We’ve tested countless phone cameras this year, but none made us want to keep shooting like this one did.
The Vivo X300 Pro might not wear the “Ultra” badge, but it definitely feels like a true Vivo flagship. It borrows the bleeding-edge camera tech we first experienced on the Vivo X200 Ultra, but Vivo has refined that tech and managed to fit it into a thinner, lighter phone.
We spent a day shooting with it around Shanghai, carrying both the standard version and the one bundled with Vivo’s Zeiss “photographer kit,” which includes a snap-on case with a handle and an external telephoto lens. After a few hundred photos, it was clear that the Vivo X300 Pro is a serious contender for the best camera phone of 2025.
A balanced and consistent camera system like no otherIf you take a quick look at the Vivo X300 Pro vs Vivo X200 Ultra specs, you’ll notice that the camera systems are very similar.There’s a 50-megapixel main camera with a large 1/1.28-inch sensor, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide, and a 200-megapixel telephoto camera with periscope zoom. Each of them has Zeiss T* coatings applied for better light transmission and reduced flaring.Vivo has also introduced a new Vivo Imaging Chip VS1, which handles the heavy lifting for color processing, tone mapping, and multi-frame HDR.The result is solid consistency throughout the whole zoom range. You can jump from 1x to 10x to 100x and the images still look like they come from the same camera, with almost identical colors and processing.The X300 Pro’s periscope camera might just be its biggest bragging right.At 3.5x, images remain sharp and true-to-life; free from the overprocessed digital grit that often plagues telephoto cameras. But it’s the 10x images that really struck us as impressive: super crisp, rich in detail, with natural colors and balanced contrast.
