vivo X200 Pro

Coming to the main attraction of the Vivo X200 Pro: cameras. As I mentioned earlier, the X100 Pro was my camera phone of 2024, and the X200 Pro has only further impressed me. This time around, Vivo has bumped up the telephoto camera sensor to 200MP from 50MP, ensuring far sharper zoom photos that will come in handy for both portraits and macros. Yes, you can shoot some stunning macros using the telephoto lens and it is by far one of the best telephoto cameras on a smartphone right now.You can read my camera review of the Vivo X200 Pro to check out how the flagship performs against the likes of the OPPO Find X8 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro in a standard camera shootout. Here, I'll be taking about everything else the Vivo X200 Pro's camera system offers.

Vivo is going with the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset, a flagship processor, on the X200 Pro. To recall, the X100 Pro uses the Dimensity 9300 SoC. Additionally, the latest flagship comes with 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage. You can read my in-depth performance review of the X200 Pro to know more about how the flagship performance against rivals like iPhone 16 Pro, iQOO 13 (review), and OPPO Find X8 Pro (review).To put it briefly, the Vivo X200 Pro is an outstanding performer, offering blazing-fast speeds in real-world usage, even if it doesn't lead the pack in synthetic benchmarks. Powered by the Dimensity 9400 SoC, it handles demanding tasks with ease and is optimised to minimise throttling compared to its competitors in the segment.The Dimensity 9400 chipset handles daily apps and general usage effortlessly, with virtually no lag or freezing issues. It's also well-equipped for more demanding tasks like video editing. Gaming on the X200 Pro is a delight, offering consistently smooth frame rates while maintaining stable thermals, even at the highest graphic settings.Vivo X200 Pro ships with Android 15 with Funtouch OS 15 on top. Out of the box, you do get a fairly large amount of pre-loaded third-party apps like Snapchat, Myntra, PhonePe, and some gaming apps like Block Blast, Rolling Twins, and Tile Master 3D. You can uninstall the ones you absolutely don't need for a cleaner UI. You will need to spend some time tweaking the UI to your taste, after which Funtouch OS should feel easy to get used to.Vivo is promising four years of major software upgrades and five years of security updates for the X200 Pro. This means the phone should get Android 19 four years down the line.The latest Vivo flagship gets an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, which is faster and more responsive than the traditional optical fingerprint sensor present on the predecessor.

By now, you would have seen that Vivo has made upgrades across the board. Things are no different in the battery department. The Vivo X200 Pro gets a 6,000mAh battery, which is 600mAh bigger than the one used in the X100 Pro. Vivo has managed this using a 3rd-gen silicon anode and semi-solid state technology, which allows for a bigger battery capacity without increasing its thickness.The bigger battery does translate to better battery life, as the X200 Pro can last a full day with change on medium to heavy usage. I was able to get anywhere between 6 to 7 hours of screen on time, which included a few hours of streaming content, checking mails, social media browsing and more.The only downside here is that Vivo has lowered charging speeds from 100W to 90W, possibly to ensure longer battery health. Even the wireless charging speed has dropped from 50W to 30W. Using the bundled charger, it takes roughly 42 minutes to charge from 20 to 100 percent. You can read my in-depth battery review to find out how the Vivo X200 Pro stacks up against the iQOO 13, OPPO Find X8 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro.