vivo introduced three-cam
smartphones back in December with the NEX Dual Display, but made the tech more
affordable when the V15 Pro was announced. Starting today, even the really
affordable Y series have a member with three shooters on the back, after the
vivo Y17 was finally made official.
The phone arrives with a tall 6.35” LCD panel with
HD+ resolution and the not so popular tall aspect ratio of 19.3:9. For now, the
phone has only 4 GB RAM and 128 gigs of storage, but the company might launch
more options in the future. The chipset is Helio P35, built on the TSMC 12 nm
FinFET process. In theory, it has eight cores with a maximum frequency of 2.3
GHz, although vivo refrained from announcing it.
The biggest selling point of the phone is clearly
the triple camera. It has an 8 MP f/2.2 wide-angle camera on top, the 13 MP
f/2.2 main shooter is in the middle, with the third cam being a 2 MP depth
sensor. Although the so-called “AI Super Wide-Angle Camera” has 120 degrees FOV,
it actually captures 108 degrees after accounting for distortion. The
front-facing camera is 20 MP with f/2.0 aperture.
Other key features the phone brings is the 18W fast
charging for the monstrous 5,000 mAh battery, the biggest power cell vivo has
ever put in a smartphone. Not everyone can afford a gaming smartphone, so the
company has put Ultra Game Mode in the vivo Y17 that allocates system resources
when you need them; after all, MediaTek updates the Helio P35 to respond to the
specific needs of smartphone gamers.
The phone is already available
for purchase at multiple offline stores in India. It has two colors - Mineral
Blue and Mystic Purple, and only one price tag - INR 17,990 or about US$ 260/€ 230.