Review Summary
Expert Rating
The Vivo T4x is a direct successor to the Vivo T3x (review), which launched in May 2024. The latter was a fiercely competitive device in its price segment. It remained among the top phones in plenty of lists for smartphones under Rs 15,000 on our webpage, particularly performance and battery-centric lists. With such a challenge on its shoulders, the Vivo T4x has a lot to prove.
The new Vivo T4x seems more than up for the challenge! With an upgraded MediaTek Dimensity 7300 processor, a beefier 6,500mAh battery, a stereo speaker setup and much more, it certainly packs a lot of power. The question being, is that enough to reclaim its top spot under Rs 15,000? Let’s find out in this review.
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Verdict
The Vivo T4x gets the basics right with strong performance, excellent battery life, and a dependable camera setup. The design is stylish, and the overall experience feels well-rounded. That said, the lack of expandable storage and a few pre-installed apps might be a slight inconvenience. If you’re after a phone that delivers where it matters most, the Vivo T4x is easily one of the best options in its class.
Design & display
Thickness | Weight | |
Vivo T4x | 8.19 mm | 208 grams |
POCO M7 Pro | 7.99 mm | 190 grams |
Realme P3x | 7.9 mm | 197 grams |
The Vivo T4x’s design has been slightly revamped compared to its predecessor. The circular camera island has been replaced with a rectangular design with two camera rings, a flash unit, and a circular LED Dynamic ring that glows during music playback and notifications. While it looks similar to the Aura Light in more expensive Vivo phones like the V50, its functionality is quite limited.
There’s also some key quality-of-life upgrades, like the rounded edges that make the device more comfortable to hold and IP64 rating for dust and water resistance.
The rear panel comes in a beautiful shimmery design with a glass-like finish and feels great to touch, although it tends to get marred with fingerprints. You get a speaker grille, USB-C port, and SIM tray on the bottom edge, while the volume and power buttons are on the right edge as usual.
Display | Peak brightness | |
Vivo T4x | 6.72-inch FHD+ LCD | 1050 nits |
POCO M7 Pro | 6.67-inch FHD+ AMOLED | 2100 nits |
Realme P3x | 6.72-inch FHD+ LCD | 950 nits |
For display, you still get a 6.72-inch IPS panel with FHD+ (2408 x 1080p) resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and an 83 percent NTSC colour coverage. Despite being an LCD panel, the display has punchy colours with its wide colour space and good contrast. The panel is one of the brightest I’ve experienced yet with its 1050 nits high brightness mode and remains perfectly legible even under direct sunlight.
The viewing angles are good and with Widevine L1 support, you can enjoy FHD content on your favourite streaming platforms. The paired stereo speakers add depth to the multimedia experience and its a good inclusion over its predecessor. Barring an AMOLED panel, this is one of the better displays yet at this price.
Cameras
Cameras are one aspect where there’s been no major change from the last generation. The Vivo T4x still uses a 50MP primary camera paired with a 2MP depth sensor. For selfies and video calls, you get an 8MP front camera. Daylight shots are quite appealing, offering good dynamic range, sharp details, and well-balanced colours.
While Vivo does boost the colours a little, it doesn’t go overboard, keeping things natural yet vibrant. The front camera, despite its lower 8MP resolution, holds its own in good lighting and delivers decent facial details and pleasing colours.
Low-light photography, however, could use some more work, especially the night mode, which tends to crank up the colours a bit too much, taking away from the natural feel of the shot. Worry not, however, as the standard low-light shots perform just as well without the additional colour correction.
As for videos, you get up to 4K recording at 30 fps, though that’s limited to variants with 8GB RAM. There’s no OIS on the primary camera, so video stability isn’t the best, but overall, the recording quality is quite good.
I compared the Vivo T4x’s cameras against its chief competitors, the Realme P3x and POCO M7 Pro (review) below:
Daylight
The key difference between the daylight shots of the Vivo T4x and the POCO M7 Pro is their colour science. The former’s image has a warmer tone, while the latter leans towards cooler hues. In terms of details, they’re both even, though the Vivo T4x has a wider dynamic range. The Vivo T4x’s image is also slightly sharper, although that does add some noise in the darker areas.
The Vivo T4x and Realme P3x’s daylight shots are quite on par with each other. They both have a warm colour profile and the level of detail is on par with each other. The latter’s image tunes up the colours a bit more, making them appear richer than they are. The Vivo T4x’s image appears slightly sharper due to processing and that adds noise in the darker parts of the image.
Portrait
Right away, you’ll notice the POCO M7 Pro’s edge detection is not up to par compared to the Vivo T4x in portrait shots, particularly towards the left side of the subject’s face. Except for that, the POCO M7 Pro’s image is better than the Vivo T4x for a few reasons. The former’s image has better clarity, while Vivo T4x’s image adds some noise to the subject’s face. POCO M7 Pro’s skin colour reproduction is also comparatively more realistic.
The Realme P3x also struggles when it comes to edge detection and fails to separate background and foreground as efficiently. In terms of details, both these phones are roughly on par, although the Realme P3x tends to smooth out the skin. The Vivo T4x’s skin colour reproduction is still closer to reality compared to its competitor.
Selfie
The Vivo T4x selfies showcase a sight red tint while favouring a warmer colour profile. It makes the image more appealing, although the skin tone appears a little unnatural as a consequence. The POCO M7 Pro’s image, in turn, looks slightly washed out due to its cooler tone. The M7 Pro’s image also adds slight graininess to the subject’s face when you zoom in closer, while the Vivo T4x preserves texture better.
The Realme P3x delivers the best skin colour reproduction out of the lot and represents the scene more closely. It does falter a little in terms of details, however, as its selfie camera struggles to capture facial details clearly. While not very colour accurate, the Vivo T4x has an advantage in terms of clarity and facial details compared to the Realme P3x.
Low-light
The POCO M7 Pro and Vivo T4x’s night shots are quite close to each other. They both offer roughly the same level of detail, although the Vivo T4x has slightly better sharpness. There’s a big difference in their colour science too, as the POCO M7 Pro keeps the colours more natural while the Vivo T4x changes the scene entirely and takes a lot of liberties with colours.
The Realme P3x artificially boosts the sharpness in its image, which leads to a loss of detail. In terms of colour accuracy, it does boost colours slightly but the image looks more appealing since the contrast level is higher. The Vivo T4x, in turn, has better details and edge detection but its colour representation could have been better.
Performance & software
Vivo has chosen the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 SoC this time around compared to the Snapdragon offering in its predecessor. The Dimensity 7300 is rather rare at this price and is more common across phones priced around Rs 18,000 or more. With a capable chipset at its core and up to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM & 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage, the performance on this phone is pretty damn sweet. One point of contention though is there’s no expandable storage, so you’re all in on the storage variant you chose.
The phone dwarfs its main competitors in terms of performance, there’s no jitters or lags in day-to-day use and even demanding tasks like gaming or multitasking are handled quite efficiently. The Vivo T4x maintains a lead over its prime competitors in basically all major synthetic benchmarks, as you can see in the images attached. Its gaming performance too is a notch above its competitors and the device offers better average FPS and higher frame rate support in BGMI.
The phone comes with Funtouch OS 15 based on Android 15 out of the box. The OS is quite stable and smooth for day-to-day use and offers you tonnes of features. There’s a lot of options to customise OS animations as well, from the app drawer, home screen, face unlock, screen lock, etc., and you can add a personal flair to your device.
Vivo has also reduced the number of pre-installed apps on the device, however, there’s still a few random apps and app folders like ‘Hot Apps’ which can be somewhat annoying to remove.
You also have a suite of AI features like AI Screen Translate, Live Image (extract text from images), Circle to Search, etc., which basically function as their namesakes. The AI Documentation is a new feature that helps you quickly scan photos and convert them to files in moments. You get 2 major OS upgrades till Android 17 and security updates till 2028, which is pretty standard for this price segment.
Pre-installed apps | Software support | |
Vivo T4x | 55 | 2 OS upgrades + 3 years security |
POCO M7 Pro | 71 | 2 OS upgrades + 4 years security |
Realme P3x | 63 | 2 OS upgrades + 3 years security |
Battery & charging
The Vivo T4x’s 6500mAh battery is, without a doubt, its biggest strength. While its PCMark battery benchmark score is fairly average for the price segment, that number doesn’t quite tell the full story. In 91mobiles’ lab tests that span roughly two hours of streaming and gaming, the phone’s battery dropped by just 16 percent. For context, most phones in this price range see a drop of around 23 to 26 percent in similar conditions, making the T4x a lot more power-efficient.
I easily managed around 10 hours of screen-on time with my usage, which leans slightly towards the heavier side. Even power users should have little to worry about. The phone supports 44W fast charging, and despite its massive battery, it refuels at a satisfactory pace. A 20 to 100 percent charge takes just over an hour. While that might seem a tad long for 2025, you’re only going to need a top-up every 1.5 days or so, pretty solid for a phone in this segment.
Battery | Charging time | |
Vivo T4x | 6500mAh | 67 minutes (44W) |
POCO M7 Pro | 5110mAh | 53 minutes (33W) |
Realme P3x | 6000mAh + | 74 minutes (45W) |
Final Verdict
The Vivo T4x starts at Rs 13,999 for the 6GB + 128GB variant, with the top-end 8GB + 256GB model priced at Rs 16,999. For its starting price, the device offers immense value, making it a solid choice in its segment. It brings a stylish design, excellent performance, stellar battery life, and a respectable camera setup. There’s little to complain about, aside from the lack of expandable storage and a fair amount of pre-installed apps.
Its closest competitors include the POCO M7 Pro (review) and the newly launched Realme P3x. The POCO M7 Pro’s AMOLED display makes it a strong multimedia alternative, but it doesn’t match up in terms of raw power and battery life. The Realme P3x is a closer rival, offering slightly less battery life but lags behind in performance.
The Vivo T4x absolutely nails the essentials, delivering great value for users who want a well-rounded device with strong performance, excellent battery life, and a reliable camera setup. If those are your priorities, there aren’t many phones that can match the Vivo T4x at this price.
Editor’s Rating: 8/10
Reasons to buy:
- The Vivo T4x’s performance is unmatched in its price bracket.
- Its camera setup is reliable and produces good results in both daylight and low light.
- The battery life is extremely impressive and will last most users a day and a half.
Reasons not to buy:
- There’s no microSD card slot, so you can’t expand the device storage.
- There’s a few pre-installed apps out of the box.