Elephone U Pro vs Vivo X20

Elephone took the wraps off its long-awaited U Pro smartphone in February 2018. The Vivo X20 smartphone was launched back in September, last year. Here’s a rundown of how the two well-received smartphones are different on the basis of design, hardware, and price.

The U Pro sports an appealing metal mix and glass body design along with an AMOLED, FHD+ curved edge (2160 x 1080 pixel) display. It comes with Gorilla Glass 5 that offers additional protection to its 19:9 full view display.

In addition to a fingerprint scanner, there’s a 13MP + 13MP dual camera mounted on the back. The U Pro sports an 8MP camera for selfies in the front.

The phone’s dimensions are 6.06 in x 2.85 in x 0.33 in (LxWxH) and its weight is 166 grams. It is currently up for grabs in two color choices including black and blue.

The Vivo-branded X20 smartphone is housed in a robust aluminum alloy body. It features an eye-catching bezel-less super AMOLED display with a screen resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels.

The X20 sports a 12MP + 12MP dual camera setup on the back for the photography enthusiasts. There’s a fingerprint scanner along with a 12MP camera placed in the front.

The phone’s length is 155.85 mm, its width is 75.15 mm, height is 7.2 mm and its weight with battery is 159 grams. You can choose from 3 color options including rose-gold, black, and gold.

The Elephone-made U Pro smartphone packs a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 660, 64-bit processor, under the hood. Aside from that, it uses a Qualcomm Adreno 512 graphics processing unit.

It offers 4GB/6GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB of internal memory that supports MicroSD (TF) external storage up to 128GB. The U Pro draws its juices from a built-in 3,550mAh Lithium-Polymer battery that delivers up to 289 hours of standby time and up to 14.7 hours of talk time.

The Elephone U Pro comes with 3 card slots including microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC. On top of that, it features all sorts of sensors including a proximity sensor, gyroscope sensor, accelerometer sensor, fingerprint scanner, and an e-compass sensor.

The Vivo X20 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 MSM8956 Plus, 64-bit processor and it packs a Qualcomm Adreno 512 GPU, under the hood. The phone has 4GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB of expandable internal memory (up to 256GB via SIM 2 slot).

It comes with a hybrid dual-SIM (nano + nano/microSDCard) slot with dual standby and is backed by a 3,245mAh Lithium-Polymer battery. The built-in cell is capable of delivering up to 290 hours of standby time and up to 11 hours of talk time.

The X20 has 3 card slots including microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC. Apart from that, the phone boasts an array of useful sensors such as proximity sensor, accelerometer, compass, ambient light, gyroscope, and a fingerprint sensor.

The Elephone U Pro smartphone will set you back about $385 and $425 while the Vivo X20 smartphone can be yours if you’re willing to shell out about $454. You can check out a more detailed comparison between the two smartphones below.

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General

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Model
    Elephone U Pro X20
  • Released
    11 February, 2018
  • Status
    Available Available

Design

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.
    Bar Bar
  • Dimensions
    6.06 in x 2.85 in x 0.33 in 155.85 x 75.15 x 7.2 mm
  • Weight
    166 Grams 159g
  • Waterproof
    No No

Display

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)
    AMOLED capacitive touch Display Super AMOLED
  • Size
    5.99-Inch FHD+ 6.01 inch
  • Resolution
    2160 x 1080 Pixels 2160 x 1080 (FHD+)
  • Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.
    16.7 Million 16.7 Million Colors
  • Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.
    403.16 PPI Pixel Density 402 ppi
  • Touch Screen
    Yes Multitouch Capacitive Touchscreen Yes
  • Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.
    Yes Corning Gorilla Glass 5 Corning Gorilla Glass 4
  • Features
    AMOLED, FHD+ Display
    Bezel-less
    403.16 PPI Pixel Density
    2.5D curved glass screen
    Full Lamination Technology
    Corning Gorilla Glass 5
    0.063mm dot pitch
    18:9 aspect ratio
    Super Minimal Bezels
    10-point Touch Screen
    Capacitive Touchscreen

Hardware

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • CPU The main chipset of the device.
    Octa Core 2.2GHz Kryo CPU Clock
  • GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.
    Qualcomm Adreno 512 GPU Adreno 512
  • RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.
    4GB/6GB 4GB
  • Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.
    64GB/128GB 64GB
  • Memory Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.
    microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC Yes (up to 256GB)
  • Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.
    Proximity Sensor
    Gyroscope Sensor
    Accelerometer sensor
    Fingerprint Scanner (Rear Mounted)
    E-Compass Sensor
    Fingerprint Sensor (Rear), Gravity Sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Gyroscope

Software

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.
    Android 8.0 Oreo OS Android 7.1.1
  • User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.
    Yes with Modified Android Funtouch OS 3.0

Camera

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Rear Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.
    13 Megapixel + 13 Megapixel 12 MP f/1.8 + 5 MP
  • Image
    4163 x 3122 Pixels
  • Video
    2160@30fps, 1080p@60fps 1080p@30fps
  • Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration)
    Yes Dual-LED Flash LED Flash
  • Front Camera
    Yes 8 Megapixel with 1080P 12 MP, f/2.0

Network

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.
    Nano SIM Nano SIM
  • Dual SIM
    Yes with Dual Nano SIM Support Yes (With Hybrid MicroSD Expansion)

Connectivity

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.
    WiFi: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Dual Band Wi-Fi, WiFi Display, Hotspot Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Dual-Band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA
  • USB
    USB Type-C, 1.0 with Charging and Mass Storgae MicroUSB 2.0, (Support OTG)
  • GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.
    Yes With GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS Yes - GPS/ AGPS/ GLONASS/ BDS
  • NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.
    No No
  • Wireless Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.
    No
  • Headphone Jack
    Yes Yes

Battery

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Capacity Battery Capacity
    3,550 mAh
  • Placement
    Non-Removal Non-Removable

Media

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • Video Playback
    Yes Support MP4, RMVB, RMVB, MOV, ASF, MPEG, H.263, H.264, AVI, FLV, 3GP MP4 (H.264 Support)
  • Video Out
    Yes with Wireless Media Link
  • FM Radio
    Yes FM Radio No
  • Ring Tones
    Yes Yes
  • Loudspeaker
    Yes Yes
  • Handsfree
    Yes

Data

  • Elephone U ProVivo X20
  • 4G LTE 4G LTE bands
    Yes
  • Speed
    TDD/TD-LTE: B38/B39/B40/B41(2555-2655MHz) FDD-LTE: B1 2100MHz / B20 800MHz / B3 1800MHz / B7 2600MHz HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, LTE+

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