Vivo X100 Ultra smartphone review: the best camera phone – amazing zoom lens, huge sensors
Mario Bautista
Chinese smartphone brands have always aggressively chased gaudy numbers on spec sheets. Whether it is screen resolution, amount of RAM, number of cameras or megapixel count, you can always count on them to outdo Apple or Samsung.
These higher numbers are sometimes meaningless, however. No one really needs more than 16GB of RAM or 4K resolution on a phone. But the recent trend to go after larger camera sensors does indeed matter.
Vivo’s new premium flagship phone, the X100 Ultra, brings a 200-megapixel telephoto lens with the largest sensor yet seen in a zoom lens – 1¼ inches – and as a result it becomes the new zoom camera king.
Design and hardware
Other than its gigantic camera module housing the best camera sensors possible right now, the Vivo X100 Ultra is a pretty standard-looking Android phone. It’s got the usual curved OLED screen with 120Hz resolution and the usual aluminium frame.
