In November last year, Vivo launched the Y12s packing a Mediatek Helio P35 processor. The smartphone was only launched in India in January this year. The Chinese tech giant has now unveiled another budget offering dubbed Vivo Y12s 2021.

The Y12s 2021 is an upgrade of the original model as it retains most of the features from last year’s model with just a few differences. The Vivo Y12s 2021 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 processor as against the MediaTek Helio P35 utilised on last year’s model. The phone is available in a sole 3GB RAM and 32GB storage option but there is a dedicated MicroSD slot for expanding the storage.

The Y12s 2021 sports an impressive 6.51-inch LCD screen with an HD+ resolution. The display houses a waterdrop notch at the top which holds the selfie camera. At the rear, there is a dual camera setup and LED flash located in a vertically aligned module at the top left corner of the panel. The sensors include a 13MP main camera and a 2MP depth sensor while the front camera is an 8MP shooter.

In terms of the interface, the Vivo Y12s 2021 runs on Funtouch OS 11 which is based on Android 11 OS. That’s a major upgrade over the Y12s which runs on Android 10. There is no fingerprint scanner on the back instead, the device packs a side-mounted fingerprint scanner integrated with the power button.

Keeping the lights on is a generous 5,000 mAh battery. The battery charges via a micro-USB port at a speed of up to 10W. The phone also supports 5V/1A reverse charging. Vivo touts the battery as capable of withstanding up to 17.4 hours of HD movies viewing and 10.2 hours of continuous gaming on a single charge.

The Vivo Y12s 2021 is presently up for grabs in Vietnam via e-retailer FPTShop for VND3,290,000 (~$140). The budget smartphone is available in Mysterious Black and Ice Blue color options. We don’t know when Vivo will release the smartphone in other markets.

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Chinese smartphone maker vivo will be soon launching a new model in the vivo Y12 series. This device will be called vivo Y12s 2021. The existence of this handset has been revealed by its Google Play Console listing and Indonesia Telecom certification.

According to Indonesia Telecom certification, the upcoming vivo Y12s 2021 will bear the model number V2039. On the other hand, the phone’s Google Play Console listing reveals some of its primary specs.

This forthcoming budget smartphone will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 SoC. In case you do not know, last year’s vivo Y12s features a MediaTek Helio P35 chipset.

Further, the device will have 3GB RAM just like its predecessor. It will also have the same HD+ display with a resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels and 300 DPI. Also, it will run Android 11 out of the box.

Unfortunately, nothing else is known about this handset. But going by other models in the vivo Y12 series, we expect the vivo Y12s 2021 to feature a similar design and identical set of specifications.

As of now, all we can say is the vivo Y12s 2021 will differ from the original vivo Y12s in terms of the chipset. However, there could be some differences in camera setup and other parameters.

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