[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] kalisjr:
I have owned the Chinese version since the day it was released and it took some time to get everything working with notifications being the biggest pain because every app needed to be turned on before things would work. But the most awesome feature is not one many would even notice or talk about and it's the call recording feature which works perfectly.

This is so useful when you are dealing with people and agreements like phone companies and utility companies billing disputes on medical or dental bills, etc, etc. Realize that all call recording apps are at best rated 3 stars out of 5 because they don't properly capture sound of the far end (person you want to record) but always get the caller (you; the one making the call) and that goes for even rooted phones running custom ROM's.

The great thing for XDA types who love themes is there are tons of awesome ones on iTheme but you can't buy them without a ton of trouble in the USA because our currency exchange options are very restricted and limited but with a crap ton of patience you can get the themes you like once you figure out payment.

It is true you need a Chinese phone number but the place I purchased my phone from directly in Hong Kong (Mike Wu) at Liaow https://liaow.com has the best customer service out of any from Hong Kong merchant I've done business with. He sends pictures of every step in the order process.

Overall if the Global version has call recording and no chinese with no issues with notifications I would recommend anyone interested in this phone to buy it instead.

The updates are frequent as I've received about two or three a month since I got the phone and the most amazing thing about these updates unlike all other phones I've ever owned is that they somehow don't seem to bog the phone down causing lag and more lag with each and every update which tells me they have an incredible clean-up script that address all of the old orphaned data the previous versions of apps and services the updates are replacing get removed 100%.

This phone has the most incredible battery life of any phone I've ever owned and on the note of updates which for all other phones tends to degrade battery performance more with each update when comparing the original state of the phone out of the box. This has to be the most important thing to say to others about this phone. Contrary to what the YouTube reviewers say regarding the pop-up camera I've never had an issue with it and the biggest pain about getting it out of the box is finding a good case to put it in and Vivo helps a little on that front like the OnePlus by giving you something verse nothing.

This phone remains performing fast and I love the one hand user features the Funtouch OS delivers. It's like you get the Android experience the way it was meant to be from day one and many will say it's a Apple clone of what iPhone's have and I don't care about that it's quite nice to be able to swipe up from the gesture controls that prevent control icons from burning into the screen over time and the only that they can improve is making the swipe regions more adjustable in order to make it easier to control with one hand. The device and software ergonomic's are the best of any phone where the OS features are concerned and it's really a wonderful phone. It's been almost 5 months now since I've owned it and my wife does not want to use her Samsung S9 Plus and in fact wants to sell it to get the Global verison of the Vivo Nex S once someone can confirm it support VoLTE and has call recording like the Chinese version does.

So if any of you are on the fense about it I understand but from what others have said about this Global version I think by that it will be the best of the best out there, and the screen is incredible more than other flagships in brightness and black levels. The camera is awesome and the only thing I can say is it's in need of better software but pictures are incredible and comparing the image as a novice average person who has no knowledge of specs on the photos side it is in my and my wife opinion as well as friends who own LG, Samsung, Google and Apple products better than what they feel they own and even to the point I've been asked to send the link to where I purchased it from so these same friends can ditch their Samsungs, Apples, and LG's for it.

Getting a taste of this phone hands on is a game changer and if you find a place or know someone that has one it's the best phone of 2018 hands down.