TL; DR
- Vivo’s new X300 FE quietly launched in Russia, packing a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, 50MP periscope telephoto, and a 6,500 mAh battery with 90W charging — all for around Rs 70,166.
- Despite the strong hardware, it skipped India, where this phone would’ve slotted right into one of the most hotly contested price segments in the market.
- The Pixel 10a just launched here at Rs 49,999 with noticeably weaker hardware on paper — if vivo brings the X300 FE to India at the right price, that comparison gets uncomfortable for Google fast.
vivo has quietly rolled out the X300 FE in Russia, and if you spend more than five minutes looking at what this phone offers for its price, you’ll understand why a lot of people think it deserves a much bigger stage.
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vivo X300 FE Could Do Pretty Well In India
At around Rs. 70,166, what vivo is putting on the table here is hard to take lightly. A 6.31-inch 1.5K 120Hz LTPO AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and storage going up to 512GB. Twelve months ago, a phone with this on its spec sheet would’ve had a price tag to match. Somehow, vivo has managed to bundle all of it into something that won’t leave your bank account in a bad mood.
The camera setup is where things get genuinely interesting. You get a 50MP main sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide, and a 50MP 3x periscope telephoto camera with a large Sony IMX882 sensor — backed by a 50MP autofocus front camera. For a phone at this price, that telephoto setup alone is worth raising an eyebrow over.
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Then there’s the battery. A 6,500 mAh cell with 90W wired fast charging and 40W wireless flash charging is the kind of combination that makes you question why more phones at this price point can’t get this right. Durability is sorted too — the phone carries both IP68 and IP69 ratings, making it one of the few phones at this price that can genuinely take a beating. vivo has also committed to 5 years of OS updates and 7 years of security updates.
Now Here’s The Thing — We Need This Phone In India
To put things in perspective, the Google Pixel 10a landed in India last week at Rs 49,999. Tensor G4, a 5,100 mAh battery, 45W charging, and two cameras on the back.
And honestly? It’s a phone that earns its keep — Google’s software and AI integrations are the kind of thing you notice every day, not just on a spec sheet. But hardware-wise, the X300 FE is playing a different game — a larger battery, nearly double the charging speed, a periscope telephoto that the Pixel simply doesn’t have, and a chip that sits higher up the food chain.
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If vivo were to bring this to India at a competitive price, it wouldn’t just be another option on a shelf — it’d force buyers to actually stop and think. The brand already has the distribution network and the retail presence here. The X300 FE just needs a plane ticket.
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