vivo X200 review

Android 15 with a Funtouch OS overlay

The X200 boots Android 15 with a layer of the company's in-house Funtouch OS on top, also v.15. Our information is that the phone will be eligible for 4 major OS release updates and 5 years of security patches, which sounds like a good level of futureproofing.

The latest Funtouch isn't much different from previous iterations in look and feel, and almost gives off a bit of a dated vibe with its visuals. In a way, the Origin branch looks more modern with its bubblier quick settings and overall style.

Funtouch OS 15 on the vivo X200

The present-day functionality is, of course, all there. Funtouch includes niceties now taken for granted like large folders, the split split-screen/pop-up window implementation is about as straightforward as it gets, too. The app drawer is worth mentioning too, because that's where Funtouch keeps its widget selection for some reason.

More Funtouch OS 15 on the vivo X200

The X200 also comes with Google's Circle to search on board and the Gemini AI assistant as well. A Google Lens-powered screen translation feature is also present.

Circle to search • Circle to search • Gemini

You also get live translation of phone calls, an AI helper in the Notes app, and an AI Transcript Assist utility for making summaries out of spoken conversations. Note that all of these may be region-dependent and not present in your locale.

Also, unsurprisingly, there's some AI-powered functionality in the gallery editor. You get to delete objects, remove people, and fight reflections - all of those with varying success, of course.

AI Erase

Performance and benchmarks

Just like the X200 Pro, the X200 non-Pro has ditched the Snapdragon 8 Elite that a lot of high-end phones use, and relies on the Mediatek Dimensity 9400 instead. The Dimensity is about as good as the Elite, though, as we've seen on several occasions (the X200 Pro, the Oppo Find X8s).

The X200 can be had in a number of memory configurations ranging from 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Our review unit is the 16GB/512GB spec and its storage speed we got was consistent with the UFS 4.0 standard.

Benchmark scores on our X200 were a touch below what we got out of the Find X8 (same chipset), while Elite competitors like the OnePlus 13 were a notch higher up the chart still. We wouldn't say the differences are significant or that the vivo is underpowered in any way, but it is losing a few of these numbers races.

The X200's sustained load results aren't too bad, though they were quite unusual. The 3DMark stress test returned a close-to-standard 60-ish percent stability but it did manage to do a few one-minute runs at near peak performance, which is better than the norm. The absolute numbers in the CPU Throttling test were also out of the ordinary - notably higher at the start and still pretty high at the end, though the abrupt drop, the flaming colors, and the 56% result are pretty much what you'd expect from a high-end chip.

CPU Throttling test • 3DMark Wild Life stress test