The Vivo X Fold 6 is a comfortable, powerful foldable with excellent cameras and genuinely useful multitasking features. Bugs, software quirks and worrying lens condensation hold it back from perfection, but it’s still the foldable to buy if you don’t want to import the Oppo Find N6.

• Smooth hinge that holds well at different angles
• Well optimised software for flexible, large display
• Strong camera system for a foldable
• Strong battery life

• Saw condensation gather inside the lens of the main lens
• Software quirks like disappearing keyboard
• Ultrawide camera is weak compared to the other two sensors

• Foldable-optimised software OriginOS supports four-app multitasking, hinge gestures and a laptop-style trackpad mode.

• Strong foldable camera system Large primary and 3x telephoto sensors deliver detailed, natural-looking shots.

• The EU model comfortably lasts a full day of heavy use and can stretch to two days with lighter usage.

Vivo has chosen an unusual time to launch its flagship foldable into wider global markets.

With the foldable market now shifting towards the squatter form factors of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Xiaomi 18 Fold and iPhone Duo, the Vivo’s more traditional, longer shaping stands against that trend. 

Still, because the Oppo Find N6 didn’t launch anywhere outside Australia and Asia, having the Vivo launch in European markets means we can still – sort of – get a taste of that action. 

• Older, taller foldable design
• Smooth hinge mechanism
• Crease is there, but it’s not terrible

Despite being technically separate companies, you can still see where Vivo shares similarities with its sister brand, Oppo.

From a design perspective, there are elements which seem quite familiar, having used the Oppo Find N6. The symmetrical, circular camera mound on the back, the shaping of the aluminium frame, and the corner radius of the glass over the display and the glass panel on the back all have that essence of Oppo about them. 

There are subtle differences that do help the Vivo feel like it stands apart. And they’re ways which, to me, make the phone I’d rather pick up and use. Compared to the Oppo and even the Z Fold 8 Ultra, the Vivo is shorter and wider. That gives its cover display a less narrow, stretched-out feel, and makes it just that bit more comfortable to use one- or two-handed. 

Opened up, it also helps the phone feel less gargantuan, with a display that’s just a tad smaller than Oppo’s large, expansive panel. 

The phone also happens to look glorious in its Blue variant. I will say this though, this simplistic ‘blue’ colour name doesn’t do justice to its ocean green-blue shade with a light to dark gradient. It’s fantastic. And it ships with a vibrant green-blue grippy case that somehow adds to it, rather than taking away. 

What I really appreciate about the X Fold’s design, however, is the hinge. There’s virtually zero spring to it. And while that does mean you don’t get a satisfying snap open or shut, it does mean that it feels impeccably smooth. 

It also means that it’s pretty adept at holding the display open at various angles, and that comes in really handy when wanting to make use of its laptop-like skills when part open, or using it to watch videos. 

As for that all-important crease, having used the Find N6, everything now feels noticeable by comparison. Vivo’s is not bad at all though. It’s very easy to ignore with the internal display on and in use unless you happen to catch a reflection at the right angle. You can feel it when you run your thumb across the display too, but it’s very shallow, nothing like some of the trenches I’ve felt on phones in the past. 

As for overall durability, it’s got some impressive dust and water resistance claims for a foldable. It’s both IP58 and IP59, just like the Oppo Find N6. That means it’s water resistant against jets of water and being submerged in water.  It’s not completely dust-tight, but it is dust-resistant, so you shouldn’t have a huge problem with dust getting inside. 

There is a bit of a caveat here with my unit; one of my camera lenses (the primary one) did get condensation build-up inside it, which is not good. I watched it cloud up the view while filming, and then clear again a couple of minutes later. That could just be my unit, but it speaks perhaps to a quality control issue in manufacturing. I will say this though; it only appeared once in my 2-3 weeks of testing. 

One last thing on the design front: the shortcut button. Like other Vivo phones, it has a third button which you can program to launch functions you like quick access to. You can assign a double press and a long press function, enabling it to do two separate things depending on how you press it. So you could, for instance, have it cycle through your ring/vibrate mode or turn on the torch, or just launch any app you want. With Shazam installed, you could mimic the iPhone button’s music recognition ability. 

• Regular 6.5-inch cover screen
• 8-inch boxy internal foldable screen
• Both suitably high-end

What’s quite interesting about these two displays on the Vivo foldable is that they share enough of the same pixel density, so when you switch from one to the other, you’re not going to see a huge discrepancy in terms of scaling, sharpness or layout. 

As I mentioned in the design section, the cover screen being a 20:9 ratio means it’s not as narrow as some of its competition, which helps it be just that bit more usable and less of a compromise. It’s a nice bright screen too, capable of reaching 5,000 nits. As is the internal display. 

As usual though, this claim of peak brightness only means a spot on the screen could get that bright in HDR scenes in video. Speaking of brightness across the entire panel, you’ll typically find they’re under 2000 nits and closer to 1500. They’re still plenty bright enough in most conditions. 

The only caveat here is the same as with most foldables: the plastic film over the flexible screen does mean you often lose a little brightness when switching from the cover screen to the main internal display. Details tend to look a tad softer, and colours a little dimmer. They also have a slightly different colour balance because of that film. 

Still, in most situations, I’m perfectly happy consuming media on that big internal display. Being almost square does mean you get that heavy pillar-boxing or letter-boxing on video content that you don’t get on the squatter, passport-shaped Samsung Z Fold 8.  

• Plenty of foldable-specific features
• A little buggy at times

What I particularly like about Vivo’s OriginOS software – at least for this foldable – is the dedicated elements designed to take advantage of the fact that the internal display is big and flexible. 

As an example, there’s a multi-tasking view where you can have up to four apps on that large canvas simultaneously. But what I really liked was that you can launch into that view with a quick flex of the hinge. 

If you’re on the Home Screen, you’ll get a little bar across the lower third where you can select the apps you want to launch into. If you activate it when you have a full-screen app open, you can just tap another app to run alongside that one, flex again to pick a third, and a fourth time to select a fourth. 

Vivo also has a software trick similar to Samsung’s Flex Mode. Part opening the display in any app, with the screen up right, launches into a view where the bottom, horizontal half of the display turns into a trackpad allowing you to control a cursor and scroll on the top half of the screen. A little like a mini laptop. 

The only problem, if you want to call it that, is that it overrides the YouTube app’s built-in flex mode, effectively pushing the entire YouTube window to the top half of the screen. The benefit of this is that you can hit the ‘full screen’ icon and have the video play as a more expansive frame on that screen than what most other foldable phones manage. The downside is that if any ads appear, it pushes the video into a tiny box at the top, and you have to then bring it back down and re-fill the screen when you’ve skipped it. 

And those are just a couple of the features added to OriginOS. It’s packed with a number of different software additions, designed to make the most of that flexible screen, and the fact the phone can fold. Like the standby always-on display mode, turning the phone into a desktop clock of sorts when in standby.  Or it should when enabled. 

The only problem is, the software isn’t entirely bug-free, so that standby mode never really worked for me. And I had issues at times with the keyboard just vanishing when trying to type a message in a WhatsApp message field.  

• Capable, well-tuned cameras for a foldable
• Solid zoom performance
• Ultrawide needs some work

What’s particularly impressive about the Vivo X Fold 6 is its array of camera sensors on the back. Typically, you end up with smaller sensors on these folding phones than what you get on the big flagship slabs, but even compared to some of those, these hold their own.

For example, the telephoto zoom lens sensor is the same size as the Pixel 11 Pro XL’s, and bigger than the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s and the 5x zoom sensor on the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Even the primary lens isn’t far off being the same size as those flagship phone cameras.    

Given the fact I generally really like Vivo’s processing for taking photographs, combined with those sensors, means a refreshingly strong experience with this foldable. Unlike a lot of other phone makers these days, Vivo tends to process its images with more coolness so you don’t get that vibrant, overly warm overtone to the photos. 

The colours and details look very close to what those colours and details looked like to the eye, with good natural sharpness and texture and not too much computational processing or smoothing and sharpening of detail, or aggressive saturation of colours and boosting of contrast. 

This is when shooting in the ‘refined’ mode that the camera launches into by default, right out of the box. There are other colour and contrast presets like vibrant, which makes things brighter and more saturated, or the Zeiss-tuned ‘natural’ mode that tones those down and darkens shadows. There are plenty of others too, so you’re sure to find a setting that works for you. 

As is often the case, when using the zoom camera, particularly once you get above its “optical zoom” 3x focal length, you do then start to see the tell-tale signs of artificial processing, designed to smooth and sharpen the image. 

It’s not particularly noticeable when you’re shooting cityscapes with lots of solid blocks of single colours and straight lines. But you point it at an animal’s furry head, or something with complex texture like trees in the distance, and it has that hint of softness that looks almost painting-like. 

That becomes even more exaggerated as you go past the 10x zoom barrier, becoming more and more artificial as you zoom further and it’s trying to counteract the digital cropping into the sensor.

Still, it does have a bit of a secret weapon, in the fact that if you want really good telephoto zoom shots, you can buy an a photography kit that includes the Zeiss Teleconverter G2 zoom lens, extending the optical zoom range further by clipping on a telescopic lens. Using that will mean, less digital cropping and less artificial smoothing and sharpening at the more extreme ends of the zoom. 

Its biggest weakness is its ultrawide sensor. And that’s fairly typical, especially with folding phones. The results from that camera tend to be a little darker and softer than the primary and zoom cameras. Plus, if light levels drop, or you have shadows in the scene, that’s where you’ll start to see noise creep in on those ultrawide shots. 

This ultrawide’s weakness shows up more obviously in lower light situations, shooting with one of the two built-in night-mode algorithms. Compared to the other two lenses, the results are dark, grainy and too soft. 

Those two night modes give you a lot of flexibility at night time. You can either choose to leave the camera in its automatic ‘Photo’ mode, where it only kicks into an automatic night mode (capturing a 1-2 second exposure) when it deems light levels are low enough. Or, you can switch to the ‘Night and Landscape’ setting, which takes a longer exposure. 

The end results are as you’d expect. Those automatic mode photos are generally darker and more subdued than the bright, vibrant and colour-rich ‘Night and Landscape’ setting. 

• MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Super and 12/16GB of RAM
• Up to 1TB storage
• Great performance in everyday use

Over the past few years we’ve seen a healthy smattering of flagship Android phones powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity chipsets. As CPU’s, they’re a little underpowered compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, but they’re paired with a pretty beefy graphics processing unit, and so you’ll find that the phone can pretty much cope with anything you throw at it. 

It scores well in graphics benchmarks like 3DMark’s tests, which run high-resolution, graphically rich game scenes on the screen to see how the phone copes. 

In those graphics-dedicated tests, it scores about the same as the Snapdragon-equipped Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. Importantly for Vivo, it outperforms the 7-core variant of the Snapdragon chip that Oppo uses in the Find N6. 

The important thing about this chip is that you’ll not feel at any time that you’re compromised in any way. Launching into any app is quick, animations and reactions are fast, and it can keep things running smoothly even when you have four apps on the screen at the same time. 

Battery life

• Potential for two days of use
• 80W wired charging

It’s also been paired with a beefy battery, so that it’ll last even if you are pushing the chip to the max. At 6900mAh in the EU model, the battery in the X Fold 6 is among the largest available in this type of phone. The density achieved in a phone this sleek is thanks to Silicon Carbon tech, as has become the norm for a lot of Android phone makers. 

What that means is that it’s a large enough capacity that you don’t really have to worry at all about your battery running out. Even if you’re something of a power user, I suspect you’ll comfortably get through a full work day. And for someone like me who rarely goes over three hours of screen time in a day, even two days was pretty comfortable – mostly using it on Wi-Fi at home. 

How it compares to its competition very much depends on how you use your phone, however. Because you can switch the phone to ‘Boost’ mode to turbocharge the performance to the detriment of battery life, you could conceivably drain it in a day if you were doing something like playing a graphically rich game at its highest settings and with the screen brightness turned to maximum for 8 hours. 

But even with this power mode selected, it’ll still last longer than most of the competition while pushing those frames. It comfortably outperforms the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and is similar to the levels of the Honor Magic V6.

Should you buy it?

In the end, there’s a lot to like about the Vivo foldable. It’s a good size and shape for this type of foldable. I still prefer the squatter, wider form of the Z Fold 8, but this Vivo is comfortable and easy to use. It’s plenty powerful enough too, with a pretty great camera system on the back.

Plus, it’s packed with some intuitive multitasking and flex-mode features that take advantage of that large internal panel. 

If it wasn’t for the occasional bug or software quirk, or that condensation I saw in the main lens, I’d say it’s almost perfect. In my mind, it’s the phone to buy if you don’t want to resort to importing an Oppo Find N6. 

To see how it compares to the competition, take a look at our selection of the best foldable phones.

	Vivo X Fold 6
Geekbench 7 single core	1913
Geekbench 7 multi core	7005
Geekbench 7 GPU	15420
3DMark Solar Bay	37.5 fps
AI performance	3253
3D Mark – Wild Life	7151
3D Mark – Wild Life Stress Test	64.7 %

	Vivo X Fold 6 Review
Manufacturer	Vivo
Screen Size	8.02 inches
Storage Capacity	256GB, 512GB, 1TB
Rear Camera	200 MP (main, f/1.7, OIS) + 50 MP (periscope telephoto, 3x optical zoom, OIS) + 50 MP (ultrawide, f/2.1)
Front Camera	20 MP (cover screen) + 20 MP (internal screen)
Video Recording	Yes
IP rating	IP57
Battery	6900 mAh
Wireless charging	Yes
Fast Charging	Yes
Size (Dimensions)	145.7 x 4.4 x 157.2 MM
Weight	228 G
Operating System	OriginOS 7 (Android 17)
Release Date	2026
First Reviewed Date	08/10/2026
Resolution	2504 x 2312
HDR	Yes
Refresh Rate	120 Hz
Ports	USB-C
Chipset	MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Super
RAM	12GB, 16GB
Colours	Prism Black, Horizon Blue
Stated Power	80 W
UK RRP	TBC
USA RRP	TBC
EU RRP	€2199