Vivo’s next camera flagship is still coming in March or April 2027. Leaker Digital Chat Station posted this week that the X500 Ultra remains on schedule for a China launch in that window, and the timing matches what Vivo’s own VP of Product confirmed back in September.
A repeated date isn’t usually news. This one is, because the rest of the 2027 Ultra field is thinning out. Digital Chat Station has also reported that Oppo’s Find X10 Ultra is on hold and may not launch at all, and Xiaomi’s 18 Ultra has been rumored as cancelled over cost.
Current model: Vivo X300 Ultra (12GB/256GB)
Price: $1,449
Where to buy: Amazon
The model on sale now is the X300 Ultra above. Its closest US-sold rival is Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra.
Price: $999.99
Where to buy: Amazon
The bigger change sits under the hood. The X500, X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max all run MediaTek Dimensity 9600 series chips, but Digital Chat Station says the Ultra switches to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
Vivo has pointed at where the work is going. In September, the same executive said the Ultra will open a wider camera gap over the X500 Pro Max, currently the strongest model in the lineup and the phone the Ultra has to beat inside the family.
Inside the family, the bar is already high. The X500 Pro Max carries a 200MP telephoto of its own, and the base X500 pairs its Zeiss triple camera with a 7,500mAh battery. An Ultra that only matches the Pro Max would have no reason to exist, which is what makes the promised camera gap the number to watch.
Cost runs through both rival stories. The Xiaomi cancellation was tied to price, with the 18 Ultra said to cost significantly more than the 17 Ultra. Camera hardware at this level keeps climbing: larger sensors, stacked periscopes, co-engineered glass. Vivo is still paying for it.
What the early leaks claim
The hardware picture is still a leak collage, and the pieces do not all agree. Digital Chat Station’s engineering-sample reports point to a flat 6.85-inch BOE LTPO display at 2K resolution and 144Hz, with an ultrasonic fingerprint reader and a 50MP front camera. A global model has already surfaced in an IMEI database in Türkiye under the number V2660, with a Jovi-branded twin, J2613, logged for Brazil.
A wider launch is expected to follow China, as it did this year. The X300 Ultra reached its first overseas markets on April 24, three weeks after the China release, reaching parts of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The United States sat out the X300 Ultra’s launch plan, and nothing in the listings yet says that changes. Türkiye’s database entry surfaced in October, weeks before this latest post.
Cameras are where the reports split. One Digital Chat Station post described a 50MP Sony LYT910 main camera at 35mm, paired with a 200MP telephoto on a larger 1/1.2-inch sensor. Yogesh Brar describes a different stack: a 200MP main camera, a 50MP ultrawide and a 200MP periscope. Battery reports split too, from 7,000mAh to 8,000mAh depending on the post.
Vivo has confirmed none of the hardware. The company hasn’t announced the phone, shown a render or named a price, and every spec above can still move before spring. Digital Chat Station’s posts are machine-translated from Weibo, and engineering samples change.
The Ultra on sale now
China got the X300 Ultra first, on April 3 after a March 30 announcement, and it went global later that month. It runs a 6.82-inch LTPO AMOLED at 144Hz, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and a Zeiss triple camera built around a 200MP 35mm main sensor and a 200MP 85mm telephoto. A 6,600mAh battery and 100W charging round it out.
The X500 series itself landed in September with three models, and we covered the base phone’s 7,500mAh battery and Zeiss cameras when it launched. The Ultra is the missing fourth model, and its slot at the top of the range has been empty since.
Current model: Vivo X300 Ultra (12GB/256GB)
Price: $1,449
Where to buy: Amazon
What happens next is a waiting game with a paper trail. Watch for the Ultra to pass through more certification databases, and for Vivo to start teasing the phone early in 2027. If the March or April window holds, this could be the only camera-first Ultra flagship standing next spring. Every new database listing between now and then either holds the window or breaks it.
