Vivo V29e review: A curved-AMOLED, ring-light selfie phone for portrait-first buyers.
A portrait phone with a slow heart.
V29e sells the selfie — a 50 MP front camera, a curved screen and Vivo's Aura ring light that flatters faces in low light. The Snapdragon 695 is the obvious mismatch at $330; buyers here are paying for the camera-and-design package, not performance.
01Display
78/10078/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2023.
02Camera
68/10068/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2023.
03Performance
56/10056/100 is one of the weaker performance results among mid-range phones of 2023 — 12 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
76/10076/100 trails the 82-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2023.
05Build
72/10072/100 trails the 76-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2023.
06Value
66/10066/100 is one of the weaker value results among mid-range phones of 2023 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Curved AMOLED + 50 MP selfie + ring light for portraits.
- OIS main camera.
- Slim 7.7 mm / 186 g.
- 44 W charging.
- Snapdragon 695 is slow for $330.
- Single speaker, no jack.
- 2 MP filler lens, no ultrawide.
- Wi-Fi 5 only.
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 148-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .