Poco F7 Ultra vs Vivo X300 Ultra

Poco F7 Ultra

POCO's most complete camera ever — finally with a real telephoto — but still the area where POCO compromises versus true flagships.

• A 50MP main, a genuine 50MP floating telephoto (60mm, 10cm macro to infinity, 2.5x optical), a 32MP ultrawide and a 32MP selfie — POCO's most complete camera system yet.
• r/Android's verdict: POCO did 'just enough with the camera to make it feel more complete and competitive' — the best Xiaomi device outside the T/main series in years.
• Against the iPhone 16 Pro Max the 60mm telephoto was 'a clear win for the F7 Ultra,' and 2x quality edged Apple's despite Apple's color advantage.
• In dark or trickier high-dynamic-range scenes it doesn't hold up against true flagships — 'if there's one weakness POCO has always made, it's the cameras.'
• Video has real limits — no 4K front recording, no lens switching while filming 4K60, and Xiaomi's typical contrast/brownish processing for point-and-shoot users.

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.

• At the center is a 200MP main that's nearly a 1-inch sensor (Sony Lytia 901), backed by a 200MP 85mm-equivalent periscope telephoto — the phone is focused on camera quality and, even more so, video.
• Featuring three extra-large image sensors, the X300 Ultra's uncompromising camera hardware earned a solid rating — but it's hardly better than the cheaper X300 Pro in actual camera performance despite the top-notch hardware.
• I'm not sure I've seen better results from even 1-inch sensors — it's so close to 1-inch and the 35mm focal length makes for more cinematic-looking shots; the 85mm periscope is the sweet spot for portraits.
• It still holds the record for the best portrait-mode photos on a smartphone, especially at 85mm and 135mm; the 14mm ultrawide is sharp edge to edge.

Poco F7 Ultra

A modest 5,300mAh cell offset by the fastest charging in its class — 120W wired and Ultra-exclusive 50W wireless.

• 120W wired charging fully refills the 5,300mAh battery in ~30 minutes (60% at the 15-minute mark); a 90W adapter is only marginally slower.
• Adds 120W wired plus 50W wireless charging — faster than anything out there including the S25 Ultra, and wireless charging is exclusive to the Ultra in the F7 line.
• The F7 Pro carries a larger 6,000mAh battery vs the Ultra's 5,300mAh, but real-world battery-life difference between them is minor.
• Endurance results vary widely by test — one rundown hit an 'insane' 35h27m, while a standardized 1440p test got only ~14h22m, behind a smaller-battery S25 Ultra.
• In a six-flagship drain test it lasted 6h18m of active screen-on time — mid-pack, behind the iPhone, OnePlus and Vivo X200 Pro but ahead of the Xiaomi 15.

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.

• Vivo increased the battery by 10% to 6,600mAh despite the phone being practically the same size on paper.
• In our battery test it earned an active-use score of almost 16 hours; 100W charging took it 0–66% in 30 minutes and a full charge in 46 minutes, plus 40W wireless. A charger is in the box except in Europe.
• On the China version I'm finishing entire 13–14 hour days with 25–30% left; the global version keeps the 6,600mAh cell so battery life should comfortably last 12–13 hours of heavy use.
• Getting nearly 7 hours of screen-on time with very heavy usage from the 6,600mAh silicon-carbon unit, with 100W wired and 40W wireless charging support.
• After a 4-hour heavy-usage simulation the phone still had ~45% battery left, which is solid by today's standards, and 100W wired charging takes about 45 minutes to full.

Poco F7 Ultra

HyperOS 2 with a solid update commitment — let down, as ever, by bloatware.

• Ships with HyperOS 2 on Android 15, with Xiaomi promising 4 major OS updates and 6 years of security patches.
• Xiaomi rolls out its newest software updates fairly quickly across the range — a genuine plus noted by long-term reviewers.
• The persistent bugbear is bloatware — 'a pretty big bugbear with POCO/Xiaomi phones in general.'
• HyperOS 3 (Android 16) is confirmed on Xiaomi's update schedule, keeping the F7 Ultra on the supported roadmap.

Vivo X300 Ultra

Origin OS 6 (Funtouch with full Google services on the global model) is clean and not over-baked with AI, and Vivo now commits to 5 OS upgrades plus 7 years of security patches. The launch software was rough but patched quickly; there's no longer a configurable camera action button.

• Despite being a Chinese device using Google services, you get 5 years of OS updates and 7 years of security updates — a solid, much-improved commitment.
• AI is present across the camera and day-to-day tools, but unlike Samsung you don't have to use AI in every single sense — it's not overbaked to the nth degree.
• Origin OS 6 introduces more transparency in the UI; brands like Vivo and Oppo have changed a lot over the past two years, easing the usual Chinese-variant fears.
• Being the first global launch for a Vivo Ultra there was an early-software rough patch, but an update arrived about 4 days later — the kind of thing Vivo can fix easily via software.
• Disappointingly there's no longer an extra configurable camera button like some previous Vivos and rivals from Oppo and Honor offer — though one reviewer was glad the old, unusable button was removed.
• Vivo's drag-and-drop is genuinely better than Oppo's — you can pick up an item and drop it straight into your most-used apps rather than parking it in a file dock first.