Copying galore! Vivo’s boarded the ship of extreme iPhone X copying with not one but two releases. Meet the Vivo X21 for now. The smartphone, as mentioned above, is a copied version of Apple’s famed 10^th anniversary flagship and it shelters a lot like the iPhone X and is made from similar build materials as well.

iPhone X from toe to toe

The Vivo X21 masterfully mimics the iPhone X not only by design but by build quality as well. While most other smartphone manufacturers have copied the iPhone’s looks, Vivo went a step ahead by finely copying its build materials as well. Therefore, what you have is dual-glass panel design that’s finely polished with excellent dimensions that include a 7mm width and 159g weight that do full justice to the X21’s beautiful exterior.

Display: from start to finish

Like the iPhone X, the X21’s display stretches from the very top of the smartphone’s front panel to its very bottom. Unlike some manufacturers that have kept a tiny front bottom bezel, Vivo’s ditched that to try and copy the aforementioned iPhone to near 100% cloning. The smaller notch is notch and the LED flash of the primary camera not residing between the dual camera sensors are the only things that separate the two.

Coming back to the display, the Vivo X21 features a large 6.28 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 402ppi pixel density. That’s exactly what the doctor ordered as the display’s fully capable to produce a stunning 1080p HD resolution atop its full-stretched display giving you excellent graphics and sharper details in the process.

Two gigantic cameras

It was no surprise to see the Vivo X21 featuring a dual primary sensor as they’ve become the norm nowadays. What’s important is their prowess and the smartphone’s 12 + 5 MP sensor with dual-pixel phase detection autofocus and an LED flash is filled with loads of it. If you’re camera-savvy, the X21 has finely got you covered.

The selfie sensor is a beast on its own with a whopping 12 MP sensor. That’s on par with what many primary camera sensors can offer so the X21’s camera’s department is well set to shine!

Complimentary hardware to its all-round features

It would’ve been a sin for Vivo to go easy on the hardware after stuffing some immaculate features inside the X21. The smartphone is powered by a powerful hybrid octa-core processor with the two following variants ready to mesmerize you only separated by their internal storage:

• 128GB internal storage plus 6GB RAM
• 64GB storage plus 6GB RAM

Both the variants are power-packed nevertheless. To ensure further compliance with modern-day standards, the X21 houses loads of other goodies; these include a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, fast battery charging and a very respectable non-removable 3200 mAh battery to power-up the X21 with good battery life. An external card-slot ensures you get to further beef it up by 256 gigs if necessary.

As for the colour schemes you get Black, White and Red all of which will look fantastic atop the X21.

Vivo X21 pros:

• A genuinely good, all-purpose smartphone with everything from its build quality to the cameras department doing a genuinely good job

Vivo X21 cons:

• Heavily copied but would you even care?