Review | Vivo X100 Ultra smartphone review: the best camera phone – amazing zoom lens, huge sensors
- The Vivo X100 Ultra Android smartphone is sleek and powerful and its camera system is so jaw-dropping, Apple and Samsung can hardly top it
Chinese smartphone brands have always aggressively chased gaudy numbers on spec sheets. Whether it is screen resolution, amount of RAM, number of cameras or megapixel count, you can always count on them to outdo Apple or Samsung.
These higher numbers are sometimes meaningless, however. No one really needs more than 16GB of RAM or 4K resolution on a phone. But the recent trend to go after larger camera sensors does indeed matter.
Vivo’s new premium flagship phone, the X100 Ultra, brings a 200-megapixel telephoto lens with the largest sensor yet seen in a zoom lens – 1¼ inches – and as a result it becomes the new zoom camera king.
Design and hardware
Other than its gigantic camera module housing the best camera sensors possible right now, the Vivo X100 Ultra is a pretty standard-looking Android phone. It’s got the usual curved OLED screen with 120Hz resolution and the usual aluminium frame.
If you’ve seen an Android flagship handset in the past few years you’ve seen this design. But the phone uses the highest tier components, from a Samsung E7 2K AMOLED display to an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner sourced from Qualcomm.
The battery is a bit larger than usual, at 5,500 mAh, and the camera lenses have Zeiss’ T-Coating, which helps reduce flare.
Powering things is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, paired with 12GB or 16GB of RAM. Again, powerful, but standard, stuff.
