Tipster Digital Chat Station recently said that the Oppo Find X10 Ultra is on hold and might not launch. Before that, we heard Xiaomi had canceled the 18 Ultra. This left some wondering whether vivo would also cancel its X500 Ultra, despite vivo’s VP of Product confirming that the smartphone would arrive next year in March or April in China. That confirmation came in September, and plans can always change. The good news is, the vivo X500 Ultra is still on track.
This information comes from Digital Chat Station, who also said that the X500 Ultra is expected to launch next March or April – matching the timeframe initially revealed by vivo’s VP. DCS also said the X500 Ultra may be the only Ultra phone in its category, and in reply to a comment on their Weibo post, they said it will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
Digital Chat Station’s Weibo post (machine translated from Chinese)
The vivo executive who revealed the X500 Ultra’s launch timeframe also said it will offer a larger gap in camera performance than the X500 Pro Max.
vivo X500 Pro Max
vivo hasn’t divulged anything else about the X500 Ultra; however, rumors claim the smartphone would come with a 6.85″ 144Hz 2K LTPO AMOLED display with an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner embedded, a 50MP primary camera, and a 200MP periscope telephoto camera. The battery capacity is expected to be somewhere between 7,000 mAh and 8,000 mAh.
vivo X300 Ultra
The vivo X300 Ultra was vivo’s first Ultra smartphone to launch outside China, and the X500 Ultra is also expected to launch internationally after its China debut.
vivo X300 Ultra
Source (in Chinese)
