Vivo NEX review: The true all-screen pioneer with an elevating pop-up camera.
The all-screen original.
Vivo NEX pioneered the elevating pop-up selfie camera and Screen SoundCasting (vibrating the display as an earpiece), achieving a notchless 91% screen-to-body ratio in 2018. It was the boldest answer to the all-screen problem of its era.
01Display
86/100At 86/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among flagship phones of 2018 — 6 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
74/10074/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
03Performance
84/100At 84/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among flagship phones of 2018 — 8 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among flagship phones of 2018 — 6 points above the cohort average.
05Build
80/10080/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
- First true all-screen design via elevating pop-up
- Screen SoundCasting replaced the earpiece
- In-display fingerprint + Snapdragon 845
- Mechanical pop-up durability questions
- Funtouch software cluttered
- 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 138-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .