The Vivo X300 FE, priced at around €899, impresses with its main and telephoto camera performance, positioning itself as a serious camera-centric flagship in the competitive Android market despite limited availability.
Amateur Photographer’s verdict on the Vivo X300 FE is straightforward: this is a premium camera phone that gets most of the important things right. The main and telephoto cameras are the standouts, delivering sharp results, strong zoom performance and a broad set of shooting modes, while the 8MP ultrawide lens remains the weakest part of the package. At around €899, or about £770, it sits below Vivo’s higher-end X300 models but is still very much a serious buy rather than a cut-price one.
That pricing places the phone in the same conversation as some of the most capable Android rivals, and market listings and manufacturer pages suggest Vivo is positioning it as a compact, photography-focused flagship alternative. Vivo says the phone pairs a 6.31-inch AMOLED display with a 6,500mAh battery, Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip, 50MP main and telephoto cameras, and a 50MP front camera, while review sites including Digital Camera World and Beebom have also pointed to the same headline mix of compact design and strong core imaging hardware.
What helps the X300 FE stand out is how fully Vivo has built around photography rather than treating the camera as a single selling point. Amateur Photographer says the main lens uses a wider f/1.57 aperture than before, improving low-light capture, while the 50MP periscope telephoto camera is designed for genuine zoom work and the selfie camera adds autofocus, which is still not universal at this price. The phone also offers 8K video at 30fps, 4K at up to 120fps, a dedicated macro mode, street photography tools and portrait effects modelled on Zeiss optics.
In practice, the strongest results come from the main and telephoto cameras. Amateur Photographer found daylight colour to be consistent across the two lenses, with the main camera producing the most detailed images and the telephoto unit holding up well from 3x through to around 10x before processing becomes more obvious. The report also said the phone’s night and landscape mode helps reduce glare and recover shadow detail, while the portrait tools and adaptive flash work well even in difficult lighting. The ultrawide camera, by contrast, is acceptable in bright conditions but loses detail and picks up more noise once the light fades.
Availability remains the main caveat. Amateur Photographer notes that the X300 FE is not sold in every market, which may limit its appeal despite the strong feature set. Even so, between the large battery, fast charging, Zeiss-branded imaging, long software support claims and genuinely capable main and telephoto cameras, the phone looks like one of the better options for buyers who care more about photography than headline-grabbing specs. The compromise is clear, but for travel, portraits and close-up shooting, the overall package is unusually convincing.
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