Vivo’s Next Phone Will Launch With A Professional Camera Rig

Vivo seldom has a beingness astatine MWC, but this twelvemonth it bucked that inclination successful a large way, pinch nan uncover of its adjacent flagship phone, nan X300 Ultra, alongside an upgraded telephoto extender lens and master camera cage. The institution isn’t fresh to motorboat nan handset conscionable yet — aliases moreover uncover very galore of its specs — but has confirmed that whenever it does arrive, it will beryllium nan first Ultra to spell connected waste extracurricular China.

The only actual item astir nan X300 Ultra itself Vivo would corroborate is that it will person a 200-megapixel telephoto camera. That was existent of past year’s X200 Ultra excessively though, truthful we’re still waiting to find retired what upgrades Vivo has successful shop from my favourite telephone camera of past year.

The 200-megapixel sensor will apparently beryllium taken afloat advantage of by nan caller Telephoto Extender Gen2 Ultra, an optional lens that will strap onto nan phone’s rear. Telephoto extenders person proved celebrated pinch manufacturers since Vivo introduced 1 pinch nan X200 Ultra, besides supported connected nan X300 and X300 Pro, pinch copycats launched by some Oppo and Honor. Vivo is now upping nan ante by jumping from a 200mm balanced focal magnitude up to 400mm successful a lens co-engineered pinch semipermanent camera partner Zeiss.

It’s intelligibly thicker and heftier than nan first-gen extender, but different looks similar. It’s joined by a redesigned camera grip lawsuit which appears to person picked up a fewer further buttons and controls. Look intimately and you’ll besides spot that nan lawsuit nary longer has a cut-out for nan touch-sensitive shutter fastener recovered connected nan broadside of nan X200 Ultra — has that further camera power been trim from nan phone?

The telephoto will beryllium joined by an wholly caller accessory, a “pro-grade” camera cage, a collaboration pinch telephone photography accessory shaper SmallRig. In a property merchandise Vivo says nan cage will see an “array of acold footwear mounts and quick-release ports,” together pinch beingness buttons for shutter and zoom controls, and a dedicated cooling instrumentality for aggravated video shoots. It’s a motion that Vivo’s fresh to transportation nan X300 Ultra not only arsenic a instrumentality for photography enthusiasts, but arsenic a existent productivity instrumentality for master photographers and videographers.

While erstwhile Vivo Ultra phones person been exclusive to China, nan X300 Ultra has been promised a merchandise “in world markets” immoderate clip later this year. It remains to beryllium seen really wide that merchandise will genuinely beryllium — it’s almost definite not to see nan US, and Vivo’s patchy history of European releases makes that a mobility people too.