Vivo has introduced the X300 and X300 Professional, its newest flagship telephones, and so they look nearer to the corporate’s much more premium Extremely handsets than ever. On paper, the Professional’s digital camera setup seems simply nearly as good because the X200 Extremely’s, particularly because of providing help for a similar add-on telephoto extender lens launched with that cellphone when it launched in April this 12 months, just a few months after the preliminary X200 handsets.
Cameras are clearly Vivo’s give attention to each new X300 telephones, which every characteristic a brand new 200-megapixel HPB imaging sensor designed in collaboration with Samsung. The X300 Professional makes use of that sensor for its 85mm-equivalent telephoto digital camera, which affords related specs to the industry-leading telephoto on the X200 Extremely, aside from a barely slower f/2.67 aperture. The primary digital camera would possibly even higher that of the Extremely, utilizing the Sony LYT-828, the successor to the sensor present in that cellphone, with a sooner aperture.
It’s solely the ultrawide that’s clearly a step down from the X200 Extremely’s, utilizing a smaller sensor that’s unlikely to ship the identical picture high quality, particularly in low mild. All three rear cameras additionally help 4K, 120fps, 10-bit Log video recording. It’s sufficient to make the X300 Professional really feel like an announcement cellphone from Vivo, channeling the acclaim it’s acquired for its Extremely fashions in the direction of the following step down in worth.
The common X300 ought to impress too. Right here, that 200-megapixel Samsung sensor is used for the principle digital camera, paired with a quick f/1.68 aperture. It’s joined by a 50-megapixel telephoto, and the identical 50-megapixel ultrawide and selfie lenses because the Professional.
Each telephones help the telephoto extender, a 2.35x lens that attaches to the telephones’ present telephoto lenses by way of a devoted cellphone case and mount. Paired with the X200 Extremely it enabled me to take some fairly extraordinary long-range pictures that no different cellphone could be able to, and I’m solely shocked to see Vivo rolling help out to its different flagships so quickly, slightly than holding it again as an Extremely-only characteristic. It’s nonetheless offered along with a bigger Pictures Package, together with the mounting case and a digital camera grip with a battery pack inbuilt.
Each telephones are powered by MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 9500 chipset, a rival to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. A couple of different specs are shared too: 90W wired and 40W wi-fi charging, IP68 and 69 sturdiness rankings, and ultrasonic fingerprint sensors.
The most important distinction, past the digital camera specs, is the scale: whereas the Professional is an enormous cellphone, with a 6.78-inch show, the common X300 has a comparatively compact 6.31-inch display screen. Each telephones are slim, coming under 8mm thick, although the X300’s 7.95mm is a hair’s width thinner. The batteries range too, although Vivo has made some attention-grabbing claims right here: it means that because of effectivity optimizations, the 6,510mAh and 6,040mAh silicon-carbon batteries within the two telephones are comparable in longevity to 7,500mAh and seven,000mAh cells in different {hardware} — hopefully we’ll get the possibility to place that declare to the take a look at ourselves.
Each the X300 and X300 Professional can be found to order in China now, operating the new OriginOS 6, Vivo’s tackle Android. The X300 begins from ¥4,399 (round $620), with the Professional at ¥5,299 (round $745). The telephoto lens is offered individually for ¥1,299 (round $180), or ¥1,499 (round $210) for the total pictures package.
The corporate hasn’t confirmed wider launch plans, however its flagship fashions usually launch elsewhere in Asia together with some European markets — and for the primary time it’s confirmed that the brand new OriginOS will too, lastly changing the dreadful Funtouch OS software program Vivo has used exterior of China for years. An X300 Extremely can be more likely to launch in early 2026, although Vivo must pull out all of the stops to search out room to distinguish it from the X300 Professional.
