The company just unveiled Vivo Y31 5G and Y31 Pro 5G in an overseas market. The base model is out to replace last year’s Vivo Y29 5G, which had a Dimensity 6300 chip. The Pro version seems to be a revised Vivo T4x with the same Dimensity 7300 SoC and 120Hz 6.72” IPS display.
Vivo Y31 and Y31 Pro have both landed in India first. These handsets will move on to other countries once the first round completes. They may have different chipsets and screen resolutions, but the 6500mAh battery and a 50MP main camera are standard across the board.
Vivo Y31 Pro 5G
The Pro brings a 1080p FHD+ LCD on its front with a 960Hz PWM dimming. It’s an IPS 120Hz panel that can reach 1050 nits of peak brightness. The panel is also decently sized at 6.72”, but there’s no protective glass here. We have a non-intrusive punch hole at the top for an 8MP selfie shooter.
To drive that FHD+ display, Vivo mounted a Dimensity 7300 inside this phone, which is a 4nm platform built on eight cores with a 2.5GHz clock speed. This SoC lends the phone UFS 3.1 storage speeds. There’s no SD card slot on this phone, and the options are limited to 128GB and 256GB. On either variant, you’ll get 8GB RAM.
Vivo Y31 Pro is IP64 rated, which provides minimal water resistance but full dust ingress protection. The phone’s design is MIL-STD-810H compliant. As for those rear cameras, the setup is nothing too elaborate: a single 50MP shooter and a 2MP depth mapper.
The phone has stereo speakers and an IR remote function, all backed by a 6500mAh battery and 44W fast wired charging. Its fingerprint ID is on the side. The newcomer’s starting price is only $215 or ~PKR 61,000.
Vivo Y31 5G
This phone has a basic 720p resolution on an IPS 6.68” 120Hz panel. Its brightness is almost the same at ~1000nits, but there’s no PWM dimming on the non-Pro version. Oddly enough, the standard Y31 gets a Guardian Glass (ion-strengthened) protective material on the screen, while the Pro doesn’t.
Another surprise was the phone’s durability. The vanilla Y31 gets a flagship-level IP69 rating, which openly defies the series rankings (you only get IP64 with Y31 Pro). Each model is MIL-STD-810H compliant and somewhat safe from fall damage.
Vivo Y31 falls back in line when it comes to performance. There’s a Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 chip at its core that handles its Android 15 system. Buyers can go for either 4GB RAM or 6GB RAM, but the storage is capped at 128GB. The performance fall-off is quite steep, coming from the Pro variant.
The cameras remain the same across the board: 50MP main and 8MP selfie shooter hidden in a punch hole. The base Vivo Y31 5G starts at $170 (~PKR 48,000), which is a bit pricey for 4GB RAM and 128GB storage. Let's wait and see how its price tag fares in other countries.
