Vivo NEX S review: A nearly bezel-less flagship with a motorised pop-up selfie camera.
The bezel-less pop-up pioneer.
Vivo NEX S used a motorised pop-up selfie camera to achieve a then-unprecedented 91% screen-to-body ratio without a notch. Paired with Snapdragon 845 and in-display fingerprint, it was one of 2018's most innovative phones.
01Display
86/10086/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
02Camera
70/10070/100 is one of the weaker camera results among flagship phones of 2018 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
76/10076/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2018 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
76/10076/100 trails the 78-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2018.
05Build
78/10078/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
06Value
70/10070/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
- Industry-leading 91% screen-to-body ratio.
- Motorised pop-up selfie camera.
- In-display fingerprint + SD845.
- Hi-Fi DAC + jack.
- Pop-up mechanism is a durability question.
- Mono speaker.
- Funtouch heavy.
- 199 g.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 6-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .