3 Weeks with the vivo X300 Pro:
An Incredibly Reliable All-Rounder, Disguised as a Powerful Cameraphone.

I used the X200 Pro as my daily driver for months, so I was genuinely curious to see how much vivo has improved with the X300 Pro.

Three weeks in, the answer is clear:
an obvious yes.

In many ways, it feels like vivo finally learned from its past mistakes. They have refined almost everything that mattered the most.

With the vivo X300 Pro, the company has brought multiple changes, for example:
✅ OriginOS 6, now launching globally for the first time
✅ LYT-828 main + ISOCELL HPB periscope tele cameras, with upgrade CIPA 5.5 image stabilisation
✅ New VS1 imaging chip that alongside the V3+ chip
✅ New and wider 50 MP ISOCELL JN1 front camera with autofocus
✅ New MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip
✅ Bigger 6510 mAh BlueVolt battery + 90W FlashCharge + 40W Wireless FlashCharge
✅ A refined design with flat edges and sleeker look

Ready to see how all these changes make a difference in the everyday usage?

I’ve broken down every detail about this phone so that I can draw a verdict about its pros and cons.

Grab your popcorn as we dive in! 🍿
VIVO X300 PRO:
HIGHLIGHTS

✅️ Reasons to Get:
• OriginOS 6 is finally here, and it is silky smooth, even more diverse in features, and has beautiful visuals.
• Fantastic overall camera performance that is reliable in all conditions, even the ultra-wide camera is properly optimised despite the sensor size.
• Improved long-range zoom performance with the processing level that you can adjust.
• The new selfie camera is truly excellent. The level of detail is one of the best so far.
• Gorgeous, bright, and visually comfortable display.
• This phone is extremely well-designed, comfortable to hold, and looks very elegant without trying too hard.
• Excellent performance with solid gaming capabilities, great sustainability, and better-than-average thermals.
• Awesome battery life, with one of the best power optimisations I've seen so far. It can be charged rapidly too.
• Excellent vibration motor that is tight and precise, with haptic feedback that is greatly implemented throughout the system.
• Very good audio quality coming through the dual stereo speakers, with a nice depth, separation, and overall balance between the lows and highs.
• One of the fastest and most reliable fingerprint scanners I’ve ever used.

🚫 Reasons to Avoid:
• Nothing, really.

📈 What to Improve:
• As someone who expected the ultra-wide lens to have a larger sensor, I am a bit underwhelmed by the hardware here.
• The need to take care of the aggressive AI-based image processing in the hi-res mode & long-range zoom photos.
• A wider aperture for the telephoto lens would’ve been awesome.
• This phone feels a bit heavy (a nitpick).

iQOO Neo 10 - Full Review:
A Solid Performer in Speed and Endurance – and Your Wallet’s Still Happy!

Meet the new iQOO Neo 10!
In Blaze Orange, this phone looks radiant and beautiful. 🔥

These are the highlights of the Neo 10 👇
✅ World's first Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 phone
✅️ Dual-chip Architecture (+ “Supercomputing Chip” Q1)
✅ Ultra-fast LPDDR5X RAM + UFS 4.1 storage
✅ 7000 mAh battery, 120W charging
✅ 1.5K 144 Hz display, 5500 nits peak brightness

It is the first Neo to launch in Indonesia. I'm excited to show you what iQOO, as a sub-brand from vivo that focuses on performance, has in store for us.

Grab your snacks – let’s dive into the review! 🍿
IQOO NEO 10:
HIGHLIGHTS

Before I get into my detailed thoughts by category, let’s first review the highlights of my impressions of this phone. 👇

✅️ Reasons to Get:
• Excellent performance, with great heat management. Nice for multitasking, thanks to the flagship-grade RAM and storage specs.
• Superb as a gaming phone. It manages to sustain the performance very well, and it has a nice upscaling technology that works very efficiently.
• Outstanding endurance, paired with awesome charging speed (at 120W). It has a 7000 mAh battery without making the body thick.
• The 1.5K 144 Hz display is fluid, vivid, and it is not afraid of the bright sunlight.
• It is a well-designed phone. Feels great, thin, light, and looks distinctive with that Porthole Design. Blaze Orange is an eye-catching colour.
• Funtouch OS 15 on the Neo 10 is smooth, stable, very customisable, and feature-rich. The AI features are identical to other vivo phones.
• The optical fingerprint scanner works very rapidly, and it is reliable to use.
• Great haptics, nice to use for navigation gestures, gaming, and daily use.
• Good overall audio quality, especially when using wireless earbuds.

🚫 Reasons to Avoid:
• The ultra-wide camera does not perform that well, because of hardware limitations (8 MP sensor).
• It is not for you who needs a great camera system.

📈 What to Improve:
• The audio quality coming from the speakers is “only” nice. While it is loud and has some bass, it lacks that extra “oomph”, clarity, and presence that higher quality speakers have.
• It still has a matte plastic frame. Using a metal frame would’ve been even better.

vivo V50 - Full Review:
Striking Gaze, Lasts for Days, Reliable Always.

Meet the sleek and gorgeous vivo V50 in Harmony Red!

With the V50, vivo has made some improvements that may seem minor on paper, such as:
✅ The new “Rounded-edge Design” with a micro quad-curved display
✅ 6000 mAh battery and 90W charging, all without making the phone bulky, thick, and heavy
✅ An Aura Light that is larger with 100% more lighting area
✅ Underwater Photography feature

After using this phone for more than three weeks, my initial impressions started to change as I found some unexpected improvements along with other findings that made me think that this phone is better than I expected.

So, settle in as we explore the ins and outs of the vivo V50, from its design, camera, performance, battery life, and everything in between. 👇
VIVO V50:
HIGHLIGHTS

✅️ Reasons to Get:
• It looks beautiful while being thin, light, and unique, without trying too hard to look bold
• Very good overall camera performance for the class, great ultra-wide for the class and nice for street photography
• Incredible battery life paired with super-fast charging speed
• Very good performance with great heat management and good sustainability
• It has the fastest fingerprint scanner I’ve ever used on a mid-range phone
• Smooth and stable software, full of features and customisation options
• The balance between design, battery, performance, and camera reliability makes it easy to recommend

🚫 Reasons to Avoid:
• A small overall upgrade over the V40
• The LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.2 storage might sway your purchase decision

📈 What to Improve:
• A metal frame instead of plastic would’ve been great
• The display resolution should’ve stayed at 1.5K
• Funtouch OS needs to look and feel more like OriginOS
• It should’ve used an x-axis vibration motor for a better haptic feedback

2 Weeks with the Galaxy S25 Ultra:
The Art of Perfecting an Old Formula.

Two weeks. That’s all it took for the Galaxy S25 Ultra to either impress me… or leave me wanting for more.

On paper, this phone might be very familiar to some. But just like with all Samsung phones, it’s the detail that matters the most.

I have been using this phone as my true daily driver, and I have uncovered some very interesting stuff. Some changes are significant, some are subtle, and some might just affect your purchase decision.

Now, grab your popcorn as we dive deep into all of the features, improvements, and shortcomings of Samsung’s latest flagship phone of 2025. 🍿
SAMSUNG GALAXY S25 ULTRA:
HIGHLIGHTS

✅️ Reasons to Get:
• A breathtakingly stunning design that is more rounded, minimalistic, lighter, and feels solid to hold
• A gorgeous anti-reflective display that is bright, vivid, and responsive
• One UI 7 is the best smartphone OS/skin I’ve ever used. Beautiful, silky smooth, feature-rich, and reliable
• Awesome performance with a very good overall heat management
• Excellent overall audio quality, the best speakers I’ve heard on a smartphone
• Super fast and reliable ultrasonic fingerprint scanner
• Excellent haptics, very precise, powerful, and customisable in strength
• Very good overall camera performance, powered by a versatile camera system that is mostly reliable, including the selfie camera and one of the best smartphone ultra-wide lenses out there

🚫 Reasons to Avoid:
• Minimal change in camera system, almost a sidegrade
• The 3x lens, while nice as an intermediary zoom level between the main and 5x lenses, has an extremely old sensor that ruins the low-light performance

📈 What to Improve:
• Some photos and videos need to have more depth in the results. They can look so unnaturally flat sometimes
• Battery life, while very good, is not as good as other phones with a larger Silicon Carbide battery. So it would be nice for them to finally adopt a newer technology
• Video is still not the best in class. Far from the most noiseless and not the best in exposure & highlight control. I am almost 100% certain it is a processing problem rather than a sensor limitation

Capturing Portraits with the vivo X200 Pro:
“ZEISS Multifocal Portrait” in Action!

As you might have known, vivo X200 Pro brings the “ZEISS Multifocal Portrait” feature that allows us to capture portrait photos using several focal length options, portrait lens kits/presets, bokeh flare types, and styles.

In this post, I will tell you all about my experience of using the portrait mode of this phone after around a month of usage.

Enjoy the post! 👀
I’ll just tell you a story about the ZEISS Multifocal Portrait feature on the vivo X200 Pro along with the camera samples for you to see.

With the X200 Pro, there are five different portrait focal length options that you can choose from. That includes the new 135 mm option that is great for close-ups. It is equivalent to around 5.9x zoom.

vivo considered them as “golden focal lengths” and I think it is a versatile solution for your portraits.

I love how vivo shows the focal length in mm (for example: 23 mm, 35 mm, 50 mm, 85 mm, and 135 mm) instead of the magnification level (1x, 1.5x, 2.2x, 3.7x, and 5.9x).

Below, you can see several portrait camera samples captured by the vivo X200 Pro:
• 23 mm, Natural flare type
• 50 mm, Natural flare type
• 85 mm, Natural flare type
• 135 mm, Natural flare type

3 Weeks with the vivo X200 Pro:
An Outstanding Superphone Filled with Surprises – “Pro” in Name, “Ultra” in Experience 

In the past three weeks, I have been using the vivo X200 Pro extensively as my true daily driver.

Now, I can tell you so many reasons why I love this phone (and how vivo can improve it).

With the X200 Pro, vivo introduced several new and improved features:
✅️ “200 MP ZEISS APO Telephoto Camera,” inherited from the X100 Ultra
✅️ The new LYT-818 “ZEISS True Colour Main Camera”
✅️ MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chip
✅️ 6000 mAh Silicon Carbide battery with 90W charging
✅️ “ZEISS Master Colour Display”
✅️ Refined design with brushed metal frame and a quad-curved display

Before we start, I just want to let you know that even though it is an “imaging flagship phone,” it is an ultimate all-rounder that can compete with all other phones in its class.

Now, grab your snacks and enjoy the review! 🍿
VIVO X200 PRO:
HIGHLIGHTS

✅️ Reasons to Get:
• Incredible overall camera performance for photos and videos, especially when using the main and periscope tele lenses
• Gorgeous display that gets super bright with vivid colours
• Very elegant yet minimalistic design with a comfortable in-hand feel
• Fantastic performance with great thermals and sustainability
• Awesome battery endurance, can be charged very rapidly
• Excellent haptics that feel very tight and precise
• Extremely fast and reliable ultrasonic fingerprint scanner
• Very good audio quality, whether it is when using the speakers or earbuds

🚫 Reasons to Avoid:
• It is very top-heavy

📈 What to Improve:
• Funtouch OS 15 is nice, but it needs some extra refinements in terms of the customisation tools, features, and the overall polish
• Again, the display is gorgeous but it should have 2K resolution instead of 1.5K
• The ultra-wide and selfie cameras are unchanged compared to X100 Pro

iQOO 13 - Full Review:
A phone that took two big steps forward, one step back.

After the successful launch of the iQOO 12, the company is hoping to make another huge noise with the new iQOO 13.

This is Indonesia's first smartphone to launch with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform, and possibly also the first one with the same chip in some other regions.

It also brings some other new advancements like a huge 6150 mAh battery, “Supercomputing Chip” Q2, a bigger vapour chamber cooling system, a 144 Hz 2K LTPO AMOLED display, an ultrasonic under-screen fingerprint scanner, and more.

In the past two weeks, I have tested this phone as one of my daily drivers and now I'll tell you all about it.

So now, please grab your snacks and enjoy the review! 🍿🍟

#iQOO13 #DualChipsetMonsterInside #MonsterInside #DoubleTheMonster
@iqoo_id
PART 1:
DESIGN AND COMFORT

As a whole, the iQOO 13 has a similar design language as its predecessor. It still has that iconic design that has become iQOO's identity in the past year or so.

They called it the “Porthole Design” and I think it's a breath of fresh air when compared to a sea full of smartphones with circular camera housing designs. This design language is unique, despite the fact that some other brands have started to get inspired by it.

The unit that I have is the Black variant that they called Alpha, and I think it looks minimalistic, classic, and elegant. It is a safe and versatile colour, and even though I still prefer the White (Legend) variant, this one still looks great!

What I love is that they have changed the look and feel of the glass back cover from what looked more textured or gritty to something that looks and feels smoother. It is still matte glass, but much more refined.

The Alpha iQOO 13 model is only 7.99 mm thick and it weighs 207 grams. It is heavier than the Alpha iQOO 12, but the weight distribution is very good as it is not top heavy unlike a lot of phones with a huge circular camera housing.

Galaxy S24 Ultra - Camera Review:
A Camera Powerhouse that Boasts Impressive Upgrades, with Room to Shine.

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In this camera review of the Galaxy S24 Ultra, I will talk about my experience after several weeks of using this phone.

Keep in mind that I’m also using the OPPO Find X7 Ultra and iPhone 15 Pro Max as some of the indicators in deciding how good the camera is.

Let’s dive in! 👇 Before we dig deeper, let’s talk about the camera system of the Galaxy S24 Ultra compared to the S23 Ultra. You can see the table below to make it easier to understand, because I know not all of you like to read, lol.

What’s worth mentioning is also the new “AI-powered ProVisual Engine” that Samsung implemented on the S24 Series.

Quality-wise, they claimed that the Galaxy S24 Ultra has:
• Less noisy photos
• Enhanced AI ISP with 42% faster NPU for photos
• Denoising with gyro data for videos
• Brighter zoom photos at night due to 2x larger 5x lens and 60% larger pixel size compared to the S23 Ultra's 10x sensor
• Less blurry photos when using the 5x lens thanks to a 30% faster shutter speed and wider OIS correction angle

Samsung's Korean branch officially announced all the changes and improvements in the June 2023 update for the Galaxy S23 series!

Changelog:
1. Portrait mode now includes shooting at 2x and shooting at 3x has been improved in low-light situations.*
2. When using Motion Photo… https://t.co/xtEXQYVHtotwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Note:
*) Only available for the Galaxy S23 series.
**) Also available for the entire S and Z series products released from 2020 to 2022.
***) Available natively for the Galaxy S23 series, but will be available for the entire S and Z series products released from 2020 to 2022 via… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

[ONEPLUS 11 - FULL REVIEW:
Back to the Basics, with the Right Compromise]

It has been three months since my last review, and now it’s time for another one.

It is my review of the OnePlus 11 after around a month of usage. 👀

👇 Read more below. Hope you'll enjoy the thread! 👇

PART 1:
DESIGN AND COMFORT

My OnePlus 11 review unit is in this actually great-looking Eternal Green colour (and thank god this is the colour that I got).

I personally think it is one of the best looking OnePlus phones ever released, much better than its predecessor (10 Pro).… https://t.co/qp5Edifj9ktwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I feel like installing an app using my Samsung flagships is always much slower than Android phones from other manufacturers.

Take a look at this very light Gallery app being installed on my Galaxy S22 Ultra, for example. Is it because of security purposes?

Well, my vivo X80 Pro also does the same thing when installing an app (checking for viruses). But, the process is much faster.

See the video below. It is the same app, never been installed before.

42 seconds vs 3 seconds.
A huge difference.

So, after testing up to 12 ads on YouTube for non-Premium users, now some users reported that they also have to get a Premium account just to watch videos in 4K. What's next?
Mandatory Premium subscription to watch videos in resolutions higher than 360p?

Idk, but those wobbles made me laugh so hard 🤣

https://twitter.com/AhmedQwaider888/status/1571835054116012032

This one 🤣🤣

Now I'm confused between Deep Purple and Silver for my iPhone 14 Pro Max.

They're both so beautiful.

Space Black looks great too, but I'm afraid it'll become boring in a few months.

Then, the Gold is already boring from the start. So, which one is the best colour between the two?

Even though I do think he is too biased and I don't like him because he stole some people's information/leaks/tweets, anyone can make an affiliate link like that.

I also made those affiliate links before (Ice Universe & a lot of other people too), in a form of howl(dot)me links.

https://twitter.com/Peter84461674/status/1571183381261553664

In other words:
For some people, it's all about the money.

Here's what Samsung can do for the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

Big things to be overhauled:
• Bigger and better sensors for every single camera in their Ultra phone.
• A 48/50 MP main sensor with 1" size or 1/1.12".
• A bigger 3x telephoto sensor with a wider aperture • A bigger ultra-wide sensor, 48/50 MP is preferred to compete with a lot of its competitors
• A slightly bigger 10x telephoto sensor
• A better front camera with a wider aperture
• All of the cameras inside the phone should have at least Dual PD (Dual Pixel) Autofocus.

iPhone 14 series users...
How's your experience with the phone that you got? 🤔 How's your experience of using it?

I think at this point, my main reason to get the iPhone 14 Pro Max is to compare its photography and videography performance with my Galaxy S22 Ultra and vivo X80 Pro.

I want to feel a lot better because I know the truth rather than seeing a lot of uncertainties online. Just so you know, when I'm doing the comparison between those three phones, I'll give my best effort.

I will go to some places that can make me test the performance of all three phones optimally, if possible.

For example: public parks, cityscapes, indoor spaces, and so on.

[WARNING: SPOILERS!]
iPhone 14 Pro Max: iPhone
Galaxy S22 Ultra: Galaxy

Mrwhosetheboss' camera comparison highlights:
• Winner: iPhone
• Selfie video: iPhone
• Selfie photo: Tied
• Fun: Galaxy
• Zoom: Galaxy
• Macro: iPhone
• Daylight photo: iPhone
• Audio: Tied • Portrait mode: iPhone
• Stabilisation: iPhone
• Video: iPhone
• Night mode: iPhone
• Slow-motion: Tied

It is reported by multiple users that YouTube is currently testing an ad format that shows 5 to 10 UNSKIPPABLE ADS before their video starts. (Pictures were collected from multiple sources)

So, what do you think of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max? 🤔 Vote here! 👀