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Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone
Tech Close Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Tech Mobile Close Mobile Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Mobile Reviews Close Reviews Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Reviews Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone While rivals push experimental telephotos, Vivo’s phone simply has three equally excellent cameras. by Dominic Preston Close Dominic Preston News Editor Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Dominic Preston May 10, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC Link Share Gift The X300 Ultra is mostly let down by its rather dull design. Dominic Preston Close Dominic Preston Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor . A few months ago, I wrote that the telephoto camera is the only lens that matters any more , at least when it comes to Ultra-class flagships. As phones got better, cameras became where manufacturers tried to stand out. As cameras got better, telephoto lenses became the next point of focus. The most recent Ultra phones from Xiaomi , Oppo , and Huawei have all made the telephoto, above all, their selling point. Vivo’s X300 Ultra is doing something different. Instead of pushing its telephoto hardware to further extremes, Vivo has mostly left it be. The company has focused its efforts on a significantly improved 35mm main camera, unique among the competition for its narrow, natural focal length. Combined with the best ultrawide camera in any phone and new pro-level video features, the result is a camera system that feels equally balanced between all three rear lenses. It’s a less flashy approach, but the total package is more versatile and useful than its rivals and my favorite to use so far. 8 Verge Score Vivo X300 Ultra $ 1829 $ 1829 The Good Fantastic rear cameras Big battery 144Hz display The Bad Bland, boring design Rivals have better telephotos OriginOS needs improvement $1829 at Wonda Mobile How we rate and review products The main camera is certainly the best of the three. The 200-megapixel, 1/1.12-inch-type Sony Lytia 901 sensor delivers a serious jump in both size and resolution from last year’s X200 Ultra . But it preserves that camera’s best feature: a 35mm-equivalent focal length. That’s narrower than most other phones — 23–26mm is typical — but closer to what photographers tend to look for in their default lens because it feels natural, close in scope to the human eye. It’s also closer to the focal length many phones used to use. If you’ve ever lamented the fact that your main camera feels more and more like an ultrawide, this is the phone for you. The telephoto camera also has 200-megapixel resolution, with an 85mm focal length and 1/1.4-inch sensor, essentially the same specs as the X200 Ultra. The slightly narrower f/2.7 aperture might make the X300 look like a downgrade, but improved stabilization and sensor and processing tweaks give this iteration an edge overall. There are three true rear lenses here, plus a color spectrum sensor. Street Photography mode is where you’ll find the camera’s film simulations. Then there’s the ultrawide. This also hasn’t changed much year over year, but remains unique for its sensor size. It’s larger than the one on the iPhone 17 Pro ’s main camera and supports optical image stabilization too. It’s in every sense a main camera spec with an ultrawide lens on top. No other ultrawide comes close. The selfie camera is the only one that isn’t especially impressive: a 50-megapixel shooter with a comparatively small 1/2.76-inch sensor. It’s fine; the other cameras are great. Previous Next 1 / 31 The X300 Ultra’s main camera shoots at a natural-feeling 35mm focal length. Photos across all three rear lenses are of remarkably comparable quality, in almost any lighting. About the only difference I could find is that the telephoto and ultrawide are more susceptible to motion blur when shooting fast subjects like cats or cars, and even then only when it’s dark. Otherwise, picking between the lenses feels like choosing the right focal length to frame a shot, without the usual worries about tradeoffs in quality. Photos are helped by naturalistic color-processing and a wide range of quite impressive film simulations. Vivo’s color science is my favorite in any phone, and this year is no exception. Vivo hasn’t just focused on still photography. This year it’s doubled down on video, though the upgrades here are really targeted at professionals. You can now record 4K, 120fps, 10-bit Log video across all of the three rear lenses, can import custom 3D LUTs, and use a Pro Vi
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