OPPO Find X6 Pro Review: Mobile Photography with a New Camera System
The Oppo Find X6 Pro, which remains exclusive to China for now, is Oppo’s best flagship ever and might just be the best smartphone I’ve ever had the chance to test.
Oppo has done some crazy things with their cameras this time around, with an ultrawide camera featuring three 50-megapixel sensors, a one-inch type sensor main camera, and the largest periscope sensor ever seen on a smartphone. They spared no expense for this device.
You get a premium leather-filled hardshell case, a charging cable, and a 100-watt charging brick. It’s tech and it’s a full review of Oppo’s best-ever flagship, the Oppo Find X6 Pro.
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Oppo find x6 Pro Specifications :
- Body: 164.8 x 76.2 x 9.1 mm or 9.5 mm, 216 grams, Glass front (Gorilla Glass Victus 2), aluminum frame, IP68 dust/water resistant
- Display:6.82 inches, LTPO3 AMOLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR10+ refresh rate
- Color Options: Black, Green, Brown
- Rear Camera: Triple (with LED flash), Second-gen Hasselblad Camera for Mobile
- 50 MP, f/1.8, 23mm (wide)
- 50 MP, f/2.6, (periscope telephoto)
- 50 MP, f/2.2, 15mm, 110˚ (ultrawide)
- Front Camera: 32 MP, f/2.4, 21mm (wide), 1/2.74″, 0.8µm, PDAF
- Audio: No 3.5mm jack
- Chipset: Qualcomm SM8550-AB Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4 nm)
- Memory: 256GB 12GB RAM, 256GB 16GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM, UFS 4.0
- Software & UI: Android 13, ColorOS 13.1
- Security: Fingerprint (under display, optical),
- Other Properties: 800 nits (typ), 1500 nits (HBM), 2500 nits (peak)
- Resolution: 1440 x 3168 pixels (~510 ppi density)
- Battery: Li-Po 5000 mAh, non-removable,
- 100W wired, PD, 45% in 10 min, 100% in 30 min (advertised)
- 50W wireless, 50% in 22 min, 100% in 51 min (advertised)
- 10W reverse wireless
Oppo Find X6 Pro Design And Displays
The device has a refreshed design this year with a massive circular camera module largely inspired by DSLR camera lenses and luxury watches.
The camera module has a stunning dual-tone finish with all the necessary branding and the lens is made of high-strength glass and aluminum, which is both drop and corrosion-resistant. Not to mention, there is also a stainless steel ring wrapping around the module.
The space next to the periscope sensor is needed since it’s used to house the rest of the world’s largest periscope lens. The phone comes in 3 different color options. You can pick it up in the green color that I have or in black, both of which are made from anti-glare glass with Gorilla Glass 5 protection on their backs.
But if you would prefer a more classical look, there’s always the brown color variant, which is made up of vegan leather and metal-like glass materials. It’s also the only one with the signature Hasselblad orange dots at the bottom of its camera ring.
However, the brown variant is slightly thicker and heavier than the other all-glass color versions. Otherwise, everything else is the same. All three colors have aluminum frames, they are all IP68 dust and water-resistant, and they all have Gorilla Glass Victus II protection on their front panels.
Display
The Oppo Find X6 Pro also features a new larger display this time. It’s a 6.82-inch 120Hz LTPO 3.0 AMOLED display with a pixel-popping QHD+ resolution that packs in 510 pixels per inch.
It’s a 10-bit billion-color bionic display that supports Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, and WideVinyl 1. It also packs in a 240Hz touch sampling rate, 1440Hz PWM dimming, and most importantly, a peak brightness of 2500 nits, making it the brightest smartphone screen on the planet.
Oppo Find X6 Pro Performance
The Oppo Find X6 Pro also features a newly redesigned cooling system with a 24% larger vapor chamber than its predecessor, as well as a new generation graphite material to improve heat dissipation efficiency by 84%.
This cooling system keeps things at bay when running demanding apps or benchmarks, so it’s no surprise to see the Oppo Find X6 Pro top the charts and receive heavy-hitting scores in other benchmarks.
This is because it houses Qualcomm’s latest 4nm TSMC-powered Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM with an option for an additional 8GB of RAM expansion, and up to 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage.
With all these specs, you might expect the Oppo Find X6 Pro to play games at a 120Hz refresh rate, but unfortunately, in some games such as Real Racing 3, the device caps the frame rate at 60FPS even though it’s capable of reaching higher rates.
The good news is that when playing Call of Duty Mobile, it can achieve a stable frame rate of 90FPS, which is higher than what other devices can manage, typically capped at 60FPS.
When playing more demanding games such as Genshin Impact, you’ll be pleased to hear that we achieved a stable 60FPS thanks to the Hyper Boost gaming engine and ultra-steady frames feature. It’s worth mentioning that this game is capped at 60FPS on all devices regardless of the screen refresh rate.
Gaming FPS
This Oppo flagship also takes advantage of Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, 5G, and WiFi 7 to ensure you are always connected to the world. Not to mention, it also packs in a USB 3.1 Type-C port, an IR blaster, an X-axis linear motor, and O-Haptics for an immersive flagship-level haptic feedback experience, as well as dual stereo speakers, one at the bottom and one at the top, both of which support Dolby Atmos.
Oppo Find X6 Pro Camera
Oppo Find x6 ProIt has a triple 50MP setup, which consists of two Sony IMX890 sensors for the 15mm f2.2 ultrawide camera and 65mm f2.6 telephoto periscope camera.
Both have a 1-in-1.56-inch sensor size, making the Oppo Find X6 Pro’s periscope sensor the largest smartphone periscope sensor in the world. The periscope and main cameras both have optical image stabilization.
The main sensor has an equivalent focal length of 23mm, an aperture of f1.8, and is a massive 1-inch type sensor thanks to it being the Sony IMX989 sensor.
Oppo has explained this triple camera system as the “three main camera era,” since all three sensors benefit from the Hasselblad partnership, Marosilicon X Imaging NPU, and Snapdragon 8Gen2 CPU, allowing them to all deliver the same level of image clarity, light, and shadow handling, and color accuracy.
The Oppo Find X6 Pro takes incredible shots with the ultrawide camera whether in macro mode, high-res 50MP mode, or binned 12.5MP mode.
The main sensor has slightly better color accuracy but matches the ultrawide on detail, exposure, and dynamic range, and its 2x lossless zoom looks just as sharp as the periscope’s 3x optical zoom. Not to mention, the 6x hybrid zoom option is unreal, and even at 10x digital zoom, things still look insanely detailed.
There is a slight dip in quality when you reach 30x digital zoom, but it still looks better than any other phone out there at this level, and it’s impressive how even at 60 or 120x zoom levels, you can still make out exactly what’s going on. Using the periscope with a 25mm focusing distance, the SLR quality kicks in, and of course, we still have Hasselblad X-Pan modes, which make for some fun snaps.
You can, of course, take portrait shots at 1x with the main camera thanks to that massive sensor size, and Oppo did mention that they plan to bring 2x lossless zoom portraits as well in a future software update, but portraits come out the best when using the periscope sensor at 3x optical zoom, which also has different Hasselblad Pro modes that make for some interesting filters.
The Oppo Find X6 Pro has a punch-hole notch, this time at the top center of its screen, which utilizes the same selfie camera as its predecessor.
Even though it still uses the same sensor, it benefits from more advanced processing features thanks to the new Qualcomm chipset, as well as a next-gen image processing architecture powered by Oppo’s own-made Marosilicon X imaging NPU. Shots come out filled with detail, fantastic color accuracy, and superb edge detection when in daylight.
Here’s a regular selfie video where, once again, you can seamlessly zoom in and out from 0.8x to 1x to 2x and back to 0.8x. It’s great to see that you can seamlessly zoom in and out when recording using the selfie cam, but for such an insane flagship camera phone, you would expect to get higher than just 1080p 30fps selfie video recording.
Selfies come out okay at night; they still look decent at times but tend to suffer from a washed-out look, which lacks in detail and has questionable edge detection at times when taking pics at night.
Selfies on Oppo’s latest flagship come out great in daylight situations and decent in low-light situations, but I’m not gonna lie, the Oppo Find X6 Pro’s greatest weakness is likely its selfie camera performance. That being said, most Chinese-made Android smartphones suffer from the same issue.
They have incredible back camera sensors, but when it comes to selfie photo and video performance, they are on a mid-range level.
There is also an option for portrait video when using the camera at 3x zoom, but it’s capped at 1080p 30fps. You can also shoot the same 1080p portrait video using the main camera. Additionally, you can use the main camera to record 10-bit HDR 4K 30fps Dolby Vision video. Moreover, you can seamlessly switch between all three cameras when recording continuous 4K 30fps video, from the ultrawide to the main to the periscope, all the way up to 18x digital zoom.
You can also record ultrawide video at a max resolution and frame rate of 4K 60fps, which looks fantastic and is very stable. However, if you want to go all-out stable, there is also an Ultra Steady Pro mode, which is insane even when running. There’s also an Ultra Steady mode which uses the main camera, and both modes are capped at 1080p 60fps.
Of course, you can also use the main camera to record 4K 60fps video, but unfortunately, there is no option for 8K video. It was surprising not to see a 4K night video mode option, but recording 4K 30fps video or ultrawide video at night still looks amazing. However, there’s a night mode option for photos that range from ultrawide to 120x zoom, and they all look just as good.
Oppo Find X6 Pro Battery
We have a healthy 5,000 mAh cell and Oppo promises you’ll still have 80% of your battery’s capacity even after four years. We also get their 100-watt SuperVOOC fast charging, which gives us 0 to 100 in 28 minutes, plus 50-watt wireless AirVOOC and also 10-watt reverse wireless charging.
Verdict
I think it’s safe to say that the Oppo Find X6 Pro is the king of all smartphone cameras when it comes to the results of those back sensors in all lighting conditions. If that was the only thing, you’d be getting more than you’d pay for.
Although it is not made for gaming, so you won’t be able to do heavy gaming, but you will get good performance if you buy it for light games and focus more on the camera. In that case, this phone will be very good for you.
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Alvi Hosain
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