Key Takeaways
- Vivo is increasing the supply of the X100 and X100 Professional exterior of China, with the X100 headed to South Asian markets and the X100 Professional on its strategy to Europe.
- The standout characteristic of those units is their giant one-inch digicam sensor, which offers higher efficiency in low mild scenes.
- In addition they characteristic spectacular specs, together with a Mediatek Dimensity 9300 chip, which rivals the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
The Vivo X100 and X100 Professional are breaking out of China and heading to different areas. Each units initially launched on November 13, however solely in Vivo’s dwelling nation. Now, the common X100 is headed to a couple Asian markets, together with India and Indonesia, in keeping with The Verge. In the meantime, the X100 Professional is on its strategy to Europe.
That migrarion means the X100 is following within the footsteps of its predecessor, the Vivo X90, which noticed an identical association when it launched earlier this 12 months. For now, a minimum of, Vivo does not plan to launch both telephone within the US, though we hope that modifications finally.
A bigger than life digicam
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The hallmark characteristic of the Vivo X100 and X100 Professional is its one-inch sensor. That is fairly large by way of smartphones, and solely a handful of units have had one, together with a few Xiaomi telephones and the Sony Xperia Professional I. In different phrases, you do not see cameras this large on smartphones fairly often.
There are advantages to such a big sensor. In our overview of the Vivo X90, which additionally homes an enormous digicam for a smartphone, we famous that the images it produced have been truly fairly good. We anticipate comparable, if not higher, efficiency for the Vivo X100 and X100 Professional. The bigger sensor means extra versatility in low mild scenes and actual bokeh (depth of subject cameras produce once you use a large open aperture), two issues that smaller smartphone digicam sensors battle with.
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Outdoors the digicam methods, that are barely completely different between the 2, the X100 and X100 Professional are almost equivalent units. This is a fast spec checklist:
- Chipset – Mediatek Dimensity 9300
- RAM – 12GB / 16GB
- Storage – 256GB / 512GB / 1TB
- Battery – 5,000 mAh (X100) / 5,400 mAh (X100 Professional)
The usage of the Dimensity 9300 chip can also be an fascinating selection. Mediatek is greatest identified for its budget-oriented chips, however the Dimensity 9300 is surprisingly succesful. It is quicker in artificial benchmarks than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 that powers a number of Android flagships, together with the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely, and it is anticipated to compete with subsequent 12 months’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which implies it’s going to stack up properly in opposition to subsequent 12 months’s flagships as properly.
Pricing and availability
Actual pricing wasn’t out there in each area as of this writing. Vivo informed The Verge that the X100 would value HK$7,998 in Hong Kong whereas the X100 Professional would go for HK$7,998. That interprets to roughly $768/€702 for the X100 and $1,024/€937 for the X100 Professional mannequin. The precise launch date hasn’t been revealed but.