Last week’s poll shows that vivo has a hit on its hands with the X200 Ultra – which makes its reluctance to sell it globally even more confounding. Even the X200s did pretty okay, even though it’s a phone aimed at people who missed the original X200 launch.
The vivo X200 Ultra had nearly half of the voters expressing their disappointment that the phone won’t be sold in their region. That is a lot of potential customers that vivo is ignoring – the X200 Pro is a great phone, but it’s not as great as the Ultra.
A surprising number of people, one in five, are not discouraged so easily and plan on importing the X200 Ultra. It’s one of the best camera phones of 2025, so it might be worth the extra hassle.
Not everyone loves the Ultra – the main point of criticism seems to be that the main camera doesn’t have a 1”-type sensor (not that 1/1.28” is small, but the term “Ultra” comes with certain expectations). The curved display has its critics too, they wish it was flat like the X200 Pro.
The vivo X200s also inspired some people to try and import it, but those are in the minority. Still, nearly a third of voters are interested in the phone, but again, vivo only plans to sell it in China.
Predictably, many are looking at other models in the X200 family and at other flagships. Still, this serves as a decent upgrade over the vanilla X200 for those that missed the original launch.
Vivo had a solid first quarter in the Chinese market, the X200 Ultra and X200s should boost its numbers in Q2. These two could have raised vivo’s market share in other countries too, but alas.