Oppo Find X8 Pro Review: Best Value Android Flagship

The Oppo Find X8 Pro is Oppo’s best flagship smartphone in many years, thanks to superb battery life, fun cameras and excellent performance.

Score: 4.5/5

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In this review

Oppo Find X8 Pro Specifications
Oppo Find X8 Pro Design
Oppo Find X8 Pro Camera
Oppo Find X8 Pro Performance
Oppo Find X8 Pro Battery
Oppo Find X8 Pro Conclusion

Oppo’s forays into the premium phone space that it’s released here in Australia have often been interesting phones, though it’s been a while since I’ve been able to test one out, and that’s especially true for its Find X series, which hasn’t been seen in Australia for a couple of years now.

The Oppo Find X8 Pro isn’t some wild experimental phone with extruding or rotating cameras (Oppo’s done that in the past) or a unique folding mechanism.

Instead, it’s a premium-priced phone that takes the value battle to rivals Samsung, Google and Apple and delivers a lot for your money, with generally superb cameras, great battery life and quick processor performance.

Of course, I’m me, so I have noted some downsides, but overall, this is an excellent phone, and one that’s easy to recommend.

Design

The Oppo Find X8 Pro is built around a 6.78 inch 2780x1264 pixel LTPO AMOLED display capable of between 1-120Hz refresh rates. Where a lot of its competitors have shied away from curved displays, Oppo has kept on on the Oppo Find X8 Pro, though it’s more of a gentle curve that runs across all edges of the phone rather than just being a side edge.

I get that some folks don’t like the feel of a curved phone, but I’ve never particularly minded them, and the subtle style of the Oppo Find X8 Pro looks pretty good in my estimation.

The Oppo Find X8 Pro only ships in Australia in two colour choices, either Pearl White or Space Black. Oppo loaned me a Space Black model.

Black isn’t that exciting, but it’s fine for what it is if you don’t like the more showy Pearl White colour. You will it seems have to shell out extra for a protective case for the Oppo Find X8 Pro if you did want to both protect it and change its colour, because it appears there’s no protective case in the box.

Really, it's more of a grey than black in most lighting situations.

I say appears as my model is a review unit that’s been through a few reviewers and has a cardboard slip that looks like it could house a case, though Oppo Australia’s local web site doesn’t mention one being in the box. As always, international models may vary in this respect.

The design action for the Oppo Find X8 Pro really sits around the back thanks to a massive camera circle that houses four separate lens and a rather prominent Hasselblad logo, thanks to Oppo’s tie-up with the venerable camera maker. It certainly stands out.

The Oppo Find X8 Pro has an interesting array of controls. On the left hand side of the phone you’ll find a mute/vibrate/ring switch, while the right hand side houses volume buttons, a power button and a nearly imperceptible camera shutter button, very much in the style of the iPhone 16’s camera control button. More on that in the camera section below.

Biometric unlocking is handled via a in-display fingerprint reader that’s given me no problems at all during my review period.

Oppo’s claim for the Oppo Find X8 Pro is that it’s both IP68 and IP69 rated for water resistance, which is impressive and also unusual.

Impressive because most phones top out at IP68, but also unusual because IP69 ratings typically to my understanding encompass ratings below them – which is to say that an IP69 phone should be an IP68 phone by definition.

If all this talk of IP ratings has you scratching your head wondering what I’m wittering on about, take a quick read of my guide to phone water resistance (and why your “waterproof” phone is anything but) here.

Camera

In pure hardware terms, the Oppo Find X8 Pro packs in a wide 50MP f/1.6 primary lens, ultra-wide 50MP f/2.0 120° lens and dual 50MP telephoto lenses at 3x zoom f/2.6 and 6x zoom f/4.3 respectively. For the selfie-obsessed, there’s a single front-facing 32MP f/2.4 lens to capture your visage with.

That's definitely me, though the Find X8 Pro has smoothed a few wrinkles along the way.

That’s a lot of 50MP sensors packed into one phone, and the choice of 3x and 6x zoom is one that I did find quite useful, simply because it allows for much more precise shots at the common kinds of ranges you’re likely to do regular zooms at, with equally pleasing results.

Nyssa is behaving while I take photos of her with the Find X8 Pro. She's hoping for a snack.

Oppo has long positioned itself as the “camera phone” company, but in the past I’ve sometimes found its internal processing to lean a little too heavily on the garish side for my tastes. This largely hasn’t been an issue with the Find X8 Pro, which has delivered very pleasing and realistic images for nearly every shot I’ve taken.

This is where I appreciate having a range of real lenses to choose from, because it enables such a wide array of creative choices when framing and taking shots.

On the zoom lens front, Oppo doesn’t just start and stop at 6x zoom – that would be well below par for a premium flagship phone like this – with a hybrid zoom mode that can push up to 120x zoom if you so desire.

Honestly, most of these extreme zooms are utter rubbish, because even with a tripod you’ll struggle to get decent shots typically beyond 20-30x on even the best of days due to camera shudder and the movement of objects that are obviously quite far away from you.

Oppo’s solution to this problem – such as it is – is to apply a layer of AI to the whole process to “improve” extreme zoom shots, a feature it calls “AI Telescope Zoom”.

The idea is that while the actual photo might be a bit of a mess, with a bit of AI interpretation of a scene, it could look a whole lot better. Samsung did something similar with the S23 Ultra and moon photos a few years back, but at least Oppo’s being quite upfront about all of this instead of hiding it in the small print.

But does it work?

Well, I’ll give you an example here.

While out on a walk, I got the idea to take some sample zoom shots of the valley across from where I was walking.

I’m always a little cautious about extreme zoom shots as it’s hard not to feel as though I’m being voyeuristic if they intrude on somebody’s back yard, but the only target I had here was the back of a public business some distance away.

Here’s the ultra wide shot, all fine and landscape-specific:

No problems at 1x with the wide lens:

2x is also fine, though it’s logically a crop of that primary wide lens:

3x with the first telephoto lens looks decent, and we’re getting closer:

And finishing out the “real” lenses, 6x works just fine:

And at 30x it’s doing OK, though I do tend to see that from competitors too:

So what happens if we push it to 120x? You get this notably faked looking side of a building:

The downlights have turned into AI hallucinatory mush.
The top of the building isn't doing much better.

AI Telescope Zoom is particularly bad if you use it to photograph any text or logo from a distance. Here’s a good example of it doing poor work with a school zone speed limit sign, for example:

Pretty sure that should read "AM" and "PM" after those times, not "Blurry AI mess".

Stick to lower level zooms and leave the AI alone, however, and the Oppo Find X8 Pro is a generally impressive camera phone in most situations, including low light shooting.

I couldn't see into these trees, but the Oppo Find X8 Pro could, and the results are quite bright.

Nysa is not allowed on this table, and she knows it. It's dark though, so she hopes I won't see her.

The only caveat here is if you are using zoom at night, because that 6x zoom aperture doesn’t lend itself to fast and accurate shots at all. Zooming at night is always a perilous matter across most phones, but if you can stick to closer shots, the Oppo Find X8 Pro does a generally good job delivering realistic shots.

The Oppo Find X8 Pro has a dedicated camera shutter button built into its right hand side, a la the iPhone 16 series of phones, though Oppo’s ambition here is a lot less flexible than Apple’s approach.

You can use the shutter button to launch the camera, or take photos, but there’s no capacity for using it to alter camera variables on the fly.

I noted in my review of the iPhone 16 Pro Max that the Camera Control felt like a solution to a problem that didn’t exist in the first place, and the Oppo Find X8 Pro’s more limited approach hasn’t changed my opinion much. It’s fine as a camera launcher, but it’s all too easy to introduce shudder in your shots when trying to use it.

Oppo Find X8 Pro Sample Photos

Performance

Most Android flagship phones tend to opt for one of Qualcomm’s higher power Snapdragon processors, but that’s very much not what Oppo has opted for with the Oppo Find X8 Pro.

Instead, it runs on a MediaTek Dimensity 9400 processor, propped up with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. There’s no capacity for microSD expansion, but that’s very much in line with what Oppo’s premium competitors do in in this space as well.

The question around the Dimensity 9400 is how well it compares against those premium Qualcomm-packing handsets, or for that matter the best silicon blobs that Apple can forge?

The answer is: Very well indeed, especially considering Oppo’s slightly lower “premium” price point of $1799. That’s not inexpensive, don’t get me wrong, but many premium flagships now lean closer to $2,000 or more.

Here’s how the Oppo Find X8 Pro compares using Geekbench 6’s CPU test:

Apple is still leading the pack in terms of pure CPU throughput, but Oppo has brought the best competition I’ve seen to date to bear against it. With the Samsung Galaxy S25 series announcing in the intervening period, it will be quite interesting to see how those compare once I can get to testing that platform out.

The news gets even better when we look at GPU performance, using 3DMark’s Wild Life Extreme test:

It’s long been the case that most flagship phones are overpowered relative to the needs of most users, but the Oppo Find X8 Pro is even more overpowered than its competition – which is no bad place to be if you’re looking at picking up a flagship to last you a decent number of years.

The Find X8 Pro will get 5 OS upgrades and 6 years of security updates.

Speaking of years, Oppo has slightly upped its game in terms of promised OS upgrades and security updates. The Find X8 Pro will get 5 OS upgrades and 6 years of security updates, which is nice to see, but not quite on par with the 7 years of OS and security updates that both Samsung and Google offer.

It’s feasible that part of that lesser upgrade path is down to Oppo’s use of its own ColorOS platform, which provides some interesting and different UI pathways to standard Android tasks. ColorOS started out as a pretty blatant iOS clone back in the day, but it’s evolved into its own platform that some users really do rather like.

I’m on the record as not being one of them, but I can totally appreciate that long-term Oppo users may well find vanilla Android to be the “different” look and feel OS at this point in time. That’s very much a matter of taste.

What’s likely to be irksome across the board, I feel, is Oppo’s insistence on stuffing the Find X8 Pro with a lot of additional and duplicate apps by default. Of course Booking.com is there, because that’s seemingly the law for any Android phone released now, but it’s far from alone.

For every potentially useful app – like the IR blaster app that lets you use your phone as a TV remote – there’s an app that wants some pretty specific permissions that I’m not always comfortable with offering up. Maybe that’s just me and your tolerances may vary.

You also get Oppo’s App Market, and while I appreciate the idea of app market diversity, I can’t find too many reasons to use it over Google Play, especially as many of its apps are pretty blatant clones of existing popular apps.

Search for “Balatro” on Google Play and you’ll find the popular rogue-like poker game. Search for “Balatro” and you’ll find some poorly made clones of that exact title. That doesn’t endear the App Market experience to me, or suggest that’s it’s massively trustworthy.

I yearn to play a bad Balatro clone at "Bace" difficulty. No, wait...

You do still get full Google Play access for the Australian market models – I can’t imagine it’s on the Chinese market equivalents, so be careful if you’re importing – so you can at least ignore it for the most part.

Battery

The Oppo Find X8 Pro packs in a surprisingly large battery – and for once, this isn’t just marketing fluff with a company claiming that a 5,000mAh battery is a “huge” battery when really that’s just the Android standards. Instead, it carries around a 5,910mAh battery, quite a bit larger than your typical Android phone.

As they say, it’s all about what you do with it, not size that counts, however. Smartphone use can always be variable, so I turned to my standard YouTube battery test to see how the Oppo Find X8 Pro stacked up next to its flagship rivals.

Early results were acceptable, though they didn’t suggest particularly exemplary performance:

What I look for here is at least above 90% to show a phone that’s likely to last a day on moderate usage, and the Oppo Find X8 Pro sailed neatly past that.

It got a little more interesting when I ran my expanded three hour YouTube battery test. I’ve only recently started doing so, and as a result I have far fewer comparative results that include the same set of premium phones:

While Apple’s considerably more expensive iPhone 16 Pro Max starts off in the lead, in the second and third hours the Oppo’s power management is far better, which does suggest a phone that’s likely to last the distance for all but the heaviest phone use.

Oppo is one of the very few premium phone makers to still include a charger in the box with most of its phones. There’s a reason for this, however, because Oppo has its own proprietary fast charging standard, SuperVOOC.

Sure, that sounds like some kind of vacuuming attachment, but it is in fact a specifically pepped up charger setup that can power the Oppo Find X8 Pro at up to 80W for very fast charging indeed.

It also supports very fast wireless charging at up to 50W via Oppo's own AirVOOC charging pad. I haven't been able to test that, and outside VOOC solutions it's otherwise a much more sedately charging phone with no sign of Qi2 at all, which is a pity.

You can still use other chargers with the Oppo Find X8 Pro, though I have found in the past that some SuperVOOC chargers don’t always play well with other devices.

Oppo Find X8 Pro: Alex’s Verdict

Honestly, the past few Oppo Find X phones that I was able to review didn’t entirely thrill me; they were fine but nothing that stood out against the competition, often a lot more promise than reality.

The Oppo Find X8 Pro changes that, because while there are some issues around that camera button and the inclusion of App Marketplace, those are honestly minor issues against the overall value package that Oppo’s presenting here.

The Oppo Find X8 Pro is fast, the battery life is excellent and the cameras deliver really pleasing results as long as you steer clear of AI-enhanced zooms.

Not everyone needs a premium flagship phone or has the money for it, but if you’re in the market for a more luxurious device, the Oppo Find X8 Pro absolutely should be considered as a top-tier contender.

Oppo Find X8 Pro: Pricing and availability

The Oppo Find X8 Pro sells in Australia at an RRP of $1,799. The model used in this review was loaned to me by Oppo Australia.

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