Vivo Y19s was quietly unveiled today. No, it’s not a sequel to Y19 (since that’s from 2019), it’s a follow-up to Y17 from late last year. The new model isn’t a complete upgrade, but brings several significant improvements – a more robust design, powerful stereo speakers and a larger 5,500mAh battery.
The Y19s grows slightly with a 6.68” LCD. It’s a 90Hz panel that’s decently bright (1,000 nits in high brightness mode), but still only offers HD+ resolution. The selfie camera is now inside a punch hole, but the resolution has dropped to just 5MP.
The rear camera is mostly the same with a 50MP sensor and a helper cam. What’s new here – and it’s hard to ignore when it starts cycling through the rainbow colors – is the RGB LED ring on the camera island. This can be used for notifications or to add a bit of flavor to the music.
Speaking of which, the Vivo Y19s is equipped with stereo speakers – in noisy environments, you can turn them up to 300% volume. A gimmick, sure, but fun. Another thing that’s nice to see is the 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom (next to the USB-C 2.0 port).
The phone has a drop-resistant design and is rated for IP64 – along with dust-proof and basic water resistance. Furthermore, the device is MIL-STD-810H compliant. The battery is equally durable and is rated to retain at least 80% of its original capacity after 1,460 cycles (that’s daily charging for up to 4 years continuously).
The capacity in question is 5,500mAh, which is very high for a phone of this size. This should be enough for 8 hours of PUBG gaming or about 20 hours of watching YouTube videos, at least based on the official figures. The battery only charges at 15W, so you’d better be patient. Note that a charger is included in the retail package, except for units sold in the Philippines and Thailand.
The phone isn’t really built for gaming, as it’s powered by the Unisoc T612, a 12nm chipset featuring a pair of Cortex-A75 cores and six A55s, all clocked at 1.8GHz, as well as a Mali-G57 GPU. Is also. The chip is paired with 6GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of eMMC 5.1 storage. The good news is that the card tray can accommodate two nano-SIMs and a microSD. The phone has been launched with FuntouchOS 14 (Android 14). The T612 is a 4G chipset, so there’s no next-generation connectivity.
Vivo Y19s: Pearl Silver • Glossy Black • Glacier Blue
The Vivo Y19s is not available in any stores yet, so nothing can be said about the price (but we can’t imagine it being an expensive model).