VIVO V15 with Helio P70 debuts, drops the In-display fingerprint sensor

At a launch event in India last week, Chinese smartphones maker VIVO had launched the VIVO V15 Pro in the country without announcing the non-pro variant. Now, the company has announced the V15 Pro alongside the vanilla VIVO V15 in Thailand. The VIVO V15 as one would expect is a trimmed variant of the Pro V15, with the most obvious differences the absence and or presence of a rear fingerprint sensor.

Apart from ditching the in-display fingerprint scanner for a capacitive rear scanner, the VIVO V15 gets a slightly larger display, a larger battery as well as a slightly under-powered Helio P70 SoC. Notably, the device retains the 32MP pop-up selfie camera as well as the 12MP + 8MP + 5MP AI triple-camera setup as the Pro variant.

VIVO V15 specs:

• 6.53-inch 19.5:9 FHD+ Ultra FullView display @ 2340 x 1080px, 91.64% screen-to-body ratio
• Corning Gorilla Glass 5
• MediaTek Helio P70 2.1GHz octa-core processor
• Mali-G72 MP3 GPU
• 6GB RAM
• 128GB storage
• Dual SIM (nano + nano)
• 32MP f/2.0 front camera
• 12MP f/1.78 + 8MP f/2.2 + 5MP f/2.4 AI triple rear cameras w/ LED flash
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
• 4G LTE
• Bluetooth 4.2
• GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
• micro USB
• Fingerprint scanner (rear-mounted)
• Jovi AI
• 3.5mm audio port
• FunTouch OS 9 (Android 9 Pie)
• 4,000mAh battery w/ Dual-Engine fast charging
• Topaz Blue
• Ruby Red

Priced at THB 10,999 (~PHP 17,957), you will be able to pre-order the device in Thailand from March 1 to March 8, 2019, in Topaz Blue and Glamor Red.