Vivo V23 review

The Vivo V23 is an affordable mid-range phone with a dual selfie camera and colour-changing design, but it's not enough to help it stand out from the pack

The Vivo V23 is the cheaper of a pair of phones in the V23 series, the latest in the company’s line of smartphones focussed on selfies and style.

With that in mind, the V23 shares the exact same dual selfie camera as the more powerful V23 Pro, along with its unusual colour-changing design, though this time it’s wrapped in an iPhone-esque square frame.

Design and build

Colour-changing finish

iPhone-style square edges

Glass rear

The Vivo V23’s design stands out in a couple of obvious ways.

The first is the colour. Yes, you can buy it in black, but more interesting is the ‘Sunshine Gold’ finish, which looks gold most of the time but shifts to a striking deep turquoise when the glass catches the light thanks to a UV-reactive finish. It’s a novelty, but a very clever one, and likely to appear in more phones this year – Realme has already appropriated the tech for the Realme 9 Pro phones.

Even the fact that the phone's rear is encased in glass in a highlight, because at this price you're much more likely to find plastic-bodied phones elsewhere. Yes, glass is more fragile - so you may see it as a downside - but it helps make the V23 look and feel far more expensive than it is.

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