Best Camera phone of 2025: Vivo X200 Ultra

Back again with the best camera of 2025. Been using this only for a week so far, I can say this a slight upgrade over X100 Ultra in the camera department everything else is a big upgrade.

Here are some samples from Thanos 2.0 :slight_smile:


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beautiful pics and looks like “mota aasami”

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Bro, these look too good
I hope now more phones will come with 35mm main lens
I think X200 ultra has the best spread of focal lengths

How you got the phone bro.. it’s not available in india.. :frowning:

You can see the photos, they are in China

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Ohh.. I thought he might have taken pics during his vacation. Anyway happy for u Op.. enjoy!!!

Been using X200 Pro since launch day (dec '24) and the phone is almost perfect. Only problem is some apps aren’t optimized well enough for mediatek cpu. Olx and swiggy freezes 5 out of 10 times.
My wife’s pixel 6a performs better in some scenarios and that’s a budget phone.

Can normal users spot a difference between these pictures and those taken with DSLR ?

HK specifically IIANM

Ah, didnt know apps could freeze on mediatek.

You only listed two. There could be many more?

Certainly, but only two from my list of app. I have 100+ apps installed.

Other than that, I have no complaints whatsoever. Best camera, top notch performance, the best service I’ve ever experienced from any brand.

What service did you need from vivo?

Indeed. I used to default 35mm on x100u too, so much less distortion & perfect for framing.

I got 5 of these from HK to India. Even made a post to check interest if anyone’s interested to get one.

https://techenclave.com/threads/interest-check-for-vivo-x200-ultra.227145/

I Blame FuntouchOS for that tbh.

It’s very difficult to stop the difference unless you’re pixel peeping at 300% zoom. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Yes Hong Kong. Beautiful country <3

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Funny story.
The x200 pro has a prominent camera bump, and the finishing isn’t perfect.
Anyway, I took my 1 week old vivo to goa for the christmas holidays. A lot of sand got into places you definitely don’t want sand in..including the holes in my phone.

After coming back, I tried cleaning off the sand carefully with a needle and isopropyl alcohol. It did clean up for the most part, but I also found a few gaps in the phone’s body. The factory gum came off very easily where the camera bump fits. Turns out it was a known issue in the first batch of phones. A few people reported it too - [like here](’

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vivo/comments/1hwi5j4/vivo_x200_promanufacturing_defectdisplay_corner/’

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I reported it to Vivo, visited their service center, and without much hassle, they offered a replacement. I had a tiny scratch on the display too but they still gave me a replacement.
Also, they have a Premium queue in their service centers, so if you have X series phones you skip the line.

He says so in such a calm manner :nailbiting: o_O

So much for IP68 rating. This phone will be toast in a drizzle let alone anything heavier.

I’m wondering what the reception would have been had you sustained water damage. Through no fault of yours. But the water ingress indicators turning all pink would complicate your case.

Essentially you lucked out by spotting the problem before it became one.

What confidence do you have that the replacement won’t have such a rookie problem?

They didn’t check for damages well enough. Like I said, scratch on my display and they didn’t make a fuss out of it. Just wrote “good” for phone condition.


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They would have to disassemble it. But the phone would have conked out already anyway due to water damage.

You were lucky you didnt get the phone wet as luck of luck your replacement was done in the dry season

Yes but it says warranty replacement which is correct given what you described.

Quite frankly I would expect this from any company for that sort of manufacturing defect.

I’d be slightly paranoid if this happened to me. Like checking for gaps every few months :grumpy:

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Personally I wish they went with 28mm instead of 35mm for the main sensor. With digital zoom getting so good, a 1.25x digital crop will probably have imperceptible difference.

On a mobile screen, it will be hard to spot the difference for an average user. On the big screen, it will be noticeable rather easily if you know what to look for.

I had already dropped my phone in water, literally tried to wash off the sand in tap water first. Although steam from water vapor does more damage than anything else and I always took my phone to shower, didn’t really do any damage whatsoever.

6 months in, I’ve dropped my phone twice from my bike while riding, without tempered glass or screen protector. Can’t count how many times I’ve dropped on the floor but I can say, the durability is commendable for vivo.

Was looking to buy a compact phone for my wife as replacement for 6a, ended up with x200 FE. I never imagined I’d lean towards vivo or oppo but thanks to the shitty practices from pixel, iphone and galaxies, I discovered vivo.

The camera bump is already huge at 35mm with a 1/1.28" sensor, 28mm would be extreme :stuck_out_tongue:

I think vivo went for the photography focal lengths this time but yeah a little wider Main lens would’ve helped.

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