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Historically, the top-end Ultra from vivo's X series flagship phones has been reserved for the Chinese market, but this is likely to change as we now have strong evidence that the yet-to-be-announced vivo X300 Ultra will make it outside China this year.
According to the GSMA database, vivo might be preparing an international version of the X300 Ultra because the handset has appeared with a different model name that doesn't match the usual naming scheme for vivo's Chinese handsets. The model name in q
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