Vivo Y53 Smartphone (ROM16 GB + 2GB RAM) GLOBAL ROM

Vivo  Y53 Smartphone (ROM16 GB + 2GB RAM) GLOBAL ROM

The top is pretty plain with just the 3.5mm headphone port sitting on the far right side.

The bottom end of the Y53 has the microphone, micro-USB port, and the loudspeaker. Unlike other smartphone designs, though, the handset doesn’t sport symmetrically drilled holes.

At the back, we have a familiar layout and design with the 8MP primary camera and its LED flash situated at the top left corner and the Vivo logo shining in the middle.

The handset’s casing is plastic with no touch of cold premium metal but it feels comfortable to hold since it’s got rounded edges. It also feels solid on hand with no creaks or whatsoever thanks to the unibody polycarbonate build.

Display and Multimedia

The Vivo Y53 is a pocketable phone by today’s standards. Its 5-inch display is smaller than most. The same can be said about its resolution. Vivo granted the handset a qHD resolution or 960 x 540 pixels which give us a jagged 220ppi of pixel density. If there’s any consolation, it’s an IPS LCD with wide viewing angles and an okay color reproduction.

The down firing speaker is surprisingly loud and of decent quality. It can easily fill a small room and will do good for watching videos on YouTube. Also, the phone can play lossless audio with a preloaded sample music to test out.

OS, Apps, and UI

Vivo is one of those smartphone makers that’s fond of deeply changing the Android UI and making it look more similar to iOS. Just like its sister company, OPPO, Vivo implements their own skin called FunTouch OS which is now on version 3.0 and is based on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.

It borrows a lot of cues from iOS including the single layer of app icons and a separate control center accessible by swiping up from the bottom. There’s still the notification tray and usual widgets, of course. The icons and overall UI design are also strikingly similar that it can disguise as an iPhone. We’re not necessarily fans of this implementation but at least you get the best of both user interfaces.

There are preloaded Google applications, Facebook, WPS Office, and UC Browser. Out of the box, you get 9.18GB of available space out of the total 16GB internal storage. There’s a dedicated microSD card slot in case you need to expand it.

Camera

The cameras onboard the Vivo Y53 are pretty standard with an 8-megapixel rear shooter and a modest 5-megapixel selfie camera. Its camera launcher, as expected, is copied from iOS with additional shooting modes that some might find useful.