vivo Y200 review: thin, light, durable, and long battery life, how to do it in one step?

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2024-05-17 10:03Posted on the official account of Guangdong Edge Technology

When it comes to the user's purchase needs, durability and long battery life are always the most popular topics, and taking advantage of the development of technology and supply chain, many manufacturers have begun to try thinner and more durable products on their own terminal products this year, and for vivo, the representative of this attempt is undoubtedly the new vivo Y200.

So what's different about the vivo Y200 and what level has it reached? Let's take a look today.

Continuing the family-style design, the curved surface should be thinner and lighter

vivo Y200 On the one hand, the appearance of the previous generation is to continue the simplicity of the previous generation, on the other hand, the porthole design is added as the decoration of the lens module, the two cameras are still placed in the familiar vertical row, and the periphery of the lens module has also been made with some scale texture and highlight processing, which looks more textured. From a certain point of view, both aspects of this design are towards the continuation of the family design service, combined with the new phones recently released by the entire vivo brand, this family design is quite interesting.

The vivo Y200 we received this time is in the Bright Night color, which is the more traditional black. This black back cover with matte technology presents a halo reflection that will look more calm and low-key. It also has two more flamboyant colors, namely the red orange of plain leather and the flower of streamer carving process, which can be regarded as a classic branch that caters to the preferences of different users.

As for the shape of the screen, vivo Y200 is a continuation of the curved screen design of the previous generation Y100, it uses the cliché flexible OLED panel, as for the detailed configuration, let's talk about it in detail later. Interestingly, after achieving a long battery life, its thickness is still only 7.61mm, and the weight has been controlled to 187g, which is already quite a good level of thinness and lightness.

Drop-resistant, dustproof and waterproof, so that it is fully durable

As we mentioned at the beginning, vivo Y200 has achieved a significant upgrade in "durability" this time, and one of the key upgrades is the rock drop resistant structure upgraded to the "drop resistance" level. The structure is constructed of an ultra-strong body with internal precision cushioning materials, and also includes 2x the impact strength of the diamond shield glass, which improves the drop resistance on paper to a new level.

According to vivo's official statement, with the blessing of this structure, vivo Y200 can withstand 32,000 slight drop tests, 300 times 1-meter diameter cylinder tumbling tests, 1000 soft extrusion tests or 500 fuselage twist tests.

Another important upgrade is the improvement of the sealing of the fuselage, vivo Y200 This time specially improved the dust and water resistance, passed the IP64 and IP69 dust and water proof certification, which translates to prevent any dust and dust from entering the inside of the shell, as well as prevent splashing water intrusion, and even withstand the impact of high temperature and high pressure water guns.

Of course, no matter how high the protection specifications are, vivo Y200 is still a smartphone, and I still hope that everyone can take a little more care to avoid unnecessary losses.

It's still 6000mAh, and it's still super long

Battery life is certainly one of the key selling points of the vivo Y200, and it can even be said that it is one of the consistent selling points of the Y series.

Let's take a brief look at the core battery life configuration of vivo Y200, which is equipped with a rather exaggerated 6000mAh large battery, using the same silicon carbon anode battery material as its own folding flagship big brother X Fold3, with an energy density of up to 791Wh/L, which is why it can still remain thin and light after making the battery bigger. It is paired with an 80W flash charge, although the number alone is not very large, but in the Y series, this is also an unprecedented high specification.

We also conducted a battery life test for simulated use of such a large set of batteries. It can be seen that this large battery does bring it extremely strong battery life, and it is easy to face low-intensity Weibo browsing and video playback scenarios, and low-intensity games do not consume too much performance. However, it should be noted that after all, it is a relatively entry-level model, and it does not support a high frame rate mode for many games, which is part of the reason for its excellent battery life.

We also tested its fast charging speed after running out of power, and its charging curve is also in line with the fast charging performance of many Vivo series models we have tested before, from 2% all the way up to 100%, the whole curve is very close to a straight line, and the slope is very stable towards full charge, which takes only 41 minutes. It must be known that this is a 6000mAh vivo Y series model, and the large battery + entry positioning can also have such fast charging performance, which is enough to surprise people.

Nice comprehensive configuration

Although the vivo Y200's overall configuration is not outstanding compared to the flagship performance model, it still performs relatively well at the level of "durable phone". The basic performance is blessed by the first-generation Snapdragon 6, and with the deeply optimized OriginOS, the smoothness performance is not bad.

This smoothness is also shown by its curved screen. Its parameters are still quite good, with FHD+ level resolution, with a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz and a peak brightness of 1300nits, achieving a level on par with its own flagship big brother in the previous two years.

In terms of imaging, the vivo Y200 is equipped with a 50-megapixel main camera with a 2-megapixel bokeh lens, which is the regular level of the same price range. The good news is that the image is good, and we are quite happy with the resolution in daytime scenes. In the night scene, although you need to wait for half a second to synthesize the image, but in the end it can also present a relatively excellent imaging effect, simple recording for daily use, if there is no need for ultra-wide angle, such a set of rear image modules is indeed good enough.

summary

We're glad to see that this year's major manufacturers are starting to experiment with more durable mid-range entry-level models. Indeed, although many users on the Internet are shouting about flagship performance, in real life, what more users really want is a stable and reassuring experience, which is what we talked about "durable".

In response to these needs, vivo has brought the more powerful Y200 series. It continues the thin and light body form of the curved screen of the predecessor vivo Y100, and makes it more robust and durable, which not only upgrades the dustproof and waterproof specifications, but also improves the battery capacity and fast charging speed, and really achieves a key upgrade in the part that users care about. Even if products with similar ideas are emerging on the market, this key configuration improvement, vivo Y200 obviously has to do better and be more sincere.

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