLED, 120Hz
• Display protection – Schott Xensation Core

High-end V-series models always had something special, whether it was a curved-edge display or an quad–curved panel. Vivo has chosen flat display on its V70 Elite, keeping track of the times (and trends). Having thin borderes at the top and bottom, it’s skinny on left and right sides and slightly thicker borders at its top/bottom . But this all of this works well with the high-end image of the device that the brand wants to describe (keep in mind its price).

Vivo goes with a flat display with skinny borders for its V70 Elite

The quality of the display glass, which is a solid object and did not show any scratches or scuff when tested (although it does pick up fingerprints), can easily be erased off by easy-to-cleaning displays. These colours seem naturally natural, and are accurate. Sharpness is also on point for a 1-1 . Similarly, OriginOS’ new Vivo Sans font looks great on its display of 5K resolution and is also well-known for its 5-K Resolution Display.

HDR10 and HDRI10+-certified display, supported content in OTT apps works as it is expected to deliver bright vibrant visuals. The stereo speakers are loud, but also treble-heavy and the accompanying speaker is not sound rich in quality. In this segment, we have heard that these aren’t the best s in our opinion.

The ultrasonic fingerprint reader works quickly and can read through water droplets as well.

In the launch of Google’s redesigned Google Pixel 9 series handset, Google ensured that its software interface was not swallowed by the display’t rounded corners when it launched its newer version of the device. The phrase did this, by excluding elements (wasting some space) in the process; but the end result was elegant and comfortable to read.

Vivo’s software interface seeps into the wide and rounded display corners

Despite its V series’s transition from sharper corners to aggressively rounded ones, Vivo appears to have forgotten its change in this way of saying that much of the text near the corners gets uncomfortably close to the bezel. Near the status bar, this is easier to notice; it’s also at the bottom corners and feels like Vivo stretched the display a little too far under the borders. Besides making this compact device feel slightly cramped, I noticed that the rounded corners of the display area (which is used to play games) also feed into the usable display space.

Vivo V70 Elite Software: Highly customisable and fun

• Android version – 16
• Software – OriginOS 6
• Software commitment – 4 years OS + 6 years SMRs

A new direction for the brand is Vivo’s OriginOS 6, which looks like a copy of Apple’d Liquid Glass design philosophy. The Vivo is characterized by flat, translucent glass appearance and new font and iconography for OriginOS 6 with the logo of “Vivo” (as well as its original name)?

OriginOS is customisable and refreshing

FuntouchOS was already big on customisation, but OriginOS takes things a step further to allow users to tailor smaller details such as the shapes of UI elements, pop-ups and menus. Theying system is a bit more than the one on ColourOS or iOS, but it’s slightly different from what you can use with your theming. Vivo’s lockscreen has its own unique and playful themes, which need to be downloaded and applied (and then can be customised according to your needs) for the theme of their lock screen. It also allows Vivo force system (or downloadable) fonts to be added to more places in OriginOS 6 so you can enjoy the same font in your Chrome browser and other third-party apps as well.

For AI, it’s all embedded in Vivo’d native apps and you get the usual options from Google’S Gemini as well as aforementioned. Adherent is a good software commitment, but an additional year of OS updates for ‘high-end’ device would have been appreciated.

Vivo V70 Elite Performance: Good, but not the best

• Processor – Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, 3.0GHz, 4nm
• RAM – 8/12GB (LPDDR5X)
• Storage – 128/256/512 (UFS 4.1)

The Vivo V70 Elite’s speakers sound treble-heavy and lack bass

It was never going to be a problem for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 in terms of software performance and smoothness, but it feels more at home when using ‘flagship killer’ phone than on – device in premium segment. This is pretty clear when comparing its synthetic performance with the many devices at, below and above this price point (see table below).

| Benchmarks | Vivo V70 Elite | OnePlus 13s | Vivo X200T |
| — | — | — | — |
| Display resolution | 1.5K | 1.5K | 1.5K |
| Chipset | Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 (4nm) | Snapdragon 8 Elite (3nm) | Dimensity 9400+ (3nm) |
| AnTuTu v10 | 18,21,492 | 24,49,859 | 28,01,131 |
| PCMark Work 3.0 | 12,897 | 14,491 | 14,615 |
| Geekbench 6 Single | 1,911 | 2,874 | 2,434 |
| Geekbench 6 Multi | 4,753 | 8,741 | 7,273 |
| Geekbench AI CPU (Quantized) | 2,196 | NA | 2,899 |
| Geekbench AI GPU (Quantized) | 993 | NA | 1,262 |
| 3DM Wild Life | 7,848 | Maxed Out | Maxed Out |
| 3DM Wild Life Unlimited | 7,866 | 23,593 | 22,715 |
| 3DM Steel Nomad Light | 647 | NA | 2,380 |

I don’t think gaming performance is bad, however, as per . Call of Duty Mobile (CODM), which is a good system, works well at ‘Very High’ graphics and ‘Max’ frame rate. This doesn’t have any MEMC-based gameplay available here, but you can fix the framerate to make it look smoother by enabling ‘Frame-rate Priority’ (Settings> Ultra Game Mode> Frame-rated Priorit), which reduces overall resolution of this game to deliver the same outcome. Nevertheless, the gaming experience isn’t perfect; you will see random slowdowns and skipped frames in chaotic matches. It was a stable move for things to switch from ‘Medium’ graphics and ‘Ultra’ frame rate, but it ran hotter. Similarly I tested Genshin Impact, and it has the ability to play 60 fps with the ‘Highest’ graphics on its phone. But the phone is toasty fast (with obvious slowdowns during conflicts), so ‘Medium’ to ‘High’ at 60 fps should be the sweet spot for this device.

Vivo V70 Elite Cameras: A few hits and some misses

• Primary camera – 50-megapixel, f/1.8, OIS, AF
• Telephoto camera – 50-megapixel, f/2.6, OIS, 3X optical, AF
• Ultrawide camera – 8-megapixel, f/2.2, FF
• Selfie camera – 50-megapixel, f/2.0, AF

Vivo’s Elite model maintains the three-camera setup from the Pros

The price tag of Vivo’s Pro series, which has shifted from the mid-range to the premium segment, was not really impressed in recent years as its line prices moved. Vivo wanted to take things up a step with the ViVO V40 Pro, as it was more expensive than we expected for our review (despite the Zeiss badge) but this is not what we expect from an average phone. But I hope things would be different this time because the Vivo X200T did well in our review, given that the V70 Elite is priced even more than the older Pro model.

When the OnePlus 13s was launched, it was good to see a brand swapping an ultrawide camera for 2X telephoto and LDAF (very capable primary camera) to maintain the overall design of the phone (and its limitations), philosophy as well as keeping prices reasonable. We had an 8 in our revie,w so the phone was expected to be its segment and met expectations for its part.

Vivo V70 Elite ultrawide camera sample (tap image to expand)

From the bullet points in the camera section, Vivo wanted all three cameras at any cost and so decided to buy an ultrawide 8-megapixel sized smartphone that costs up to Rs. A million a.k, 50,000. With shabby processing, its low-resolution sensor barely captures passable photos in daylight, let alone during the dark days. Its photos from this ultrawide are softer, with blurred patches, lots of lens distortion and flattened textures when shooting in bright daylight. Under light, the image quality is too loud and blotchy to be usable in low-light conditions.

Vivo V70 Elite primary camera samples (tap images to expand)

It’s a bit better out here, because the ultrawide is so bad that it feels far better to go on with this primary camera. There’s a good dynamic range, but I noticed some small highlight clipping in scenes with different lighting. colour is a bit punch (in default Vivid mode), sharpness fine but the resolved detail may have been better. It captures portrait images of this camera that are well-crafted, and sharpening a bit when using the dedicated Portrait mode. The pictures contain enough detail in low light or street-lit conditions for to be able to see the photos. They also have a fine Dynamic range and so are the colours. Dim lighting quality is a hit and textures are flat in the dark.

The Vivo V60 telephoto camera has 3X optical zoom. But a weird close-focusing limitation is that the viewfinder will force you to move further away from your subject so as to capture the scene with the telephoto camera and not’scaled-down crop of the main camera’. Sometimes, it will not ask you to “move further away” and let you take the shot with the primary camera (which is less crisp than the telephoto capture).

This is a real-life deprnance, and the camera system often fails to stick to one camera (sometimes soft photos). After a week of shooting photos, I still haven’t learned the exact distance required to activate the telephoto lens but now know that the sweet spot is about 60 centimetres. A current auto switch (in the main and in the telephoto) works well when you are zooming into a landscape or while shooting an portrait, but gets irritating as soon as you want to use the phone to get ‘close-up of something at arm length’.

Vivo V70 Elite 3X zoom camera samples (tap images to expand)

telephoto camera, which produces good photos in daylight but looks somewhat out of the process when you pinch to zoom (a little imperfections) texture is revealed. The range of Dynamic is good even in low-light conditions, and the photos appear surprisingly clean when they are being photographed at street lights because exposures are longer.

Vivo V70 Elite 10X zoom AI UHD camera samples (tap images to expand)

For some reason, the next zoom focal length is 10X and results (called AI UHD photos) are much better than the 6X photos because of some advanced AI-enhancements. But the 10X images quickly go out of detail when lighting isn’t good enough, and then the AI dreams up things and starts making waxy textures -as can be seen in the second photo (leaves) above.

The autofocus system allows for selfies to emerge clean with enough detail in both daylight and low-light. Pitch image to expand) (tap picture.

It is fine to see video quality in daylight (good dynamic range, natural colours) with good video. we would have wished for some more details of the phrase. Good also is stabilisation for . Then 60 fps footage looks even better and sharper, with the same look as an average of 60. The ultrawide camera has a smaller sensor so it can only capture 1080p at 30 fps, as the resolution of this is just 1060p. A low-light quality is not as good as daylight footage, with aggressive noise cancellation that reduces detail and makes it a bit overexposed (especially at 60 fps) especially in the form of loud noise.

Vivo V70 Elite Battery: Good for a compact device

• Battery capacity – 6,500mAh, (Si/C) li-ion
• Wired charging – 90W
• Wireless charging – NO
• Charger in the box – YES

It has a good battery life for the Vivo V70 Elite to last through an entire day of intense use, but you will have to plug it in once you are back home and again. This will be used with casual (non-camera, non-gaming) use until the next morning but you have to plug it in before going out. It’s pretty good for a compact device, with PCMark having its Battery life test lasting 24 hours and 17 minutes.

Charging speed is good for . This machine smashed to 22 percent in 15 minutes, 49 percent at 30 minutes and reached a full charge state in 1 hour and 11 minutes.

Vivo V70 Elite Verdict

The V series, which began in the budget segment and then went into the mid-range (and now delved deeper into premium segment), has long been Vivo’s evolution. This is a buyer who has been given the “flagship feeling” by it addressed the right bits (build quality, durability, cameras and battery life”). A few chinks were in its newfound premium armour, which we saw with its paraphrasing. This is more about its camera and raw performance, as it primarily pertains to these statements. Considering this, we would like V70 Elite to be slightly cheaper (about Rs. Like the Vivo V40 Pro 45,000, its current asking price is a bit over-priced and it’s just like that of an old word.

The base 8GB model of the V70 Elite retails at Rs., as mentioned in the beginning – and is available for sale with an initial price tag of Rs (R) 8. While the 12+256GB variant begins with Rs,51.999, it is 51,99 for s but a total of 1999 and 11+512GB versions are available. 56,999999 ‘. Vivo’s own X200T is the bigger elephant in the room for those who would be more flexible with their spending on a premium device. a further Rs, an additional . A of 3,000 (Rs) is. It is a much better option than the V70 Elite, which can be purchased with you in 12+256GB variants of the Vivo X200T (59,999). You get a bigger display, good battery life, better cameras and raw performance for if you pay slightly more.

While the V70 Elite may or may not be a big deal on your list, you are under’short budget money’ but it is hard to say that both of these issues are addressed by the OnePlus 13s which currently sells at Rs. 50,999 – . Some buyers will be a disappointed by the fact that some of the 13s are not equipped with ‘no third rear-facing ultrawide camera and slightly limited 2X optical zoom’. It may not matter, however, because the V70 Elite is no “expert” at the former.

Rs. 13 iQOO 13 The ‘IQO 13 I’m looking for a good gaming package, but 54,999 (12+256GB) (now replaced with the iQOO 15), which is still better to choose as if you want great gaming performance. But if you want something to be well-earned, then Motorola’s new Signature sure sounds like a good performer in equivalence package at an attractive starting price of Rs. A is 59,999 (12+256GB) (i.e.

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