The subsidiaries of the BBK Electronics group are discreet on the European market. If it mentions little to the general public, the brands it operates are well known on the Old Continent, starting with Oppo, whose reseller has chosen to put an end to its activities during the summer of 2023. Its brand sister, OnePlus, is discreetly continuing its merry way – its recent Open is simply an Oppo smartphone (the Find N3) – while Realme and Vivo seem to be at a standstill. Which does not prevent Vivo, on the other side of the globe, from making its new features official. And its brand new smartphones, the
Presented in China, therefore, the Vivo X100 and They both feature a 6.78-inch Amoled screen (2800 x 1260 pixels) equipped with LTPO technology, allowing them to offer an adaptive refresh rate of 1 to 120 Hz, and promise a brightness of 3000 cd/m². Their SoC is accompanied by 12 to 16 GB of RAM, and they are equipped with large batteries (5000 mAh for the X100, 5400 mAh for the X100 Pro), with fast charging (120 W wired for the X100, 100 W wired and 50 W wireless for the X100 Pro). Their internal storage amounts to 256 or 512 GB, and their case is IP68 certified.
Neat telephoto lenses
It is especially in terms of photography that these smartphones stand out. Always equipped with Zeiss T* coated optics – even in the case of their telephoto lens – they rely on a triple module of which that of the X100 Pro is the best equipped. It includes three sensors of 50 megapixels each, the first being an IMX989 (1-inch Sony sensor), another offering optics equivalent to 15 mm (ultra wide-angle f/2) and a third with optics equivalent to 100 mm (f/2.5, x4.3 zoom) whose APO treatment is intended to limit chromatic aberrations. The X100 has an IMX920 sensor from Sony, customized for Vivo (wide-angle f/1.57), but also a 64 Mpx sensor with an It should be noted that both smartphones offer optical stabilization on their wide-angle and zoom modules, and that they focus more on the quality of the optics and the size of the photosites of their sensors than on the number of megapixels available. The X90 Pro, which they succeed and which they promise to improve, was already a very good camera phone, and we can’t wait to try the X100 series.
The Vivo X100 is priced from 3,999 yuan, or approximately €520 excluding VAT, and the Their international marketing remains to be clarified, and we can still hope that at least one of the two devices will provide an alternative to the Xiaomi 14 (already made official), the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S24 and other iPhones and Pixels.