Vivo launched the follow-up to its entry-level Vivo Y12 earlier in November this 12 months. The brand new Vivo Y12s is already obtainable in Southeast Asian nations like Hong Kong and Vietnam. And it’s now making its option to South Asia. India’s BIS certification authority not too long ago signed off on the telephone. And given Vivo’s typical launch calendar, it ought to land in Pakistan subsequent.

The certification doc was first noticed by the Twitter telephone leaker, Mukul Sharma, higher often called @stufflistings. It lists Vivo Y12s underneath its mannequin quantity V2026. The telephone has additionally been featured on Russian and Indonesian certification databases.

Vivo Y12s is actually a tweaked model of the Y12 from 2019. It gives an even bigger storage capability and a (comparatively) sooner processor, packaged in a brand new design. Vivo has moved the fingerprint reader to the aspect, the place it doubles as the ability button.

Vivo Y12s, obtainable within the holographic Glacier Blue and Phantom Black, now embeds its three cameras inside a boxy digicam bump. However the front-facing notch remains to be there. To not point out the USB interface is the old-gen micro-USB.

Vivo new mannequin additionally took out the 8MP ultra-wide digicam the Y12 had, leaving the brand new Y12s with a 13MP customary, a 2MP ‘depth digicam’, and an 8MP selfie cam.

The display has barely grown to six.51”. It’s the identical generic IPS LCD panel with a 720P decision — apart from the aspect bezels and the chin, which seem extra noticeable this 12 months. Vivo Y12s weighs the identical as its predecessor however is half a millimeter slimmer.

For the internals, you’re trying on the out of date MediaTek Helio P35 that got here out in early 2018. The chipset works with a 5000 mAh battery with no quick charging help. Distinction it in opposition to the POCO M3 (which roughly falls into the identical worth vary), and Xiaomi’s mannequin has the Snapdragon 662 chipset from January 2020. Even with out contemplating POCO M3’s 1080P display, twin stereo audio system, quick charging help, and its 6000 mAh battery, the Y12s worth to cost ratio is way decrease.

Vivo Y12s has the identical 3GB/4GB of reminiscence and 32GB of base storage as earlier than, however the 64GB model has been changed with a 128GB one. We anticipate it to start out from  Rs. 22,999.