With a hefty camera array bearing the coveted Hasselblad name, the flagship Oppo Find X8 Pro is out to win serious photographers away from Android’s heavy hitters.
Oppo has become a prolific smartphone maker in the last few years, similar to Samsung in both the breadth of its range (with the Oppo A, Find X, Find N and Reno series) and its aspirations to stake its claim at the premium end of the Android market.
Of course, holding your own amongst the Android flagships demands a stunning camera. To that end, Oppo has pulled out the big guns by collaborating with Hasselblad, one of the most respected names in the business.
Oppo Find X8 Pro
First impressions
Oppo unashamedly borrows ideas from Apple and the Oppo Find X8 Pro is no exception, in terms of both software and hardware. It’s hard not to draw comparisons with the Apple iPhone 16 Pro at times, although it’s really taking the fight to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and Google Pixel 9 Pro XL.
With a 6.78-inch display, the Find X8 Pro looks tall, yet the 19.8:9 aspect ratio ensures it’s not too wide and cumbersome. It has slightly curved edges, which don’t look quite as elegant as some slender handsets.
To help the phone stay balanced in your hand, the power button is more than halfway up the right-hand side, with the volume buttons above.
As with most tall screens, this means the onscreen fingerprint reader is a little low to access comfortably with your thumb. It’s more practical to use a digital on your other hand to unlock, but it’s a shame Oppo couldn’t build the fingerprint reader into the power button.
Below the power button on the right, Oppo’s new touch-sensitive Quick Button launches the camera with a double-tap, and then acts as the shutter button. Sliding your finger across the button accesses the zoom, although it’s not very precise.
The Quick Button is a welcome addition, even if it is a fairly blatant homage to the iPhone’s Camera Control button but it lacks some of its functionality such as accessing advanced settings.
On the left of the handset, Oppo hasn’t followed Apple in replacing the mute button with a customisable Action button. Instead, it’s stuck with the three-position Alert Slider introduced with the Oppo Find N3 Flip. It slides up and down – to let you choose between Ring, Vibrate and Silent – but lacks the iPhone Action button’s customisation options.
Flip the handset over and you encounter the Find X8 Pro’s key selling point in the hefty quad-lense rear camera array, sporting a prominent ‘H’ for Hasselblad.
Four 50 MP sensors are on offer, starting with a primary lens backed by a Sony LYT-600 sensor – with the benefit of a triple prism periscope lens and optical image stabilisation. Alongside are 0.6x ultra-wide, 3x zoom and 6x zoom. Around the front lies a 32 MP selfie camera. Each lens, front and back, supports shooting 4K 60 fps video.
Power up the handset and you’re faced with a bright, vivid and super-sharp 264×2780 pixel AMOLED flexible display, with up to 120 Hz refresh rate for smooth scrolling.
The screen supports a maximum brightness of 1600 nits and a local peak brightness of 4500 nits to make the most of High Dynamic Range content. This includes Dolby Vision when watching Netflix, which is lacking on many HDR-capable handsets, along with the ability to shoot your own 4K Dolby Vision video.
At the bottom of the handset, you’ve got a USB-C port, alongside a nano-SIM port and eSIM support, but no old-school headphone jack. It’s a sub-6 5G handset, with Oppo’s AI-powered LinkBoost offering smart network selection to reduce dropouts.
Oppo Find X8 Pro specs and price
| Display size | 6.78 inch 19.8:9 aspect ratio |
| Display resolution | 1264 x 2780 pixels 450 ppi |
| Display technology | AMOLED Flexible Maximum brightness 1600 nits Refresh rate 1 to 120 Hz |
| Bands | 5G sub-6 |
| Chipset | MediaTek Dimensity 9400 |
| GPU | Immortalis G925 MC12 |
| Rear cameras | 50 MP (f/1.6) 23mm (wide), 1/1.4″, 1.12µm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS |
| 50 MP (f/2.6) 73mm (periscope telephoto), 1/1.95″, 0.61µm, 3x optical zoom, multi-directional PDAF, OIS | |
| 50 MP (f/4.3) 135mm (periscope telephoto), 1/2.51″, 0.7µm, 6x optical zoom, dual pixel PDAF (35cm – ∞), OIS | |
| 50 MP (f/2.0) 15mm, 120˚ (ultrawide), 1/2.75″, 0.64µm, multi-directional PDAF | |
| Front camera | 32 MP (f/2.4) 21mm (wide), 1/2.74″, 0.8µm |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Onboard storage | 512 GB |
| Charging | USB 3.2 Gen1 Wired fast charging: 80W SUPERVOOC PPS (11V/3A) PD2.0 (9V/1.5A) Wireless fast charging: 50W AIRVOOC |
| Battery | 5910mAh / 22.88Wh |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-fi 7 (802.11be) Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) 802.11 a/b/g/n/ |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 5.4 |
| Operating system | Android 15 / ColorOS 15 |
| Security | Fingerprint reader, Face Unlock |
| Ruggedness | IP68/IP69 waterproof and dustproof |
| Dimensions | Space Black: 162.67 x 76.67 x 8.2 mm Pearl White: 162.67 x 76.67 x 8.34 mm |
| Weight | 215 grams |
| Colours | Space Black Pearl White |
| Price (RRP) | $1,799 |
| Warranty | Two years |
| Official website | Oppo Australia |
Features
The Oppo Find X8 Pro runs Android 15, customised as usual with Oppo’s own ColorOS UI, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Apple’s iOS.
Oppo says the handset will receive five years of Android OS updates and six years of security patches. That’s great compared to many Android handsets, yet Samsung and Google are a little more generous, offering seven years with their flagships.
Not surprisingly, ColorOS 15’s new features are very AI-centric, focus on multimedia editing/enhancing and generative AI tools like summarising, drafting and rewriting text. Plus you’ve got Google’s Gemini as the default smart assistant with the benefit of Circle to Search.
The handset’s multimedia credentials are boosted by Oppo’s partnership with Hasselblad, also shared with the Oppo Find N3. The Find X8 Series introduces Oppo’s all-new Hasselblad Master Camera System for accessing a wealth of manual settings, plus it supports Hasselblad colour tones and optical 135 mm portraits.
Under the bonnet, the Find X8 Pro sports the octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 9400, MediaTek’s beefy flagship powerplant taking the fight to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon. You’ve also got the AI-optimised Immortalis G925 MC12 GPU, which is no slouch either.
Oppo has gone all in on performance, throwing in a generous 16 GB of RAM accompanied by 512 GB of storage.
To support all this grunt, as well as that bright, sharp display, the Find X8 Pro packs a very generous 5910 mAh battery. It can easily go 36 hours before recharging, perhaps stretching out to 48 hours if you nurse it.
When you do need to top up, the handset can take advantage of 80-watt SUPERVOOC wired charging, using the supplied bulky AC charger to charge from flat in around 40 minutes. You’ve also got the benefit of fast 50W AIRVOOC wireless charging using Oppo’s special charger.
Quality
The GeekBench 6 benchmarks paint a very impressive picture, scoring 2,833 on the CPU single-core test and 8570 on multi-core, along with a GPU OpenCL score of 20,711.
| Device | CPU single-core | CPU multi-core |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone 16 Pro Max | 3,350 | 8,021 |
| Oppo Find X8 Pro | 2,833 | 8,570 |
| Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra | 2,141 | 6,690 |
| Google Pixel 9 Pro XL | 1,961 | 4,736 |
Such results declare it an Android heavy hitter which won’t disappoint if you tend to push your phone to the limit, especially with 16 GB of RAM at hand.
When it comes to photography, the Find X8 Pro puts most Android smartphones to shame and can stand toe-to-toe with Apple’s big guns. Portraits offer beautifully natural skin tones and impressive detail without resorting to the beautification settings that hinder many Android cameras. Likewise with selfies, although it’s a shame the selfie camera lacks optical image stabilisation and autofocus.
Head outside and green trees below blue skies look lush and detailed, without appearing overblown or over-processed. Switching between lenses offers very little degradation in image quality, with excellent zoom results. The AI telescope zoom kicks in after 10x and does a surprisingly good job, with the benefit of picture-in-picture wide view to make it easier to locate your target.
After dark, the handset produces plenty of detail and impressive colours in low-light conditions.
Who is the Oppo Find X8 Pro for?
If you’re looking beyond the usual suspects for an Android flagship then the Oppo Find X8 Pro is hard to beat, especially if you’re focused on photography.
Even if you’re just chasing an all-rounder, the Find X8 Pro’s generous screen backed by plenty of grunt and a long battery life won’t disappoint. It’s expensive at $1,799, but that still brings it in a little cheaper than its flagship rivals. If you’re not already on Team Samsung or Team Google, then Oppo’s Find X8 Pro might win you over.
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