Earlier this year, vivo unveiled the vivo V50 Lite 5G. It came just days after the V50 Lite 4G. Now the company is introducing the next generation and it starts with the 5G model this time. Meet the vivo V60 Lite 5G.
One of the key upgrades is the new old Dimensity 7360-Turbo chipset. This chip was just announced by MediaTek, but it is essentially the same as the Dimensity 7300 – we compared the official spec sheet and didn’t see any changes. It’s a 4nm chip with 4x Cortex-A78 (2.5GHz) and 4x A55 CPU cores, plus a Mali-G615 MC2 GPU and a 655 NPU. And note that this is the Turbo variant of the 7360… whatever that means. Jokes aside, this is a notable improvement over the Dimensity 6300 inside the V50 Lite.
There are other improvements too – the 6.77” OLED display now has 10-bit colors and supports HDR10+ (Netflix and Prime Video have been tested). This is a 1080p+ display with 120Hz refresh rate. Like its predecessor, this one has stereo speakers.
Vivo managed to slim the phone down by 0.2mm, so the V60 Lite now measures 7.59mm thick. The good news is that it maintains the same battery capacity, 6,500mAh, and the same 90W fast charging. According to vivo’s testing, a fully charged battery lets you play PUBG for 12 hours or watch over 27 hours of YouTube. And the fast charge system is good enough that a nearly dead phone (1% battery) can charge for 10 minutes and have enough juice to continue watching YouTube for 6.6 hours more.
The company positions the V60 Lite as something of a gaming phone. It has bypass charging (which reduces heat and prolongs battery life) and a utility that lets you pick between battery saver and performance modes, in addition to giving you control over the refresh rate.
The camera is the same as before with a 50MP IMX882 (1/1.95”) sensor in the main and an 8MP 120° ultra-wide camera joining it. The AI Soft Ring is vivo’s ring flash. The selfie camera has a 32MP 1/3.1” sensor. The upgraded chipset allows for 4K video recording with both the rear and the front cameras – the V50 Lite topped out at 1080p.
Speaking of the chipset, it’s paired with 8GB or 12GB of LPDDR4X and 256GB UFS 3.1 storage. It runs Android 15 out of the box – vivo promises “5 years of smooth experience”, but that’s not the same thing as promising 5 OS updates.
One thing that we would have liked to see upgraded is the IP rating – the new model has the same IP65 rating as its predecessor. It has a drop-resistant design, though, which is probably more important than higher water resistance levels (that’s not new, the V50 Lite also passed the MIL-STD-810H tests).
vivo V60 Lite 5G colorways
The vivo V60 Lite 5G appeared on the company’s Taiwanese site. There is no word on pricing yet – nor any details on when this model might launch in other regions.
