vivo Y21T Specs and Price

Chinese manufacturer vivo has quietly launched the vivo Y21T in Indonesia. The new device is the just a tweaked vivo Y32 that went official in China a few days back. The handset is expected to go live in India on January 3rd.

The Y21T features a plastic build like any other vivo Y series smartphone. It measures 164.26 × 76.08 × 8.00mm in dimensions, weighs 182g, and arrives in two colors (Midnight Blue, Pearl White).

The device flaunts a 6.51-inch LCD panel with a resolution of 1600 x 720 pixels and a 60Hz refresh rate. The display has a dewdrop notch, a 20:9 aspect ratio, and an 89% screen-to-body ratio. The India variant is reported to sport a 6.58-inch FHD+ (2408 x 1080 pixels) 90Hz display (LCD).

The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 chipset coupled with 6GB RAM (+2GB virtual RAM) and 128GB storage. In India, it is said to come with 4GB (+1GB virtual RAM) instead.

As far as optics are concerned, the vivo Y21T houses a triple camera array on the back comprising of a 50MP primary sensor, a 2MP macro snapper, and a 2MP depth sensor. On the front, it nests an 8MP shooter inside the notch. For the unware, the original vivo Y32 in China has a 13MP (wide) + 2MP (macro) dual-camera setup on the rear that lacks the 2MP depth sensor.

As for connectivity, the handset comes with dual-SIM, 4G, dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, and GNSS (GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, GALILEO, QZSS). It also has a 3.5mm headphone jack, a MicroSD card slot, and a USB Type-C port.

The smartphone sports all the essential sensors like a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, compass, proximity sensor, and compass. Finally, it runs Android 11-based Funtouch OS 12 and gets its juice from a 5,000mAh battery with support for 18W fast charging.

vivo Y21T Specifications

Chipset: Snapdragon 680 4G SM6225

CPU: 2.4GHz Octa-Core

GPU: Adreno 610

Display: 6.51″ HD+ 1600 × 720 20:9, LCD

RAM: 6GB LPPDR4X

Storage: 128GB UFS 2.1 (microSD up to 1TB)

Main camera: Dual

• 50 MP (main f/1.8)
• 2 MP (macro f/2.4) Dual

Front camera: 8 MP, f/1.8

OS: Android 11 (Funtouch OS 12)

Dimension: 164.26 × 76.08 × 8.00mm

Weight: 182g

Battery: 5000mAh (18W)

Bluetooth: v5.0

WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 2.4GHz/5GHz

USB: USB Type-C

Earphone jack: Yes

Fingerprint Sensor: Yes (Side)

Face ID: Yes

Colors: Midnight Blue, Pearl White

SIM: Dual SIM (nanoSIM)

Network

• 2G bands: GSM 850/900/1800MHz
• 3G bands: WCDMA B1/B5/B8
• 4G bands:
  • FDD-LTE B1/B3/B5/B8
  • TDD-LTE B40

vivo Y21T Price and Availability

As mentioned earlier, the vivo Y21T arrives in a single 6GB + 128GB memory configuration in Indonesia. This variant of the phone is priced at Rp 3,099,000 ($218) in the country. Customers can avail it in either Midnight Blue or Pearl White color options.

A slightly different version of this device with the aforementioned changes is heading to India on January 3.

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