Vivo X200 Pro achieves sales record as first hints about the X200 Ultra Zeiss camera emerge
We usually hear about such success stories from Xiaomi, but these dimensions are rather unusual for Vivo. Last year, Vivo boasted that it had exceeded the 1 billion yuan mark on the first weekend after the Vivo X100 launch event, but Vivo's sales have apparently doubled this time around. According to a post on Weibo (see poster below), the company proudly announced yesterday, October 19, 2024, that it had generated revenues of more than 2 billion yuan (equivalent to $280 million) for the Vivo X200 series.
Vivo pushes Xiaomi and Samsung from 1st place
This is all the more astonishing as the Vivo X200 and Vivo X200 Pro are only available in China to date; the more compact Vivo X200 Pro Mini will not be available until October 25. Incidentally, the Vivo X200 series is also available globally via specialized import dealers; a global launch is also likely to be on the cards, at least for the Vivo X200 and X200 Pro. Speaking of global, Canalys reported last week that Vivo had displaced Xiaomi and Samsung from first place in the smartphone sales charts in the last quarter, at least in India.
Vivo X200 Ultra: First clues about the Zeiss camera
It will probably be a while before it gets a global launch, but interest in the cameras pimped up with Zeiss technology is also growing outside China. After the Vivo X200 Ultra was officially confirmed for 2025 in an interview with Vivo executives, Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station has just revealed the first clues about the next, ultimate Zeiss camera flagship. In a Weibo post (see screenshot below), he reveals that a prototype of the Vivo X200 Ultra once again features a triple cam with 200 MP telephoto, and the sensor technology is also likely to be the same. Apart from the Snapdragon 8 Elite instead of the Dimensity 9400, the new features or "cutomized upgrades" seem to lie elsewhere - where exactly is not yet known. Apart from a V4 ISP, potential possibilities include even better Zeiss optics.
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