The vivo X100 Professional launched in China final 12 months, however solely started its worldwide rollout this 12 months. We reviewed the vivo X100 Professional and located it to be one more spectacular cameraphone from vivo. Alongside that, vivo additionally launched the vivo X100, which comes with some good upgrades over the X90. We used the vivo X100 for over a month, and here is what we discovered about it.
Design
The vivo X100 packs a 6.78″ FullHD+ curved AMOLED show having a 120Hz display screen refresh charge and three,000 nits peak brightness. It additionally has a centered punch-hole for the 32MP selfie digicam and a fingerprint reader beneath for password-less cellphone unlocking.
We discovered the fingerprint scanner quick and correct in our utilization and confronted no points. Nonetheless, we might have preferred it to be positioned barely greater for a extra handy unlocking expertise. The fingerprint scanner on the X90 sequence was additionally nearer to the bezel, so it is about time vivo thought of shifting it greater on its upcoming X-series smartphones.
The rear panel of the vivo X100 is roofed with Flourite AG Glass and appears just like the vivo X100 Professional. It sports activities a round digicam module greater than the X90’s, which is centrally aligned and prevents the cellphone from wobbling when used on flat surfaces.
vivo calls the X100 digicam module’s design Moon Halo (X100 Professional’s known as Solar Halo and appears barely completely different). It is impressed by the Moon and the celebs and “symbolizes good expertise and noble character.”
vivo X100 (left) with vivo X100 Professional (proper)
The cameras include ZEISS’ T* coating, whereas the digicam island is roofed with a 2.5D rounded Gorilla Glass lens and surrounded by a ornament ring fabricated from austenitic chrome steel. It’s immune to day by day put on, excessive temperatures, and corrosion and is used to keep away from the chance of scratches and paint chipping. The outer ring additionally has a sunburst sample seen on costly watches from manufacturers like Rolex. It total appears to be like good, however the ring does choose up fingerprint smudges.
The vivo X100 is available in blue, black, white, and orange colours, and the provision varies by market. We have got the blue mannequin known as Stargaze Blue in India and Startrail Blue in another international locations. Its again panel with curved edges has a glittery sample and displays gentle at completely different angles. It appears to be like completely cool. And whereas the quilt’s end makes it slippery, the upside is that it prevents fingerprint smudges.
Furthermore, whereas the vivo X100 feels gentle sufficient for extended use with one hand, its measurement may make it difficult to make use of for folks with small arms. To not point out the elevated measurement of the digicam bump, making it troublesome to carry the cellphone at occasions.
The vivo X100 skips the flat frames, which can or might not be factor, relying in your desire. Talking of, the frames are fabricated from steel and have antenna strains on all 4 sides. They’re additionally shiny and reflective this time, making the X100 look extra premium than the X90.
The vivo X100’s right-side body has an influence button and quantity rocker, which have good suggestions. On the backside is the USB-C port, flanked by the SIM card slot, major microphone, and speaker grille. Up prime are the IR blaster and secondary mic. Just like the X100 Professional, the X100 additionally has the “Skilled Images” textual content on the prime.
Ports and controls
We like the general construct and design of the Vivo X100, particularly the Stargaze Blue model, which appears to be like completely lovely. This time, we additionally get IP68 mud and water resistance — an improve over the X90’s IP64 score, which is actually good to have and appreciated.
Show
The vivo X100 is constructed round a 6.78″ 120Hz curved AMOLED show of two,800×1,260-pixel decision and 452 ppi pixel density. It helps 1.07 billion colours and comes with HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, and Widevine L1 certifications. The final one permits you to stream 1080p movies on supported apps.
The diagonal, refresh charge, decision, and pixel density of the vivo X100’s display screen stay the identical because the X90’s show. What’s completely different is the panel sort and peak brightness. The vivo X90 packed a non-LTPO panel with a 1,300 nits peak brightness, whereas the vivo X100 makes use of an 8T LTPO panel with a 3,000 nits peak brightness just like the X100 Professional.
The vivo X100’s haptic suggestions can also be higher than the X90’s, which made typing enjoyable. In addition to, the X100’s display screen was a lot vibrant, making it simple to learn textual content material and watch images/movies underneath direct daylight at max brightness. We additionally did not face any display screen mistouch points with the X100 on account of its curved display screen.
The vivo X90 and X90 Professional had the vivo V2 chip on the helm, however for the X100 sequence, vivo determined to make use of completely different Clever Show Chips (IDC) to boost the telephones’ pictures and show capabilities. The vivo X100 Professional comes with the V3 chip, whereas the X100 makes use of the older-gen V2 chip, in all probability as a cost-cutting measure.
The V2 chip brings Recreation Body Interpolation to the vivo X100, which its Professional counterpart additionally will get with the V3. It permits the customers to “expertise a smoother image with a body charge which is greater than the native most recreation body charge” or “hold the present body charge whereas lowering energy consumption and warmth technology throughout gameplay.” Recreation Body Interpolation helps solely a restricted variety of video games, although.
Talking of, the vivo X100 has Good Swap, Commonplace (60Hz), and Excessive (120Hz) refresh charge choices, with the show supporting seven refresh charges in complete – 1Hz, 30Hz, 45Hz, 60Hz, 72Hz, 90Hz, and 120Hz.
With the Good Swap mode, the refresh charge is bumped up from 1Hz to 120Hz for the system menus and apps (together with Play Retailer) when interacting with the display screen, however for many apps, it solely goes as much as 90Hz. This contains Fb, Instagram, X, Quora, GSMArena, Google Chrome, Google Photographs, and YouTube. The refresh charge switched to 30/60Hz when taking part in movies in social media apps, Google Photographs, and YouTube, whereas Google Photographs switched to 10Hz when viewing photos.
The 60Hz mode was principally the Good Swap mode, with the refresh charge capped at 60Hz. Within the 120Hz mode, the refresh charge went as much as 120Hz when interacting with the display screen. The apps restricted to 90Hz within the Good Swap mode additionally ran at 120Hz.
We tried Name of Obligation Cell, Lifeless Set off 2, Actual Racing 3, and Sky Drive Reloaded on the vivo X100. In 60Hz mode, all video games expectedly ran at 60FPS, with COD switching to 30FPS outdoors the gameplay. With Good Swap mode, COD is the one recreation that reached 90FPS, however solely when Recreation Body Interpolation was enabled and a match was ongoing.
Issues seemed higher for gaming with the 120Hz mode since all video games besides COD ran at 120FPS with out enabling Recreation Body Interpolation. COD ran at 60FPS in the course of the gameplay and remained capped at 30FPS the remainder of the time. A 90FPS gameplay was solely potential when Recreation Body Interpolation was turned on. It is also price mentioning that Recreation Body Interpolation solely works when the refresh charge is greater than 60Hz.
To conclude, the 120Hz mode is the best choice if you would like a easy expertise. And the great factor is you not need to undergo the effort of individually enabling it for apps/video games such as you needed to for the vivo X90 from the “Apps working at a excessive refresh charge” setting as a result of it does not exist on the X100.
Software program and Efficiency
The vivo X100 has the Dimensity 9300 SoC underneath the hood – the identical chip that powers the dearer vivo X100 Professional. It comes with as much as 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage. Ours is the top-end mannequin with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, however no matter which model you get, the smartphone runs Android 14-based Funtouch OS 14 out of the field.
vivo has promised three Android model upgrades and 4 years of safety updates. Our Indian unit is at the moment on March 2024 safety patch degree, so here is hoping vivo will proceed to supply well timed month-to-month safety updates for the X100.
The vivo X100 comes with pre-installed third-party apps just like the X100 Professional, however happily, most will be uninstalled. It is also price mentioning that Sizzling Apps and Sizzling Video games – pre-loaded on the X90 as uninstallable apps – aren’t put in on the vivo X100, which is way appreciated.
We additionally did not face any software program bugs on the X100 as we did with its predecessor, nevertheless it’s price mentioning that Funtouch OS 14’s App Retainer characteristic nonetheless does not work with well-liked apps like Fb. The vivo X100’s total software program expertise is an identical to the X100 Professional’s, so we advise you learn our vivo X100 Professional assessment if you wish to study extra about Funtouch OS 14.
Efficiency-wise, the Dimensity 9300 SoC on the helm of the vivo X100 throttled greater than the vivo X100 Professional in stress exams, and the smartphone even obtained expectedly scorching, however that is about it. In on a regular basis use, the vivo X100 turned out easy and snappy, and there have been hardly any stutters, even throughout lengthy gaming classes. The vivo X100 did get heat, however not as a lot because the vivo X90 did. vivo and iQOO’s Indian fashions have traditionally confronted overheating points, and we’re glad to see that vivo has labored in that route with correct optimizations for the reason that X100 remained moderately cool even throughout heavy utilization.
Digital camera
The vivo X100 sports activities 4 cameras – one on the entrance and three on the rear, joined by a laser autofocus sensor. The front-facing digicam makes use of a 32MP sensor, which is identical because the Professional mannequin. Nonetheless, the triple digicam setup on the rear is completely different. It is a mixture of 50MP major, 50MP ultrawide (119° FOV), and 64MP periscope telephoto models.
The 32MP selfie shooter has an f/2.0 aperture and might file movies in 1080p decision at 30/60FPS. It additionally helps 5 ZEISS Kinds for the Portrait Mode images: Biotar, Sonnar, Planar, Distagon, and Cinematic. The B-speed and Cine-flare ZEISS Portrait Kinds are unavailable for the entrance digicam, although. It is also price mentioning that B-speed is the most recent member of ZEISS Kinds launched by vivo with the X100 sequence.
The 50MP major digicam makes use of the Sony IMX920 1/1.49” sensor with VCS Bionic Spectrum and ZEISS calibration. It has OIS, an f/1.57 aperture, and a 23mm focal size. The digicam can file movies in 1080p and 4K resolutions at 30FPS and 60FPS. It additionally has a Cinematic Portrait characteristic that permits video recording with a bokeh impact. However it may well’t shoot HDR10+ movies just like the X90 did, which could possibly be a bummer for some.
The 50MP ultrawide digicam makes use of the Samsung ISOCELL JN1 1/2.76” sensor. It has an f/2.0 aperture, a 15mm focal size, and might file 4K@60FPS movies. The 64MP digicam makes use of the OmniVision OV64B 1/2″ sensor with f/2.57 aperture. It sits behind a 70mm periscope telephoto lens and has a 15mm focal size for telephoto macro pictures you may seize with the Tremendous Macro mode.
The telephoto unit additionally has OIS and affords 3x optical and 100x digital zoom, whereas macro pictures will be clicked from a minimal focusing distance of 18cm.
Moreover, just like the X100 Professional, the X100 comes with ZEISS’ Multi-Focal Portrait system, which lets you seize portraits in 5 completely different focal lengths: 24mm (1x), 35mm (1.5x), 50mm (2.2x), 85mm (3.7x), and 100m (4.3x).
In addition to, the vivo X100 additionally comes with the ZEISS “Portrait lens bundle” for the telephoto digicam, which incorporates six choices for the 5 focal lengths talked about above. These are principally presets for various situations and are appropriate for many who do not need to experiment with completely different focal lengths and ZEISS filters.
The 24mm Panorama Portrait bundle works with the Distagon bokeh, 35mm Road Portrait with B-speed bokeh, 50mm Traditional Portrait with Biotar bokeh, 85mm Determine Portrait with Sonnar bokeh, and 100mm Shut-up Portrait with Plannar bokeh. There’s additionally a 50mm Pure Portrait, nevertheless it’s not paired with any ZEISS portrait type.
All three rear cameras of the vivo X100 have been fast to seize photos within the Photograph mode, and there was hardly ever any shutter lag. The 50MP major digicam clicked some good footage in the course of the day and night time in Photograph mode, however in “Excessive decision” mode, it typically overexposed gentle sources, and the shadows lacked particulars, making them look comfortable, particularly in low-light situations. This was additionally the case with the 50MP ultrawide digicam in low gentle.
That mentioned, the 64MP periscope telephoto digicam can click on images at as much as 100x zoom, however we did not desire capturing photos with it past 10x zoom, particularly and not using a tripod.
The periscope telephoto unit additionally captures macro pictures in Tremendous Macro mode, which inspired us essentially the most. The photographs clicked in Tremendous Macro mode at 3x and 6x magnification have been excellent with pretty bokeh – one thing you aren’t getting in Photograph mode on the identical zoom ranges regardless of the Photograph mode additionally utilizing the periscope telephoto for that focal size.
What’s additionally obtainable in Tremendous Macro mode however not in Photograph mode is the guide focus slider, which helps you get higher outcomes. Thus, we frequently discovered ourselves utilizing the Tremendous Macro mode over the Photograph mode, even for situations the place Tremendous Macro mode wasn’t the default suggestion. Some product pictures of smartphones in our latest hands-on/first impressions articles have been additionally captured in Tremendous Macro mode.
Concerning the Portrait Mode, the images had good topic separation, and the general outcomes have been good. In fact, they weren’t pretty much as good because the vivo X100 Professional, however the X100 is not as costly as its Professional counterpart both.
With the vivo X100, we see some enhancements to the Supermoon Mode for the reason that footage not look synthetic like they did with the vivo X90, no less than not at 10x zoom.
That mentioned, the vivo X100’s rear cameras produced lens flare in low-light situations regardless of using ZEISS T* coating, which additionally occurred with the dearer X100 Professional and was the case with the X90 sequence. So, vivo may need to deal with this with future X-series smartphones.
You’ll be able to verify some footage we took from the vivo X100 under.
Daylight Photographs
Let’s take a look at the daylight images first, captured with the 50MP major digicam having an output of 12.6MP in Photograph mode at 1x, 2x, and 3x magnification, and 15.9MP past that. The 50MP ultrawide digicam has an output of 12.5MP within the Photograph mode.
12.6MP, 1x magnification (23mm).
12.6MP, 1x magnification (23mm)
12.6MP, 2x magnification (46mm).
12.6MP, 2x magnification (46mm)
12.6MP, 3x magnification (70mm).
12.6MP, 3x magnification (70mm)
15.9MP, 10x magnification (233mm).
15.9MP, 10x magnification (233mm)
Ultrawide digicam, 12.5MP, 0.6x magnification (15mm).
Ultrawide digicam, 12.5MP, 0.6x magnification (15mm)
Major digicam, 50MP (Excessive decision), 1x magnification (23mm).
Major digicam, 50MP, 1x magnification (23mm)
Some footage clicked with the periscope telephoto digicam in Tremendous Macro mode.
Tremendous Macro with periscope telephoto digicam
Nighttime Photographs
Now, let’s check out some nighttime images.
12.6MP, 1x magnification (23mm).
12.6MP, 1x magnification (23mm)
12.6MP, 2x magnification (46mm).
12.6MP, 2x magnification (46mm)
12.6MP, 3x magnification (70mm).
12.6MP, 3x magnification (70mm)
15.9MP, 10x magnification (233mm).
15.9MP, 10x magnification (233mm)
Ultrawide digicam, 12.5MP, 0.6x magnification (15mm).
Ultrawide digicam, 12.5MP, 0.6x magnification (15mm)
Major digicam, 50MP (Excessive decision), 1x magnification (23mm).
Major digicam, 50MP, 1x magnification (23mm)
Listed here are a pair footage of Moon taken in numerous modes.
10x zoom in default Photograph Mode • 10x zoom in Supermoon Mode
Subsequent up, we’ve got a few 1080p movies recorded at 30FPS. (video obtain hyperlink)
1080p video 1 right here
1080p video 2 right here
And right here a few 4K movies recorded at 30FPS.
4K video 1 right here
4K video 2 right here
Battery
The vivo X100 packs a 5,000 mAh battery, which is 400 mAh smaller than the vivo X100 Professional’s battery however 190 mAh greater than the X90’s cell. We could not run our customary battery exams on the vivo X100 for the reason that cellphone wasn’t examined at our HQ. However anecdotally talking, the vivo X100 obtained us via the day on a single cost with a median of about 5 hours of screen-on time on average to heavy utilization with 120Hz display screen refresh charge and 5G cell knowledge and Wi-Fi hotspot enabled the entire time. The utilization consisted of net looking, streaming YouTube movies, utilizing social media apps, and no less than an hour of taking part in resource-intensive video games.
Regardless of packing a tad bigger battery and an LTPO-type show, we did not discover any enchancment within the battery life with the vivo X100 in comparison with the X90. Some battery optimizations with a future software program replace could be good, vivo.
That mentioned, as soon as the vivo X100’s battery is drained, you may juice it up with the bundled 120W energy adapter, marketed to fill the cell from 1% to 50% in 11 minutes. In our testing, the vivo X100 did cost from 1% to 50% in 11 minutes. It went from 1% to 22% in 5 minutes, 45% in 10 minutes, 50% in 11 minutes, 64% in quarter-hour, 81% in 20 minutes, and 100% in 29 minutes. That is three minutes quicker than the X90 regardless of packing a barely greater battery.
We ran these charging exams in India with the At all times-On Show turned on, and your mileage will possible range relying in your utilization and ambient temperature.
Conclusion
The vivo X90 was a very nice smartphone, regardless that it wasn’t a premium flagship just like the X90 Professional. And issues aren’t that completely different with the X100 sequence both. Actually, they’re really higher. The X100 Professional is a top-class digicam smartphone from vivo, however the X100 isn’t any slouch. It appears like a correct flagship and flaunts a design just like its Professional counterpart whereas coming with much-welcome upgrades.
We like the general design of the vivo X100, and its blue shade mannequin appears to be like completely lovely. The smartphone additionally has an IP68 score, which is an improve over the X90’s IP64 certification. Furthermore, the vivo X100’s efficiency could be very snappy, even in gaming.
Whereas the X90 got here with an AMOLED panel of 1,300 nits peak brightness, the X100 packs an 8T LTPO panel having a peak brightness of three,000 nits. The display screen is a lot vibrant, and we do not have many complaints about it.
The vivo X100 has a barely bigger battery underneath the hood, however we did not discover any enhancements within the battery life over the X90. On the upside, regardless of packing a much bigger battery with the identical 120W charging help, the X100’s cell juices up quicker than the X90’s.
Essentially the most vital improve is within the digicam division, although, with the 64MP periscope telephoto unit being the spotlight. The periscope digicam took good images as much as 10x zoom, however the close-up footage captured with the Tremendous Macro mode impressed us extra. The vivo X100’s digicam system is not pretty much as good because the X100 Professional’s, which is predicted contemplating the worth distinction of INR26,000 ($310/€290) in India, however you’re nonetheless getting digicam system.
In India, the vivo X100’s base mannequin with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage prices INR63,999 ($770/€710) – which is identical because the launch worth of X90’s 12GB/256GB model – whereas the 16GB/512GB variant is priced at INR69,999 ($840/€780). The vivo X100 Professional is available in a single 16GB/512GB configuration for INR89,999 ($1,080/€1,000).
To conclude, if you do not have the price range for the vivo X100 Professional or do not need to pay the premium for a 50MP 1″ sort major digicam, 8K video recording, 4K Cinematic Mode, 50MP 100mm periscope telephoto unit with 4.3x optical zoom, and a barely bigger battery with 50W wi-fi charging, then the vivo X100 makes for an incredible purchase.
