vivo X100 Ultra review
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- SirArtur
- mMr
- 01 Jul 2024
Pumpino, 01 Jul 2024The Zeiss Natural mode takes nice photos. The camera bump a... moreBut you can have only two out of three: a fast lens, a big sensor, and a small lens. You cannot cheat the physics. Fast lenses on FF or Medium Format cameras are not big just to look cool. Unfortunately, it is the price that we all have to pay if we want to have better picture quality. And as for me, I am willing to pay that price.
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- Pumpino
- XQh
- 01 Jul 2024
The Zeiss Natural mode takes nice photos. The camera bump alone ruins the phone though. Lenses shouldn't be as large as possible; they should be as small as possible.
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- babar91k
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- 01 Jul 2024
sondesix, 01 Jul 2024I think I know the reason why the charging speed is so slow... moreExactly!!!
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- Nick Tegrataker
- Xp6
- 01 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2024That bokeh blur on telephoto is criminal! The worst blur I&... moreI would say the faux bokeh mode on this phone is actually pretty great. It's hard to find faults in the way it cuts out subjects, details aren't overprocessed and you get a wide range of options regarding how bokeh is supposed to look (The one in the review is Biotar Style but there are 6 more to choose from). The fake depth of field in the macro mode is unnecessary because you get such a shallow depth of field from the telephoto camera's large diameter lens in the first place.
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- Anonymous
- JHk
- 01 Jul 2024
It would have been interesting to see a comparison with the Pixel 8 Pro at 350mm + Night Sight (Google's Night Sight improves the tele performance even in perfect light conditions because the signal to noise ratio is improved).
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- Nick Tegrataker
- Xp6
- 01 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2024Cant even beat type 1.0 sony rx100 m7 , imagine a M4/3 panasonicDefine "beating" RX100 Mark 7, because it would absolutely fall apart in low light scenes in scenes GSMArena shot these photos which I can guarantee. Expect tons of blown-out and colours in light sources as well as noisy images, since DRO only lifts shadows and doesn't touch highlights at all and its noise reduction (both stacking and post-processing) in general is very primitive compared to what X100 Ultra offers.
Don't even bother bringing Pana's m43 compact cameras here, LX100's lens is very soft wide open and it has to be stopped down considerably before it can achieve decent corner-to-corner sharpness. Sure it has an F1.7 aperture at the widest end of the zoom, but obviously it comes with a cost especially when it has to fit within such a compact body.
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- Nick Tegrataker
- Xp6
- 01 Jul 2024
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2024Another proof that with much larger hardwsre advantage, can... moreThis is some of the finest rendition of details I've ever seen on a phone camera since Mate 30 Pro - They have even managed to one-up themselves from their already excellent X100 Pro in this regard. I seriously have no idea what you're expecting at this point.
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- Anonymous
- JHk
- 01 Jul 2024
Darth Caesium, 01 Jul 2024Where's the 14.8× zoom? This telephoto can do 14.8× zo... moreThat's true. There would be still 12.5 megapixel at 340mm. But Gsmarena has at least published the full resolution 200 megapixel images. Nonetheless, static objects could look better at 340mm as there would be less processing time to combine multiple frames. I don't know whether they combine multiple frames in the full resolution 200 megapixel mode..
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- Anonymous
- JHk
- 01 Jul 2024
"This module is similar in concept to the Magic6 Pro's telephoto, though Honor markets it as 180MP and it's a different sensor model and lens specs."
Furthermore, from what I have seen, it seems that Honor always uses 4-1 analog binning or 16-1 binning, which means that the "180 megapixel" sensor actually behaves like a 45 megapixel Quad Bayer sensor. I couldn't find reviews with 180 megapixel sample images, but the 270mm sample images (in good light conditions) I have seen looked very pixelated and indicate that they always use analog binning. Moreover, Honor even crops the sensor (they also crop the sensor of the main camera), so it's a 45 megapixel 61mm camera, which is cropped in order to get a 37 megapixel 68mm Quad Bayer camera.
Without analog binning, it would have been 180 megapixel at 61mm and slightly less than 150 megapixel at 68mm.
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Jul 2024
20% down on battery in the Wild life stress test that lasts 20 minutes...That means it wont thermal throttle but battery wont last much...
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- Tiramisu
- 7j}
- 01 Jul 2024
Anton .el PAPI., 01 Jul 2024A bit sinic on gsm arena's part to highlight the norma... moreThe Galaxy has other pros which make up for it.
The Galaxy is just more versatile and better overall
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- Anonymous
- JHk
- 01 Jul 2024
The 340mm sample images are missing because the high resolution allows for 340mm 12.5 megapixel photos without upscaling. The (10x) 230mm images seem to be 27 megapixel Tetra²pixel images that have been downsampled to 12.5 megapixel. It's also possible that these are 6.8 megapixel Quad Bayer (analog 4-1 binning) images that have been upscaled to 12.5 megapixel, but as the results seem to be mostly superior to the X100 Pro and less pixelated, I guess there is most of the time no analog binning at 230mm in good light conditions, just downsampling.
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Jul 2024
CamoGeko-XDA, 01 Jul 2024Nokia has no clue how to make a good phone anymore. I re... moreObviously, nokia has not since 2013
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Jul 2024
That bokeh blur on telephoto is criminal! The worst blur I've seen in a very long time. Poor photoshop job, too much blur, poor object masking and oversharpened object laid on top of fake no-details blur.
- CamoGeko-XDA
- nUh
- 01 Jul 2024
Minu, 01 Jul 2024Round camera islands look pleasant when smaller in size, es... moreNokia has no clue how to make a good phone anymore.
I really don't like any huge round camera islands, or any phone that looks like it's a camera first and phone second.
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- sondesix
- KiN
- 01 Jul 2024
I think I know the reason why the charging speed is so slow on your unit.
On the settings app, enable Battery --> Battery health and charging --> show charging options on lock screen.
To enable the real 80W charging, you should choose the "Super fast" option on your lock screen. Otherwise, it is just as slow as the Galaxy S24 Ultra (well, until the last 30% at least).
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- Androuser
- 7kk
- 01 Jul 2024
HelioG42069, 01 Jul 2024"unimpressive charging speed" it's got 80W o... moreFot them 45 watt samsung and 20 watt apple charging is fast.
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- Inedian
- 3qx
- 01 Jul 2024
Looking now night UW pics for Xiaomi 14 Ultra and X100 Ultra here on GSM, easy win for Vivo.
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- Inedian
- 3qx
- 01 Jul 2024
xslvrxslwt, 01 Jul 2024I liked this phone until I've realized how big of a sc... moreAnd yet this dude still said X100 Ultra is the best cameraphone.
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Jul 2024
Lav, 01 Jul 2024Everyday we are coming closer to no longer needing micro 4/... moreCant even beat type 1.0 sony rx100 m7 , imagine a M4/3 panasonic