Vivo X50 review: Ultra-slim gimbal-camera phone at just 7.49 mm.
The first gimbal phone.
Vivo X50 debuted the gimbal-stabilised main camera — a physically pivoting sensor far steadier than OIS — in one of the slimmest bodies of 2020. The gimbal became the X-line's signature, and it all started here.
01Display
84/10084/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2020.
02Camera
80/10080/100 puts it above the 78-point average for flagship phones of 2020.
03Performance
72/10072/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2020 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
78/10078/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2020.
05Build
84/10084/100 puts it above the 81-point average for flagship phones of 2020.
- First gimbal-stabilised main camera
- Ultra-slim 7.49 mm / 170 g + periscope
- Quad cam with 5x reach
- Snapdragon 730G mid-tier
- Mono speaker
- No 3.5 mm jack
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 182-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .