Vsun Race

                                       

Vsun Mobile is a new entrant in the already crowded smartphone market place in the Middle East. In hopes of differentiating itself from the competition, the company launched the Vsun Race - an 4G LTE smartphone that also features support for 360-degree Virtual Reality. The company made sure that its customers get to experience VR by bundling a VR Cardboard glass with the device.

The smartphone is available on the market at a very affordable price tag of AED 599. The Race features a metallic frame with the back of the phone made in plastic. The battery back cover is removable, and so is the battery. Under the hood, the Vsun Race runs a 1.3-GHz quad-core processor from Mediatek. On the front of the device, you will find a 5-inch HD IPS 2.5D Curve Display, which is laminated to protect it from scratches and dents.

Below the screen, you will find the home, options and back buttons. On the top of the screen you will find a 5-megapixel front camera. Flip the phone around you come face to face with a 13-megapixel rear camera that packs in a Sony sensor. The phone runs Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system.

Other points that round off the specs include 16GB of storage space and 2GB of RAM. The internal storage can be further expanded to up to 128GB using the microSD card slot built inside the battery compartment. The phone supports Dual SIMs, with one of the slots doubling up as a SIM card slot or a microSD card slot.

The phone derives its power from a 2250 mAh battery. The company claims the phone offers 6+ hours of talk time on a single charge, and on our battery tests, we did manage to clock around 7.5 hours of talk time.

The Vsun Race is being marketed as a VR phone - so the company, as mentioned earlier, bundles a cardboard glass. The phone also packs in VR applications such as Deep Space VR, lamper VR, Little VR Shooter, and Rollercoaster VR. In order to use these apps, all you need to do is to click the VR icon on home screen, put the phone into the cardboard glass, and start experiencing VR.

In order to gauge the performance of the phone, we ran AnTuTu benchmarks on the device. The Vsun Race came up with an average performance of 24107 points. VR experience through the phone was good, too. The phone's 13-megapixel rear camera can take some really good photos in outdoors. However, under low light conditions or indoors, the camera sometimes turns up with grainy images. The phone's front camera takes average looking selfies.

For a price point of AED 599, the Vsun Race is a good smartphone that features some average VR capabilities. If you are on the market, looking for a second phone, the Vsun Race might fit the bill.