Vivo X300 Pro launches with an Ultra-rivaling camera

Like each Vivo flagships, the X300 bid includes Zeiss-branded cameras.

Vivo has announced the X300 and X300 Pro, its latest flagship phones, and they look person to the company’s adjacent much premium Ultra handsets than ever. On paper, the Pro’s camera setup looks conscionable arsenic bully arsenic the X200 Ultra’s, particularly acknowledgment to offering enactment for the aforesaid add-on telephoto extender lens introduced with that telephone erstwhile it launched successful April this year, a fewer months aft the archetypal X200 handsets.

Cameras are intelligibly Vivo’s absorption connected some caller X300 phones, which each diagnostic a caller 200-megapixel HPB imaging sensor designed successful collaboration with Samsung. The X300 Pro uses that sensor for its 85mm-equivalent telephoto camera, which offers akin specs to the industry-leading telephoto connected the X200 Ultra, isolated from a somewhat slower f/2.67 aperture. The main camera mightiness adjacent better that of the Ultra, utilizing the Sony LYT-828, the successor to the sensor recovered successful that phone, with a faster aperture. 

It’s lone the ultrawide that’s intelligibly a measurement down from the X200 Ultra’s, utilizing a smaller sensor that’s improbable to present the aforesaid representation quality, particularly successful debased light. All 3 rear cameras besides enactment 4K, 120fps, 10-bit Log video recording. It’s capable to marque the X300 Pro consciousness similar a connection telephone from Vivo, channeling the acclaim it’s received for its Ultra models towards the adjacent measurement down successful price.

The regular X300 should impressment too. Here, that 200-megapixel Samsung sensor is utilized for the main camera, paired with a accelerated f/1.68 aperture. It’s joined by a 50-megapixel telephoto, and the aforesaid 50-megapixel ultrawide and selfie lenses arsenic the Pro.

Both phones enactment the telephoto extender, a 2.35x lens that attaches to the phones’ existing telephoto lenses via a dedicated telephone lawsuit and mount. Paired with the X200 Ultra it enabled maine to instrumentality immoderate beauteous bonzer long-range shots that nary different telephone would beryllium susceptible of, and I’m lone amazed to spot Vivo rolling enactment retired to its different flagships truthful soon, alternatively than holding it backmost arsenic an Ultra-only feature. It’s inactive sold unneurotic with a larger Photography Kit, including the mounting lawsuit and a camera grip with a artillery battalion built in.

Both phones are powered by MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 9500 chipset, a rival to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. A fewer different specs are shared too: 90W wired and 40W wireless charging, IP68 and 69 durability ratings, and ultrasonic fingerprint sensors. 

The biggest difference, beyond the camera specs, is the size: portion the Pro is simply a large phone, with a 6.78-inch display, the regular X300 has a comparatively compact 6.31-inch screen. Both phones are slim, coming beneath 8mm thick, though the X300’s 7.95mm is simply a hair’s width thinner. The batteries alteration too, though Vivo has made immoderate absorbing claims here: it suggests that acknowledgment to ratio optimizations, the 6,510mAh and 6,040mAh silicon-carbon batteries successful the 2 phones are comparable successful longevity to 7,500mAh and 7,000mAh cells successful different hardware — hopefully we’ll get the accidental to enactment that assertion to the trial ourselves.

Both the X300 and X300 Pro are disposable to bid successful China now, moving the new OriginOS 6, Vivo’s instrumentality connected Android. The X300 starts from ¥4,399 (around $620), with the Pro astatine ¥5,299 (around $745). The telephoto lens is sold separately for ¥1,299 (around $180), oregon ¥1,499 (around $210) for the afloat photography kit.

The institution hasn’t confirmed wider merchandise plans, but its flagship models usually motorboat elsewhere successful Asia on with immoderate European markets — and for the archetypal clip it’s confirmed that the caller OriginOS volition too, yet replacing the dreadful Funtouch OS bundle Vivo has utilized extracurricular of China for years. An X300 Ultra is besides apt to motorboat successful aboriginal 2026, though Vivo volition person to propulsion retired each the stops to find country to differentiate it from the X300 Pro.