In mid-December, WhatMobile reported that the Vivo Y12s is coming to Pakistan quickly. Whereas Vivo hasn’t made it official but, our business sources shared the launch timeline with us. Here is what we discovered.

Vivo Y12 successor is launching nationwide within the first week of January 2021, a dependable supply knowledgeable WhatMobile. It’ll be competing with the likes of Redmi 9 Energy and POCO M3 when it does (extra on that in a number of).

The Y-series has a definite, constant design language. And the Vivo Y12s displays that. The acquainted turquoise and comfortable blue gradient duo returns. The 2 editions at the moment are known as Glacier Blue and Phantom Black — each with a frosted glass end. The traces are well-defined, the corners are rounded, and the shell is completely flat.

However the Y12s design itself isn’t probably the most imaginative. The digicam housing is made elaborate and needlessly outsized to emulate higher-end fashions. The entrance digicam is 8MP. And the rear-facing one has a 13MP sensor behind it. Plus, a 2MP digicam tacked on for software-enhanced portraits. Flip the telephone over to discover a generic notch bleeding into the show. A side-facing fingerprint scanner lives within the chassis groove. general a pleasant addition to the Vivo worth checklist.

In contrast to its competitors, the Y12s runs on an out of date chipset. The MediaTek Helio P35 contained in the telephone is roughly three generations previous. Present best-in-class releases from manufacturers like Xiaomi and Realme function the Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 from earlier this 12 months.

The options that Y12 has, each on the software program and {hardware} fronts, are barebones. The digicam is lacking an evening mode, the 5000 mAh battery doesn’t fast-charge, the mono speaker can’t supply stereo. Plus, the display screen is a generic 6.51” 720P panel, not full HD. And it’s anticipated to begin from Rs. 22,999. The similarly-priced POCO M3 has these options and extra.