Vivo X200 Ultra Display and Battery Life
- Muhammad Rehman
- 5 hours ago
- 3 min read
You won't be disappointed by the 6.82-inch display on the X200 Ultra. It's an LTPO OLED panel with adaptive refresh rate in the 1-120Hz range, has a 1440p resolution (510ppi pixel density), 10-bit color support, and Dolby Vision compliance.
In our brightness testing, the vivo maxed out at just over 1,800nits in auto mode, essentially the same result as the X100 Ultra and the X200 Pro, earning a spot among the brighter panels out there. It's a bit more conservative when it comes to allowing you to get nits at your own discretion - we measured 566nits at the top end of the slider.
The X200 Ultra will readily dial down to 1Hz when idling, regardless of which refresh rate mode you select - Standard will impose a 60Hz cap, while the default Smart adaptation and High modes will both go all the way up to 120Hz. In High mode you can go ahead and apply 60Hz limits on a per-app basis. Contrary to popular belief, Smart mode in browsers allows for 90Hz/90fps, whereas High mode limits them to 60Hz. The phone will also maintain a high refresh rate for games that can go above 60fps.
The X200 Ultra supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision, as well as the mostly Chinese HDR Vivid standard. There was no HDR capability in Netflix, which is to be expected given the China-only status of the phone, even if our Chinese X200 Pro did support HDR in Netflix. Either way, the Widevine L1 compliance does ensure FullHD playback.
In contrast, YouTube was happy to serve HDR content, even in PiP mode. The phone fully supports the Android Ultra HDR standard for photos so it records metadata in the images it captures and it displays them with enhanced highlights in both its own gallery app as well as in Google Photos. It also recognizes other compliant images in Chrome and displays them accordingly.
The new model marked a small improvement in the overall Active Use Score, with the only tangible increase being in the gaming test. The video playback runtime is marginally longer, web browsing turned out slightly shorter, and so too did the call time. All things considered, the X200 Ultra is trailing behind the competition, though we'd still consider it to be a dependable daily companion.
The X200 Ultra is rated for 90W charging and that's also what the bundled adapter is specced for. In our testing, we got a fleeting 20-second stint at around 72W and the power then dropped to 52W, before settling at around 33W. Charging power ratings don't mean much, no.
The X200 Ultra took around 49 minutes to get from flat to 100% (with some 8 minutes on top of that before it stopped drawing significant power and got to a full state). At the half-hour checkpoint, the battery indicator was showing 64%. The results are on par with the previous model and this year's Pro, and we wouldn't call them impressive - while that's more or less a recurring theme with recent models, the Find X8 Ultra, for example, can still charge notably faster.
The X200 Ultra uses a conventional stereo speaker setup with one bottom firing unit and another driver up top that also serves as an earpiece for voice calls. The two speakers only output their respective channels and the phone switches these automatically to match its orientation in space.
In our loudspeaker test, the X200 Ultra outperformed the previous model and performed on par with the X200 Pro in terms of loudness, receiving a rating of "Very Good." Oddly enough, the three sound quite differently, and the X200 Ultra isn't necessarily the best of them - we're not particular fans of its somewhat clunky output.
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