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Introduction
It was the Half Life 3 of smartphones until it became Duke Nukem Forever. Almost five years in the making, always elusive and never really official, but now it's out. Yes, it's the Oppo Find X.
The hunt for the next Find started shortly after the Oppo Find 7 series launched back in March 2014. Since then "where is the next Find" question has been persistently popping under every Oppo-related news article. The affordable F and the flagship R series just weren't enough for the Oppo fans.
The expectations went through the roof in time and we could understand why Oppo just won't make another Find - it was hard to keep up with the hype. But no, the Find X did not only live up to all that hype but exceeded all expectations.
The X combines the power of the Finds and the innovative nature of the N series. That's how the Oppo Find X was born and its curved, bezel-less, cutout-free AMOLED screen is one of the most impressive things in mobile product design you'll see these days. And then it tops it off with the motorized slide-out structure which houses the front and back cameras and other interesting bits and pieces.
Oppo Find X key features
- Body: metal and glass, reflective coating on the back
- Display: 6.42" AMOLED, 1,080 x 2,340 resolution, 19.5:9 ratio, curved edges
- Rear camera: Pop-up dual 16 + 20 MP, f/2.0, OIS, PDAF, 4K video, dual-LED flash
- Front camera: Pop-up 25 MP, f/2.0, 1080p video
- Software: Color OS 5.1 (based on Android 8.1); Google Assistant
- Chipset: 10 nm Snapdragon 845, quad 2.8 GHz Kryo 385 Gold + quad 1.7 GHz Kryo 385 Silver, Adreno 630
- Memory: 8 GB of RAM, 128/256 GB storage; no microSD slot
- Battery: 3,730 mAh, 20W VOOC (or 50W Super VOOC) fast charging
- Misc: Notch-less bezel-less design with cameras mounted on a slider; 3D face scanning (15,000 points)
The slide-out camera is so fast that it won't get in the way, it feels like on any other modern flagship - instantaneous. Even the Face Unlock, which every bit as secure as Apple's solution on the iPhone X now, is as fast as on the iPhone X in spite of the additional machinery.
The Find X has the looks and specs you'd expect of a flagship, but it also employs a previously unseen innovation to claim that title. And Oppo is prepping to launch the Find X internationally, so things look very promising.
Enough teasing then. Let's pop the Find X out of its box and see what it's made of.
Unboxing the Oppo Find X
The Oppo Find X is packed in a luxurious, thick paper box with text which changes color under light. Inside is the X itself, a 20W VOOC charger and a VOOC-compatible USB-C cable. This may very well be the first Oppo phone to come out with a USB-C port.
There is more in the box - an EarPods-like headset, which comes with a 3.5mm-to-USB-C adapter in case you want to use another headset which has a standard jack.
Finally, the retail packages should include one very nice transparent case to keep scratches away from the Find X's back. It might be a Gorilla Glass 5 piece, but version 5 prioritizes shatter-proofing before scratch resistance, so the bundled case is much appreciated. Unfortunately, the case is missing from our reviewer's unit box, so we can't provide you with a picture.
Design
The typical slab that is the 2018 smartphone can't be radically changed as we are not that into the future yet. But if someone can make it intriguing again, well, there is no doubt it will be Oppo. The phone maker who once impressed us with its N series devices and their swivel camera modules is now back at it.
One glimpse of the Find X is enough to know this is not your boring smartphone. So what's different? It has an entirely bezel-less screen, yes, but it's not like this is a first. The sleek glass-sandwich design isn't the novelty that tickles our brains either. What is it then?
Oppo Find X
There isn't a single visible camera anywhere on the Oppo Find X! The lack of those two or three camera spots makes for an incredibly clean design.
The front is all screen.
The back is all glass, no interruptions whatsoever.
Oppo Find X next to the vivo NEX S
One very thin metal frame holds those pieces together. And that's the Oppo Find X. If only Oppo didn't stamp the back with those logos, the Find X looks could have been as close to a natural crystal as possible.
There is more to the Oppo Find X, a lot more actually.
Now let's take a closer look at the front. A curved Gorilla Glass 5 piece covers everything, and the 6.24" AMOLED screen with those curved sides looks a lot like the Galaxy S9's. There is one very tiny bottom bezel, while the other bezels are pretty much non-existent.
No, wait, Oppo still managed to fit this super thin grille above the screen. But it did hide the ambient light sensor beneath the AMOLED panel somewhere in the upper right corner. Where is everything else then?
Find X pop-up module and NEX S pop-up camera
It's all housed in the slide-out module. But it's nothing like the vivo NEX S - Oppo chose to pop up the entire top of the phone. And there is a reason for that - the module doesn't just contain the selfie and the rear snappers, it also has the mini-Kinect tech Apple first used for 3D facial scanning. Oppo uses structured light like the iPhone X does and projects 15,000 dots that help it read your face in three dimensions with "millimeter-level" accuracy. The company calls this O-Face (not the best name, we know).
The pop-up module
Oppo brags about the reduced false positive rate compared to fingerprint readers - 1/1,000,000 instead of 1/50,000. And there is a reason for this boasting - the Find X, just like the iPhone X, lacks a fingerprint scanner. Oddly, this is the same rate as Apple's, even though Oppo's X uses only half as many points.
This incredibly accurate (twins excluded) mini-Kinect tech is what made the iPhone X notch one of the physically widest on the market. But while other makers made fun of Apple and claimed their notches are narrower (duh, they lack the mini-Kinect tech), Oppo just one-upped them all.
The actual earpiece grille is also on the slide-out platform - the grille on the front glass is just a hole to let the sound through.
The other two cameras on the Find X are mounted on the rear of the slide-out tray - a 16 + 20 MP setup and its single-LED flash.
The pop-up module needs about 0.5s to slide out - faster than the vivo NEX S, but that's still time spent waiting each time you want to unlock your phone. That said, the system works surprisingly fast - maybe even faster than Apple's, which is a huge achievement for a pop-up tech.
The whole back of the Find X is another curved Gorilla Glass 5. Its rounded corners and sloping sides help the special coating to reflect light from different angles, which further reinforces the crystal-like appearance. There are two color gradient options to choose from: Bordeaux Red and Glacier Blue.
There is one issue of course - all that rounded glass doesn't offer a ton of grip. Or any for that matter. The Find X is one of the slipperiest phones we've handled in a while, but we guess that's a price worth paying for getting one of the most beautiful smartphones there is.
By the way, Oppo managed to stack both nano-SIM cards, so the SIM tray is quite small, and yet it's a dual-SIM one. There is no support for microSD card though, and there is no audio jack either on the Find X.
And before we move on to some testing, let's look at some numbers. The Find X with its 6.24" AMOLED screen spreads at 156.7 x 74.2 x 9.4 mm - that's 2mm shorter than the Galaxy S9+ (6.2" screen). The Find X weighs as much as much as the Galaxy though - about 186g.
Oppo has made one of the most stunning smartphones we have ever seen, there are no two ways to put that. It may lack gold and diamonds, but this is one jewel of a smartphone. All of this at the price of a slippery and somewhat easy to break body.
Oppo Find X
One thing is clear - the Find X is not like the previous N phones. The N1 and N3 swivel cameras could have been labeled as gimmicks because they tried to overcome the selfie limitations in the past with unconventional methods. The Find X pop-up piece is way more advanced and contributes greatly to functionality and design instead of breaking them. Smart, fast, jam-packed with tech but seamlessly integrated - that's what makes the pop-up part one of the most impressive piece of tech we've seen in a while.
Finally, Oppo promises the pop-up mechanism has been tested to 300,000 slides and it's guaranteed to last at least that. Oppo calculates the average person unlocks their phone 100-150 times a day, so there shouldn't be any durability worries for at least five years. And, yes, you can force it down and it will automatically retract without you breaking anything. We are not so sure what would hapen if you drop the phone with the tray exposed and it hits the ground at an angle.
Display
The Oppo Find X might be remembered for its pop-up cameras, but those were just Oppo's solution to avoid a trending dilemma - notch or bezels. Xiaomi has its own interpretation with its Mi Mix phones, but let's be honest - no Mix possesses the coolness of the Find X.
So, Oppo has put everything you would normally find on a notch on that slide-out tray and it has allowed the maker to ditch the top bezel while having a cutout-free display. The ambient light sensor is hidden underneath the screen's top right corner - it's invisible, and it just works, and that's pretty much everything you need to know about it.
The 6.42" AMOLED panel has a resolution of 1,080 x 2,340 - that's 19.5:9 aspect and 401ppi. While that's not the highest number of pixels we've seen, the screen looks and feels flagship-grade sharp.
Taking some cues from the most recent Galaxies, the screen has this familiar rounded rectangular shape and its long sides are curved towards the frame. The front glass is the same as the one on the back - a Gorilla version 5 by Corning - not the most scratch-resistant one, but less likely to shatter.
Back to the AMOLED screen - unlike Samsung, Oppo doesn't offer many display options - you can choose between warm, regular, and cold color saturation, and enable or disable a proprietary picture enhancement for the default video player. That's it.
Still, the screen supports the DCI-P3 color space and is pretty accurate with an average deltaE of 4.1 and maximum deviation of 8.7 at point white. If you drag the color saturation slider in Display Settings to Warm, you'll get one very accurate color presentation with an average deltaE of 2.6 and a maximum deviation of 4.8.
Another thing that the Super AMOLEDs have but Oppo's AMOLED doesn't is the brightness overdrive mode when exposed to bright light. The Find X screen is bright enough for an AMOLED at 430 nits, but it can't go beyond that when you use it outdoors.
| Display test | 100% brightness | ||
| Black, cd/m2 | White, cd/m2 | ||
| 0 | 426 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 376 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 631 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 410 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 420 | ∞ | |
| 0.2 | 366 | 1830 | |
| 0.225 | 460 | 2044 | |
| 0.499 | 920 | 1844 | |
| 0 | 412 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 582 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 679 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 458 | ∞ | |
Sunlight legibility is in line with other OLEDs and our sunlight score means excellent contrast and visibility. Certain Galaxy devices manage to score higher, but in practical terms, the Find X remains perfectly usable, even under direct sunlight.
Sunlight contrast ratio
- Apple iPhone X
5.013 - OnePlus 5T
4.789 - Samsung Galaxy S8
4.768 - Samsung Galaxy S8+
4.658 - Samsung Galaxy S9
4.63 - Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
4.615 - Samsung Galaxy S9+
4.537 - Motorola Moto Z2 Play
4.459 - Oppo R11
4.454 - Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
4.439 - OnePlus 3
4.424 - Samsung Galaxy S7
4.376 - OnePlus 6
4.321 - HTC One A9
4.274 - Oppo R15 Pro
4.251 - Samsung Galaxy Note7
4.247 - Samsung Galaxy A3
4.241 - Nokia 8
4.239 - Google Pixel 2 XL (pre-update)
4.234 - OnePlus 3T
4.232 - Google Pixel XL
4.164 - ZTE Axon 7
4.154 - Samsung Galaxy Note8
4.148 - Meizu Pro 7 Plus
4.147 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017)
4.124 - Samsung Galaxy S6 edge
4.124 - Huawei Mate 10 Pro (normal)
4.096 - Samsung Galaxy Note5
4.09 - Huawei P20 Pro
4.087 - Xiaomi Mi 8
4.086 - Meizu 15
4.082 - Nokia 6 (2018)
4.052 - Google Pixel 2 (pre-update)
4.023 - LG V30
4.022 - Huawei Nexus 6P
4.019 - vivo NEX S
4.012 - Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro
3.998 - Vivo Xplay5 Elite
3.983 - OnePlus X
3.983 - LG G7 ThinQ (outdoor)
3.978 - Apple iPhone 7
3.964 - Oppo R7s
3.964 - Apple iPhone 8 (True Tone)
3.957 - Huawei P9 Plus
3.956 - Oppo Find X
3.954 - Meizu Pro 6 Plus
3.935 - Lenovo Moto Z
3.931 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016)
3.918 - OnePlus 5
3.914 - Samsung Galaxy C5
3.911 - Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
3.901 - Samsung Galaxy C7
3.896 - Samsung Galaxy A5
3.895 - Samsung Galaxy J7 outdoor
3.879 - Samsung Galaxy J2 outdoor
3.873 - Motorola Moto G6 Plus
3.865 - Samsung Galaxy A8
3.859 - Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018)
3.842 - Samsung Galaxy A6+ (2018)
3.834 - Sony Xperia XZs
3.818 - Samsung Galaxy A9 (2016)
3.817 - Motorola Moto X (2014)
3.816 - Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017)
3.812 - Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017)
3.804 - Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) outdoor mode
3.802 - Xiaomi Redmi Pro
3.798 - LG V20 Max auto
3.798 - Sony Xperia XZ
3.795 - Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016)
3.789 - Apple iPhone 6s
3.783 - Meizu Pro 5
3.781 - Microsoft Lumia 650
3.772 - Xiaomi Mi 6
3.767 - Sony Xperia XZ1
3.765 - Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016)
3.756 - Nokia 8 Sirocco
3.745 - Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact
3.729 - Apple iPhone 8 Plus (True Tone)
3.725 - Oppo F1 Plus
3.709 - Vivo X5Pro
3.706 - Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)
3.688 - Huawei P20
3.683 - Apple iPhone SE
3.681 - Huawei Mate 9
3.68 - Samsung Galaxy A7
3.679 - Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact
3.675 - Meizu PRO 6
3.659 - BlackBerry Priv
3.645 - Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra
3.597 - Apple iPhone 7 Plus
3.588 - Sony Xperia XZ2
3.58 - LG G6
3.556 - Apple iPhone 6s Plus
3.53 - Motorola Moto Z Play
3.526 - Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016)
3.523 - Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016) outdoor mode
3.523 - Acer Jade Primo
3.521 - Microsoft Lumia 950
3.512 - Oppo R7 Plus
3.499 - Nokia 7 plus
3.479 - nubia Z11
3.466 - Huawei P10 Plus
3.456 - HTC U Ultra
3.453 - Motorola Moto G6
3.448 - Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra
3.445 - Samsung Galaxy J7
3.422 - Motorola Moto G6 Play
3.419 - Meizu MX5
3.416 - LG V20
3.402 - Samsung Galaxy A6 (2018)
3.397 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 AI Dual Camera
3.393 - LG G7 ThinQ
3.39 - Huawei P10
3.379 - Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016)
3.378 - Oppo R9s
3.352 - Honor 8 Pro
3.341 - Oppo F7
3.333 - Oppo R7
3.32 - Lenovo P2
3.316 - Archos Diamond Omega
3.305 - Honor 9
3.289 - Xiaomi Mi 5s
3.276 - Nokia 5
3.261 - Nokia 6 (Chinese version)
3.244 - Xiaomi Mi 5
3.24 - Nokia 6 (Global version)
3.238 - Samsung Galaxy J2
3.235 - Sony Xperia X Performance
3.234 - Xiaomi Mi Note 2
3.228 - Motorola Moto X Play
3.222 - Oppo F3 Plus
3.218 - BlackBerry KEY2
3.212 - Huawei Mate 9 Pro
3.206 - Huawei P9
3.195 - Xiaomi Mi Mix 2
3.19 - ZTE Nubia Z17
3.159 - Oppo R11s
3.153 - Lenovo Vibe Shot
3.113 - HTC U11 Life
3.108 - Motorola Moto X Force
3.105 - LG Nexus 5X
3.092 - HTC U11
3.089 - HTC U12+
3.085 - Xiaomi Redmi S2 (Y2)
3.077 - Huawei Mate S
3.073 - Microsoft Lumia 640 XL
3.065 - Apple iPhone 6 Plus
3.023 - Asus Zenfone 4 ZE554KL
3.019 - Motorola Moto X4
3.012 - Sony Xperia XA1
3.012 - Sony Xperia L1
2.994 - Sony Xperia X
2.989 - LG Q6
2.987 - Huawei P10 Lite
2.974 - Samsung Galaxy Note
2.97 - Huawei P20 Lite
2.952 - Xiaomi Redmi 5
2.951 - Huawei Mate 8
2.949 - Sony Xperia XA2
2.938 - Oppo Realme 1
2.932 - Xiaomi Redmi 4
2.92 - Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus
2.913 - Xiaomi Redmi 3S
2.913 - Sony Xperia XA Ultra
2.906 - LG G5
2.905 - Huawei Honor View 10
2.896 - Xiaomi Redmi 3s Prime
2.893 - Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus
2.884 - Sony Xperia XZ Premium (sRGB)
2.877 - Sony Xperia XZ Premium
2.877 - Sony Xperia Z5
2.876 - Nokia 3
2.871 - Microsoft Lumia 550
2.851 - Nokia 3.1
2.837 - Lenovo Moto M
2.813 - Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro
2.803 - Sony Xperia Z5 compact
2.784 - Honor 10 (Vivid)
2.757 - Nokia 2
2.752 - Meizu MX6
2.751 - LG V10
2.744 - Huawei Mate 10 (normal)
2.742 - Motorola Moto G5S Plus
2.737 - Xiaomi Redmi 3
2.735 - Huawei Honor 7X
2.734 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (S625)
2.714 - Meizu M5
2.71 - Xiaomi Mi A2
2.696 - Sony Xperia M5
2.69 - Xiaomi Mi A1
2.689 - Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime
2.679 - Huawei P9 Lite
2.679 - vivo V7+
2.671 - Vivo V3Max
2.659 - Xiaomi Mi Mix
2.658 - Huawei Mate 10 Lite
2.654 - Oppo F5
2.653 - Doogee Mix
2.642 - Xiaomi Mi 4i
2.641 - Xiaomi Redmi 4a
2.635 - Xiaomi Mi 5X (Standard)
2.616 - Sony Xperia XA
2.609 - Huawei P Smart
2.563 - Asus Zenfone 3 ZE552KL
2.563 - Xiaomi Mi Max 2
2.561 - HTC U11+
2.556 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A (Y1)
2.556 - Lenovo Moto G4
2.544 - Lenovo K6 Note
2.544 - Sony Xperia Z5 Premium
2.525 - Huawei Honor 7 Lite / Honor 5c
2.506 - BlackBerry Motion
2.494 - Motorola Moto G
2.477 - Lenovo Vibe K5 Plus
2.473 - Huawei G8
2.471 - Huawei nova
2.467 - Sony Xperia Z
2.462 - Meizu m3 max
2.447 - Xiaomi Mi 5X (Auto)
2.417 - HTC 10 evo
2.407 - Huawei Honor 7
2.406 - Vivo V7
2.404 - Sony Xperia E5
2.386 - ZUK Z1 by Lenovo
2.382 - HTC 10
2.378 - Oppo F3
2.376 - vivo V5 Plus
2.371 - Meizu m1 note
2.362 - Huawei nova plus
2.329 - Razer Phone
2.328 - HTC One E9+
2.305 - Alcatel One Touch Hero
2.272 - Sony Xperia L2
2.266 - Lenovo Vibe K4 Note
2.254 - Sony Xperia C5 Ultra
2.253 - HTC U11+ (EU)
2.253 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 (MediaTek)
2.249 - Sony Xperia C4 Dual
2.235 - Xiaomi Mi Note
2.234 - Motorola Moto G (2014)
2.233 - LG Nexus 5
2.228 - Huawei P8
2.196 - Meizu M5 Note
2.189 - Huawei Honor 6
2.169 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 2
2.166 - OnePlus Two
2.165 - HTC One X
2.158 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (X20)
2.145 - LG Aka
2.145 - Archos 50 Diamond
2.134 - Xiaomi Redmi Note
2.119 - Xiaomi Mi 4S
2.095 - Acer Liquid X2
2.084 - Huawei P8lite
2.078 - vivo V5
2.059 - Moto G 3rd gen max manual
2.026 - Xiaomi Mi 3
2.001 - Xiaomi Mi Max
1.996 - Sony Xperia E4g
1.972 - OnePlus One
1.961 - Sony Xperia Z2
1.944 - Meizu m3 note
1.923 - Meizu m2 note
1.892 - BlackBerry Leap
1.892 - HTC Butterfly
1.873 - ZTE Nubia Z9 mini
1.759 - Sony Xperia U
1.758 - Asus Zenfone Selfie
1.68 - Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen)
1.675 - ZTE Nubia Z9
1.659 - Jolla Jolla
1.605 - Motorola Moto E
1.545 - Sony Xperia M
1.473 - Sony Xperia L
1.351 - Xiaomi Redmi 2
1.311 - HTC Desire C
1.3 - Nokia X
1.291 - Meizu MX
1.221 - Sony Xperia E
1.215
Battery life
The Oppo Find X is powered by a 3,730 mAh sealed battery. If you thought the slide-out mechanism might reduce the internal volume left for the battery - you'd be wrong as capacity-wise the Find X is better geared than most flagships.
Oppo's 20W VOOC fast charger always wows with its speed and it fills 50% of the depleted battery on the Find X in 30 mins. The charger connects to the USB-C port on the bottom of the phone - the company has just moved away from using microUSB ports.
The Super Flash Edition of the Find X scheduled to launch this fall comes with the new 50W SuperVOOC charging support - which should fully recharge a depleted battery in 35 mins. The Super VOOC still charges at 5V but is capable of directly transmitting the power to the battery without any voltage conversion. And the battery won't be getting hot in the process.
We ran our battery tests, and the Oppo Find X posted an overall score of 90 hours. That's not the best we've encountered, but fine for such a large screen. The Find X actually did great in our screen-on-tests - the web and video playback times are great, while the 3G talk time is more than enough. The standby performance is about the average, though, in spite of the heavy background restrictions applied automatically by Color OS and it's the culprit that stopped the final endurance rating from going north of the 100 hours mark.
Our endurance rating denotes how long a single battery charge will last you if you use the Oppo Find X for an hour each of telephony, web browsing, and video playback daily. We've established this usage pattern, so our battery results are comparable across devices in the most common day-to-day tasks. The battery testing procedure is described in detail in case you're interested in the nitty-gritties. You can also check out our complete battery test table, where you can see how all of the smartphones we've tested will compare under your own typical use.
Loudspeaker
The Oppo Find X has a single bottom-firing speaker - a bit of a letdown for a flagship. It scored a Very Good mark in our loudness test. The sound output is rich with deep bass, not among the most impressive, but a very good one.
| Speakerphone test | Voice, dB | Ringing |
Overall score | |
| 70.2 | 74.7 | 70.0 | Good | |
| 69.8 | 70.3 | 75.8 | Good | |
| 68.9 | 74.0 | 76.2 | Very Good | |
| 69.7 | 73.5 | 76.6 | Very Good | |
| 68.4 | 74.0 | 80.1 | Very Good | |
| 68.1 | 72.3 | 82.2 | Very Good | |
| 70.7 | 75.2 | 81.2 | Very Good | |
| 70.5 | 74.1 | 85.2 | Excellent | |
| 71.3 | 74.5 | 91.0 | Excellent | |
| 78.3 | 76.4 | 82.3 | Excellent | |
| 76.0 | 73.6 | 88.5 | Excellent |
Audio quality
The Oppo Find X did great with an active external amplifier - its loudness was well above average, and there were no weak parts to its output whatsoever.
Unfortunately, headphones did quite a lot of damage including dropping to below average volume and getting some intermodulation distortion and frequency response shakiness. The stereo crosstalk increase is also no more than par for the course, rounding up a rather mediocre performance.
| Test | Frequency response | Noise level | Dynamic range | THD | IMD + Noise | Stereo crosstalk |
| +0.03, -0.07 | -93.4 | 93.9 | 0.0012 | 0.0063 | -89.3 | |
| +0.01, -0.58 | -92.2 | 93.5 | 0.0088 | 0.330 | -55.7 | |
| +0.01, -0.02 | -93.6 | 93.7 | 0.0009 | 0.0069 | -93.8 | |
| +0.17, -0.10 | -92.9 | 93.2 | 0.0043 | 0.158 | -61.3 | |
| +0.02, -0.15 | -94.3 | 94.3 | 0.0021 | 0.0069 | -94.3 | |
| +0.18, -0.13 | -93.7 | 93.6 | 0.0024 | 0.104 | -52.7 | |
| +0.01, -0.03 | -92.6 | 92.5 | 0.0012 | 0.0076 | -93.4 | |
| +0.03, -0.03 | -92.2 | 92.2 | 0.0017 | 0.042 | -76.3 | |
| +0.02, -0.01 | -93.2 | 93.1 | 0.0008 | 0.0069 | -94.2 | |
| +0.03, -0.02 | -92.9 | 92.9 | 0.0057 | 0.051 | -68.1 |
Oppo Find X frequency response
You can learn more about the tested parameters and the whole testing process here.
It's Android and Color OS
The Oppo Find X runs on ColorOS 5.1, based on Android 8.1 Oreo. The launcher benefits from a so-called AI engine with real-time translation, faster Face Unlock, navigation gestures, even better gallery, enhanced split-screen multi-tasking. Introduced with v5.0 are also new app shortcuts (long tap), redesigned icons and themes, improved call history, new security features including safe, and better gaming mode with WeChat integration.
ColorOS customizations run deep, making it far off from the standard Google-developed mobile experience. Units sold outside of China still come with the full Google suite, which has resulted in having a few apps with similar functionality - one by Oppo, and another one by Google.
ColorOS isn't that bloated, but it's not "pure Android" either. It comes pre-loaded with social networking apps, a document editor, and few minor-footprint apps.
The so-called AI builds on-device user behavior models for faster app startups and better resource management. It also uses this behavior to show relevant information on the left-most homescreen pane - calendar appointments, quick shortcuts, weather, world clock, package tracking, flight info, among others. You can configure those, or just leave them to the "AI."
The user interface is very familiar. There's no app drawer on the default launcher. Instead, every app you install gets dumped onto the homescreen.
The Lockscreen features a continually changing slideshow of images. You can subscribe to several different channels (e.g., photos of nature or cars or others) or provide your own imagery.
Lock and home screens
There is no fingerprint scanner on the Find X, the only biometric security is the 3D facial scanning. It's the real deal, though, not a camera-only solution as the Face Unlock on previous Oppo phones was set up. Oppo uses structured light like the iPhone X does and projects 15,000 dots that help it read your face in three dimensions with "millimeter-level" accuracy. The company calls this O-Face (not the best name if you ask us).
Oppo boasts about the reduced false positive rate compared to fingerprint readers - 1/1,000,000 instead of 1/50,000. That's the same rate as Apple claims, even though Oppo's phone uses only half as many points.
The Face Unlock works exactly like on the iPhone X - it recognizes just one face (unless you have a twin). It adapts for your facial hair, so you won't have to worry about that either. And it works even in pitch dark, as it uses infra-red light. There is one additional feature you can use - you can enable a requirement for looking into the screen for a successful unlock. This way you won't unlock you screen accidentally, but it may be an issue if you wear sunglasses.
Face Detection settings
Anyway, this mini Kinect tech is what makes the iPhone X notch one of the widest on the market. Some
That comes at a bit of a price, though. The pop-up module needs 0.5s to slide out - that's faster than the vivo NEX S, but that's still time spent waiting each time you want to unlock your phone. That said, the system still works surprisingly fast. A fingerprint reader would have been a welcome fallback, though.
The scanner is used for more than unlocking the phone or securing AliPay transactions. Its output can be fed to an AI for 3D Smart Selfie Capture. The AI will offer suggestions on how to pose and your expression for more natural photos with the 25 MP front camera.
It also enables lighting effects that can, for example, simulate a two-color studio setup - lighting one side of your face with red and the other with blue light. The scanner can also generate animated 3D cartoon avatars, or 3D Omoji, as Oppo calls them. You can create videos of them and send them through chat apps.
Now let's go back to Color OS. As any other Oppo, you can spruce up the Find X with Themes. The Theme Store features both whole themes and just wallpapers, sorted into categories (including free and paid ones). Themes change the icon pack, the lockscreen wallpaper, and even the system font.
Themes
The notification shade features notifications, quick toggles, and a brightness scrubber.
Notifications • Toggles • Task Switcher • Split screen • Split screen
One of the most notable additions to Oppo's custom ROM has to be the Full-Screen Gesture model. Bigger display and diminishing bezels and chins tend to pose some ergonomic concerns beyond a certain point. Oppo's current design might not be exactly there yet, but the company is already trying its best to prepare for that.
When enabled, Full-Screen Gesture navigation positions three small lines at the bottom of the UI but you can choose to hide those lines. Swiping up from the middle one acts like a home button but if you stop the gestures mid-way - you'll summon the task switcher (like on the iPhone X). Swiping on the left or right ones acts as Back. You can change one of those to open the recent apps manager if you like - we sure did.
If you don't like these controls, there is a standard Android navigation bar to fall back to as well.
Navigation settings
Clone apps and file safe functions are on board, as well as real-time translation thanks to an improved voice assistant.
There is a Phone Manager quite similar to what Huawei and Xiaomi have the same name. It handles memory cleaner functions, app permissions and encryption, and virus scan, among other things.
Phone Manager • Game Settings • Gallery • Files
An improved Game Center allows you to handpick which notifications to pass through when you are playing with friends. It now supports WeChat Voice integration, so no more switching to WeChat if you get a call.
And while we are talking about games - there is a hidden pop-up for apps running in full-screen, mostly games. If you swipe from the left side when the Find X is in landscape position, you'll get an arc with various shortcuts - screen snap, screen video capture, messages, notification switch, and WeChat floating window. Those should come in handy in various occasions, so it's nice to have them.
Pop-up shortcuts available in full-screen apps
Finally, there are various screen-off and screen-edge gestures available, if you are into those. You can also opt for Always-On Display, too, it's called Screen Clock and you can configure it from the display settings.
Gestures • Edge gestures • Screen-off gestures • Always-on display
Performance and benchmarks
The Oppo Find X is powered by the most current Qualcomm chipset - the Snapdragon 845. It's the same SoC found in many flagships including the OnePlus 6, Xiaomi Mi 8, LG G7, the latest Xperia phones, among others.
So, the Snapdragon 845 should be quite familiar to our regular readers - it has an octa-core Kryo CPU, and a powerful Adreno 630 GPU. The Find X is equipped with the whooping 8 gigs of RAM, which is really nice.
Now let's run some benchmarks.
First, we did some CPU Geekbenching. Samsung's and Apple's custom cores have more oomph per unit as evidenced by the results in the single-core test. The Find X posted similar numbers to the other Snapdragon 845 phones we've tested.
GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)
Higher is better
- Apple iPhone X
4256 - Samsung Galaxy S9+
3771 - vivo NEX S
2466 - HTC U12+
2456 - Sony Xperia XZ2
2454 - OnePlus 6
2450 - Xiaomi Mi 8
2431 - LG G7 ThinQ
2395 - Oppo Find X
2322 - Huawei P20 Pro
1907 - Meizu 15
1620 - Oppo R15 Pro
1612
In the multi-core test, the Oppo Find X scored slightly below its fellow S845 phones, though there are no reasons to dig deeper here.
GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)
Higher is better
- Apple iPhone X
10215 - vivo NEX S
9160 - OnePlus 6
9011 - HTC U12+
9001 - Samsung Galaxy S9+
8883 - LG G7 ThinQ
8865 - Xiaomi Mi 8
8494 - Sony Xperia XZ2
8466 - Oppo Find X
8018 - Huawei P20 Pro
6679 - Meizu 15
5877 - Oppo R15 Pro
5809
The Adreno 630 in the S845 is among the best mobile GPUs right now, handling effortlessly everything even when running on 1440p screens.
GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)
Higher is better
- Oppo Find X
60 - HTC U12+
60 - vivo NEX S
60 - OnePlus 6
58 - LG G7 ThinQ
57 - Sony Xperia XZ2
55 - Xiaomi Mi 8
53 - Samsung Galaxy S9+
47 - Apple iPhone X
44 - Huawei P20 Pro
40 - Oppo R15 Pro
15 - Meizu 15
15
Well, in the case of the Oppo Find X, the GPU is in charge of an extended 1080p screen, which means even more processing power than the 1440p bunch (S9+, G7, U12+) when it comes to real applications. And the Find X pumps out similar theoretical frame rates as the Xiaomi Mi 8, Sony Xperia XZ2 and even the iPhone X. The score is just a step behind other 1080p devices such as the OnePlus 6 and vivo NEX S - but those have a few pixels less to worry about.
GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)
Higher is better
- OnePlus 6
55 - vivo NEX S
55 - Sony Xperia XZ2
51 - Apple iPhone X
51 - Oppo Find X
50 - Xiaomi Mi 8
50 - Huawei P20 Pro
37 - HTC U12+
33 - LG G7 ThinQ
30 - Samsung Galaxy S9+
24 - Meizu 15
15 - Oppo R15 Pro
12
Antutu is among the more popular tests as a single tell-all number, and in our testing the Oppo Find X beat all smartphones we've tested so far and won the first spot in the chart.
AnTuTu 7
Higher is better
- Oppo Find X
291218 - vivo NEX S
287081 - OnePlus 6
264200 - HTC U12+
263696 - LG G7 ThinQ
259393 - Sony Xperia XZ2
259244 - Samsung Galaxy S9+
246660 - Xiaomi Mi 8
217298 - Huawei P20 Pro
209884 - Oppo R15 Pro
146526 - Meizu 15
125444
We can only praise the Oppo Find X as it delivers top-notch performance. The Color OS is well optimized and doesn't bog down Android since it is lean and snappy. Running a benchmark repeatedly slows the phone a bit. But the difference in the scores was minor, while the glass body didn't heat up to worrisome levels. And if it weren't for the minor difference in the tests' scores, we wouldn't have noticed the throttling at all.
So, the Oppo Find X is equipped with the fastest chip available today, runs smooth and lag-free, the interface is snappy, and hardly anyone will be able to notice any throttling. And that's how it should be on a flagship device, so, good job, Oppo!
BBK's favorite dual-camera setup is on the Oppo Find X
So, here we are again. The Oppo Find X packs one very familiar dual camera setup where the secondary sensor doesn't have a clearly defined purpose or benefit. The situation is similar to what we saw on the OnePlus 6 and 5T, Oppo R15 Pro and R11s.
Of course, we can only praise the primary 16MP IMX519 sensor. Oppo claims it was co-developed with Sony, specifically for the pair. We appreciate the comparatively larger 1.22µm pixels that should enable better low-light performance. And in the Find X - the 16MP eye is optically stabilized.
The choice of the 20MP secondary snapper is what doesn't make much sense. It is not black and white, and it practically has the same field of view as the main one, so there are no ultra-wide or zoom capabilities. Not only that, but it has the same aperture, its sensor is a bit smaller at 1/2.8" and it has smaller pixels, at 1.0µm, compared to the primary 16MP snapper. That means that it isn't that much help with low-light shots either. So, it seems that its main purpose, beyond playing the PR numbers game, is providing depth information for portrait shots. Oppo says it helps in low-light too, but we are yet to see these promised benefits in any of the phones by the BBK brands - Oppo, Vivo, or OnePlus.
And while we are comparing, the Find X Oppo has F/2.0 lenses for both snappers, while the R15 Pro and the OnePlus 6 relied on brighter F/1.7 ones.
The single LED flash is somewhat a letdown, but that's what you get on the Find X pop-up module.
The camera supports automatic scene detection - you'll see a small icon when a scene is successfully recognized, and the software will tweak all settings accordingly. Food, snow, pets, sunsets, grass, among other scenes, are caught mostly correctly.
The interface has borrowed a lot from the iOS app, of course. Most settings are on the left (or top, depending on the orientation), while different modes are selected on the right next to the shutter key. Strangely, the left-hand side also has a few additional modes that didn't find a spot in the carousel on the right.
Just don't let the 2X switch fool you - it's purely digital zoom, so don't expect a good looking photo if you choose to use it.
Camera UI
There are a few settings, including location tagging and guidelines, separated out in their own menu in the phone's settings. There is a total lack of any clear resolution control for stills. All you get is a choice of aspects, between the standard 4:3 one, 1:1 and 16:9. It's not clear which aspect ratio is native to the sensor, and how choosing any of the other affects the resolution of the images.
Expert mode is available for those seeking more manual controls. It comes with a handy horizon level and can change most settings on the primary camera (this mode doesn't work on the selfie cam). The shutter speed control lacks fine adjustment, good mostly for very low-light shooting - it starts at 1s and increments at full stops to a maximum of 16s. Manual focus adjustment is present as well.
The Portrait mode offers a regular (2x telephoto-like) view, or you can opt for the out zoomed option from the dedicated virtual key.
Image Quality
The 16MP daylight photos we took turned out very good with lots of detail, excellent contrast, and lively colors. The dynamic range is surprisingly high even without the HDR mode. The samples are sharp enough, but not over-sharpened - that's how we like them.
Oppo Find X 16MP camera samples
The 2x pictures are just cropped and then digitally upscaled to 16MP, and you can tell right away. There is no optical-like zoom on the Find X.
Oppo Find X 16MP 2x camera samples
There is an Auto HDR option, but we turned that off. For some reason the HDR samples are over-sharpened, and the benefits in the dynamic range are debatable.
HDR off • HDR on
Here we are again - trying to explain what the secondary 20MP does in low-light. In theory, it automatically gets involved in specific low-light conditions - that's when you get a Night Scene prompt. With its 'intelligent' technology, it's supposed to merge 4 pixels into one to cancel out some of the digital noise.
If we do the math, this should leave us with a 5MP image but what we get is a 16MP one so the way we see it, it's either that this process is not happening as promised or the system is upscaling the photo back to the regular resolution.
All in all, this sounds like just what the OnePlus 5T and 6 are doing, though on the Find X you will always get a 16MP image, whereas the 1+ sometimes would spit out a 20MP one. But we don't need to guess how the cogs are working behind the scenes if the show on stage is good, right?
And it is. The 16MP samples we got from the Find X are quite impressive - detailed and with low noise levels. The alleged noise canceling, helped by the OIS, created some excellent photos and even the darkest of them had little noise. So, what's important here is not how we got the images, but that we got them. These are definitely among the better low-light photos we've snapped with a smartphone - having high contrast, pleasant colors, and a lot of preserved detail. Well done, Oppo!
Oppo Find X 16MP low-light samples
We always appreciate a camera app that offers manual controls, and we weren't disappointed with the Oppo Find X.
Oppo Find X 16MP Manual low-light photos
Finally, you can head over to our Photo compare tool to see how the Oppo Find X handles the controlled environment of our studio. We've pre-selected the Oppo R15 Pro and OnePlus 6, but you can replace those with any two other phones you feel like.
Oppo Find X vs. Oppo R15 Pro vs. OnePlus 6 in our Photo compare tool
Native Portraits
The Portrait Mode spits high-res 16MP images. The photos are very good - subject separation works well, there aren't many abrupt transitions from sharp to blurred, the bokeh is nice, and overall - those are among the better portraits we've seen.
Oppo Find X 16MP Portrait samples (Natural Light)
The Find X offers a few Portrait Lightning modes, but except for the Canvas and Mono-Tone, we found the rest to be pretty odd.
Film Light • Mono-Tone Light • Bi-Color Light • Canvas Light • Shake Light
Film Light • Mono-Tone Light • Bi-Color Light • Canvas Light • Shake Light
Selfies
Oppo is the home of the Selfie Experts, so it isn't a surprise that the Find X takes those very seriously. The X has a 25MP selfie cam with f/2.0 lens. It doesn't have autofocus, which isn't an issue in and of itself - it's just that the focus plane is all too close to the phone and if you stretch your arm a bit, your face is no longer in the focal sweet spot and hence - not as sharp as it could be.
The Oppo Find X offers the company's 3-HDR tech for the selfie camera. It's a combination of tricks that results into better HDR selfies with the HDR effect applied in real-time and visible on the viewfinder. You can turn that off if you like (disable the HDR Auto), but we'd recommend leaving it on - the HDR effect is excellent and a great image booster.
3D Smart Selfie Capture is available as well. Once you complete a 3D scan of your face, you can add minor adjustments to your facial features such as your nose or eyes. Then the AI will offer suggestions on how to pose and will edit your expression with your predefined settings. That's some next level faux-plastic-surgery, but it's there if you need it.
3D scan • 3D scan • 3D scan • Face correction • Face correction • Face correction
Anyway, the resolved detail with selfies is flagship-grade (in selfie terms of course) unless your face is too far from the camera when you'd get less than ideal sharpness. Otherwise, the colors and contrast are usually superb on all shots.
Oppo Find X 25MP selfies
The Find X may lack a secondary selfie sensor for the bokeh shots, but it seems to be using the 3D Face sensor for depth information just like the iPhone X did. At least that's what we think, as the Portrait Selfies look a lot like the regular ones in terms of detail and subject separation - a huge improvement over previous Oppo selfie snappers.
Oppo Find X 25MP Portrait (Default - Natural Light) selfies
Various Portrait Lightning effects are available here, too, but once again, only the Canvas and Local ones seem usable to us.
Rim Light • Face Light • Bi-Color Light • Canvas Light • Local Light
Rim Light • Face Light • Bi-Color Light • Canvas Light • Local Light
Rim Light • Face Light • Bi-Color Light • Canvas Light • Local Light
Finally, there are lots of stickers available to apply to your selfies. The sticker-enabled selfies are also captured at 5MP.
Sticker fun
Video recording
The Oppo Find X records videos in 4K and 1080p at 30fps. There is no digital stabilization (EIS) available in any resolution, only optical one (OIS).
There is also a slow-motion mode available, that can go up to 120fps in 1080p and 240fps in 720p. However, it is not done in the super slow-motion Sony or Samsung way, but rather in the traditional manner, where the phone simply captures a high frame rate video full-length, which it then plays back as a slow-motion clip.
The standard 4K video recording mode captures 2160p/30fps footage and it's encoded at about 42Mbps, on par with the other flagships. Audio is recorded in stereo at 96Kbps, though, which is far from impressive.
Overall, the quality of the 4K videos is superb with more than enough detail, great contrast and true to life colors. The dynamic range is high and contributes for some excellent 4K clips.
The 1080p videos came out a bit softer than we'd like them but kept the rest of the 4K recording highlights - the good contrast, colors, and dynamic range.
You can, of course, download untouched video samples, the way they came out of the Oppo Find X - 2160p at 30 fps (10s, 63MB) and 1080p at 30fps (10s, 26MB).
Finally, for some extra pixel peeping head over to our Video compare tool, where you can examine the Oppo Find X output against any phone we've tested before. We've pre-selected the Oppo R15 Pro and the OnePlus 6, but you can, of course, pick your own set of phones.
2160p: Oppo Find X against the Oppo R15 Pro and the OnePlus 6 in our Video compare tool
The competition
Oppo did something that many makers are still trying to figure out - how to get rid of the notch. While the iPhone X wasn't the first to feature a notch, Apple pushed the trend into the mass market and made it a thing. But now, not only did Oppo resolve this cutout controversy, but it also brought the smartphone design to a whole new level.
We can't even remember the last time we saw a camera-less phone. It was probably a decade ago. Of course, no company could afford to make a flagship without a camera today, and Oppo found a way to conceal those in a meaningful way. Unlike Vivo's most recent pop-up selfie camera, which looks more like an appendix rather than a seamless part, the Oppo's slide-out module is more seamless and fitting to the design.
And the vivo NEX S is the first competitor worth mentioning. Oppo and vivo might be part of the same BBK parent, but the race between them has been intense. The NEX S also offers a notch-free all-AMOLED-screen front as it has put the 8MP selfie snappers on a tiny pop-up piece. The dual-camera is fixed on the back, though. There isn't a secure Face Unlock available (obviously) but you can enjoy a cool under-display fingerprint reader. The rest is pretty much the same as on the Find X, so it's up to you to decide which pop-up implementation suits you better.
Oppo Find X and vivo NEX S
The Galaxy S9+ impresses with a Quad-HD Super AMOLED screen and a similar, but water-resistant, body. Its dual-camera dual-OIS setup on the back is more versatile as it has a telephoto lens, but it offers richer video capturing options - 4K@60fps and 720p@960fps with smart detection. The Galaxy has an iris scanner and a fingerprint reader - two of the most secure biometrics available today, there is also a microSD slot and a 3.5mm audio jack. And since it's nearly 6-months old, the S9+ is cheaper than the Find X at launch.
The OnePlus 6 is cheaper and offers a more conventional take on how a smartphone should look and perform. It has a glass body, it packs a notched AMOLED screen, and runs on the same Snapdragon 845 chipset. The 6 has the same dual-camera setup on the back as the Find X's though it can do 4K clips at 60fps. The selfie experience and camera are inferior to the X's though.
The Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition has the mini-Kinect tech for a proper Face ID and impresses with faux-transparent glass back. The AMOLED screen is as notched as on the iPhone X, and the overall camera experience pretty much matches the iPhone's with the dual-12MP snappers on the back and the 2x optical zoom. The Mi 8 EE is cheaper than the Find X, and while it can't impress with screen and design, it makes up for that in price and camera experience.
Finally, the iPhone X should be considered, too, the King of the Notch. More expensive, yes, but if Android is not quite your cup of tea, you might enjoy the first bezel-less iPhone. It has everything a flagship needs - unmatched performance and a skilled camera, so you might want to give it a try. But watch out, a new crop of iPhones will be announced in less than two months from now so you might want to hold off your purchase if you are taking the Apple route.
vivo NEX S • Samsung Galaxy S9+ • OnePlus 6 • Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer • Apple iPhone X
The verdict
The Oppo Find X is the most unique smartphone money can buy today. And that's enough to tip the scales for a lot of people. By winning the beauty contest Oppo has already secured a best-seller status for its latest flagship.
But the Find X will also go down in history for its innovation in design and slide-out module. The hidden cameras don't bulge like an awkward appendix, they don't break the design continuity, and Oppo has jam-packed the piece with cutting-edge technology - a mini-Kinect sensor, a high-res 25MP selfie snapper, and a dual-camera with OIS on its back. Even the skeptics should give credit where it's due.
But being unique and cutting-edge doesn't always guarantee success. But the Find X has a lot more to offer - great screen, superb performance, super-fast charging, high-end selfie experience, and a clean UI just to name a few highlights.
Pros
- One-of-a-kind design with a slide-out camera platform
- Face Unlock works surprisingly fast and accuratly
- Gorgeous bezel-less and notch-less AMOLED screen
- Superb performance
- Flagship-grade camera image and video quality in most aspects
- The Find X is truly a selfie expert
Cons
- Lacks resistance
- A moving part always suggests durability might be compromised
- Not a bend test survivor
- No NFC or wireless charging
The Find X is not the perfect smartphone - it has flaws in camera, battery, and even in its glorified design. But it's one of the most memorable devices we've seen in a while, and that's something worth experiencing. And we strongly recommend giving it a try, even if it's just to be part of the tech history in the making.
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