Vivo V17 Pro Price in India Cut Now Retails Price is at 27.

Vivo V17 Pro price in India has been reduced to Rs. 27,990, the company confirmed. The new development launches just a month after the Chinese company launched the V17 Pro in the Indian market. The handset offers a dual pop-up selfie camera with a 32-megapixel primary sensor also there is a quad rear camera setup that contains a 48-megapixel primary sensor. The V17 Pro launch as a successor to the Vivo V15 Pro. Similar to its ancestor, the smartphone is powered by the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 SoC.

Vivo V17 Pro Features

Design

The Vivo V17 Pro was designed to impress, and you can tell it right away. Its cutout-free display and dazzling back are instant attention grabbers, while its quad-camera setup, impressive as is, contributes to no hump whatsoever.

The Vivo V17 Pro is a dual-glass smartphone, as the majority of modern smartphones. It has a flat piece Gorilla Glass 6 shielding the screen and a curved Gorilla 6 at the back done in glacier white reflective paint.

The font is all screen. Literally. The 6.44" AMOLED screen has minimum bezels, isn't disturbed by any cutouts, and is as immersive as they come. There is a grille etched into the screen's enclosure at the top - it is not the actual earpiece but a pass-through for the real one that sits on the pop-up module beneath. There is an under-screen fingerprint scanner behind the AMOLED. It is placed around the bottom and is of the optical kind. Its place lights up upon pickup detection, so you won't need to wake up the screen every time. The sensor itself is fast and mostly accurate and it is among the better ones you can get today on a smartphone.

The pop-up piece is now larger as it houses two selfie snappers - the 8MP ultrawide shooter is left of the earpiece, while the primary 32MP cam is on the right. You can't notice it at first, but there is a small LED fill flash at the center for low-light selfies. The front camera also supports Night Mode, so we imagine this flash will be used rarely, if at all.

The selfie camera has advanced drop detection and retracts automatically if a sudden change in position or movement is detected. We tried this and indeed the thing goes down automatically, but it is moving so slow which renders the fall detection pointless - if the phone falls on to its top while the module is still out, we fear it will break then and there The back of our Vivo V17 Pro is icy blue or as Vivo calls it Glacier White or Crystal Sky - depending on the market.

It looks indeed like a bluish-white, but it is very reflective and refracts all kinds of colors and lights in a different way. So, we'd describe this as chameleonic white, and because of the bright colors, you can barely see any fingerprints or smudges on it. The Gorilla Glass 6 is bent towards the longer edges and Vivo has applied a thin and also curved protector on it. It is not a glass shield though, but a cheap thin film and it diminishes the dazzling looks as it gets all smudgy in no time. So, we peeled it off in mere hours.


The quad-camera setup is the only interesting thing at the back, and it is separated from the rest of the surface with a thin metal frame. There is no camera hump, the whole thing sits flush with the back, which is quite the achievement. The top snapper is 8MP ultrawide, the primary 48MP shooter is second, then comes the LED flash, followed by the 2MP depth sensor, and the last one is the 13MP zoom camera.

There is this solid white case that comes as part of the V17 bundle and it will keep the phone quite safe. But it is really stiff and is quite an adventure to put the V17 in there and will cover its good looks. Then it has a cap on the USB-C port, which gets annoying each time you have to charge the phone. But the real problem comes when you decide to get the V17 Pro out of this case. It's close to impossible to do so without breaking something - the case, the phone, or your nails. So, considered yourself warned about this if you opt to buy the V17 Pro. The frame of the V17 Pro may look and feel metal, but it's made of plastic all right. It is thin and a bit curved, so don't expect any grip from it.

On top of the frame around the pop-up are the 3.5mm jack and the second mic, while the bottom has the USB-C port, the dual-SIM tray, and the loudspeaker. The mic pinhole is right next to the SIM tray and it can easily be mistaken for the SIM ejection hole, which is far from ideal. The V17 has a dedicated assistant key on its left side, while on the right are the usual volume and power keys. The Vivo V17 Pro measures 159 x 74.7 x 9.8 mm - about 2mm taller and 1mm thicker than the V15 Pro. It weighs 202 grams, 16g heavier than the V15. The Vivo V17 Pro is a beautiful smartphone with a solid build and immersive display. It is not waterproof and is as slippery as it looks, but most of the phones today are so we can't hold the non-existent grip against it. Overall, we are happy with the Vivo V17 Pro and the only thing we'd change if we had the power was the supplied case.

Display

The 6.44" Samsung-made AMOLED display is one of the most important aspects of the Vivo V17 Pro, and it alone can easily sell this phone to users looking for a notch-free display. Indeed, many smartphones have OLED screens with minimum bezels, but few do away with the notches. And the V17 Pro is one of those few, obviously.

So, the V17 Pro packs a beautiful 6.44" OLED screen of 2,400 x 1,080 pixels (409ppi) and this makes for a tall 20:9 aspect ratio. This is a minor upgrade over the V15 Pro screen that was 6.39" OLED with 2,340 x 1,080 px and 19.5:9 aspect.

The screen is protected by a flat Gorilla Glass 6 piece, but Vivo has also applied a screen protector on top of it in the factory. We measured a maximum brightness of 500 nits in both manual and auto brightness modes - a very good one for an OLED panel and excellent for the class. There is no light bleed when displaying blacks, and the OLED goes dark completely in the areas showing black.

There are three different Screen Colors settings in Display Options. With the Standard (default), the screen output is tuned for accuracy in the DCI-P3 color space, and we measured an average deltaE of 4.8 and a maximum deviation of 10.3 at point white. As it happens often, the white and gray hues have a noticeable bluish tint.

The Normal Contrast setting corresponds to the sRGB color space, and we recorded an average deltaE of 2.7 for color accuracy, meaning it's a pretty great one.

Finally, the Bright option makes the colors pop at the expense of reproduction accuracy.

Battery Life

The Vivo V17 Pro is powered by a 4100 mAh battery, an improvement over the 3,700 mAh cell within the V15 Pro. It supports 18W (Dual Engine) fast charging, and with the supplied charger, it gets from 0% to 40% in half an hour. A full charge usually takes about 100 mins.

The V17 Pro posted an excellent endurance rating of 107 hours and class-leading scores across the board. The screen-on times are excellent - we measured 14 hours runtime in our web browsing test and north of 19 hours in our video playback test. The standby performance was on par with the V15 Pro and overall - a very good one.

Speaker

The Vivo V17 Pro has a single bottom-firing speaker, nothing fancy here. It scored an Excellent mark in our loudness test, though some high-pitched tones were common, and probably that's how it got this score.

When playing music from YouTube, the speaker sounds (subjectively) quieter than suggested by the numbers and the score here. The audio output is also average in quality, somewhat lacking in the high tones.

Audio Quality

The Vivo V17 Pro did very well in the first part of our audio quality test, where we hook it up to an active external amplifier. It reproduced the test track perfectly and at high volume.

Things were not quite as perfect when headphones came into play - the stereo crosstalk raised notably, volume dropped to just above average, and some intermodulation distortion crept in and a decent showing still but no one to impress the audiophiles.

Funtouch 9.1 and Android 9

The Vivo V17 Pro is equipped and runs on Funtouch OS 9.1 based on Android 9.0 Pie and while experience will be familiars to Vivo users, at first, it could seem odd to newcomers to Vivo's phones. Let's start with the under-display fingerprint sensor. It is an optical one and works fast and correctly. The face unlocks works well too although not very secure. The pop-up selfie camera is fast enough to go up, so you won't feel the face unlock sluggishly. The FuntouchOS offers gesture-based navigation.

If you swiping from the center takes you home and if you swipe and hold you will see the recent apps menu depending on your preference, the back button works as a swipe from the bottom from both left or right. Swiping from the other side brings out the quick toggles that we have talked about before. We found using the onscreen keys which are the default option and are more comfortable though.

On the other hand, there is no app drawer in Funtouch so all your apps are just sitting there on your home screen, but you can still organize them into folders, and also you can always install a third-party launcher if you really miss the app drawer. Funtouch 9.1 also offers a system-wide Dark Mode which looks very good on the OLED screen.

The Lock screen and Home screen settings are interesting and that gives you all the options you had the need for customization. The Always-on display setting is in there as well. You can set up a background if you want instead of just a plain clock. Keep in mind that standby battery life will be greatly affected.hemes are available in Funtouch via the dedicated iTheme app. As we mentioned above that Funtouch may be odd to new users and here is why. A swipe from the top won't bring the quick toggles, it would only display the recent notifications.

Swiping from the bottom will call the quick toggles as part of the Control and it gives you control over the volume and the display's brightness and depending on your app usage, On the other hand, some app shortcuts may end up in that menu as well as for quick access. Vivo's Funtouch OS is full of useful features. The Smart motion menu as the name implies includes a couple of off-screen gestures. Moreover. drawing a letter will launch an app immediately from a locked state while sliding upwards will bring out the periscope camera to unlock the handset.

Other settings contain the usual split-screen mode one-handed UI mode advanced screenshot and screen capture options. Meanwhile, Funtouch launches with tons of proprietary apps which could be a bit annoying depending on how you look at it. The basics are surely covered with Music listening, Calendar, Clock, Videos, Weather, Gallery Email, Notes, etc. There is also the V-Appstore for extra Vivo-related apps and the so-called iTheme that offers a wide variety of themes for your device.

Funtouch also offers the iManager app. It can scan your phone for malware, manage your blacklist, manage or restrict your data usage, configure battery behavior, and free up some RAM. On the other hand, it can also manage the permissions of your installed apps and allows you to define the battery behavior of selected apps and applies restrictions only to the apps you choose. Funtouch has proprietary multimedia apps called Albums, music, and video player. In some regions, the music and video apps include paid streaming options. A File Manager app is available, too.

Performance

The Vivo V17 Pro is equipped and powered by the same Qualcomm's Snapdragon 675 chipset we experienced on the V15 Pro. It has been featured an octa-core CPU that consists of 2x Kryo 460 Gold cores Cortex-A76 derivative clocked at 2.0 GHz and 6x Kryo 460 Silver cores Cortex-A55 derivative ticking at 1.7 GHz. The GPU inside the device is Adreno 612 and it should be enough for 1080p content. The SoC is manufactured using the 11nm node, which is cost-efficient but more advanced than chips from the previous-gen 14nm Snapdragon 600-series. Fun fact, the 11nm (11LPP) process has been developed by Samsung, and it's a mixture between the company's 14nm and 10nm nodes.

The Snapdragon 675 processor is on par with the other mid-range chips such as Snapdragon 730 and a bit faster than S710's. Single-core performance is particularly impressive, too. The GPU scores suggest that the Snapdragon 675 won't be much efficient for gaming. The Adreno 612 GPU is a tad better than the Kirin 710's Mali-G51 MP4 but noticeably less powerful than the Adreno 616 in the S710 and the Adreno 618 in the S730.

Gaming is possible and does not get this the wrong way, it just won't be stellar and hiccups may occur. Moreover, if you are getting the device as a daily driver for your web browsing, multitasking, and productivity-oriented app usage the Snapdragon 675 is the way to go. There are battery tests that show that it is fairly power efficient. The Vivo V17 Pro has a decent power punch for its price. On the other hand, It is a dependable performer thanks to the Snapdragon 675 chip. It is as good for gaming though not as ideal as some competitors but is perfect for daily operations and browsing social media. The Android OS and Funtouch UI are fast on its hardware although once you populate most apps with your personal content you may notice some prolonged loading times.

Cameras

The Vivo V17 Pro has four snappers on its back - a 48MP primary, a 13MP telephoto, an 8MP ultrawide, and a 2MP depth sensor. The V15 Pro had the same shooters minus the zoom camera. The main camera uses a 48MP sensor by Sony - IMX 582 - and it sits behind a 26mm f/1.8 lens. The sensor has a Quad-Bayer color filter, which combines four adjacent 0.8µm pixels into one 1.6µm pixel and this helps to capture more light and reducing the noise at night. When shooting in bright light, the sensor can use demosaicing and snap detailed 48MP images via the dedicated 48MP shooting mode.

The 13MP sensor has 1.0µm pixels and is behind a 52mm f/2.5 lens for 2x optical zoom. Oddly, the photos from this camera are saved in 12MP.

Then the 8MP sensor has 1.12µm pixels and is behind 16mm f/2.2 lens for ultrawide-angle pictures. This camera supports autofocus, just like the other three, and because of that, it not only can shoot good ultrawide but detailed closeups as well.

The last snapper is a 2MP depth sensor.

The camera menu is familiar - swiping to the left and right will cycle between different modes while the additional settings are right above the software shutter button and in the upper part of the viewfinder. There are a couple of settings hidden in the settings menu in the upper-right corner. You can find the 48MP mode in device, AI scene identification, and camera pop-up sounds. The camera also supports different capture gestures. Oddly, the zoom switch goes only between 1x and 2x, and it can't summon the ultrawide snapper. This is done by tapping on the small aperture icon in the right corner. It opens a submenu with three modes - ultrawide, macro, and bokeh. This is probably the worst placement we've seen so far and utterly absent of logic!

You probably noticed that Bokeh is also in this nonsense menu. Indeed, the dedicated Portrait mode offers only beautifications and NOT simulated blur. You must use the Bokeh switch if you want to blur the background and unless you want beautifications, you can use Bokeh over the regular Photo mode. And here is the kicker - the Portrait mode allows for shooting with the telephoto camera, but the Bokeh mode works only with the main shooter. A total mess!

The same thing applies to selfies, too. The ultrawide and bokeh modes are hidden in the said submenu and work in the same way - you need to use bokeh over portrait or photo if you want to blur the background.

Finally, the Vivo V17 Pro supports Night mode on both its main and primary selfie cameras.

Quality of Images

The main camera saves 12MP images by default and you can expect the exemplary level of detail and low enough noise. The contrast is superb, while the dynamic range is wide. The colors are punchy, and the skies are a bit oversaturated, but other than that - a very pleasant presentation. The images are sharp but not over-sharpened and among the better daylight snaps, you can get from a smartphone these days. There is only one visible issue and that's the moire fringes on some of the photos.

There is a dedicated 48MP mode if you want to shoot in 48MP. The detail is nothing that special and you can notice various smudged areas and artifacts. The images are also noisy and if you downscale them to 12MP you won't get better pictures than the default 12MP ones. In fact, you'd often get worse. The 13MP zoom camera for some reason saves 12MP images. Still, it produces excellent photos with plenty of detail. The colors are lively but a bit over the top sometimes, especially in the skies. Some of the photos are a little bit noisier than the ones from the primary shooter but as far as zoom shooters go this is one of the better ones out there.

The Tele camera works only in optimal conditions, and when there is not enough light, you will get a cropped image from the 48MP snapper instead. Finally, we snapped some 8MP images with the ultrawide-angle camera. Its per-pixel quality is much lower than the other two, but the colors are still nice, and noise levels are low, and the contrast is superb. Those will do just fine for what they are meant to be - fit more in your frame when necessary.

You can turn off the distortion correction on the ultrawide camera, and you will get less soft corners at the expense of some curvy buildings. The ultra-wide-angle camera can also do for macro shots. These are average in quality and will do for the occasional shooting of flower petals, buds, and other tiny peculiar things. Moving on to the low-light shots, then. The 12MP default photos from the main 48MP camera turned very good - the images are bright enough and detailed, and with pretty tolerable noise levels. The contrast is pretty good. Night mode is available on the V17 Pro and takes about a second to shoot. 

It pops more detail in the shadows and helps for a more balanced exposure, but the difference isn't as big as on some competitors. Still, when it is really dark - you should use it. Even if there isn't a major improvement in the captured light, it still helps with less blurry and more detailed photos. You can use the 48MP mode in low-light, too, but even if you shoot in this high-resolution and then resize the image to 12MP, the benefit in detail would be minor, if any. And it's just not worth the hassle and the larger file size. Just as expected, the Tele camera isn't working when the light is rather low. Instead, you'd get a 12MP crop from the center of the original 48MP image from the main camera. And indeed, the picture is pretty good - we think the camera stacks a few frames and then does the crop from the center, without any digital zoom involved in the process.

The last photo was shot with the telephoto camera as the algorithm decided the light is enough for that. Finally, photos from the ultra-wide-angle camera are not impressive at all. The noise reduction is very aggressive and smears much of the fine detail, while the exposure is quite dark. And once you're done with the samples, head over to our Photo compare tool to see how the Vivo V17 Pro stacks up against the competition

Vivo V17 Pro price in India

Vivo V17 Pro price has been reduced to Rs. 27,990 for its lone 8GB RAM and 128GB storage variant. This shows an Rs. 2,000 drop from the original price of the device which has been launched just last month at Rs. 29,990. The price cut is now reflecting on major stores like that of Amazon.in, Flipkart, Vivo e-shop, Paytm Mall, and Tata CliQ. Moreover, the smartphone launches in Glacier Ice and Midnight Ocean color options. Vivo India also confirmed the latest price cut. The new price applies to offline stores.

Vivo V17 Pro SumUp

The Vivo V17 Pro is a unique offering, with two pop-up selfie cameras and four more at the back. It's well built and looks premium, despite the all-polycarbonate build. It's a little chunky and heavy but still quite manageable. The 6.44-inch full-HD+ AMOLED display is bright, has good color saturation and viewing angles. There's also Corning Gorilla Glass 6 for protection. 

The in-display fingerprint sensor works well but face unlock is only used as a last resort and can't be used as the primary method for unlocking the phone. The phone has two SIM card slots but nothing for a microSD card. You also get a 'smart key' button which can be customized to perform different functions. 

The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 SoC and comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The SoC is a little weak for the price but is fairly capable of handling apps and games. Keep in mind that it does make the phone quite hot with prolonged camera use or gaming. 

The rear 48-megapixel camera shoots good quality oversampled shots in both daytimes and in low light. The ultra-wide-angle camera captures more in the frame and is also used for shooting super macros. There's a telephoto camera too which offers 2x optical zoom. The V17 Pro also has a depth camera, which helps when shooting bokeh portraits. The 32-megapixel selfie camera captures pleasing selfies and also supports Night mode. The secondary 8-megapixel wide-angle camera lets you get a lot more people in one frame. 

Battery life is very good. The 4100mAh battery easily lasts for a day and a half. There's fast charging too, which charges the battery fully in about two hours.

Vivo V17 Pro Full Specifications

General

Brand	Vivo
Model	V17 Pro
Release date	20th September 2019
Launched in India	Yes
Form factor	Touchscreen
Body type	Glass
Dimensions (mm)	159.00 x 74.70 x 9.80
Weight (g)	202.00
Battery capacity (mAh)	4100
Removable battery	No
Fast charging	Proprietary
Wireless charging	No
Colors	Midnight Ocean, Glacier Ice

Display

Screen size (inches)	6.44
Touchscreen	Yes
Resolution	1080x2400 pixels
Protection type	Other

Hardware

Processor	2GHz octa-core
Processor make	Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
RAM	8GB
Internal storage	128GB
Expandable storage	No
Dedicated microSD slot	No

Camera

Rear camera	48-megapixel (f/1.8) + 8-megapixel (f/2.2) + 13-megapixel (f/2.5) + 2-megapixel (f/2.4)
Rear autofocus	Yes
Rear flash	Yes
Front camera	32-megapixel (f/2.0) + 8-megapixel (f/2.2)
Front flash	Yes

Software

Operating system	Android 9 Pie
Skin	Funtouch OS 9.1

Connectivity

Wi-Fi	Yes
Wi-Fi standards supported	802.11 b/g/n/ac
GPS	Yes
Bluetooth	Yes, v 5.00
USB OTG	Yes
USB Type-C	Yes
Headphones	3.5mm
Number of SIMs	2
Active 4G on both SIM cards	Yes
SIM 1
SIM Type	Nano-SIM
GSM/CDMA	GSM
3G	Yes
4G/ LTE	Yes
Supports 4G in India (Band 40)	Yes
SIM 2
SIM Type	Nano-SIM
GSM/CDMA	GSM
3G	Yes
4G/ LTE	Yes
Supports 4G in India (Band 40)	Yes

Sensors

Face unlock	Yes
Fingerprint sensor	Yes
Compass/ Magnetometer	Yes
Proximity sensor	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes
Ambient light sensor	Yes
Gyroscope	Yes