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blandjelly

Can't decide between Xiaomi 17/Vivo x300/iphone 17

Im looking for a phone sized around 6.3in, used 6.6 but it feels too big. I care the most about photo quality (mainly architecture, landscape), video (mostly concert recording), display quality and battery performance. I made a reasearch and found these phones most interesting: Xiaomi 17/Vivo x300/iphone 17.

Xiaomi 17: I enjoy the design, strong chipset, it has a telephoto camera which is useful for architecural photography. Leica color profiles look nice and natural. Im not sure about hyperOS, i used miui before and found it pretty bad but still usable, is HyperOS worse/better than that? Also the ultrawide camera looks quite underwhelming. Chinese version has the biggest battery by far and fastest charging.

Vivo: it seems to have the best camera hardware, ultrawide is definitely better than x17, telephoto seems a bit better with longer reach, main camera seems quite close. Im not sure about image post processing, ive seen some complaints about too heavy ai processing looking artificial. Id rather have softer but more natural photos. Also some people seem to have problems with overheating even without doing anything demanding. Im not a fan of camera island but i could live with it. Smaller battery than x17 but bigger than ip17.

Iphone 17: camera hardware seems to be the weakest here, also no telephoto lens. Is the image processing good enough to compete with x17/vivo? Seems to have the best video quality tho. Ive never used ios before but i guess its more polished than hyperos/origin. I also like the case design the most. Battery is pretty small but ios seems well optimized in energy consumption, if its enough to charge it once a day then i could live with it.

Price difference is not a factor, but i could get 512gb memory for both x17 and vivo, compared to 256gb ip17 in my budget.

Posted Jul 11, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

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