
Nothing
Best-value periscope-camera budget phone

Vivo
The video and zoom monster
Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
A 6.77-inch 120Hz AMOLED that's a genuine class leader — bright enough that outdoor use is never a squint.
Vivo X300 Ultra
A 6.82-inch 144Hz LTPO AMOLED, now flat rather than quad-curved. Lab measurements put real brightness near 1,900 nits in auto and ~3,300 nits on a small window — among the best panels on any phone — and reviewers single out content consumption and clarity as standouts.
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Vivo X300 Ultra
Vivo X300 Ultra
Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
The reason to buy the Pro: a genuinely rare 3x periscope plus telemacro on top of a 50MP Samsung-co-engineered main — flagship-style versatility for budget money, with a weak ultrawide the main miss.
Vivo X300 Ultra
The reason the X300 Ultra exists: a near-1-inch 200MP 35mm main (Sony Lytia 901), a 200MP 85mm periscope, and the best ultrawide sensor on the market, tuned with Zeiss. Reviewers near-universally rate it the best-equipped camera phone of 2026 — with two important caveats: the 35mm default is divisive, and on raw image quality it's only marginally ahead of the cheaper X300 Pro.
Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
The Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 is upper-mid — smooth daily and well thermally managed, but raw benchmarks are weak and demanding games drop frames.
Vivo X300 Ultra
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 plus Vivo's custom imaging silicon delivers flagship benchmark numbers and strong gaming, but the camera-heavy hardware runs hot — sustained stress tests show roughly 60–65% stability and the camera app warms it up fast.
Nothing Phone (3a) Pro
A 5,000mAh cell that's exceptionally well optimised — a day and a half of use that out-endures the Pixel 9a — with fast 50W wired charging, but no wireless charging.
Vivo X300 Ultra
Vivo grew the silicon-carbon cell 10% to 6,600mAh while keeping the body the same size. Real-world endurance is strong — ~16h active-use score, ~7h heavy screen-on, 13–14 hour days with charge to spare — and 100W wired refills it in under an hour, with 40W wireless.