Vivo X300 Ultra review: Premium cameras and performance but at what price?
Last Updated: 2026-05-27 13:16:02
Vivo’s entry into the Ultra segment has finally paid dividends this year as the brand brings its premium device to the Indian market. The X300 series, especially the Pro model has shown the imaging prowess but Vivo is keen to show off further and the Ultra model makes a strong case for those aspirations. This year we have seen the phone prices go beyond their usual levels, which means you are spending more than 10K more to buy a basic device.
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Vivo X300 Ultra offers premium cameras and flagship performance- Priced over Rs 1.60 lakh, value for money is questionable
- Features 200MP main camera, 6,600mAh battery, 100W charging
Same is the case in the flagship arena and the X300 Ultra is bearing the heavy brunt of those trends. These premium phones are powerful, feature-packed and carry plenty of heat in other aspects. But does the Vivo X300 Ultra deliver on all those fronts and still offer good value? We have done our bit to find out.
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Design: Bulky yet sleek
The X300 Ultra is unapologetically big and some of the reasons are unavoidable for the brand. The build quality is premium, and you won’t feel Vivo has cut any corners. However, the X300 Ultra will not feature in any lightweight phone of the year awards, weighing up to 237 grams, yet manages to remain fairly sleek at 8.2mm which is quite manageable.
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The dual-shade of green adds a different appeal at the back of a unibody glass panel with emphasis on keeping it simple and clean. It gets IP68 and IP69 ratings to handle dust and water immersions as well.
The large circular camera module is hard to miss, which adds to the protruding nature of the device and you immediately notice its impact when the phone is kept on a surface. It is definitely top-heavy but not a deal breaker by any means.
Display: Bright and punchy
The X300 Ultra gets a large 6.82-inch AMOLED 1B colour display with 144Hz refresh rate, Dolby Vision support and other premium features. Vivo uses the Amor glass to protect the screen from scratches and during our tests and experience it has fared quite well.
The display itself is big, punchy and bright enough to handle all the conditions, and offer easy viewability under sunlight too. Is it one of the best you can get in this segment? There is very little to complain and hope Vivo could also work on its own version of a privacy display with the future models.
Having LTPO display means the refresh rate adjusts based on what you have running on the screen and goes as low as 1Hz to keep the efficiency levels for more power-hungry use cases.
Performance: Flagship-grade assurance
Vivo is using the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on the X300 Ultra with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, which means expect the best available performance in the market. Does this phone manage to live up to those standards?
During our tests, and the benchmark scores tell you the raw picture of its abilities and when you really put it through the daily grind of a phone user with focus on heavy and moderate usage, you see the value that a high-end hardware delivers without any compromises. Sometimes you feel the phone is going on an overdrive, which becomes evident with its sudden increase in surface temperature but that is not a big concern.
It can handle gaming, shooting photos and other levels of multi-tasking with ease and there is no discernable impact on its reliability, and we hope that remains the case in the long run as well.
The Origins
Vivo moving to OriginOS for its phones in India has been a refreshing and a much-needed change. You get a software that feels more polished and customisable than FuntouchOS and the Android 16 version offers a good teaser into its potential.
However, the software still feels rough on the edges and some of the basic options don’t work as effectively as the other OSs offer in the market. Ideally, you want the control centre to drop down without unlocking the screen, but OriginOS brings additional security to stop that from happening.
It comes with 5 OS upgrade promises along with 7 years of security updates from Vivo. This is not exactly flagship-level these days (like Google and Samsung) but hopefully the brand is able to deliver them on time and not have a delayed rollout schedule.
You also get the fluid nature of the UI, faster app launch time and a responsive screen that works well with the software in general. There are still a lot of things that Vivo can do, including more emphasis on the AI-ness of the software and we hope that happens with the future versions.
Cameras: Hard not to be impressed
At the heart of all this flagship power, the X300 Ultra is mostly about its versatile and powerful camera system. It has a 200MP wide main sensor with OIS, a 200MP periscope telephoto lens with OIS and a 50MP ultrawide lens with OIS. That is a lot of sensor power and the module at the back doesn’t shy away from showing off its potential.
The X300 Ultra has a camera, like the other Ultras we have used this year, that is fun to use, offers a lot to learn and corrects your mistakes with its own expertise and tuning. We made good use of our time with the X300 Ultra and this setup to see the quality it offers in all conditions, especially in low-light where the demands are strenuous but equally rewarding with the right tools.
We didn’t get to try out the extender kit with the phone but even without it the performance of the camera was more than satisfying. The details, and colour tones and even the sharpness of the images in different modes was excellent and we don’t use that word quite often. The low light imaging offers crisp images, without any noise and offers its own light to cover up for the darkness in the scene.
Battery: Keeps going, just about
Vivo has packed a 6,600mAh battery into the X300 Ultra (also contributing to the heft), and supports 100W wired and 40W wireless fast charging. The phone can handle daily grunt and deliver support for over a day but with heavy usage, which also includes Android Auto wireless while driving, that endurance is tested in a big way.
It doesn’t match up to the standard 2-day support that most phones offer these days but still effective enough with the 100W charging available out of the box and with the adapter that Vivo gives. It is good but the brand might have opted for a smaller unit to accommodate the bigger camera sensors.
Vivo X300 Ultra is priced over Rs 1.60 lakh in the country and that probably makes it out of reach for many. This camera setup is not aimed at everyone and for this money, at least in 2026, you are getting one of the best performing units. Does it justify the price tag, hard to agree on that but Vivo doesn’t make any compromises on performance and that will matter to those who want to invest in a camera that also has a phone built on top.