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Vivo’s new x200: will it be the new X factor in the smartphone industry?

By Jon Young

Vivo’s new x200-will it be the new X factor in the smartphone industry

Vivo, the Dongguan-based company, started out as a low-budget brand for smartphones but is now ranked as the world’s 4th smartphone seller, according to IDC. Vivo has just launched its top-of-the-line X200 series in China. This is a cutting-edge lineup with the powerful MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset and many more major updates. This chipset improves the battery health and the performance of the smartphone along with its camera capabilities, consisting of live photos. The live photo feature enables you to capture not just the moment, but also the ones before and after it along with the audio The x200 also comes with a new 3-nanometer processor. The series consists of not one but three phones: Vivo X200, Vivo X200 Pro, and Vivo X200 Pro Mini. Many new features are focusing on AI, in which the smartphone is designed in a way that the devices directly can enable real-time data processing and data analysis without relying on any other cloud computing services, and the AI feature also includes something similar to the dynamic island seen in Apple called “origin island,” but better than the dynamic island, this origin island has more cross-app operations and also has some touch of Samsung’s “circle to search,” which was introduced in the last January. There is also an interesting factor, which is the specific timeline of when Vivo launched its new extraordinary series, which weighs only 187 grams, just weeks after the launch of Apple and Huawei. This phone can compete against many of the giants in the smartphone market. It is reported that Vivo will start shipping the new X200 series from October 19 onwards.

Coming to its performance and features, the Vivo X200 Pro has a lightning-fast 2nd generation 3 nm processor with a cortex-X925 super core that reaches up to 3.626 GHz. Just like the Apple Pro series, the X200 Pro has a triple camera setup, which was done in partnership with the Zeiss. The smartphone’s major and most attractive feature is the 200MP Zeiss APO telephone camera with 3.7x optical zoom and a stunning f/2.67 aperture. The next primary camera is Sony’s LYT 818 1/1.28-inch sensor, and the other one is a 50 MP ultrawide lens. The front camera of all the models is 32 megapixels. In the case of the battery, the Vivo’s third-generation silicon anode technology helps in better battery health. The Vivo X200 Pro has a battery health of 6,000 mAh, and the Vivo X200 Pro Mini has a 5,700 mAh battery. It also has a feature of 90W wired and 30W wireless charging. The video recording of these models supports 4K videos, which are at 120 frames per second, and also has a cinematic slow motion model, which was an exclusive feature of Apple’s new iPhone 16 Pro series, now available in the Vivo X200 Pro. When it comes to the display of each version of X200, 

The Vivo X200 Pro has a display of 6.78 inches of quad-curved LTPO with 120Hz variable refresh rate and 4,500 nits peak brightness.

The Vivo X200 Pro Mini has a compact design of a 6.31-inch flat display.

The Vivo X200, which is the standard model, has a 6.67-inch quad-curved display with 4,500 nits of brightness. One of the other exclusive features that Vivo X200 provides is its network-free communication using Bluetooth connection, allowing devices to connect and text or call within a radius of 2 kilometers. 

The Vivo X200 series is now officially available in China from October 14th onwards, and it will start shipping globally on October 19.

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