Oppo Announces The Find X9 Ultra With A 50mp 10x Optical Zoom Telephoto Camera

Elbowing for attraction alongside Vivo and Xiaomi, Oppo has yet launched its long-teased “ultra” type of its flagship smartphone. The Find X9 Ultra is different camera-first smartphone from Oppo, pinch an moreover much awesome spec expanse and a caller array of accessories. We’re not moreover halfway done 2026 and we’ve been spoiled pinch choices, whether it’s nan Galaxy S26 Ultra, nan Xiaomi 17 Ultra (with aliases without Leica livery) aliases Vivo’s X300 Ultra.

The Find X9 Pro was already a powerful, tin camera phone. So, what’s changed pinch nan Ultra? We’ve had nan guidelines instrumentality for complete a week, but we’re waiting connected nan upgraded telephoto converter kit to onshore earlier we tackle a much in-depth review.

There are respective creation changes, starting pinch nan 2 colour options. Canyon Orange looks akin to Oppo’s caller flagship phones, pinch a subtle etched decorativeness meant to replicate nan Grand Canyon. Meanwhile, Hasselblad fans mightiness for illustration nan different option: a woodland-themed Tundra Umber, inspired by nan camera maker’s X2D. Oppo says this colorway channels “Scandinavian minimalism and nan earthy elegance of glaciers.” Together astatine last.

Perhaps owed to each nan camera hardware, it’s a big, heavy telephone pinch nan camera portion protruding noticeably from nan back. The camera array connected nan Ultra now has a subtle hexagonal design, apparently a motion to camera history — and that Hasselblad partnership. That area has a circular, metallic frame, for illustration galore of Oppo’s rivals. The edges of nan camera portion are knurled, which helps you to grip nan instrumentality erstwhile taking photos. Unlike Xiaomi’s caller Ultra phone, nan ringing doesn’t enactment arsenic a zoom control, but Oppo and Hasselblad’s “Earth Explorer Kit” for nan Find X9 Ultra adds a very understated camera grip pinch a zoom lever.

Putting past year’s Find X9 Pro adjacent to nan X9 Ultra, nan Ultra exemplary looks more modern, much precocious and much powerful. And it is. The Ultra has Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, a notable measurement up from nan MediaTek Dimensity 9500 spot recovered connected past year’s Find 9 Pro.

There’s besides a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon artillery that supports 100W SUPERVOOC charging. Oppo says it has included nan “industry’s first” encapsulated thermal portion to support temperatures nether power erstwhile pushing nan instrumentality hard, specified arsenic signaling high-resolution video for extended periods. The show screams costly Android flagship, too. The 6.82-inch 144Hz show tin scope up to 3,600 nits of highest HDR brightness and driblet to 1 nit successful low-lit situations.

It’s each astir nan cameras, however. The Find X9 Ultra’s main camera is simply a 200-megapixel sensor. At 1/1.12 inches, Oppo says it’s nan largest 200MP sensor successful a telephone yet. It has a debased f/1.5 aperture, too. This was my ‘main’ camera erstwhile I first started taking nan X9 Ultra retired to sprout sample photos. After all, bigger sensors mean much detail, and much expertise to harvest for tighter zoomed shots. With a substance of streetlights, neon signs and more, I was impressed by nan colour accuracy. Oppo has embedded a caller True Color Camera into nan Find X9 Ultra’s camera module, which useful crossed stills and video. Still, if you’re demanding punchy, high-contrast images, there’s an array of Hasselblad filters and effects for playing with, too.

There’s besides a 3x Telephoto camera, pinch different (different!) 200MP sensor and f/2.2 aperture. This is nan camera that nan caller teleconverter lens attaches to. There’s thing appealing astir having an instant 3x zoom camera, moreover though it gets a small mislaid among nan cropped focal-length equivalents successful nan camera app. In fact, Oppo claims that nan Find X9 Ultra offers nan balanced of 8 focal lengths. Sadly, I noticed immoderate differences successful colour somesthesia and ray sensitivity arsenic nan Find X9 Ultra hopped betwixt each those camera sensors while I tested different zoom levels.

The adjacent camera is different telephoto, pinch an awesome 10x zoom pinch a 50 megapixel sensor. We’ve seen 10x zoom connected phones before, for illustration nan Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, but ne'er astatine specified precocious resolution. Oppo added support for its Portrait mode here, moreover astatine afloat zoom. You tin besides harvest successful for a 20x zoom, but nan results didn’t rustle maine distant successful early testing. At 10x zoom, though, I was impressed. That’s a batch of zoom earlier moreover reasoning astir attaching a teleconverter.

Oppo isn’t going rather arsenic difficult connected video arsenic its rival (and distant firm relative) Vivo, but nan Find X9 Ultra tin seizure 4K 60 fps video pinch Dolby Vision. It’s besides nan first Oppo smartphone tin of signaling 8K video astatine 30 fps. For those looking to excavation into video detail, Oppo has launched a caller log profile, O-Log2. The institution says this will thief uncover greater protector item and trim image smearing — it’s thing other I’m itching to effort erstwhile nan teleconverter lands.

Like Vivo's X300 Ultra, Oppo’s newest telephone is certified for nan Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), truthful videographers tin merge its footage into master workflows. You tin besides load third-party LUTs (look-up tables) straight onto nan instrumentality to show civilization colour grades successful existent clip and spot really they look successful nan on-device preview.

As is often nan lawsuit pinch Chinese telephone makers, there’s a lavish accessory kit to build connected nan smartphone’s shooting talents. Oppo’s Hasselblad Explorer lawsuit adds a two-stage attraction fastener and nan aforementioned zoom controls. The lawsuit has nan aforesaid muted achromatic and clay colors arsenic nan Tundra Umber version of nan Find X9 Ultra. Then there’s nan caller Hasselblad 300mm Explorer Teleconverter. The magnification ratio of nan teleconverter has been accrued from 3.28x connected Find X9 Pro to astir 4.3x connected nan Find X9 Ultra. The lens mounts straight onto nan 200-megapixel 3x telephoto lens, upgrading it to a heady 13x optical zoom.

This is besides nan biggest smartphone telephoto lens yet, dwarfing some nan Find X9 Pro’s add-on and Vivo’s not-petite 400mm teleconverter. The companies chose different combinations of camera sensors and lenses, making spec expanse comparisons a small trickier, but Oppo’s latest accessory is surely nan largest frankincense far. I can’t hold to spot really nan Find X9 Ultra’s photos fare against images from nan Vivo X300 Ultra, though. In nan Find X9 Ultra’s favor, it has an iPhone 17 Pro-like touch-sensitive fastener for quickly launching nan camera, thing I missed connected Vivo’s caller flagship.

Unfortunately, location is nary cross-compatibility among erstwhile Oppo teleconverters and phones. The institution says this is to guarantee optimal image quality, but it’ll disappoint religious Oppo fans hoping to transportation complete nan costly camera accessories from erstwhile years. The institution has learned immoderate lessons from nan Find X9 Pro, pinch a caller telephoto adapter that tin beryllium near mounted connected nan telephone without obscuring nan different camera lenses.

On first impression, nan Find X9 Ultra is shaping up to beryllium different powerful camera phone, pinch different hard-to-actually-buy caveat. The Find X9 Ultra will get successful parts of Asia and Europe. In nan UK, it’s group to motorboat connected May 8th, priced astatine £1,449 (roughly $1,959). While there’s nary US merchandise planned, we’ll update this communicative erstwhile we perceive much specifications connected nan world launch. Once nan telephoto add-on arrives, I’m excited to put it done its paces. I’ve sewage its rival from Vivo too, truthful it’s clip for nan conflict of nan teleconverters.