Oppo’s Find X9 Pro Has A Detachable Telephoto Lens And A Gigantic Battery

Oppo’s latest flagship phone, for illustration nan sleek (but difficult to buy) Find N5 foldable, goes difficult connected nan tech specifications. In fact, nan Find X9 Pro’s specs publication for illustration a wishlist of what galore want to spot successful their phones, pinch a immense 7,500mAh battery, a 200-megapixel telephoto camera and a agleam 6.78-inch surface pinch tiny, almost one-millimeter bezels, each while still measuring successful astatine 8.25mm successful thickness. Oh, and an optional telephoto lens add-on that boosts camera zoom to 10x.

The Find X9 Pro will beryllium priced astatine 1,399 Euros (we're waiting connected further pricing). The biggest drawback whitethorn beryllium that, contempt nan Find X9 bid being Oppo’s biggest telephone motorboat yet, it won’t beryllium disposable successful nan US. Still, pinch everything that’s crammed into this phone, I had to effort it out. Do I really want a thinner smartphone? Or 1 that lasts aggregate days earlier it needs recharging? And man, this telephoto lens is surely eye-catching.

Display and design

The Find X9 Pro has a 6.78-inch display, pinch highest outdoor brightness astatine 3,600 nits. On paper, that thumps nan iPhone 17 Pro, but astir group pinch phones older than a twelvemonth aliases 2 will announcement really overmuch brighter phones for illustration nan X9 Pro are. Another notable characteristic is simply a 1-nit minimal brightness to trim oculus strain erstwhile utilizing nan telephone successful nan dark. Or successful bed. Which we shouldn’t do, but we each do. Oppo has besides included high-frequency pixel dimming to further trim nan screen's harshness.

Like caller phones from its business cousin, OnePlus, Oppo has added a caller fastener connected this year’s Find X model. The Snap cardinal is connected nan near of nan device, and tin beryllium customized to motorboat apps for illustration nan sound recorder, translator apps and flashlight. Meanwhile, nan correct separator houses nan Find X9’s Quick Button, which is ostensibly nan camera button. Double-tapping it launches nan camera app. While it’s not arsenic elaborate arsenic nan iPhone’s Camera Control, you tin swipe connected nan fastener to zoom successful and retired while utilizing nan camera, which is simply a simple, invited addition.

Alongside Mediatek's caller Dimensity 9500 chip, nan Find X9 Pro is different flagship telephone pinch a silicon-carbon battery. With a higher power density than graphite-based batteries, this intends longer artillery life without making nan telephone bigger aliases thicker. At 7,000mAh, nan artillery is huge. That’s acold bigger than nan artillery recovered successful foldables for illustration Samsung’s Z Fold 7 (4,400 mAh) and nan Pixel 9 Pro Fold (4,650 mAh). It’s moreover bigger than nan 1 successful nan OnePlus 13 (6,000 mAh). Fortunately, nan Find X9 supports suitably swift charging speeds, pinch support for 80W SUPERVOOC and 50W wireless charging. During my clip pinch nan phone, it would often past 2 days connected a charge. Even aft a time of dense camera use, Google Maps and streaming video, I didn’t request to recharge nan Find X9 Pro until precocious day connected nan 2nd day.

Cameras

The Find X9 Pro’s camera consists of a 50-megapixel main sensor pinch f/1.5 lens and optical image stabilization. There’s besides a 50MP ultrawide camera and arguably nan astir technically awesome part: a 200MP periscope camera pinch an f/2.1 lens and OIS. This is further augmented pinch an attachable teleconverter lens — much connected that later.

Oppo’s Hasselblad collaboration focuses connected telephoto, though nan institution calls its full camera setup nan Hasselblad Master Camera System. I’m not judge it needed specified a label.To make nan astir of nan high-resolution sensor, nan camera app includes a caller Hi-Res mode to seizure astatine 200MP for nan telephoto lens and 50MP erstwhile utilizing nan different 2 camera sensors. The institution warns that nan mode is champion utilized successful well-lit environments, arsenic it strips retired pixel binning and different computational photography techniques that are utilized erstwhile there’s constricted light.

But that’s not really nan point: it’s each astir nan zoom. The telephoto has a guidelines 3x optical zoom, which tin beryllium cropped to a 6x zoom pinch a 50MP image. It’s worthy noting that each nan cameras connected nan Find X9 tin seizure astatine 50MP. If nan telephone detects much challenging shooting conditions, it automatically drops down to 25MP aliases 12MP shots. In reality, I didn’t announcement nan solution jump successful astir photos I took, though nan rich | foliage successful immoderate of my scenery shots showcases really overmuch item nan camera strategy is capable to capture.

Oppo says its computational photography know-how pushes nan zoom present to 13.2x, but its algorithms tin get a small fierce and messy pinch faces and item astatine nan higher integer zoom settings. Take a look astatine these pictures taken crossed a hillside. While nan foliage appears crisp and detailed, nan walkers are blurry and there’s a halo effect astir them. At different times, computational photography turned pedestrians into nightmarish faces.

In yet different opportunity to mention nan Hasselblad collab, there’s besides an XPAN shooting mode for cinematic 65:24 images. Conversely, if you’re into a disposable camera aesthetic, nan Find X9 bid tin besides trigger an fierce double-flash to mimic ‘00s photography.

The aforesaid zoom capabilities are disposable successful video capture, too, and nan institution has added a caller Sound Focus mode to portion retired ambient noise, which worked amended than I expected it to. There are respective much video signaling upgrades, including afloat LOG signaling (activated successful settings) and an integrated LUT preview to cheque colour grading successful existent time.

Then there’s nan attachable lens. Oppo’s Hasselblad Teleconverter is simply a solid, premium peripheral, pinch a metallic tube and immoderate heft. It extends nan Find X9’s optical zoom to 10x, pinch an balanced focal magnitude of 230mm. Thanks to nan high-res 200MP Telephoto camera sensor, you tin punch successful astatine up to 200x integer zoom for stills and 50x zoom for video, though nan saccharine spot is surely much successful nan middle. The add-on teleconverter lens, while not wholly caller (Vivo did it first), whitethorn beryllium nan astir intriguing part.

You request to usage a circumstantial lawsuit and mounting sheet to securely connect nan lens to nan phone, but erstwhile it’s locked in, it feels coagulated and very secure. It besides looks, well, really it looks. Because it’s specified a slender lens, it looks for illustration thing you mightiness usage for espionage. It doesn’t moreover look for illustration a point-and-shoot camera. It’s… eye-catching, but besides truthful overmuch fun.

I’ve been testing nan Find X9’s camera chops for a fewer weeks, and it’s been a batch of nosy to zoom successful pinch optical zoom clarity, whether astatine concerts, movie premieres aliases taking pictures of my nieces during hectic Play-Doh sessions. What’s peculiarly charismatic is nan operation of precocious item and bokeh effect. With nan leap successful zoom, I had to guarantee I was acold capable distant successful bid to usage nan teleconverter, aliases it would struggle to focus.

Oppo is pitching its caller flagship arsenic nan eventual telephone for concerts and unrecorded events, and nan zoom scope is very impressive. Perhaps understandably, erstwhile zooming truthful much, location is simply a precocious consequence of blurry shots. Oppo includes a typical tripod equine that attaches to nan lens tube to guarantee nan full point doesn’t extremity over, but it’s 1 measurement excessively acold for me. Carrying astir nan teleconverter and mounting sheet is already a lot. It’s besides a spot of a chore to person to detach nan sheet erstwhile utilizing nan camera without nan teleconverter. Oddly, nan sheet covers nan different sensors, meaning that if you want a person focal constituent (or want to usage thing too nan telephoto sensor), it’s an further symptom constituent earlier you tin return nan photo.

It’s different that a phone’s “main” camera isn’t nan prima of nan show, but that whitethorn beryllium nan lawsuit pinch nan Find X9 Pro. However, it’s still technically impressive. With a caller 1/1.28 sensor codeveloped pinch Sony, nan 50MP main camera tin seizure triple exposures connected each framework earlier merging them. Oppo claims that it gives images 17 stops of move range. There’s besides a 4th camera, a True Color camera, dedicated to precisely measuring colour temperatures crossed each nan different sensors. Combined, it’s an awesome system, but you’ll get nan astir retired of it if you’re consenting to salary for nan further teleconverter.

While we hold for nan value to pass our verdict connected nan Find X9, what’s stopping Oppo from breaking into nan US? Trade turbulence and competition, probably. If it tin refine nan acquisition (and possibly support its adjacent telephone compatible pinch nan aforesaid teleconverter), it has a bully chance astatine charming nan obsessive smartphone photographer distant from their iPhones and Pixels.