Before a phone gets a stage, it gets paperwork — and the Vivo X500 Pro Max has just cleared its first bureaucratic hurdle. The device has been certified for sale in Indonesia by TKDN under the model number V2610, the same identifier that previously popped up in the GSM Association’s IMEI database tied to the X500 Pro Max name. Certification filings like these are the tech world’s equivalent of a boarding pass: they don’t confirm a date, but they do confirm the flight is real.
Vivo is expected to launch the X500 family in China in September 2026, with the Pro Max sitting at the very top of the lineup. A wider global rollout is anticipated later in the year, around November or December 2026. As of today, nothing is official and nothing is on sale — but the leaks paint a picture of a phone built to intimidate.
Start with the display. Rumors point to a 6.85-inch flat OLED panel at 2K resolution, using LTPO technology for adaptive control and topping out at a 144Hz refresh rate. That combination — large, sharp, flat and fast — reads like a deliberate answer to gamers and media buffs who’ve grown tired of curved edges.
Then there’s the imaging system, which is where the X500 Pro Max really flexes. Expect a headline 200MP periscope telephoto camera, the kind of hardware that turns distant subjects into surprisingly usable frames. It’s the sort of spec that anchors a flagship’s marketing and, if the sensor lives up to the pixel count, genuinely changes what you can shoot from across a stadium.
Powering all of this is Vivo’s reported choice of the 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro, a chipset that would put the phone among the first wave of next-generation silicon. Keeping the lights on is an enormous 8,000mAh battery — a capacity that suggests Vivo is chasing multi-day endurance rather than just bragging rights.
On the software side, the X500 Pro Max is expected to ship with OriginOS 7 built on top of Android 17, meaning buyers should get the latest platform features out of the box rather than waiting for an update.
Pricing remains a blank. No US dollar, euro or pound figures have been confirmed, and until Vivo actually takes the wraps off in China, everything about cost is guesswork. What the TKDN listing tells us is straightforward: the X500 Pro Max is far enough along to be filing for market approval, which means the September window looks credible.
For now, it’s a familiar pre-launch dance — spec sheets leaking faster than official confirmations, and a flagship that seems determined to win the numbers game long before anyone has held one.
