Vivo NEX 3 review: Waterfall FullView display with pop-up camera.
The waterfall flagship.
NEX 3 pushed the all-screen idea to its extreme — a 99.6% Waterfall display that curved almost vertically off both edges, with physical buttons replaced by pressure-sensitive zones and a pop-up camera keeping the front uninterrupted.
01Display
88/100At 88/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among flagship phones of 2019 — 6 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
78/10078/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.
03Performance
86/100At 86/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among flagship phones of 2019 — 7 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
80/10080/100 puts it above the 75-point average for flagship phones of 2019.
05Build
80/10080/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.
- Extreme 99.6% Waterfall FullView display
- Pop-up cam keeps the front pristine
- Snapdragon 855+ with 5G option
- Waterfall edges cause accidental touches
- Heavy 218 g
- Pressure side-buttons take adjustment
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 167-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .