so Vivo seems pretty Adept at spaffing out smartphones faster than Edge shear and spaff out God awful pop dross that makes me want to put my head through the nearest pin of glass and now just six short months since I reviewed the Vivo v30 Pro now I've had my Sims slapped inside of the v40 pro for the past week which may look familiar but makes significant improvements when it comes to the performance the battery life and also that camera Tech so come with me and we'll be in a world of Vivo v40 Pro I'm sorry no more sign otherwise I'll get a copyright infringement v40 Pro review let's go now the actual design of the Vivo v40 Pro will be very familiar if you are at all accustomed with vivo's recent smartphones it's another whoop and great 6.78 in Behemoth just like the v30 series although thankfully it doesn't feel any more cumbersome to clutch than other recent smartphones because that screen does actually subtly curve around both edges the bezels are minimal at best they're pretty much non-existent and of course not everyone gets on with this sort of curvy design thankfully I haven't had any issues with screen responsiveness even when I've been clutching the phone pretty tight it's still been pretty responsive as you can see there actually that's not entirely true one time when I was using the camera uh the shutter button wouldn't activate until I slightly adjusted the way I was clutching the phone but apart from that full week usage no issues and this bad boy weighs 200 g so not too Hefty either as you can see they pretty skinny stuff the frame is unfortun Ely constructed from plastic not metal which takes away some of the premium Vibe apparently the rest of the phone is constructed from shot alpha glass rather than Gorilla Glass touch words no scratches or scuffs so far after a week of mishandling being stuffed into Pockets with other phones you do get pre-installed screen protector slapped on there which certainly helps and I know mention of an IP rating or any kind of water resistance here so I've certainly steered well clear of bathtubs sinks anything thing that could potentially bark it and this right here is the white model but you can also grab the Vivo v40 Pro in silver or blue and as you can see there are actually hints of blue little flexs of it here in this white model again it's kind of got bathroom TIY kind of Vibes like a lot of Vivo phones you know what I actually kind of like it it's pretty subtle design overall and it's very shiny but also seems pretty resistant to fingerprints scuffs greasy marks so that's definitely a bonus and yes this thing has been quite heavily handled after fish and chips suppers barbecues all kinds of stuff and it's survived looking pretty much box fresh now there's not really been any changes when it comes to the software side of things it's still Android 14 with a good bit of fun touch OS slapped on top my favorite of all of the launches purely because of its silly name it doesn't mess around too much with the Android formula you've still got your apps tray you've got your discover feed got your notifications bar that you can drag down from anywhere just as you can see it's got a bit of a different vibe from standard stock Android and yeah unfortunately you do get a fair stack of crapware shoved on here stuff like Agoda Facebook Lazard whatever that is linked bloody in shoy and quite a few of VI's own bits as well including its own app store its own browser yada yada it's pretty dense and fun touch isn't always the smoothest sadly but overall to be fair it hasn't been behaving badly I haven't seen much in the way of bugs or general Jun and if you love to customize your blow you got tons of options stuffed in here not just the usual Shenanigans like wallpapers themes and always on displays we dive on into Dynamic effects you can adjust everything from the fingerprint icon animations right down to the animation that plays when you insert a USB cable and as for the software support well Vivo doesn't really disappoint in that area you got three OS upgrades for this bad boy so Android 15 16 and 17 and then also four years of security support so it's not the absolute best out there not as good as a OnePlus or a Samsung or a Google but certainly doesn't let itself down either and on the storage front you've got a choice you can either settle for 256 gigs or double up to 512 and know as usual not expandable via micro SD memory cards now no changes when it comes to the display Tech versus the old v30 series it's once again a 6.78 in AMOLED display slapped on this big bugger the 2800 X 1260 pixel resolution so those visuals nice and crispy sharp whether you're edited phos or just kick it back with some random Guff on Netflix or Disney Plus or whatever as always you can fiddle around with the color output inside of the display settings but I like the default effort found it was fairly neutral overall and you got full HDR 10 plus support as well but no Dolby Vision as usual I don't believe the Vivo v40 pro has ltp Tech slapped on here that refresh rate maxes out at 120 HZ you can only manually set it to 60 HZ or 120 that's it and thankfully we have been blessed with some sunshine here in the UK these past couple of days and I've had no issues using the Vivo v40 Pro Outdoors that auto brightness will Max it out quite happily as soon as you set foot outside keep everything nice and clear and it's once again a stereo speaker output on this bad boy there's no Dolby Atmos support or anything you just have super audio inside of the sound settings which get tweak the quality based on what you're up to haven't really noticed any proper difference to be honest we' also got audio super resolution to just boost the quality of low resolution audio and those stereo speakers proper loud and decent quality too just boost up the volume to max give them a bit of a show Cas hello there you magnificent bag of Flesh and organs you come join your uncle's spurt in his Sex Dungeon did I see a Sex Dungeon I meant studio so the earpiece speaker actually probably just as powerful as that bottom speaker so is quite well balanced audio and decent quality even at that maxed out volume which yeah certainly will do the job even in quite a noisy household so now let's stroll away onto the subject of performance and the Vivo v40 Pro is once again powered by Media Tech but that old dimensity 8200 chipset has been upgraded here to a dimensity 9200 plus and that's back here on my review model by 12 lovely gigs of RAM so everyday running fairly smooth as I say occasionally little bits of juddering from good old fun touch but when it comes to gaming the Vivo v40 Pro absolutely smashes it out the park the likes of zenler Zone zero runs absolutely charmingly well nice fluid frame rate even when you bung it on the 60 FPS setting at the highest possible graphic settings everything maxed out touch responsiveness absolutely fine and everything as well and I believe you've got a vapor chamber stuffed inside of the v40 pro just like the previous generation this does help to keep the phone from overheating although it certainly does get quite warm after just about 20ish minutes of gaming thankfully not uncomfortably warm and I certainly didn't see any kind of throttle in here whatsoever so yeah big up the dimensity 9200 plus and if you're a gamer you'll certainly enjoy the v40 pro and oh yeah as usual you do get that fun Tage gaming mode chucked in there pretty handy stuff you can boost the performance when you need to you can reject calls and block notifications you're not Disturbed got the usual options for recording the gameplay and everything if you don't suck at games like I do so the performance certainly gets a massive Old Uncle spurt thumbs up when it comes to the battery life the v40 pro is just some kind of voodoo creation or something that battery capacity has actually been boosted for this model to 5,500 Milah one of the biggest out there and I swear it doesn't matter what you do on this thing you will not be able to kill it within a single day and just as an example so far this morning I've had the screen on for an hour a quarter just demonstrated various bits to you lovely folk at home and that battery percentage has only ticked down to 97% like I've reviewed some smartphones recently where it would be down to 97% by now even if I just left it on the always on display the entire time and I found I can happily make it through two full days on a single charge and that's with plenty of video streaming plenty of camera use Spotify streaming in the background everything I usually do see yeah straight up the Vivo v40 Pro one of the best phones of 2024 for battery life it's like Michael bloody Meers it just will not die and even if you do just completely forget to charge the v40 pro you find you're running on power saver mode well no worries just bu a cable in it for like half an hour that'll give you a full days worth of juice easily cuz you got 80 W wired charging support on here however no Wireless charge and support on here one of the very few criticisms you can actually level against it so let's finish this lovely Wii Vivo v40 Pro review with the squid at the Optics and what you've got here is a triple 50 meg camera setup headlined by Sony's IMX 921 sensor with Optical image stabilization and vivo's camera app is rather full on loads of different options to mess around with including the ability to swap between Vivid textured and Zeiss natural modes and this does make quite a significant difference to your photo textured in particular highlight and whatever is Central in your pick and that's on top of all of the other filters of course you get slapped on here and then of course as always you've got that aura light flash as well which you can manually tweak from warm to cold like so this is now brighter than previous generations and it can also automatically scale from warm to cold depending on the ambient lighting and I found that even in quite strong lighting the Vivo v40 Pro Auto mods generally selects an appropriate ISO level shutter speed Etc to produce quite Rich tones especially if you leave it on that default Vivid mode despite the pixel bin in my test shots were dense with finer details so they look good even when you crop in and when the lights are low any motion does generally result in quite fuzzy blurry pics but the zoom still works pretty well not too much grain creeping in there either but one of the undoubted highlights of the Vivo v40 Pro Camera is the portrait mode again you've got an absolute plethora of options here far too many to be honest including various Boke style effects and also if you tap down here you've got some suggested presets including a bit of landscape portrait Street portrait all at various focal lengths you've actually got a choice of fkal lengths down here as well so 24 for a pulled back dramatic portrait got 50 Ms which is probably my favorite for getting a portrait without being right in your subject's face all the way up to 100 Ms which Zooms in quite far but still gets you a nice crispy snap of your subject and I was very happy with some of the results I saw spaffed out by the v40 pro captur some great luing snaps of your kids your cats that portrait sense is also pretty good for just generally zooming into a scene although you don't want to crop in much more than four times because then things start to look a little bit well disturbing really as an example this here Roland Stones tribute band actually started to look like the Rolling Stones as for that 50 meg Ultra wide angle shooter well again this is perfectly fine for fitting more into frame and for your videot type Shenanigans the Vivo v40 Pro does max out at 4K resolution there's no 8 key option but you can shoot 60 frames per second at Ultra HD and I got to say I was once again pretty impressed by the Home Movies pumped out by the v40 pro even in quite tricky liting conditions this Smartphone didn't absolutely fill its wi fronts managed to keep the visuals pretty bright you can even zoom in a wee bit things don't get too grainy and CAC stabilization is decent as well so you can move around a bit pan and such forth and no worries there it doesn't get too jittery even at 4K level and the audio pickups pretty decent too as long as the sound isn't too full on in crowds things can get a wee bit distorted but not much chunkiness even when it's quite blustery and then yeah up front you can also shoot 4K resolution footage using that selfie Cam and yeah once again pretty good even with strong contrast although the stabilization not quite as good as with those rear cameras and here just a selection of my best selfies taken this past week as you can see I'm a massive selfie fan take a lot of care and attention when shooting these things and that right there my lovelies and atis we nutshell is the Vivo v40 Pro and my review of what I reckon of it after having my sim slapped in there for a full week and I got to see I really bloody like it still a massive fun touch fan despite the hilariously weird name you know what the performance in this thing has been pretty solar the battery life has been absolutely incredible the camera is a lot of fun to use especially that good old portrait mode great if you got kids cats whatever see overall it is a bit of a cracker the only problem is you might struggle to actually find it depending on where in the world you live let us know what you think of the Vivo v40 Pro down in the comments below please do poke subscribe and Di that notifications Bell for more on the latest and greatest Tech and have yourselves a Rudy wonderful rest of the week cheers everyone love you [Music]