vivo X200 Ultra debuts with an add-on lens, X200s tags along with a huge battery

21 April 2025
Both phones are available only in China.

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RaviSS, 22 Apr 2025Pretty impressive camera setup which seems to be following ... morei highly doubt a crop of a 1 incher is gonna be better than a native focal length shot from this phone. Only Vivo has the ability to pull off a stunt like that and they're the ones going for a 35 mm cam here.

    Pretty impressive camera setup which seems to be following a 'Maximin' strategy. Of course, it might not be able to take the best picture among its competitors at their respective most suitable focal length (ceteris paribus, the output of 1-inch sensors at 23mm should be better than 1/1.28" sensor at 35mm), but if you take pics at every possible focal length between 14mm to 200mm, x200 ultra would likely be the one to produce the least worst quality picture.

    Putting it another way, at every focal length in the 14-200mm range, a minimum sensor area of 2 mm2 and a minimum megapixel count of 8MP is utilised. For comparison, Oppo Find X8 ultra doesn't manage that, even with 4 lenses.

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      • 22 Apr 2025

      AntonelPAPI, 21 Apr 2025Beautiful phone, but the software is crap, a blatant copy o... morethere is nothing ios alike, i couldn't stay a day using ios crap, origin os is superior in many aspects and feels like an android at the end of the day, i have x100 ultra b tw

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        • 22 Apr 2025

        OSasmatteroffact, 21 Apr 2025The title says huge battery but 6200mAh is not that big its... moresamsung says hello with 5000mah for 6th year in a row

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          • 22 Apr 2025

          IMX363, 21 Apr 2025Great hardware, but unfortunately the Chinese flagships lik... morechinese flagships have superior hardware compared to samsung and iphone so so only one that looks like oil painting in low light zoom is samsung not vivo, the better the harwdare the less processing it needs to be done, if you keep it below 10x the post processing is minimal

            This device is a photographer's dream come true.
            Frankly, I don't really understand all those comments complaining about the "huge" camera bump. In the picture presented by this article, the camera island does not seem to protrude more than the camera islands of other cameraphone flagships.

            Not sure though about the practical usability of the optional telescope-like add on-lens. It's good to have the option but after all the whole concept and success of cameraphones revolves around their portability, pocketability and convenience to be an "always in your pocket" - device.

              DarlingYext, 22 Apr 2025You have no proof of them spying on anyone, and even if the... moreI seriously advise you not to reply to that guy.

              There are some troll accounts here and I chose not to answer anymore.

                ProMaxUltraAreBricks, 21 Apr 2025Okay, now you are totally correct, importing a phone is &qu... moreYou have no proof of them spying on anyone, and even if they did how is that somehow worse than the US spying on you via Google and Meta apps?

                "Some banking apps refusing to run on your "cleverly" imported, insecure device."

                You wouldn't know that, but I do. Banking apps work, and so does the Google Wallet app.

                "Gambling €1000+ blind on a massive phone like a Vivo X200 Ultra you couldn't try in Vivo store outside of China."

                People will only import a device if they know what they are buying, nobody is going to "gamble", people not knowing what they would import simply won't import it.

                I imported my vivo without trying it out, I knew it's going to be a huge device with great cameras, and that's exactly what I got, that was no gambling.

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                  • 22 Apr 2025

                  Literally no mention of 35mm in the main article when it is one of the USP of the device. That is just shoddy journalism.

                    ProMaxUltraAreBricks, 21 Apr 2025So this enormous brick can only be imported? Oof, just ... moreBet this is supposed to be ragebait? You've just gathered some inflamed users

                      ProMaxUltraAreBricks, 21 Apr 2025"Oh, and of course you would try the spyware card as w... more"4 year old Vivo X70 Pro+ expensive flagship, no Android 15 and no security patches."

                      It got android 14, which was still good at the time. It's also still receiving patches as per its 4 year promise.

                        ProMaxUltraAreBricks, 21 Apr 2025It's not about chasing the absolute thinnest, it'... more"Real innovation isn't bulking up a phone just to improve the camera, it's about making that camera amazing without making half of the thing a two phone thick brick."

                        They just did that, which is why phones haven't become literal cameras with phone-like technology yet

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                          • 22 Apr 2025

                          exciting specs and camera.. eager for full review of the Ultra.. hope they will tone down the AI processing in this version... also wondering if there will be a global launch ..

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                            • 22 Apr 2025

                            GSMArena is a website for smartphone news i guess, and not for cameras

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                              • 22 Apr 2025

                              ProMaxUltraAreBricks, 21 Apr 2025 Oh, my mistake! I seem to have wandered into CameraArena ... moreThere are many events (especially in Asia) where you can bring a phone but not a camera.
                              Vivo's target is this kind of situations.

                                Eno2, 21 Apr 2025The first real images with the new Vivo X200 Ultra have app... moreYou're comparing a 23mm field of view crop from a 14mm full frame equivalent lens to a native 23mm full frame equivalent lens, I'm honestly astonished by how well X200 Ultra is holding up despite the massive disadvantage that it has in this comparison.

                                "same strange artifacts on car headlights and street LED lights"
                                These light streaks are derived from the jagged rim on the opening of the periscope lens. Pretty much all periscope lenses on phones released in the last 2 years that don't use the ALoP (all-lenses-on-prism) design have this, presumably to reduce reflections and glares, so until there's a better way to deal with it, it's either that you take it or leave it.

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                                  • 22 Apr 2025

                                  The f-number of the periscope camera is 2.27 by the way. The effective lens diameter of the periscope camera should be roughly 0.99cm, only the Honor Magic7 RSR has such a large effective lens diameter.

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                                    ProMaxUltraAreBricks, 21 Apr 2025Okay, now you are totally correct, importing a phone is &qu... morePlease stop using national security to smear Chinese phones. Vivo China ROMs have GSM built-in with whatever security (spyware) provided by US/Google so all you have to add is the Playstore and everything works like a normal Global Rom phone. You best worry about being spied on by the orange guy.

                                    I thought DOGE have gotten rid of all you people.

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                                      • 22 Apr 2025

                                      Anonymous, 22 Apr 2025Is this phone of the year?Sony Xperia 1 Mark 7 Game Changer 👑
                                      The bottom line is that Vivo this year only improved the gimbal but lowered the quality of the sensor. Better Vivo X100 Ultra
                                      Xiaomi sharpens its sensors but battery overheating
                                      Samsung and iPhone start the game next year

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                                        • 22 Apr 2025

                                        Is this phone of the year?

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