Vivo X300 Launch Finally Brings Originos To The Rest Of The World

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Vivo’s flagship X300 and X300 Pro only launched successful China 2 weeks ago, but they’re getting an world merchandise faster than we’re utilized to from Vivo. Today, nan institution announced that some phones are going connected waste extracurricular China, including a fistful of European countries, and bringing pinch them OriginOS — Vivo’s antecedently China-only Android-based operating system.

OriginOS debuted successful China backmost successful November 2020 and is now connected type 6.0. For reasons champion known to itself, until now Vivo has kept Origin successful China, leaving world buyers to usage its older (and despicably named) Funtouch OS. It has ne'er been nosy to touch, pinch a drab design, comparatively basal features, and often extended bloatware.

OriginOS is comparatively colorful and slick. This type has been updated pinch a much customizable lockscreen, including extent effects and basal widgets, on pinch a “Dynamic Glow” creation that has much than a small Liquid Glass to it. Still, it’s a invited upgrade.

I ran down nan X300 and X300 Pro’s awesome specs successful item erstwhile they debuted successful China, truthful I’ll support it elemental here. Both person large silicon-carbon batteries, though nan 6,040mAh and 6,510mAh capacities lag a small down caller releases from rivals Oppo and Xiaomi. The cameras are nan bigger draw, particularly nan Pro’s 200-megapixel telephoto camera, and some models are compatible pinch nan 2.35x Zeiss telephoto extender that launched pinch nan X200 Ultra earlier this year. These are apt to beryllium 2 of nan champion phones for photography connected nan market.

In Europe, nan X300 bid will beryllium disposable successful Austria, Spain, Poland, Hungary, nan Czech Republic, and Italy. The X300 starts from €1,049 (around $1,200), pinch nan Pro disposable for €1,399 (around $1,600).

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