Vivo V40 Lite 5G

The phone has a standard non-folding form factor and measures 164.4 mm tall, 74.8 mm wide, and 7.7 mm thick, giving it a notably slim profile with a total volume of around 94.69 cm³ and a weight of 188g. It carries an IP64 rating, which means it is protected against dust ingress and resistant to water splashing from any direction, though it does not feature a rugged build.

The device features a 6.78-inch OLED/AMOLED touchscreen with a resolution of 1080 x 2400 px and a pixel density of 388 ppi, delivering a sharp and vibrant image. It runs at a 120Hz refresh rate and reaches a typical brightness of 1,300 nits, making content comfortably visible in a range of lighting conditions. The panel does not include branded damage-resistant glass and lacks support for HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision, and there is no secondary screen.

The phone is built around the Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset, manufactured on a 4nm process with a 7W TDP, featuring an eight-thread big.LITTLE CPU with all cores running at 2.0GHz and Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) for flexible task distribution. It is paired with 8GB of DDR5 RAM at 2,750 MHz — expandable to a maximum of 12GB — across two memory channels with a peak bandwidth of 22 GB/s, alongside 256GB of internal storage with external memory support up to 1TB. Graphics are handled by the integrated Adreno 710 GPU clocked at 800 MHz, supporting DirectX 12, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2, and 128 shading units. The chipset also includes integrated LTE and ARM TrustZone security, and benchmark results stand at 575,000 on AnTuTu, 2,748 multi-core and 943 single-core on Geekbench 6. Cache is organized as 256 KB L1, 2 MB L2, and 2 MB L3, and the storage interface uses eMMC 5.1.

The rear camera is a triple-lens system with a 50MP main sensor at f/1.8, an 8MP lens at f/2.2, and a 2MP lens at f/2.4, all using CMOS technology without a back-illuminated sensor or optical image stabilization. Autofocus options include phase-detection, touch, and continuous autofocus during video, while laser autofocus is absent, and there is no optical zoom. Manual controls cover ISO, exposure, focus, and white balance, and shooting modes include HDR, burst, slow-motion, panorama, and timelapse; raw capture, manual shutter speed, and 360-degree panorama are not supported. Video recording tops out at 4K 30fps, though HDR10 and Dolby Vision recording are not available. A single LED flash is present on the rear without dual-tone or RGB configuration. The front camera offers 32MP at f/2.0 as a single-lens setup, positioned above the display without an under-screen placement or front-facing flash.

The phone ships with Android 14 and includes a solid range of privacy tools: clipboard warnings, location privacy options, camera and microphone access controls, and app tracking blocking are all present, though cross-site tracking blocking and Mail Privacy Protection are not available. On the software feature side, it supports dark mode, dynamic and manual theme customization, extra dim mode, customizable notifications, a media picker, full-page scrolling screenshots, split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, widgets, sharing intents, a child lock, and multi-user accounts. On-device machine learning is supported, as are offline voice recognition, voice commands, and phone tracking, along with a battery health check tool. Wi-Fi password sharing, focus modes, app offloading, Quick Start, and PC mode are not available, and the device does not receive direct OS updates from the vendor.

The phone houses a 5500 mAh non-removable rechargeable battery with a battery level indicator. It supports 44W wired fast charging, though wireless charging is not available and no charger is included in the box.

The audio configuration is quite limited — the phone does not include a 3.5mm headset jack, stereo speakers, or an FM radio. On the wireless audio side, no high-quality Bluetooth codecs are supported, with aptX, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, and LDAC all absent, restricting wireless listening to standard Bluetooth audio quality.

The phone supports 5G connectivity with download speeds up to 2,900 Mbits/s and upload speeds up to 900 Mbits/s, and accommodates two SIM cards alongside an external memory slot. Wireless networking covers Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), while Bluetooth 5.1 and NFC are both present, the latter enabling contactless functionality. The USB Type-C port operates at USB 2.0 speeds, and a fingerprint scanner handles biometric authentication — 3D facial recognition and iris scanning are not available. Location support includes GPS with Galileo, a compass, a gyroscope, and an accelerometer, while a barometer, infrared sensor, heart rate monitor, ANT+, HDMI output, satellite SOS, crash detection, DLNA certification, and a built-in projector are all absent, and no stylus is included.

The display is curved, giving the screen a distinctive edge-to-edge appearance, and a video light is included to assist with illumination during video recording. The screen does not use sapphire glass and is not an e-paper panel.