Weekly ballot: can the vivo X100 and X100 Professional tempt you with their highly effective {hardware}?

19 November 2023

vivo unleashed a probably unstoppable telephone – the vivo X100 Professional may show to be the most effective telephones of 2023, whether or not you are in search of a digicam telephone, a gaming telephone or simply an all-round flagship.

The digicam is supplied with the 1″ Sony IMX989 sensor in the primary module. The telephoto module has the primary cell lens to get a Zeiss APO certification and combines a 100mm lens with a 50MP sensor. The 119° extremely extensive completes the triple 50MP ensemble.

The vanilla vivo X100 is not any slouch both. It has a 50MP important (a 1/1.49″ IMX920 sensor), 64MP periscope (70mm lens) and a 50MP 119° extremely extensive.

Each telephones are powered by the Dimensity 9300, which set a brand new AnTuTu report and guarantees to be 10% quicker than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. vivo wasn’t stingy with the RAM and storage and each fashions high out at 16GB/1TB.

Each have the identical 6.78″ LTPO AMOLED show, a brilliant vivid 120Hz 10-bit panel that may hit 3,000 nits. It is not the sharpest at 1,260 x 2,800px, however it’s nonetheless higher than FHD+.

In addition to the cameras, the 2 fashions additionally differ of their batteries. The X100 Professional has a much bigger 5,260mAh battery with 100W wired (1-50% in 12 minutes) and 50W wi-fi, the vanilla X100 has a 4,880mAh or 5,000mAh battery (relying on the mannequin) with 120W wired-only charging (1-50% in 11 minutes).

Lastly, the value. The vivo X100 begins at CNY 4,000 for the 12/256GB mannequin, the vivo X100 Professional with the identical base configuration is CNY 5,000. We solely have the Chinese language pricing, so that is what we’ll go along with.

The Xiaomi 14 and 14 Professional strike again with Leica-branded cameras and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips. The cameras are a triple 50MP setup with 1/1.31″ important, 75mm tele and 115° extremely extensive. They’ve 4,610mAh and 4,880mAh batteries with 90W and 120W wired charging, respectively, each have 50W wi-fi. The Professional mannequin has a 6.73″ 120Hz LTPO show (a correct QHD+ panel), the vanilla mannequin is smaller with a 6.36″ 1200p LTPO show.

The Xiaomi 14 additionally begins at CNY 4,000 (identical because the X100) for a mannequin with much less RAM (8/256GB configuration). The Xiaomi 14 Professional begins at CNY 5,000 and matches the X100 Professional at 12/256GB.

Then there’s the iQOO 12 and 12 Professional, additionally from vivo. As an alternative of the Dimensity, these decide the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as their chipset and have 6.78″ 144Hz shows – 1260p on the vanilla and QHD+ on the Professional. These aren’t as camera-focused because the X-series, however they do okay for themselves with 50MP 1/1.3″ important sensors, 64MP 70mm periscopes and 50MP 119° extremely wides. The battery cut up is analogous – 4,880mAh or 5,000mAh with 120W wired-only charging for the iQOO 12 and 5,100mAh with 120W wired and 50W wi-fi charging for the Professional.

The iQOO 12 fashions went on pre-order this week. The vanilla iQOO 12 begins at CNY 4,000 for a 12/256GB telephone, the 12 Professional begins at CNY 5,000 for a 16/256GB mannequin.

There might be extra telephones with next-gen chipsets and cameras coming quickly, in fact, however the vivo X100 pair are the primary and solely Dimensity 9300 telephones proper now. And their cameras sound better-equipped than their present rivals, however we’ve not gotten an opportunity to overview them but.

Contemplating that the X100 and X100 Professional are priced on par with their direct opponents, would you purchase one if it was accessible close to you?

Let’s vote for the vivo X100 Professional first:

And now the vanilla vivo X100: