Vivo V50 Up For Pre-booking in Nepal — But I am Not Really Excited About It!

The Vivo V50 is the newest member of the V-series smartphones — a widely popular choice in the Rs. 60–70,000 price range. It is the successor to the V40 and launched on 18 March 2025.

What is the price of the Vivo V50 in Nepal?

Vivo V50 went public in Nepal on 18 March 2025, and its price is Rs. 67,999 for the 12/256GB variant. It is available for purchase in all Vivo-authorised stores across the country.

The phone is up for pre-booking until 24 March 2025. As a part of the pre-order offer, customers get Vivo TWS Earbuds for FREE and can enjoy a 50-day replacement guarantee on hardware issues. The latter will only be valid until the end of April this year.

The slight price hike of Rs. 2,000 this year didn’t quite sit right with me because the Vivo V50 offers no major upgrades over its predecessor, except for a larger battery and slightly faster charging.

“Well, those sound like upgrades. Why would Vivo lower the prices?” you might ask. However, the company has cut costs in less obvious areas. Hence, I believe Vivo should have reduced the phone’s price or — at least — kept it unchanged. But here we are!

Anyhoo, let’s discuss all that, and more on the Vivo V50 in further detail in this article.

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Vivo V50 Overview

Design

The Vivo V50 looks almost unchanged compared to its predecessor, with most of the design language looking the same. However, this time around, the Chinese smartphone company has opted for fully curved frames. The V40 in contrast had flat edges on the top and bottom while only the sides were curved. This phone still boasts both an IP68 as well as an IP69 rating, which is a positive in my books.

Another subtle change comes on the back, where the camera island is a bit short, and the ovular indentation is now gone. The Aura Light is larger, and another camera-like dot — what probably was the flicker sensor — that sat right under the flash last year, is a goner as well. More on that later.

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Even though the phone shipped in wider colour choices internationally, including the beautiful looking Ancora Red one. However, the Nepali audience is only getting two options: Starry Blue and Satin Black.

The hero here is the Starry Blue, which has a shooting-stars-like reflective pattern on the back. Meanwhile, the Satin Black is plain and simple, and won’t offend anyone. Interestingly, it has plastic for the back panel, while the Blue one gets more premium feeling glass.

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Display

On the front of the Vivo V50, you are looking at a 6.77-inch AMOLED with up to 120Hz refresh rate. Given that it isn’t an LTPO panel, this phone does not have an adaptive refresh rate, instead, it flickers between 60, 90, and well, 120Hz.

It stretches FHD+ (1,080 x 2,392 pixels) in resolution and is a 10-bit panel that can display 1.07 billion colours while covering DCI-P3 colour space. It can reach a peak brightness of 4,500 nits, while on a day-to-day basis the actual number caps at around 1300 nits.

The screen is HDR10+ capable and is SGS-certified for Low Blue Light, and is protected by some “Shield Glass” apparently boosting the drop resistance by 50%.

With all this, it is indeed a good display. But, it is sort of a downgrade compared to the last generation. This is because the Vivo V40 was marginally larger at 6.78-inch, and had significantly higher resolution at 1,260 x 2,800 pixels. As a result, the pixel density on the Vivo V50 is actually over 14% lower.

Snapdragon 7 Gen 3… Again?

For the third year in a row, Vivo has stuck with the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 for its V-series smartphone. It was fine for the Vivo V40, but at this point, it just feels overdone. Meanwhile, competing phones in this price range are packing much more potent chipsets.

Take the OnePlus Nord 4 and Realme GT 6T for instance, they rock the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3. Or the Xiaomi 14T with its Dimensity 8300 Ultra. All of them outperform the 7 Gen 3 quite significantly. Even the Exynos 1580 in the soon-to-arrive Galaxy A56 seems to be a stronger silicon on paper.

As such, the Vivo V50, sadly, will probably be one of the weakest phones performance-wise this year. It might not be the bottom of the pack though, as the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro with Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 might be the one to hold that place. But, we can’t say for sure until we’ve run some tests ourselves.

Bigger Battery and Other Hardware

At this point, increasing the battery size seems to be a tradition for the Vivo V series phones, and the Vivo V50 is no exception. This time, it packs a 6,000mAh Bluevolt (silicon carbide) battery, a decent increase over the 5,500mAh we got on the V40.

The charging speed has also inched up to 90W from 80W. Not a game-changer, but it’s an upgrade, to say the least. Other than that, it’s the usual business — 12/256GB configuration with the same LPDDR4X RAM, and the same UFS 2.2 storage.

One eye-catching spec, though, is the VC cooling system. Vivo claims a whopping 25,489 mm² cooling area, which sounds absolutely bonkers since we’re used to seeing sub-6,000 mm² figures here.

Of course, there’s a catch! Vivo’s number includes everything — graphite, copper, and the total heat dissipation area — all stacked together to make the figure look massive. If we stick to the conventional way of measuring just the heat dissipation area, the actual number is 3,806 mm² — which is… fine, I guess.

Camera and OS

Alright, so the cameras! It is one single thing that makes the Vivo V-series phone super attractive. And, Vivo has gone with the “Don’t fix things that aren’t broken” mantra over here.

It’s the same setup. A 50MP main camera, a 50MP ultrawide, and a 50MP selfie snapper. Looking at the specs sheet, the only difference I could find was the ultrawide camera now has a 0.4° wider field of view.

Apparently, the stabilisation got better with a CIPA 4.0 rating and there is a new shooting mode called the film camera mode. The Vivo V50 also offers a cinematic mode, allowing you to switch the point of focus.

And the other change — a not-so-good one — is the flicker sensor is gone. It was supposed to help eliminate banding effects in photos, like the pulsating of light bulbs and water ripples. I guess, we don’t need that any more. Other than that, hopefully, the post-processing and software side of things have gotten even better.

On the topic of software, the Vivo V50 boots on the FuntouchOS 15 based on the Android 15. We will be getting three years of OS, and four years of security updates.

We also need to have AI and all the smart stuff, obviously. So, we get Google Gemini, Live Call and Screen Translation, AI Script, and well, Circle to Search.

Vivo V50 Price in Nepal and Availability

The Vivo V50 launched on 18 March 2025 in Nepal and its price is Rs. 67,999 for the 12/256GB variant. As a part of the pre-order offer, the company is bundling FREE Vivo TWS Earbuds and a 50-Day Replacement Guarantee on Hardware.

The Vivo V50 — excuse my words — feels like a boring rehash. Same design, the same processor, and the same cameras. The only real upgrades are a bigger battery and slightly faster charging but at the cost of a downgraded display and no flicker sensor.

With Vivo V50’s reluctance to change while the competition is heating up in this price range, could it still hold the same pedestal it once did?

What do you think about the Vivo V50? Let us know in the comments!