Introduction
The Oppo Find X roster has apparently grown this year, the vanilla + Ultra pair from 2023 transforming into a trio for 2024, possibly even a quartet. While waiting for the new-gen Ultra to arrive (it's not even official yet), we have the Find X8 Pro to warm us up with some camera goodness of its own, a powerful chipset, upgraded battery, and, sure enough, a camera control key.
The X8 Pro isn't really an X7 Ultra successor, so we'll allow it not to have a 1-inch main camera - 1/1.4" will do. That said, two telephotos was an Ultra thing, but we now welcome those on the Pro as well. And not only that, but in this particular case one of them uses two prisms to keep things more compact. It's the other one that can focus close, so in a way we get the best of both worlds - a reasonably sized camera bump and 'macro' shooting. The ultrawide isn't quite Ultra-grade, but we get that - there needs to be room for all the X8 models under the sun. Sort of related, the Find X8 Pro brings a camera button - Apple did start a trend, but this one might be nicer than the iPhone's.
The X8 Pro, along with the X8, introduces more trendy bits to the lineup, including a silicon carbon battery. Perhaps most important is the capacity, and at nearly 6,000mAh it sure makes a promise for longevity, but it should also fare better in the cold than the batteries of old. If, on the other hand, you prefer warmer environments, the Find X8 Pro can accommodate that too - its IP69 rating means it'll survive high pressure jets with a water temperature of up to 80 degrees Celsius, because why not.
The Pro is packing the top-end Dimensity chipset this year, but even though Snapdragon Elitists may look the other way, we see no reason not to appreciate Mediatek's rise to power in the flagship segment. A Dolby Vision-capable OLED display is a nice touch, though we'd probably prefer to be touching an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor underneath it, rather than the optical one here. Also, selfies don't look too promising. Are we just deliberately picking on the Find X8 Pro because we're hoping to get a global Ultra?
Oppo Find X8 Pro specs at a glance:
- Body: 162.3x76.7x8.2mm, 215g; Glass front (Gorilla Glass Victus 2), glass back, aluminum frame; IP68/IP69 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 min).
- Display: 6.78" LTPO AMOLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, 800 nits (typ), 1600 nits (HBM), 4500 nits (peak), 1264x2780px resolution, 19.8:9 aspect ratio, 450ppi; HDR image support.
- Chipset: Mediatek Dimensity 9400 (3 nm): Octa-core (1x3.63 GHz Cortex-X925 & 3x3.3 GHz Cortex-X4 & 4x2.4 GHz Cortex-A720); Immortalis-G925.
- Memory: 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM, 1TB 16GB RAM; UFS 4.0.
- OS/Software: Android 15, ColorOS 15.
- Rear camera: Wide (main): 50 MP, f/1.6, 23mm, PDAF, OIS; Telephoto: 50 MP, f/2.6, 73mm, 3x optical zoom, PDAF, OIS; Telephoto: 50 MP, f/4.3, 135mm, 1/2.51", 0.7µm, 6x optical zoom, dual pixel PDAF (35cm - ∞), OIS; Ultra wide angle: 50 MP, f/2.0, 15mm, 120˚, PDAF.
- Front camera: 32 MP, f/2.4, 21mm (wide), 1/2.74", 0.8µm.
- Video capture: Rear camera: 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240fps; gyro-EIS; HDR, 10‑bit video, Dolby Vision; Front camera: 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps, gyro-EIS.
- Battery: 5910mAh; 80W wired, PD, PPS, UFCS, 50W wireless.
- Connectivity: 5G; Dual SIM; Wi-Fi 7; BT 5.4, aptX HD, LHDC 5; NFC; Infrared port.
- Misc: Fingerprint reader (under display, optical); stereo speakers; Satellite connectivity support (PKC130, 1TB 16GB RAM model only).
Oppo Find X8 Pro unboxing
This generation doesn't stray far from tradition and the Find X8 Pro ships in a conventionally-sized box with a gray/graphite livery. The package contents are also the usual - the used-to-be usual, that is.
The phone is accompanied by a charger rated for 80W and a USB-A-to-C cable - Oppo's SuperVOOC still uses those. Also included is a soft transparent case to protect that glass back right from the get-go.
Design, build quality, handling
The Find X8 Pro continues in the footsteps of previous Oppo Finds and one of its main styling elements is its large camera island on the back. The marketing materials point out numbers and ways in which it's evolved and gotten smaller, but it's anything but small. So it may as well be the centerpiece.
Still, there's some extra engineering that went behind it, so it is worth making a point out of it. The short telephoto got a dual prism lens which helped bring the camera bump thickness down by some 40%. It's now 3.58mm thick, they say - we'll take their word for it. Indeed, while certainly prominent, it's somehow not quite as dominating as on last year's Ultra.
The back of the Find X8 Pro is made of glass, though Oppo doesn't specify what make it is. The display is protected by Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The frame, meanwhile, is aluminum.
Oppo has come up with a name for the concept behind the Find X8 Pro's build and that's Armor Shield. Combining the above materials and adding shock absorption zones, they're confident they've engineered a tough handset.
Part of that is the Find X8 Pro's IP69 certification alongside the usual IP68. So not only is the phone rated to survive a dunk in water down to 1.5m deep for as long as 30 minutes, but you can also have at it with a pressure washer as long as your water isn't hotter than 80 degrees Celsius.
We're not entirely sure what's happening this year with the IP69 rating that's being thrown around left and right - did makers come up with a new adhesive to bond elements together, or did they just realize that the existing solutions are good enough for an extra set of test conditions? Either way, perhaps don't actually have at it with a pressure washer?
What is certainly new this time around is the Find X8 Pro's extra control 'button'. Located on the right side (or the top when the phone is held in landscape) it's a capacitive and pressure sensitive strip that can be used to launch the camera and do stepless zoom inside it, as well as trigger the shutter release.
It's not a real button, strictly speaking - it doesn't 'give' when you press it, but the phone's vibration motor does a fine job of creating the illusion of a click. It's essentially what many people watching the iPhone 16 keynote were led to believe Apple was doing, only to find out that the iPhone implementation was an actual button.
The previous generation of Finds introduced an alert slider, a staple of the OnePlus phones. The Find X8 and X8 Pro feature it too, letting you quickly switch between ring, vibrate, and fully silent modes. If you're one to just set your phone to vibrate as soon as you get it out of the box, the slider will be wasted on you, but it could function as a fidget clicker of sorts. It is a really nice clicker.
The Find X8 Pro uses an under-display fingerprint reader, an optical one, and it's positioned somewhat low. We had no real issues with its operation - it was fast and reliable in use - but it could have been placed higher, and it could have been ultrasonic too.
6.78-inch OLED display leaves little to be desired
The Find X8 Pro is equipped with an 6.78-inch LTPO OLED display. It has a 1264x2780px resolution in a 19.8:9 ratio (or 2.2:1) with a pixel density of 450ppi. The refresh rate is dynamically adjustable in the 1-120Hz range, there's 2160Hz PWM dimming below 70nits and DC dimming above that brightness.
Speaking of brightness, Oppo says the panel should be capable of up to 1,600nits in high brightness mode and up to 4,500nits of local peaks in HDR applications. In our testing, we couldn't quite get these numbers - we measured a rather conservative 1,333nits when the auto brightness was left in charge while the phone was in bright ambient conditions. The Realme GT 7 Pro we reviewed recently, for example, was good for a full 1,000nits more in the same test, and we routinely get numbers above 1,800nits these days. We're not saying that 1,300 isn't enough, just that the Oppo isn't really on the forefront of the brightness race.
That said, the 900-ish nits you can get manually is more of an excellent result - there are higher figures here too, but the Find is in the upper echelon.
Refresh rate
The Find X8 Pro's refresh rate implementation allows it to switch between various modes in the 1Hz to 120Hz range. It will base it on the usual combination of content, user interaction, and brightness - we didn't experience it to be dependent on ambient light (directly, that is - if you're in auto brightness mode, a dim environment will result in lower brightness and thus potentially higher refresh rate). In normal conditions, we observe it readily dialing down to 1Hz for idle states.
We're still finding trouble with getting games to run above 60fps on Color OS, including here on the Find X8 Pro - all the titles we tried got a 60Hz/60fps cap.
Streaming and HDR
The Find X8 Pro supports all major HDR standards including HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. Netflix was happy to serve both HDR10 and Dolby Vision video (depending on title), and we also got HDR streams in YouTube. The Widevine L1 certification means you get high-res playback of DRM protected content too.
By now, it should be the default behavior, but we still like to point it out that the Find X8 Pro supports the Android Ultra HDR standard for displaying HDR photos with enhanced tone mapping and a brightness boost for highlights. It's implemented in the in-house Photos gallery, where you get a button to turn it off on a photo-by-photo basis for comparison, in addition to being able to switch it off globally in settings. It also works in Google Photos (where you don't get the temporary preview button), and in Chrome - for images from other compliant phones, too.
Oppo Find X8 Pro battery life
The Find X8 Pro uses a silicon carbon battery with a 5,910mAh capacity - a significant upgrade over the Find X7 generation where both vanilla and Ultra used 5,000mAh cells. Oppo doesn't make a big deal out of the battery's performance in cold weather, but it should be inherent with the SiC anode tech.
In our testing, the Find X8 Pro returned very good results for endurance in our Active Use test. We clocked 10 and a half hours in our gaming test, nearly 18 hours of video playback, and almost 14 hours of web browsing - solid autonomy with the screen on. The voice call result was more in the so-so department, but we tend not to overemphasize its importance, plus its better than the vivo we had recently with this chipset, so you could call it a win.
Our new Active Use Score is an estimate of how long the battery will last if you use the device with a mix of all four test activities. You can adjust the calculation based on your usage pattern using the sliders below. You can read about our current battery life testing procedure here. For a comprehensive list of all tested devices so far, head this way.
Charging speed
The Find X8 Pro's specsheet lists an 80W charging capability and that's also what the bundled adapter is specced for. In our testing, it maxed at 72W at the very start of the charging process (from an empty battery) and quickly tapered off to lower power values - a common behavior that's gotten all the more noticeable with the silicon carbon batteries we've been getting as of late.
Charging speed is... moderate for a fast charging system - we clocked an empty-to-full time of 53 minutes and we were looking at 70% in the battery indicator at the half-hour checkpoint. The vivo X200 Pro was ever so slightly quicker, and the Realme GT 7 Pro had a more pronounced advantage, despite having a larger capacity.
That said, we should probably start adjusting expectations going forward - the sub-20 minute charging times we got from dual-cell graphite anode batteries of yesteryear don't go well with the trendy push for higher energy density so we probably won't be seeing much of that in the future. It's probably not the worst of tradeoffs though.
The charging speeds above are for the bundled proprietary charger, but the Find X8 Pro also supports regular USB Power Delivery at up to 55W - or so Oppo says. In our experience with half a dozen other makers' and aftermarket PD adapters we only got up to 26W. The total charging time was around 62 minutes and we got 55% in half an hour so there is the number 55 somewhere in the whole PD charging thing. Overall, it's not too bad, particularly in comparison to the proprietary charger.
The X8 Pro also supports wireless charging at up to 50W when using an in-house AirVOOC pad. Reverse wireless charging is also on the menu, at up to 10W.
Color OS has a reasonable set of battery saver and battery health options. It has the Smart charging toggle that attempts to learn your charging habits and does the final top off just before it predicts you'll be needing the phone. It also has the option to limit the charge to 80% when it detects you've got the phone plugged in for prolonged amounts of time. You can also turn off the Smart rapid charging and have the Find X8 Pro charge slower than its maximum capability - the difference was minimal in our experience.
Speaker test
The Find X8 Pro employs a hybrid speaker system with one bottom-firing unit and another one above the display that directs sound towards the front and serves as an earpiece for voice calls. As Oppo normally goes about this, both speakers will also output the opposite channel's track at a lower volume, in addition to their own. The channels are otherwise assigned based on the phone's orientation when in landscape, while the top speaker gets the left channel when the handset is held vertically.
Bottom speaker • Top speaker/earpiece
The Find X8 Pro got a 'Very Good' rating for loudness in our test - on par with last year's Ultra and pretty much any potential competitor. We'd say the X8 Pro is an improvement over the X7 Ultra, and it's also livelier and more dynamic than the X200 Pro. It's no iPhone 16 Pro Max though, and the Galaxy S24 Ultra is possibly better too.
Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.
Android 15 with Color OS 15.0 on top
The Oppo Find X8 Pro is running Color OS 15 on top of an Android 15 core. We haven't seen a software update promise, but if the recent Realme GT 7 Pro is any indication, perhaps we should expect 3 OS releases, and 4 years of security patches - but that's more of a speculation on our part.
Oppo says that ColorOS has received a visual overhaul with this release, but what we're seeing is more of a gentle facelift. Most notable in day-to-day operation is the restyling of the quick settings, now treated to a 'Now playing' widget and a reshuffling of the big bubbles.
Also somewhat readily visible is a refresh in the iconography. But the settings menu, for example, is largely unchanged in its presentation, though the About screen does look nicer now.
Color OS on the Oppo Find X8 Pro
Of course, there's plenty of bits sprinkled around Color OS with an AI label on them. Google's Circle to search doesn't say AI on the tin, but it comes standard and replaces the similar in functionality in-house AI Screen Recognition feature we saw on the Realme GT 7 Pro (and the 13 Pro+ before it). The Gemini AI assistant is on board, too.
There's also an 'AI Toolbox', which is a set of utilities to help make your life easier - AI Summary will attempt to condense a text into a numbered list of key points, AI Speak will read a text out loud and AI Writer will try and write a text for you. These are all accessible from the Smart Sidebar when applicable and you may not be able to directly find them with a search on the phone as standalone apps.
An AI Studio app is also present. It uses cloud-based generative AI to render photorealistic images in different styles based on a photo of yourself. It's a credit-based system as opposed to being unlimited, but you get a bunch of credits when you first sign up and you can replenish them by being a regular on the app.
Then there's a handful of AI-based photo editing tools in the gallery - some of those were already here on previous Color OS versions. AI Eraser, AI Ultra Clarity, AI Unblur - these are more or less self-explanatory. The AI Editor can also be set to automatically suggest one of its tools when it sees fit.
Performance and benchmarks
Oppo went with the Dimensity 9400 for the Find X8 Pro (also the Find X8 non-Pro) - there's no Snapdragon 8 Elite to be found here - possibly the Ultra will get the Qualcomm chip. The Mediatec SoC isn't necessarily a bad option though, itself a supremely powerful piece of kit manufactured on a 3nm process by TSMC.
The Dimesity's CPU uses an all-big-core design, with one 'prime' Cortex-X925 core (up to 3.63GHz), three Cortex-X4 units (2.3GHz), and four Cortex-A720 cores (2.4GHz). Madiatek promises it should be 35% more powerful than the D9300's processor in single-core tasks. The Immortalis-G925 GPU, meanwhile, should offer performance improvements of around 40%. Power efficiency should be up 40% too, they say.
The Find X8 Pro can be had in a number of memory configurations, starting from 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM and going all the way up to 1TB and 16GB. RAM should be LPDDR5X and our 512GB/16GB review unit test results suggested it uses UFS 4.0, too.
We already saw the D9400 in action on the vivo X200 Pro and the Find's numbers are more or less in line with what we got out of the video, though there were some differences. The Oppo had a bit of an advantage in CPU scores, but the vivo proved slightly more potent in the graphics department. The Dimensity's results aren't all that different from the Elite either, the Find being a little bit behind the Realme GT 7 Pro in CPU scores, but snatching a narrow GPU victory.
Under prolonged load, the Find X8 Pro behaved in a very similar fashion to the vivo X200 Pro, recording a relatively gradual decline in performance in the CPU Throttling test, with a small peak somewhere down the line and a 60% lowest result (the vivo was ever so slightly better at 65%). The Oppo did perform slightly better in the Wild Life Extreme stress test, its 58% stability rating besting the 53% of the vivo, and also doing a few more high-performance runs. The Snapdragon-powered Realme GT 7 Pro did return a 71% result in this test, though.
CPU Throttling test • Wild Life Extreme stress test
Two telephotos without being an Ultra
The Find X8 Pro inherits some of the Find X7 Ultra's camera - in principle, but also some of the actual hardware. The 1-inch main camera didn't make it, but the two teles sort of did, and one of them is actually a new design to help make the big bump on the back less big and bumpy. There's also a new Quick button, which is definitely not a Camera Control key.
The Find X8 Pro uses a smaller sensor main camera than last year's Ultra - it's a 1/1.4" imager here, letting the rumored X8 Ultra maintain exclusivity on the large sensor. Also smaller is the ultrawide's sensor, a fairly common 1/2.76" Samsung unit replacing the 1/1.95" Sony on the old Ultra.
That same Sony LYT-600 imager is now tasked with 3x zoom duty, only in this instance it's placed behind a new lens assembly that features two prisms, allowing it to be more compact.
The 6x camera, meanwhile, is lifted off the X7 Ultra in its entirety - it's a more conventional periscope setup. Its lens is relatively dim though - the Xiaomi 14 Ultra uses the same sensor for its second tele, with a wider aperture (f/2.5 vs. f/4.3), though, admittedly, slightly shorter focal length (120mm vs. 135mm equivalent).
- Wide (main): 50MP Sony LYT-808 (1.4", 1.12µm - 2.24µm), f/1.6, 23mm, multi-directional PDAF, Laser AF, OIS; 2160p@60fps
- Ultrawide: 50MP Samsung ISOCELL JN5 (1/2.76", 0.64µm - 1.28µm), f/2.0, 15mm, multi-directional PDAF; 2160p@60fps
- Telephoto 1, 3x: 50MP Sony LYT-600 (1/1.95", 0.8µm - 1.6µm), periscope lens, f/2.6, 73mm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS; 2160p@60fps
- Telephoto 2, 6x: 50MP Sony IMX858 (1/2.51", 0.7µm - 1.4µm), periscope lens, f/4.3, 135mm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS; 2160p@60fps
- Front camera: 32MP Sony IMX615 (1/2.74", 0.8µm - 1.6µm), f/2.4, 21mm, fixed focus; 2160p@60fps
The Find X8 Pro also gets an extra feature this time around - a sort-of button. Oppo does call it a Quick button, but is it really a button if it doesn't click? It's pressure sensitive and relies on the vibration motor for haptics - what we expected Apple to do, Oppo did. So yes, a double-press on the key can be used to launch the camera, where another press will take a photo. There's also a capacitive sensor so you can slide your finger for zoom action (but only in landscape orientation). A software update will enable the double-press action to directly take a photo (as opposed to just start the camera app).
Daylight photo quality
Main camera
During the day, the Find X8 Pro captures very good images with its main camera. There's no noise to speak of, detail is abundant and it's rendered nicely. Exposures are on point and dynamic range is great too. Saturation is also very well judged and if it weren't for the white balance's tendency towards a hint of green, we'd have no flaws to point out.
Daylight samples, main camera (1x)
There's a fair bit of that greenish lean in people shots, where it's slightly more detrimental to the overall likeability of the photos - we tend to prefer our humans warmer. Again, it's not terrible and not something that can't be fixed easily with sliders, but why have to?
Daylight samples, main camera (1x), Photo mode
Daylight samples, main camera (1x), Portrait mode
The full-res 50MP samples don't offer any meaningful improvement in detail.
Daylight samples, main camera (1x), 50MP
The 2x results aren't the sharpest around, but still offer a decent amount of detail if you're a fan of the 50-ish millimeter focal length.
Daylight samples, main camera (2x)
Daylight samples, main camera (2x), Photo mode
Daylight samples, main camera (2x), Portrait mode
3x telephoto camera
The shorter of the two telephotos on the Find X8 Pro may not be able to focus too close (minimum focus distance is around 50cm), but it's pretty great for mid- to long-range shooting. We're getting clean and sharp photos with just slightly too digital detail processing. White balance is once again ever so slightly off, but at least it matches the main camera, and the saturation is keeping us happy.
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (3x)
People shots are quite great at 3x, the shooting distance offering a nice perspective and flattering facial proportions. Again, slightly warmer colors would help, though.
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (3x), Photo mode
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (3x), Portrait mode
The full-res mode won't be getting you any detail benefits at 3x either.
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (3x), 50MP
6x telephoto camera
The longer telephoto does better with closeups - we measured the minimum focusing distance at some 29cm give or take. In practice, together with the extra zoom, that means you can get roughly 3.5x larger subject reproduction with the 6x camera than you can with the 3x one.
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (6x)
That said, there's a bit of a general haze/glow to these shots - they're not the sharpest, particularly when there's a lot of bright light in the frame. Colors are still pretty great.
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (6x)
6x might be a bit too long for photos of people to a smartphone-conditioned mind, but 135mm is one of the classic focal lengths for portraiture and you get to do that on the Find X8 Pro.
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (6x), Photo mode
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (6x), Portrait mode
Stop us if you've heard this before, but the 50MP mode doesn't bring anything noteworthy to the table.
Daylight samples, telephoto camera (6x), 50MP
Ultrawide camera
The ultrawide's photos have excellent sharpness and detail and no noise in bright daylight. Dynamic range is nicely wide and color reproduction is quite pleasing.
Daylight samples, ultrawide camera (0.6x)
A handful of samples from the largely pointless full-res mode follows.
Daylight samples, ultrawide camera (0.6x)
Selfies
Selfies aren't overly exciting on the Find X8 Pro. We've been hating various implementations on 32MP selfie cameras from several makers and Oppo has been among the repeat offenders. That said, colors and dynamic range are very good here, so if you can learn to think of these as 10-12MP images and expect about that much detail from them (possibly downscale them, even), you should be reasonably happy.
No amount of rationalizations is going to change the fact that there's no autofocus, though, so you won't be able to take goofy closeups of your nostrils - unfortunate.
Low-light photo quality
Main camera
At night, the Find X8 Pro's main camera does a wonderful job. It captures well exposed images with wide dynamic range, excellent shadow development and competent highlight preservation. It manages to maintain a very natural detail rendition too - no extreme sharpening or watercolor-like effects. The Find wasn't fazed by odd lighting and kept its white balance in check, while also delivering very likeable output in terms of saturation.
Low-light samples, main camera (1x)
At 2x zoom, global parameters remain unchanged, but sharpness drops noticeably and these images are best suited to viewing from a distance.
Low-light samples, main camera (2x)
3x Telephoto camera
The telephoto camera's results are more to our liking. The 3x shots have very good detail and it's looking nicely organic too. Dynamic range is excellent, and colors are pleasing too. There was that bleached rendition of the otherwise decidedly more yellowish scene in the third sample, but other than that we had no issues with the white balance.
Low-light samples, telephoto camera (3x)
6x Telephoto camera
At 6x magnification, you may occasionally be served digitally zoomed in shots from the 3x camera - the smallish sensor and not overly wide aperture lens on the 6x camera have led Oppo to resort to this approach. The shots you get this way (bottom row) are a little too soft for our liking - not terribly so, and certainly good enough for many applications, but not really great. The ones that do come out of the 6x camera are generally sharper, albeit somewhat grainy. Whichever camera does the capture, dynamic range is great, and colors are hard to fault either.
Low-light samples, telephoto camera (6x)
Ultrawide camera
The ultrawide does a respectable job in its own context. Its images have good detail, dynamic range is excellent, colors are generally on point, with a hint of extra warmth here or there.
Low-light samples, ultrawide camera (0.6x)
Video recording
The Find X8 Pro records video up to 4K60 with all of its cameras - the four on the back and the selfie camera too. There's no 8K capture mode (nor should there be), and there's no 24fps capability directly in sight.
The default codec is h.265 but you can switch to h.264. Dolby Vision capture is available too, masked behind the HDR toggle in the viewfinder. There's also a Movie mode that works in a 21:9 aspect (so 3840x1648px, no other resolution), where you can tweak exposure parameters, focus and white balance.
'Regular' electronic video stabilization is available in all resolutions and frame rate combos and then there's Ultra steady mode, which also works in all modes - go figure.
You can check out the playlist below, which includes multiple video samples.
Video sample playlist
[embedded content]4K video quality from the Find X8 Pro's main camera is great, with wide dynamic range, accurate white balance and vibrant colors. Detail is very good, though we still feel it could be a tiny bit better. 2x zoom clips are properly soft, we'd avoid shooting at that level. The 3x telephoto captures nicely detailed videos during the day, and the 6x is almost as good, though it does have some of that haziness we mentioned in stills. The ultrawide's footage is slightly noisy in the shadows, but still solid overall.
At night, the main camera maintains its composure and returns very good results with well balanced grain-vs-detail processing. The 3x telephoto is somewhat surprisingly good too and you can even spin the pronounced sunstar effect around point light sources as a positive. The 6x zoom camera isn't quite as capable, but it's still usable, if you pick your scenes right. The ultrawide, meanwhile, returns somewhat harsh highlights, but isn't half bad overall either.
Stabilization is very good on the Find X8 Pro with only some imperfections on the main camera when walking - the final footage has a bit more shake as your foot hits the ground than we'd like. Other than that all cameras are pretty great at steadying your clips, the telephotos looking especially impressive. Panning is quite smooth too.
Competition
The Find X8 Pro does a fine job of balancing between offering a high-end experience and leaving enough room to breathe for an upcoming Ultra. Being among the first releases of what's essentially next year's premium Android segment, the Find faces competition that is either a year old, or not quite out yet (where we are, at least), making our lives a little too hard when it comes to comparisons.
So while still in this realm of uncertainty, we'd probably name the Find X8 Ultra first. Not even official yet, the company's ultimate offering may not get a global release at all, but if it does, it will be the all-out cameraphone to get from Oppo. And even if it remains a China-exclusive, it might be enticing enough to make a certain type of customer accept the tradeoffs of gray-importing one and living with a sub-optimal software build.
Pivoting hard into the here and now, the Find X8 non-Pro might also be an option - only in the opposite direction when it comes to cameraphone prowess. Not that it's bad, it's just not as good. It's got the same chipset, only slightly smaller battery, and a flat display, which could be just what you're looking for.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max is about as current a competitor as the Find has. There's the obvious OS divide that should be the first thing to settle this, but if you can look past that, the Find has every chance of being the better cameraphone on account of its low-light performance, two zoom modules, and close-up capabilities. Both have great battery life and powerful chipsets with a knack for gaming too. Better than usual water resistance in one way or another is also something that unites them, as are their respective camera control buttons. More similar than they are different, it seems.
The Galaxy S24 Ultra is one of the select few two-tele cameraphones and it just might be better for photo and video capture than this Find, though even if it is, it's probably not by a big enough margin for that to be the deciding factor. The Galaxy wins for versatility thanks to its S Pen and some of OneUI's unique features (take DeX for example). The Find scores higher in the endurance department, and runs on a next-gen chipset too. Now, the S25 Ultra will change some of that, but we're looking at roughly two months before that one shows up.
The vivo X200 Pro is another camera-centric offering out of China that should be going global sometime soon. This one matches the Find for IP rating, has the same chipset, and broadly similar battery life and charging capability. The vivo just might be a better cameraphone though, where it's specific type of single telephoto solution can have its advantages over the Find's two-module one.
Xiaomi's Pro model from the 14 generation was missing from the global scene, and the recently announced 15 Pro's fate outside of China is still unclear too. It's only got a single telephoto, but the 5x zoom unit might be more your thing than the 3x+6x combo. The Xiaomi's got a big battery too, the Snapdragon Elite could be a point in its favor, and maybe a case could be made for its flat display. Well, maybe we'll know more if a review unit comes our way.
Oppo Find X8 • Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max • Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra • vivo X200 Pro • Xiaomi 15 Pro
Verdict
The Find X8 Pro's flaws are few, smalish, and of somewhat lesser importance than the things it's actually great at. Just because Oppo is choosing to stay away from a brightness competition, doesn't mean you'll be strapped for nits, and unless you absolutely must game above 60fps, you'll be perfectly fine with a Find. The camera system has a few imperfections in our experience, but you can expect that from the Pro when there's an Ultra on the way.
Those relatively minor things aside, the Find X8 Pro is a thoroughly competent all-round flagship smartphone. The super powerful chipset is about as good as they come, the battery life is towards the top of the class, the newly-standard next-level water sealing brings extra peace of mind, the camera key can't hurt. And there's the top-tier camera camera system that struck us as better than most at low-light video, while also being great in general.
Of course, we'd probably like the Find X8 Ultra more than the Pro - but there are many unknowns around that one. The Find X8 Pro, on the other hand, is here now and it's quite alright.
Pros
- IP69 rating - so you can pressure wash it, if you want.
- The camera button may be useful.
- Excellent battery life, particularly good at gaming.
- Mediatek SoC at least as good as the latest Snapdragon, possibly even slightly better at prolonged GPU load.
- Competent camera system overall, great zoom action, nice closeups, surprisingly good low-light video.
Cons
- The display is behind the curve in terms of peak brightness; gaming comes with frame rate limitations.
- Somewhat unreliable 6x camera performance in the dark.
- No high framerate gaming possible.