Vivo has silently slashed the price of the Vivo V9 Youth smartphone in India. As revealed by Mumbai-based retailer Mahesh Telecom, the Vivo V9 Youth will be available for purchase at Rs 17,990, down from its launch price of Rs 18,990. Vivo is yet to make an official announcement on the same and the e-commerce portal Flipkart is still selling the handset at the launch price itself. Maybe over the weekend, Flipkart will start selling the handset at the new retail price. The Vivo V9 Youth is a stripped down version of the Vivo V9 launched a couple of months ago in the Indian market. The Vivo V9 is still available at its launch price of Rs 22,990. Both the Vivo V9 and V9 Youth can be purchased across various offline stores and online stores such as Flipkart, Amazon, Paytm Mall and Vivo E-Store.
Vivo V9 Youth Specifications and Features
The Vivo V9 Youth comes with decent specifications and shares most of them with its bigger sibling Vivo V9. The phone has a 6.3-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 1080 x 2280 pixels and comes powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 SoC. The chipset comes clubbed with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. There's a microSD card slot as well for storage expansion up to 128GB. The display has a notch on top and 19:9 aspect ratio.
The smartphone also offers dual cameras on the back- a 16MP primary camera works in tandem with a 2MP depth sensor. The phone provides Portrait mode as well along with support for refocusing even after capturing the image. As seen on other smartphones, the Vivo V9 Youth has a 16MP shooter on the front.
The phone offers 4G LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS and a micro USB port. The phone is backed by a 3260mAh battery. The device boots Android 8.1 Oreo-based FunTouch 4.0.