To strengthen its position in the fast-growing affordable smartphone market, Vivo India has recently launched Y51L, a handset assembled at the company’s Greater Noida assembly plant. This facility was launched in December last year with an initial investment of Rs 125 crore. Priced at Rs 11,980, Y51L comes with a 5-inch HD IPS display, long battery life, powerful performance and a smooth user interface. Let us explore the finer details of the device.
Out of the box, the device looks and feels somewhat similar to other devices from Vivo. The body is made of plastic with metal strips running along the top and bottom of the rear along with a sleek glass back cover which add elegance to the handset. The display is sharp and colourful. In fact, adjustable to light condition, you can even read in direct sunlight without much difficulty and also adaptive display works well indoors.
The front also houses a camera on the top, while three capacitive touch keys are placed in the bottom. There is space for a 3.5 mm headset jack on the top edge, while the bottom edge has space for speaker grille and micro USB charger. With the thickness of 7.52 mm and weight of 143 gms, the device is neither too slim nor too heavy. It is comfortable to hold and operate, and is non-slippery at the same time.
The Y51L runs on Android 5.0.2 and its entrails are powered by 1.2 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, Quad Core processor. During the review period, the device handled multitasking and graphic intensive games quite smoothly. Overall, it offers a decent performance.
On the camera front, Y51L comes with a 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front camera. The camera division has inbuilt features such as face detection, geo-tagging, face beauty, panorama etc. Both the cameras are decent and takes pictures with average quality and fine details in regular light. However, the images were little dull and less vibrant in low light conditions.
The Y51L supports 4G LTE connectivity, Wi-Fi, 3G, 2G, Bluetooth and dual standby SIM. It is packed with a replaceable 2350 mAh battery which offers decent standby time and could last between 5-7 hours with multitasking and continuous data usage.
Overall, the Y51L is a decent 4G enabled budget smartphone with good design, slim body and offers smooth operation.
SPECIFICATIONS
Display: 5-inch ( 960 x 540 pixels)
Processor: 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410
Operating system: Android 5.0.2
Memory & storage: 2 GB RAM + 16 GB internal storage (expandable upto 128 GB with microSD)
Camera: 5 MP front; 8 MP rear
SIM type: Dual SIM
Battery: 2350 mAh, replaceable
Estimated street price: Rs 11,980
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