vivo V30 Pro review

Display

The vivo V30 Pro features a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen of 1,260 x 2,800 pixels or 453ppi. It is protected with a curved Schott Alpha glass.

The panel is quite premium - it has support for 10-bit color depth, there is up to 120Hz refresh rate, HDR10+, and up to 2,800nits of peak brightness. According to the official specifications, the screen has 1,200nits of boosted brightness.

We've completed our display test, and the numbers are in line with vivo's claims. First, we registered 516nits of maximum brightness when controlling the brightness slider manually.

But when using the Auto Brightness mode, the screen can be much brighter - up to 1,197 nits.

The minimum brightness at point white is just 2.1 nits!

The display supports up to 120Hz refresh rate, and there are three refresh modes - 120Hz, 60Hz and Smart Switch. The 120Hz and the Smart Switch mode will allow the screen refresh rate to drop down to 60Hz when showing static content, but the Smart Switch is more limiting - often capping the system UI and apps to 90Hz or even 60Hz.

The vivo V30 Pro comes with Widevine L1 DRM support, and Full HD streaming with HDR10 support is available across popular platforms, Netflix included.

Battery life

The vivo V23 Pro is powered by a large 5,000mAh battery. Combined with the energy-efficient chipset, we expected some good battery times.

And we got them! The V23 Pro posted an Active Use Score of 13:25 hours. It did great on the onscreen tests and was a bit average regarding call times.

Charging speed

The vivo V30 Pro supports 80W fast charging, and it ships with an 80W FlashCharge power adapter. Vivo advertises a full charge in 46 minutes.

We've completed our charging test with the 80W charger, and the numbers are in line with vivo's statements. We clocked 39% charge in 15 minutes, 74% in 30 minutes and 100% in 42 minutes. Note that it took the phone another 4 minutes before it showed Fully Charged.

Vivo is offering smart battery charging as part of the battery optimizations.

Speaker - loudness and quality

The vivo V30 has one speaker at the bottom of the phone. It has a loudness boost advertised as 150% if you click the volume up key one more time after reaching 100%. The boost increases the high-frequencies, and the V30 does sound louder without hurting the overall audio quality (which is not always the case).

The vivo V30 scored a Good mark on our loudness tests - in 100% and 150% options. In its normal 100% mode, which is shows in the chart below, the V30 Pro managed -27.5 LUFS of loudness. Bumping the volume up to 150% resulted in only a marginal loudness increase up to -27.1 LUFS.

The speaker offers average audio quality - there is a rich presentation of the high-frequency range, okayish vocals and almost no bass.

Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.