News & Reviews:   vivo V5s specs

With the continuing promotion of the vivo V7+, it has been announced that the V5s price has been lowered down to RM1199. The original price was RM1299 and the new discount is applied to all vivo retail stores, collaboration partner’s outlets and its official online store at Lazada.com.my. On the other hand, there's also a V7+ promotion at the Harvey Norman Gaming Expo at Paradigm Mall.

The KL Fashion Week 2017 has come to a close and has officially marked its successful 5-years show in Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur. Started from 16 August, 150 designers came and show cased their latest fashion to the public. It is also the first time for vivo to be featured with its vivo V5s as the official smartphone of #KLFW2017.

Just last week, some of you have probably heard of Celcom's newest, craziest and biggest plans. Yup, we are talking about the latest FIRST Gold Supreme and FIRST Platinum Plus postpaid plans that we covered last week which is offering everyone 100GB and 50GB worth of Internet data and more.

Here's some news flash, Senheng Electric Sdn Bhd has just recently announced a new partnership with vivo Malaysia, allowing every Senheng customers to purchase the vivo V5Plus, V5s and the Y66 with benefits starting from 10 August 2017 at all Senheng outlets nationwide.

As reported from a Gfk market research study, a majority of Malaysians seem to favour midrange smartphones more now. That seems to be true nowadays as many flagship smartphones today seem to require your selling your kidney just to own one. Midrangers, which we define as from RM800 to RM1300, are getting better every month and if you're hunting for such a smartphone, here are our Top 5 Midrange Trending Smartphones so far in no particular order. 

If you're looking for an affordable mid-range phone that can take good pictures, look no further than the vivo V5 because its price has just been slashed to RM1099 (originally RM1199). To recap, the V5 was the first of the series to include a huge 20MP front camera for selfie purpose and the promotion is applied to all retail vivo stores and its official online store at Lazada.com.my.

In the upcoming Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week Ready-To-Wear 2017 that will take place in Pavilion, KL from 16-20 August 2017, vivo Malaysia has announced that the vivo V5s is the official smartphone of this year’s Fashion Week event, thanks to its heavy marketing on the #PerfectSelfie with Datin Sri Siti Nurhaliza as well as the 20MP Sony IMX376 sensor with f/2.0 aperture and the updated Selfie Softlight. In addition, they are also holding a Fabulicious vivo OOTD Contest that has already started until 5 August 2017.

Thanks to vivo's marketing, almost everyone knows that their smartphones, particularly the vivo V5s is known as the #PerfectSelfie smartphone. Packing a 20MP Sony IMX 376 front camera with an aperture of f/2.0 and an updated Selfie Spotlight,  the V5s truly lives up to its reputation. But did you also know that the selfie phone does well in gaming too?

In case you missed it, the vivo V5s Matte Black edition is already available in Malaysia since 17 June 2017. And to make it better for the coming Raya season, vivo Malaysia will be giving away some gifts for their customers in its Heboh Raya Deal promotion starting now until 31 July 2017.

We have already told you about the vivo V5Plus Matte Black edition, now the V5s Matte Black edition will be coming as well on 17 June 2017 for the same price of RM1299. Although it’s marketed as the #PerfectSelfie smartphone, the V5s also features a HiFi audio chipset (AK4376) for better clarity and quality of sound, allowing it to work as a headphone amplifier well.