Vivo X300 Ultra is finally official in China with dual 200MP cameras and a massive battery

Vivo has officially launched the X300 Ultra in China, and it's by far the most serious and refined camera phone the company has put out yet. The X300 Ultra is Vivo's answer to the Galaxy S26 Ultra and the iPhone 17 Pro Max, but featuring even better hardware that neither of those two can directly counter. Let's get into it.

Vivo X300 Ultra Overview

Design

The X300 Ultra has moved to a flat display this generation, which is a new shift from the curved panel on the X200 Ultra. The frame is aluminum, front and back are glass, and this thing comes in at around 8.2mm thick, which is noticeably slimmer than the X200 Ultra's 8.7mm, even though the former has a bigger battery inside. The phone is not a light phone by any means, but neither are any flagship devices ever. The phone is IP68 and IP69 rated while being available in three colors: Black, Silver, and Red.

The rear camera island is large and circular, and it dominates the back panel — but that's been the Vivo Ultra signature for a while now, and by this point, most people have already accepted this to be Vivo's identity. There's no physical camera shutter button this generation, which some photographers will miss, though the accessory ecosystem arguably compensates for that.

Display

The display comes in a large 6.82-inch LTPO AMOLED panel that runs at up to 144Hz refresh rate. It hits a peak brightness of around 4500 nits, and carries 1440 x 3168 resolution at roughly 510 ppi. It is by far one of the sharpest panels on any phone right now. It comes with everything from Dolby Vision support to  HDR Vivid, HDR10+, and 2160Hz PWM dimming. For protection, Vivo has shielded the front glass with the Armor Glass protection. Qualitatively speaking, it has excellent color accuracy, and the image and videos also appear really vibrant and bright. 

Performance

The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on 3nm chipset. It handles everything the X300 Ultra asks of it, including 8K video processing and computational photography across multiple 200MP sensors simultaneously. 

Vivo has also included the VS1 and V3+ imaging chips on top of the Snapdragon, which handle the photography pipeline separately. Similarly, the memory configurations go from 12GB all the way to 16GB LPDDR5X with up to 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage. The phone runs on Android 16 with OriginOS 6 skin on top, and Vivo has also promised up to five major OS upgrades.

Other than that, the phone supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 with aptX Lossless and LHDC 5 among other stuff. And there's even an infrared port

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Camera

The camera has always been the biggest feature of the Vivo flagships. And the Ultra in particular always has been a step above everyone else, at least in portraits. Here you get a triple rear system that is headlined by a 200MP Sony LYT-901 main sensor on a 1/1.12-inch chip with gimbal OIS — a larger sensor than almost anything in the segment. The telephoto is also 200MP, a Samsung periscope sensor on a 1/1.4-inch chip at 3.7x optical with multi-directional PDAF and OIS rated at CIPA 7.0. Then, there's a 50MP Sony LYT-818 ultrawide on a 1/1.28-inch chip at 14mm and 116 degrees, with dual-pixel PDAF and OIS. 

There's also a 5MP 12-channel multispectral sensor whose entire job is color accuracy. Its basic function is that it reads scene lighting across 12 color channels and calibrates every shot accordingly. Similarly, all of these lenses carry Zeiss T* coating and Zeiss APO certification on the telephoto, and Vivo supports 3D LUT import, 10-bit Log recording, among other stuff.

The optional Zeiss Telephoto Extender Gen 2 Ultra with 4.7x optical zoom is available as an accessory that pushes the telephoto to 200mm or 400mm equivalent optically, and with in-sensor crop, you're looking at near-lossless reach up to around 800mm. Samsung and Apple undoubtedly have great computational photography, but neither of them can match what this phone does at telephoto range with the extender attached. And finally, the 50MP front camera with autofocus and 4K60 recording handles the selfie side. 

Battery and Charging

The X300 Ultra ships with a 6600mAh silicon-carbon battery with 100W wired charging, 40W wireless, and reverse wired and wireless charging. At 100W, a full charge from flat empty takes somewhere around 30 to 35 minutes. In contrast, if you look at its counterpart — Galaxy S26 Ultra—it comes with a mere 5000mAh cell and around 60W charging, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max sits at roughly 5100mAh with slower 45W wired charging. 

Vivo X300 Ultra Specifications

• Design, build: 163 × 77 × 8.2mm, 230g, glass front and back, aluminum frame, IP68 + IP69; Black / Silver / Red
• Display: 6.82-inch LTPO AMOLED, 1440×3168 (510 ppi), 144Hz adaptive, 4500 nits peak, 2160Hz PWM, Dolby Vision, HDR Vivid, Armor Glass
• Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, 3nm, Adreno 840 GPU
• Memory: 12GB / 16GB LPDDR5X RAM; 256GB / 512GB / 1TB UFS 4.1, no microSD
• Software & UI: Android 16, OriginOS 6; up to 5 major OS upgrades
• Rear Camera:
  • 200MP f/1.85 gimbal OIS (Sony LYT-901, 1/1.12")
  • 200MP f/2.3 periscope telephoto 3.7x OIS (1/1.4")
  • 50MP f/2.0 ultrawide OIS (Sony LYT-818, 1/1.28")
  • 5MP 12-channel multispectral sensor
• Front Camera: 50MP f/2.5 AF; 4K@60fps
• Security: Ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner
• Connectivity: 5G SA/NSA, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 (aptX Lossless, LHDC 5), NFC, GPS full-band, USB-C 3.2 DisplayPort, IR blaster; satellite SOS on 16GB+1TB variant only
• Audio: Stereo speakers, 24-bit/192kHz Hi-Res audio, no 3.5mm jack
• Battery: 6600mAh silicon-carbon, 100W wired, 40W wireless, reverse wired and wireless charging

Vivo X300 Ultra Price in Nepal and Availability

The Vivo X300 Ultra is now available in China. Pricing starts at around CNY 6,999 for the base 12GB + 256GB variant, with higher configurations going up from there. Similarly, Vivo has also provided G2 Ultra Teleconverter kit at CNY 2499 and Small Rig Kit is priced at CNY 1699. However, expect its price in Nepal to start at no less than NPR 194,999. 

• Meanwhile, check out our video on Vivo X300 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro Max