Vivo X200 Pro Review: Seriously Good

We’ve reviewed several Vivo smartphones over the years, mostly from the mid-range V-series. This time, we’ve got the flagship X200 Pro in our grubby hands, and boy, what a phone it is. Packing MediaTek’s latest silicon, a hefty battery, and a premium camera setup, Vivo’s X200 Pro is here to compete against the best.

Join us after the break to see how the Vivo X200 Pro fares in our review.

Design

Right off the bat, you’ll see the big, circular camera housing on the rear panel. It’s bigger than the ones seen on the likes of the OnePlus 13 and Magic 7 Pro, and in all fairness, it protrudes a little bit more, too, which means it doesn’t sit flat. That said, the phone doesn’t tilt or lean left or right because it’s centrally located.

The actual finish of the X200 Pro is a svelte glass construction that shows no affection for fingerprints, although it is a tad slippery in the hand. Slap on the included case, and it becomes a whole lot grippier.

Despite having a big 6.78-inch display and a mammoth 6,000mAh battery, the X200 Pro feels comfortable to hold and is neatly balanced.

Otherwise, everything is where you’d expect it to be, with the power button and volume rocker on the phone’s right edge. The requisite Zeiss logo is neatly placed in the center of the camera housing.

Hardware

Performance

Powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 9400 chipset, Vivo’s X200 Pro flies through anything you throw at it. Gaming, multitasking, taking photos, or getting to grips with an Excel sheet, it’s all good. Our review unit came with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage,

Being of the AMOLED variety, the screen boasts a peak brightness of 4500nits and 452 pixels per inch (ppi). It’s plenty bright enough outdoors; I had no issues viewing the display on a particularly sunny day in the snow-covered mountains near Lake Bled in Slovenia.

The ultrasonic fingerprint reader is quick and accurate and works even with damp fingertips, although you must first wipe the snow off.

As always, we’ve run the X200 Pro through various benchmarking apps for your perusal.

Battery

Battery-wise, the Vivo X200 Pro is a beast thanks to its big 6,000mAh capacity, which puts Samsung’s best in the naughty corner. The increased battery capacity doesn’t turn the X200 Pro into a tank thanks to the new silicon-carbon technology.

In daily usage, I’m getting to 40% left in the tank on an average day with all accounts syncing in the background, playing Age of Origins far too much, and the usual browsing web, emails, and YouTube activity.

When you need to charge, the 90W wired charging speed gets you from 0-100% in under 50 minutes, with 35% achieved in 15 minutes. It’s not the fastest around, but it’s quicker than Google’s Pixel 9 and any Samsung you care to mention.

30W wireless charging is also present, which is decently quick but not class-leading.

Software

Running Android 15 and Funtouch OS 15 out of the box, Vivo’s X200 Pro is slated to receive four OS upgrades and five years of security updates. Funtouch OS 15 has handy features and benefits, from Google’s Circle to Search function to the Gemini AI assistant being baked in.

Like most OS overlays, there’s a slew of customization options built into the software, ranging from the typical wallpaper and theme settings to dynamic lighting and page transitions.

One feature that came in handy is located in the Game Tool’s slider, which appears when you start a game. It’s called Off-Screen Autoplay, which means that you needn’t be active during tedious gaming tasks such as mining or waiting for the energy bar to refill. Instead, you enable the Off-Screen Autoplay function, and you can put the phone down and do something else instead. Or, in the case of Age of Origins, it means you can have the zombie-killing Auto-Kill feature run through the night while you sleep and wake up to tons of dead zombie reports. Granted, it’s a niche function, but it’s handy all the same.

For fast-paced games such as Call of Duty: Warzone, you can use the game panel to boost the refresh rate and touch sampling rate to maximize your gaming experience.

I’ve come to enjoy using Funtouch OS 15. There are loads of features to customize the phone if you want, but it’s not in your face.

Thankfully, at least so far, Vivo hasn’t jumped on the seamless updates bandwagon. Instead, it’s the much-preferred method of downloading the update package, pressing install, and then agreeing to reboot the handset to complete the process, which takes just a couple of minutes. Or you can schedule it to be completed during the night.

OS overlays might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but let’s face facts: there’s no longer such a thing as ‘stock Android’.

Camera:

With a trio of cameras consisting of a 50MP main sensor, a 200MP telephoto lens, and a 50MP ultra-wide lens, the X200 Pro is well-equipped for any occasion. That 200MP telephoto lens is pretty similar to the sensor that appeared on the X100 Ultra with 3.7x optical zoom but with a 14cm minimum subject distance instead of 12cm. It’s a marginal difference so slight as to be unnoticeable in regular use.

Both the primary and telephoto sensors carry OIS. However, the ultra-wide misses out and has to do with fixed focus.

Daylight conditions bring out the best of the X200 Pro’s cameras, with stills of labradors coming out with great detail and vibrancy. The texture, along with the dynamic range, displays Dennis the Lab in all his glory.

We’ve mentioned the slight difference in subject focusing when it comes to ultra macro on the 200MP telephoto lens, but this image of a plant shows that it’s nothing to be concerned about, with a good level of detail on show.

As you can see from the selfie pic of a somewhat disheveled editor, the front camera is nothing to be sniffed at.

Regarding zooming in, Vivo’s X200 Pro proves to be a master. The next images range from ultra-wide 0.6 through to 10x zoom during sub-optimal conditions in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The impromptu image of drinks comes out great despite being in a rather dim environment.

The last photo shows a variety of colors and textures, along with the piercing eyes and black fur of Max, the cat.

Basically, you will not be disappointed with the cameras on the Vivo X200 Pro unless you are perhaps using the X100 Ultra. It’s reliable. I’ve found that I can take the photo and trust that it captures the moment as hoped without the need for a second and possibly contrived second shot.

Conclusion

Reliable, capable, and powerful would be three words I would choose to describe the Vivo X200 Pro. It doesn’t have a flashy design, but it does have solid hardware choices across the board while still coming in a fair bit cheaper than Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra.

The bigger, faster-charging battery, slick performance, and price give the X200 Pro the edge against Samsung’s finest, in my honest opinion, especially when considering that the S25 Ultra’s S Pen has been nerfed. MediaTek’s Dimensity 9400 has come of age, and the phone benefits from a feature-rich yet clean software experience.

The only bad thing is that the Vivo X200 Pro isn’t officially on sale in the USA, meaning you must interact with a third-party seller if you want to buy it. And that’s a huge shame.