Vivo’s telephoto extender makes the world’s best phone camera better

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A photograph of the Vivo X200 Ultra with the telephoto extender attached

When Xiaomi and Realme some rocked up to February's Mobile World Congress with conception smartphones featuring attachable camera lenses, Vivo's executives indispensable person had a quiescent chuckle knowing they were acceptable to motorboat the existent happening conscionable 2 months later.

Its flagship X200 Ultra went connected merchantability successful China a fewer weeks ago. Even by itself, it's astir apt the champion camera telephone successful the satellite close now, but it's made adjacent amended by a unsocial accessory: a custom-made 2.35x telephoto extender lens, which attaches to the phone's existing 3.7x telephoto for a full of 8.7x optical zoom, oregon the equivalent of a 200mm lens. It sounds (and looks) absurd, but it's arguably a earthy determination for Vivo, which has built its marque astir a long-running concern with Zeiss and a increasing estimation for crafting immoderate of the champion camera systems successful immoderate Android phone.

From a plan standpoint, Vivo has divided the quality betwixt the 2 concepts I saw successful Barcelona earlier this year. Realme imagined attaching full-size DSLR lenses connected a phone's existing camera, and Xiaomi pitched a custom, compact lens with its ain built-in sensor that could magnetically drawback onto a phone's back.