Vivo X100 Pro Review - Watch Out Galaxy S24 Ultra!

Vivo X100 Pro Review & unboxing. A phone that could upset the Galaxy S24 Ultra? Powered by the new Dimensity 9300, 16GB/512GB version reviewed.

00:00 - Intro and key specs
01:08 - Unboxing
01:31 - Design and features
03:45 - Fingerprint reader and screen
06:07 - FunTouch OS & UI performance
07:14 - Bloatware & Antutu score
07:51 - UFS 4.0 speeds
08:29 - Thermal throttling test with 3DMark
09:29 - Widevine cert, SafetyNet & Camera2 API
09:53 - Battery life and charge time
10:40 - Audio, haptics and loudspeaker test
11:31 - Dimensity 9300 Gaming with Genshin Impact
12:46 - Camera samples: Video
15:37 - Camera samples: Stills
17:47 - Final words with Pros and Cons

[Techtablets]

00:00 - Intro and key specs
01:08 - Unboxing
01:31 - Design and features
03:45 - Fingerprint reader and screen
06:07 - FunTouch OS & UI performance
07:14 - Bloatware & Antutu score
07:51 - UFS 4.0 speeds
08:29 - Thermal throttling test with 3DMark
09:29 - Widevine cert, SafetyNet & Camera2 API
09:53 - Battery life and charge time
10:40 - Audio, haptics and loudspeaker test
11:31 - Dimensity 9300 Gaming with Genshin Impact
12:46 - Camera samples: Video
15:37 - Camera samples: Stills
17:47 - Final words with Pros and Cons

[searklarak]

Thanks for your thorough review! I'm on firmware 12.9 and the phone just keeps getting better and well optimized.

[cguralol]

Hoping to see what the s24 ultra will have, because i feel that this vivo chip is doing some amazing stuff combined with the natural color tuned by Zeiss
If the S24U comes with a 5x and a 10x i will be switching from my S22U

[aliettienne]

3:54 The fingerprint reader should definitely be further up closer to the middle of the screen as you've highlighted at this point in Vivo review. 19:44 I do agree that Vivo have made a solid camera design, I can see a bright future for Vivo. 😎💯💪🏿💪🏿👍🏿 13:34 The viewing quality is just crystal clear, bright and detailed.

[aleksandarlugonja]

Thanks for the awesome review Chris! As always, on point. Now waiting for Oppo Find X7 and Honor Magic 6 series in January. I think only Oppo can beat Vivo in terms of camera performance. But if there is no global version as for Find X6 series, then it would be such a shame.

[kaiserfakinaway]

hey chris amazing vid as always. A suggestion, since you've got a phone from a lot of the android manufacturers can you do a comparison between the features of the OSs and their skins? Like your experience using the phone, your favourite features and the cons of those skins? For example Xiaomi and Oneplus like to overheat and throttle, Xiaomi has slow updates and has problems with launchers, etc.

I'm using an S22U SD and I've been using Samsung phones from the start, I just loved their feature set. For example my currently most used features are the swipe down in the home screen anywhere to bring down the control center, the swipe down in the middle bottom portion to make the screen small and get one handed mode and the ability to quickly switch the default function for the sims from the control center or change the device output. I also really really love the gallery app, got a lot of albums organised and chose which ones to be "essential" and always show, the video app in Samsung phones is imo the most Apple like experience I've ever had on a phone, like the way people describe Apple phones and their experience, it is completely hassle free and just works for me unless I'm doing super niche things which I didn't expect it to do. Finally the Samsung Notes app is also another banger, really lovely to just use and have many folders and sub folders and then colour coordinate them. Aside from the apps, the app library thingy you get when you swipe up from the home screen is also something I truly love. I can organise it to my heart's content with folders and color code them as well. Also the good lock apps allow me to soften the Camera's image, disable hdr for the cam, change how the "recent" apps screen looks, how many steps the volume slider has and the number of apps in a folder, home or the app library place. These are the features I stick to Samsung for, if other brands can do the same I'd be able to switch without any worries. Thanks for reading and any help is appreciated.

[pauloa.]

Bro, you should censor that phone number at the 04:57 mark. Good review as usually. Have a great new year. 👍🏻

[joelconolly]

Battery or standby is probably cause MTK uses all power cores and no efficiency cores. Better performance, not better battery life. Still decent if you don't scramble to use your phones 24/7.
Overall I think this a solid phone. I agree with Ben that it's a great stills camera with solid video. I just hope it'll be flat one day. Or have similar screen as the Xiaomi 14 Pro. Otherwise, a great flagship phones unless the Pro+ models decided to go global too 👏🏻

[tasin]

An excellent review as always.

I've been following this channel for quite a while alongside mrwhosetheboss and mkbhd. Just sad to see the channel's growth hasn't been the best although I think it has more substance. I guess people like to be entertained more instead of getting more facts.

[gigazelensky]

I love Samsung but they havent changed since the S21 Ultra. Vivo with a 1 inch sensor and the Vivo X100 Pro Plus rumoured to have a 200MP telephoto lens Samsung will really have to step up their game.

[lifeindivine]

If performance drops so much it is not way better than my old Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G with Snapdragon 865 😁. Chris Sir what do you say? Snapdragon 865 is greatly optimised for OS and Apps and everything works very smoothly. No glitch at all.

[dujankees]

I feel like Vivo's camera processing is the modern-day Nokia Pureview

[phooka]

@11:18 DnB fan! Great review over all btw!

[marcB]

Peak brightness is what the screen should be able to do when playing HDR video, something like 10 % of the screen. The maximum brightness when set to auto brightness is typically lower than peak ( and its a more useful number )but they'll cite peak because its a bigger number, and therefore better for marketing

[kodaph]

Like most phone manufacturers leaning towards "The Flat Screen" era, yet Vivo here, doing its path with the Curved screens...
For me, been using all the Flat screens for more than a decade, so this is nice to see... I'm eyeing for this one 😍😍

[corsinivideos]

Looks very impressive for sure, but kind of wish it wasn't using that dated curved display design, looks like a phone from 2018 or something. As usual lack of 4K is always ridiculous, but maybe they are saving that for the Pro Plus? Also very annoying that the china version with originOS doesnt support LTE band 20, as the prices ive seen are amazing. Not seen the international version with FuntouchOS for sale anywhere as of yet.

[Granturion]

Have it a few weeks.
The camera wows me very often. Really good.
The fingerprintsensor is good but i still miss the insane 3D ultrasonic one.

Zeiss lense is also something. You cant go back to another phone after you are used to zeiss.
SO CLEAN.
Bought it directly in china. 630 euros... whereas the iPhone 15 Pro Max 1449 euros here and the 5x Lense there just disappoints me.

[Kahani-Suno]

I have ordered this phone from China, im very excited about it ❤

[techstation]

My man, I don't think S24 Ultra got it. That 200MP main sensor with the smallest pixels in the industry will drag it down in many aspects like slow shutter speeds and long processing times, long night mode exposure times and poor video. S24 Ultra may be great in every way but that main sensor.

[MrAdhiSuryana]

Vivo pls make a flat display and better UI next time! This hardware is actually amazing