Alas, the company has not revealed plans for a global launch of one of the best camera phones of 2025. The vivo X200 Ultra is the kind of phone that is.
The vivo X200 Ultra is the kind of phone that is built to cause envy in those that don’t have it – which will be almost everyone outside of China, since vivo has not announced any plans to make the Ultra available outside of its home market. We know some of you will try importing it, but most can only sigh wistfully.
The X200 Ultra builds on the already powerful hardware of the X200 Pro with a sharper display (1440p+ vs. 1260p+) and a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset taking over from the Dimensity 9400.
More important are the camera upgrades – the 50MP 1/1.28” main sensor now sits behind a 35mm lens, a classic focal length in photography. Another 50MP 1/1.28” sensor is inside the revised ultra-wide camera (the Pro only has a 1/2.76” sensor). Even the impressive 200MP 85mm periscope got all the more impressive with a wider aperture (f/2.