The Vivo X100 Professional and X100 are launching internationally

Even in tiny smartphone cameras, lenses matter. Vivo appears to agree since lens enhancements are a serious emphasis on its new flagship smartphones: the Vivo X100 and Vivo X100 Professional. They launched in China first on November thirteenth, and now Vivo is releasing them internationally with matching 6.78-inch 120Hz OLED screens.

The X100 might be accessible in Southeast Asian markets, together with India and Indonesia, and the higher-tier X100 Professional may even be accessible in European markets. And no shock — the US isn’t getting both of the gadgets.

Just like the X90 Professional earlier than it, the X100 Professional affords a 50-megapixel one-inch-type essential digicam — an enormous sensor by smartphone requirements. Vivo says it’s been tuned with “Optical Precision Calibration” for “constant sharpness and high quality.” The X100 Professional’s 50-megapixel telephoto digicam additionally will get a bump as much as 4.3x optical magnification versus 2x on the earlier mannequin. It comes with a brand new APO designation, which is Zeiss’ terminology for a lens designed to scale back chromatic aberration. There’s additionally a floating lens component — which, no, doesn’t actually float — to allow close-up pictures with the tele lens.

The non-Professional X100, which isn’t coming to Europe. Picture: Vivo

The X100 has a extra pedestrian 50-megapixel 1/1.49-inch-type essential digicam sensor, in addition to a 64-megapixel 3x optical telephoto. There’s no floating component right here, however Zeiss coatings have been utilized to lenses on each gadgets. Each telephones have 50-megapixel ultrawide cameras in addition to a secondary imaging chip, however the X100’s is an older V2 whereas the Professional will get the most recent V3, enabling 4K cinematic portrait video.

The X100 and X100 Professional are each constructed on MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 flagship chipset. Most different flagship collection put a smaller display within the “lesser” mannequin. Not so with Vivo — each use that very same 6.78-inch OLED panel with a 120Hz refresh price. They each include an IP68 score for mud and water resistance, too. So the first variations are the digicam ones detailed above.

Vivo’s X90 Professional confirmed numerous promise after I examined its digicam earlier this yr towards the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely. The corporate is sticking with the massive picture sensor technique, which has sure benefits like higher baseline noise efficiency and extra pure bokeh. However on the time, Samsung nonetheless got here out forward in most conditions with its more-pixels-more-better ethos and savvy computational processing. It’s good to see Vivo doubling down on lens high quality — in my checks, the X90 Professional confirmed some lens aberrations that spoiled a few of my photographs. In any case, it in all probability gained’t be too lengthy till the X100 Professional and the seemingly imminent Galaxy S24 Extremely meet for a rematch.

Vivo declined to share European pricing info beneath embargo however stated that the X100 Professional will retail for HK$7,998 in Hong Kong, which interprets to round €937 or $1,024. The non-Professional X100, in the meantime, will price HK$5,998 (round $768 / €702).