Vivo's 'e'-branded smartphones under its V-series are positioned just below its vanilla V-series. New sub-R smartphones are launched every year. 30,000 prices and slightly reduced specifications, but they aim to offer impressive cameras for their selling price. For 2024, after launching the Vivo V30 Pro and Vivo V30, the brand has launched the Vivo V30e in India.
Vivo V30e is available in two variants. The base variant has 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, priced at Rs. 27,999. The second variant offers 256GB of storage and is priced at Rs. 29,999 in India. Both variants use LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.2 storage.
The variants are available in two finishes: velvet red and silk blue. Both colorways have a dual-tone back panel that's a combination of matte and glossy finishes, but use different materials. The Velvet Red color option uses a glass back, while the Silk Blue option has a back panel that is made up of a plastic composite sheet. Because of this, the two color options have slightly different dimensions. The Velvet Red weighs 188 grams and is 7.75 mm thick, while the Silk Blue color weighs 179 grams and is 7.65 mm thick.
We got our hands on the Velvet Red color option. The smartphone has a glossy back panel with a matte finish with a glossy part that has a checkered pattern. This is a very dark color and almost looks dark brown or even black from some angles. The smartphone uses a circular camera module that houses the dual rear camera setup with a gold rim. It also rings and sports the Vivo logo at the bottom.
The Velvet Red color option of the Vivo V30e
The Vivo V30e has chrome side rails with the power button and volume buttons on the right, a hybrid sim slot, a USB 2.0 Type-C port, a microphone and speaker at the bottom and another microphone for the noise cancellation on top. The smartphone is IP64 rated for dust and water resistance, which is expected at this price, given that some lower-priced smartphones offer better.
The phone has a 6.78-inch curved-edge AMOLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels. Vivo claims a maximum brightness of 1,300 nits and also houses the in-display fingerprint sensor. There's no official word from the brand if it uses some version of Corning's Gorilla Glass or not.
V30e will receive three years of Android updates and four years of security patches
The smartphone runs on Vivo's Funtouch OS 14 which is based on Android 14, it has some pre-installed apps of which only some can be uninstalled. It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 SoC that we recently saw in the Realme 12 Pro 5G and Honor X9b, which is also direct competition for the V30e.
The dual rear camera setup consists of a 50-megapixel primary camera with f/1.79 aperture and optical image stabilization (OIS) and an 8-megapixel ultra-large camera with f/2.2 aperture. The camera interface also offers a 2X digital zoom that the main camera uses.
The camera module does not protrude much and the smartphone does not move on a table
The main camera can record videos up to 4K 30fps with its native magnification as well as 2x zoom. The wide-angle camera can only record videos at 1080p 30fps. The smartphone is also equipped with a circular aura flash that we saw earlier on the Vivo V29 Pro. It can change the color temperature to suit the lighting situation.
For the front camera, the V30e has a 50-megapixel camera with an f/2.45 aperture that can record videos at up to 4K 30 fps. We will test all its capabilities in our review.
Powering the phone is a 5,500mAh battery that can be charged using the included 44W charging adapter. The Vivo V30e competes with the Realme 12 Pro and the Honor X9b with their sub-Rs. 30,000 price and similar specs. But how does it work in the real world? We'll find out in our full Vivo V30e review coming soon.
