The new vivo Y36 promises a smooth and seamless experience for all its users—including casual gamers—at a wallet-friendly price. True enough, in a recent review we did, the vivo Y36 was able to handle some of today’s most popular games without much hiccup. Here are some of the reasons why the vivo Y36 not only looks great but plays great too.
The Snapdragon 680 is a well-balanced processor
Beating at the heart of the vivo Y36 is a 6nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 processor with an Adreno 610 GPU. While it is not the newest nor most powerful chipset out there, it is still very efficient and has 8GB of RAM to help it along. It has no problem running popular games such as Mobile Legends, Call of Duty Mobile, and Pokemon Unite at smooth and steady frame rates without the need for the user to sacrifice too much in terms of graphics. Even big team clashes did not slow down the vivo Y36 too much. More heavily-demanding games such as NBA 2K and Asphalt 9 are also decently playable as long as graphics settings are turned down.
Sure, casual gamers will have a little less eye candy to look at. But considering that the tradeoff is that it does not get too hot and it has a longer battery life, we would say that it is worth it as it ultimately means a more comfortable gaming experience for hours on end—this the vivo Y36 capably delivers.
The display has a 240Hz touch sample rate for lightning-fast inputs
MOBAs and shooters require quick inputs from the player. Otherwise, what would have been a fun and competitive match just becomes a steamroll with you on the receiving end. But what use are quick reflexes if the phone will not register your touches in the first place?
The vivo Y36’s huge 6.64-inch Full HD IPS display not only outputs good looking, high resolution visuals, but it also comes with a 240Hz touch sampling rate to make it more responsive to each of your presses. You can mash buttons and be confident that your inputs are being picked up virtually in real time. The effect is quite subtle but critical when the difference between going back to the game lobby and winner winner chicken dinner is only a few milliseconds. Trust us when we say that you will have a hard time going back to gaming on something with a lower touch sampling rate after you experience what 240Hz is like.
Moreover, the vivo Y36 also comes with a 90Hz refresh rate to make the gaming experience even smoother and more precise.
It comes with a 44W fast charger
One of the worst things that can happen when you are on a ranked winning streak and are completely in the zone is getting your gaming session interrupted by hours-long charging. The lost momentum is often so hard to regain that the next time you are in-game, you might be hopping on board the downrank train.
The vivo Y36 comes with a 44W fast charging power brick and USB Type C cable out of the box to help you avoid these situations. In our testing, the vivo Y36 was able to charge its sizable 5000mAh battery from completely empty to almost half in just 30 minutes. It can also easily last over a day without needing to be plugged into the wall. If you top off its charge every time you take a quick bio, nap, or coffee break from your gaming sessions, then you will almost never see the vivo Y36 run dry. Its battery life is so long that you might end up falling asleep long before the vivo Y36 does.
There is a dedicated gaming optimizer for the OS
While the Snapdragon 680 is already an efficient processor, vivo also made sure to keep the Y36’s software very gaming friendly through its Multi-Turbo 5.5 system optimizer. As the name implies, Multi-Turbo 5.5 boosts the phone’s performance by prioritizing system elements—such as data usage, processing power, and RAM allocation—in favor of your current game for the smoothest experience possible. It also turns off pesky notifications and floating windows so you can play uninterrupted.
As an added bonus, vivo also has the frame-rate priority setting for select games. This instructs the phone to render particularly graphic-intensive games at a lower resolution to ensure more stable frame rates.
The above points plus an attractive price tag of just PHP 12,999, make the vivo Y36 a hard-to-beat phone for young, casual gamers. It is available for purchase in Glitter Aqua and Meteor Black colorways through vivo Concept stores and kiosks, phone retailers, and the official vivo website, Shopee, Lazada, and TikTok online platforms.