Vivo’s Color Screen feature enables you to enhance the color vision and minimize the fatigue on the eyes. It does this by mapping the gamut uniformly on UI components and images, taking into account lighting conditions and calibrating the colour temperature of the screen. It can even recognize the type of content and set the display parameters accordingly.
When used in lab testing, the vivo x200 shot clean, sharp and clear pictures with accurate colors. Specifically, landscapes were bright and appealing in terms of contrast and saturation. Still, we did notice that the white balance of the vivo x200 occasionally went green in comparison to its competitors.
The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chip inside the vivo x200 has been slamming the performance barrier lately. It runs on a 2nd generation 3nm process, and includes a 3.6GHz prime core, three 3.3GHz performance cores, and four 2.4GHz efficiency cores. This is accompanied by an AMD-grade Mali GPU, which makes the vivo x200 a beast of a computer for gaming and media. vivo’s FunTouch OS 15 takes the experience even further with the intuitive and user-friendly design of the vivo x200. The apps include Circle to Search, where users can find photos and articles easily without launching a new app, and AI Note Assist, which makes it easier to take notes by automatically squishing and tagging information to ensure quick access.
Performance
As you’d expect from a flagship phone, the vivo x200 is very comfortable to use day-to-day. Locking the phone, switching between apps, and loading webpages is quick and doesn’t lag or sluggish. The Dimensity 9400 processor, too, slays hard tasks such as gaming and video editing with hardly any lag or overheating.
In terms of camera quality, the vivo x200 delivers. The phone provides bright and vivid colours with great contrast even in low light conditions. The telephoto lens, too, is capable of making clear and detailed shots with acceptable depth. But it does tend to distort things when photographing closeups.
Software-wise, vivo bundles the X200 with Google’s Gemini AI assistant, as well as a set of productivity apps including Circle to Search with Google, and AI Note Assist. The second one will automatically compile your notes into concise summaries for you.
All in all, the vivo x200 is an excellent flagship at a low price point. Thanks to its beefy specs and premium display, it’s tough to beat iPhone 16 Pro, iQOO 13 (review) and OPPO Find X (review). All that keeps this phone from a true flagship is its mediocre performance on artificial benchmarks and its slightly bloated UI. However, the phone remains a decent buy for those who are moving up from a basic smartphone or starting out with Android phones.
Battery
The vivo x200 is unmistakably an upgrade in the battery department from the previous generation, and it has no trouble scoring high scores in our PCMark and drain/recharge tests in the field. It’s capable of providing more than 6 hours of screen-on time on a single charge and it performs well even in intense gaming and high-volume use. This is in part because it uses a silicon-carbon battery that has better energy density than the lithium-ion batteries of its competitors.
Additionally, the phone includes an ‘Optimized Battery Charging’ mode that learns your charging patterns and tries to recharge it when needed. It isn’t quite as fast-charging as the iQOO 13, but it has a great performance here for the most part.
Vivo’s display on the x200 and x200 pro is solid, with good sunlight readability and 4500 nits at full brightness. It’s AMOLED and slightly curved for comfort.
It’s compatible with a multitude of color profiles, and there’s even a ‘Blue Light Filter’ setting to minimize exposure to blue light. Plus, the device comes with an eye protection feature that automatically dims the screen when it detects you’re reading or working. It’s a nice display, and it works nicely with the rest of the phone.