Vivo X200 Pro

With three high-resolution sensors and Zeiss lenses, is this the ideal smartphone for photographers?

- Amy Davies

Initially available in China only, the Vivo X200 Pro saw a further limited release in December 2024.

It comes with an appealing set of specifications, most notably its lenses co-engineered with Zeiss, sitting in front of three high-resolution sensors, one of which is larger than averagely-sized.

Vivo is one of the many Chinese smartphone brands that have made fairly big waves in recent years, bringing high-end optics to the market at a more affordable price.

That said, although this has been touted as a global launch, I've not found many places that the X200 Pro is actually on sale in the UK; it certainly doesn't have the widespread availability of other models from the likes of Apple, Samsung, Google or even other Chinese operators such as OnePlus and Oppo.

Although we wouldn’t normally feature phones that you can’t immediately buy here in the UK, should this become widely available in the UK it’s got the potential to be one of the best you can buy.

Still, if you do manage to find it for sale, on paper at least, the specs look pretty intriguing.

Features

The triple-lens setup of the X200 Pro includes as its headline camera a Sony LYT-818 sensor, which is a 1/1.28-inch type. That makes it larger than the average smartphone sensor, and although there are a handful of models out there which go even larger with a one-inch device, it's pretty rare.

It's joined by a 200MP 3.7x telephoto camera, and a 50MP ultrawideangle camera. All three cameras feature Zeiss lenses. With the 200MP telephoto camera, Vivo includes six 'telephoto capabilities', to include Telephoto HyperZoom, Telephoto Macro, Telephoto Portrait, Telephoto Nightscapes and Telephoto Sunset.