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How Vivo X200 Ultra Is the Closest a Phone Has Come to a Real Camera
We test OPPO Find X8 Ultra Camera: Not perfect, but still the best-balanced camera phone
Joel Joseph
April 22, 2025
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Good morning, tech folks! ☀️
It’s Vivo’s week, with the brand announcing a bunch of very interesting products.
In today’s newsletter, we've got Vivo's X200 Ultra pushing the boundaries of what smartphone photography can achieve, Samsung exploring rollable designs, and a roundup of HMD offering digital detox options with their feature phones.
Meanwhile, OnePlus is keeping gaming phones cool with MagSafe accessories, and we're getting hands-on with Oppo's balanced camera approach.
Here's what you'll find in today's tech roundup:
Vivo X200 Ultra's camera engineering achievements
Samsung's vertical rollable phone patent
HMD's best feature phones for 2025
OnePlus's magnetic phone cooler
Oppo Find X8 Ultra's camera review
More reads about Vivo's colorful Mini, Redmi's budget smartwatch, and Redmi's upcoming Turbo Pro
Read on for all the details!
In an industry where smartphone camera improvements have become incremental, Vivo’s X200 Ultra takes a bold leap. Billed by the company as a “mirrorless camera that can make calls,” this flagship device goes beyond the standard computational photography playbook.
It introduces genuine optical engineering feats in partnership with Zeiss, fusing large sensors, floating lens elements, and periscope modules with custom-developed imaging silicon. So what makes the X200 Ultra’s camera system so remarkable?
We find out.
Also read about the Vivo 5 watch here, Vivo’s new Android tablets, and the X200S here.
 Samsung is once again exploring the future of mobile design, and this time it’s rolling upward. According to a recently uncovered patent, spotted by DomoAI in collaboration with tipster David from @xleaks7, the sketches reveal what could be Samsung’s first vertical rollable smartphone. The concept hints at a bold new direction that might change the way users interact with their devices. |  In a world dominated by smartphones, feature phones are quietly making a comeback. Whether you’re looking for a minimalist backup device, a distraction-free primary phone, or something with days-long battery life, HMD continues to release solid, no-frills feature phones under the Nokia brand and even its own HMD branding. So now, we’ve rounded up a list of some of the best HMD feature phones. |
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 OnePlus is dropping more than just the compact OnePlus 13T on April 24 in China—they’re also unveiling the OnePlus 27W Freezing Point Phone Cooler. This nifty accessory, designed to keep your phone cool during intense gaming or heavy tasks, is a beefier follow-up to the 18W version from 2021 and the 27W model from 2023 — neither of which were MagSafe-compatible. The OnePlus 27W Freezing Point Cooler is set to steal some spotlight at the OnePlus 13T (roundup) launch. |  The sales of the OPPO Find X7 Ultra last year were not great – just not as high as we had hoped. So, with the Find X8 Ultra, the brand seems to shift its upgrade strategy: abandoning the camera specs race, and instead, focusing on better everyday usability. Among all the Ultra-level phones with increasingly larger and more protruding cameras, the Find X8 Ultra is the one that feels the most like a ‘normal phone.’ Read more in our review. |
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