Vivo X500 Series India Launch Officially Teased: First-Look Events on 15 November, Launch Tipped for 25 November

Vivo India has officially teased the Vivo X500 series for India. A poster on Vivo's India website shows the phones with OriginOS 7, a ZEISS telephoto extender and the Vivo Watch GT 2. Vivo has also announced first-look events for the series in Mumbai and Kolkata on 15 November. Vivo has not announced the launch date or prices, and a tipster says the launch is on 25 November.

What Vivo has confirmed for India

• The Vivo X500 series is coming to India. Vivo India's website carries a poster for it, and Vivo's India pages on Amazon and Flipkart are reported to be live.
• The poster shows the ZEISS Telephoto Extender Gen 2 Ultra. Vivo says it works only with the X500 Pro Max and gives a 400mm-equivalent zoom when you turn on the extender mode in the camera app.
• The poster also shows the Vivo Watch GT 2, which Vivo says is not part of the phone bundle.
• Vivo India has invited its community to register for first-look events in Mumbai and Kolkata on 15 November. These are hands-on events for invited people and do not mean the phones go on sale that day.

Where the phones have launched

Vivo confirmed the three phones for China on 21 September 2026. They went global in late October, and reports say the X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max are on sale in Europe and the X500 in Malaysia.

In China, the starting prices are reported as CNY 5,499 for the X500, CNY 6,499 for the X500 Pro and CNY 6,999 for the X500 Pro Max.

How the three phones differ

All three phones share the same basics: a 50MP main camera with OIS, a 50MP ultrawide camera, a 50MP selfie camera, 12GB of RAM with 256GB to 1TB of storage, 90W wired and 40W wireless charging, IP68 and IP69 ratings, Android 17 with OriginOS 7, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0 and NFC. Zeiss branding is on the cameras. No India-specific change in specifications has been reported, but the India versions are not confirmed yet.

Vivo Watch GT 2

Vivo has teased the Watch GT 2 for India. It launched in China at CNY 499 for the Bluetooth version and CNY 699 for the eSIM version. The China model has a 2.07-inch curved AMOLED screen, more than 100 sports modes, GPS and NFC, and it runs Vivo's own BlueOS and not Wear OS. Vivo has not announced the India price, and one report guesses about Rs 20,000, which is unconfirmed.

India launch date and prices

Vivo has not announced a launch date. A tipster says the launch is on 25 November, and another tipster says pre-bookings have opened at some stores, but Vivo has not confirmed either. The phones are listed on India's BIS certification database.

India prices are all leaks, and they disagree. One tipster converted the China prices and got about Rs 79,000 for the X500. A later leak says Rs 1,19,999 for the X500 (12GB + 256GB), Rs 1,49,999 for the X500 Pro and Rs 1,59,999 for the X500 Pro Max, with higher prices for the bigger versions. Treat all of these as guesses until Vivo announces the prices. Memory costs are one reason prices could be high, as we explain in our report on why phone prices are rising in India.

A leaked image also shows a red Vivo X500 with a large round camera module. Vivo has not confirmed the colour, and it is not clear whether it is only for India. We will update this post when Vivo announces the date and prices.