This Ultra phone could destroy Samsung and Google with long-overdue zoom camera upgrade

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TL;DR The vivo X500 Ultra is reportedly being tested with a larger 200MP telephoto camera.

This is said to be a 1/1.12-inch Samsung sensor, dwarfing the 200MP tele sensor used on previous vivo flagships.

This means the vivo X500 Ultra could have the largest 200MP telephoto camera upon its release.

The vivo X100 Ultra was the first phone with a 200MP telephoto camera, enabling great long-range zoom as a result. Vivo has subsequently used this 200MP sensor or variations thereof on almost every Pro and Ultra phone since then, but a new leak suggests a major upgrade is coming.

Prolific leaker Digital Chat Station has claimed on Weibo that the rumored vivo X500 Ultra is being tested with a 200MP 1/1.12-inch telephoto camera. Check out the machine-translated screenshot below.