This can be the world’s best phone camera

It is not exactly the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, but Oppo’s declared target with the design of Find X8 Ultra was to pull the “thinn camera phone”. At 8.78 mm thick compared to its 9.5 mm-mm-east, Find X7 Ultra, Oppo has actually found Find X8 Ultra Down beyond any of its state-of-the-art contestants. But due to its boxy, squad-off design, it is not necessarily very thin in the hand. For example, this year’s Xiaomi 15 Ultra is 9.48 mm thick, but it has tape to the edges that do not dig in your palms.

This is not to say that X8 Ultra is inadvertently. Oppo has originally achieved what it is here; It essentially looks like a very thick iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is a strong achievement considering hardware. But the design is extremely straightforward and unbreakable, which may or may not be for your taste. Funny, the Find X8 looks close to the Ultra base X8, while the mid-tier Find X8 Pro is smooth and flashier than both.

Performance is as good as you will find on any premium phone. It is a 6.82-inch flat-edited OLED panel with a variable fresh rate (1 to 120Hz) and 1440p resolution. Find X8 Ultra is bright in 1,600 NITs in regular outdoor use and brightens the peaks at 2,500 notes with HDR content. Bezels are equally thin on all four sides. It has Dolby Vision Support and, more unusually, to limit unwanted input when the splash touch technique of Oppo is wet. For science, I created a point of testing it in a hot tub, and the phone is actually more or less usable even when the phone is covered in water drops.

I will also mention the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, not only to improve its speed on the optical reader of X7 Ultra, but for the way Oppo set it, you improve the way to set it – now you can roll your thumb in only one circle and roll for some time, instead of puffing the censor with every part of the tip. The world is not the biggest deal in the world, but a welcome improvement if you are a strange that goes through that process dozens of times a year when testing the new phone.

Another design Quark is a mute slider switch to Oppo shift, a popular discriminatory feature on its auxiliary OnePlus phone. Now on the top left of the phone is an adaptation button called the shortcut button, and yes, it recognizes more or less for the iPhone’s action button-the right bottom for the complete-screen UI that you choose its function. I am fine with hardware changes, but the implementation is a little brazen.

Somewhere else, Find X8 is included in the speech sheet of Ultra, which you will expect from the top shelf of Android flagship in 2025. The processor is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and the phone can be prepared with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB storage. (The base model has 12GB and 256GB respectively.)

This is Oppo’s first ultra-class phone consisting of silicon-carbon battery technology, which is after its start in the X8 Pro and after a latter appearance in the folding Find N3. Originally, it allows Oppo to gain much more capacity from a small physical space – despite its slimmer frame, the X8 ultra battery weighs at 6,100mAh vs 5,000mAh x7 Ultra. For charging, Oppo’s own 100W Supercock adapter can get you from zero to 100 percent in less than 40 minutes, which is impressive given the increased capacity of the battery. Find X8 Ultra also supports wireless charging up to 50W with a compatible ownership charger. Between fast charging and large battery capacity, I have found that the phone is unlikely to die on me in regular use. I am not going to say that it will never happen on a long day of shooting in the sun, but it is solid as any comparable phone that I can name.

This brings me to the camera system, which is the main point of discrimination here at any time “Ultra” -Class Chinese flagship. Find X8 Ultra is not necessarily the best hardware in each category, but a strong case is that it is the best round and versatile camera system.

Find X8 Ultra’s primary camera uses a 1-inch-type sensor, which is the square-agar standard for Chinese major phones; This is the same size that you will find in the new X half of Sony’s RX100 range point-end-shoot cameras or Fujifilm. In practice, this means that the lens you use the most gives you a much more depth and dynamic range than what you get from the iPhone or galaxy. The light-accelerated capacity is simply at another level, and you are able to separate the subjects through shallow bokeh (background blur) without resorting to portrait mode, which often reflects flaws between the foreground and background.

Find the X8 Ultra telephoto lens – yes, there are two – there are also a special force. The 3x periscope camera has an unusually large 1/1.56-inch sensor, paired with a focus capacity with a f/2.1 lens, which allows for excellent middle-ranges and macro shots with the natural shallow depth of the region. There is also a 6x f/3.1 lens with 1/1.95-inch sensor. A defect is a 1/2.75-inch ultra-wide camera, which is not necessarily weak next to the competition, but feels like a compromise in the name of thinness; The previous Oppo flagship performed much better.

Oppo has also adopted a thoughtful approach to camera software. Regular photo mode changes the pictures on the lines of what you expect from a high-end smartphone, which expands the crisp sharp and protected HDR in every shot. I think Oppo has the best color science in that sense, which is why phones like Find N3 can improve their hardware. But if you are not in the typical smartphone photo look-which I am not personally-then you can swipe on Hasellad-branded master mode, which gives you a lot of natural results out of the box. While the master mode is perfectly adapable, its default settings line up with what I aim when editing files with a dedicated camera.

This year, Oppo’s image processing is aid from the fact that the company says a “True Croma camera”, a low-reservoir sensor that is dedicated to capture the exact color information in the frame for better automatic white balance. It is difficult to test how the camera system would work without this extra hardware, but I saw impressive results in challenging situations like low-light pictures.

Shooting experience is also helped by “Quick button”, which is very high for Apple’s camera control. This camera app and shutter release gives quick access to release, but it is completely capacitive and very easy to press; I found myself using it many times compared to my iPhone 16 Pro.

Find X8 Ultra has a much more competent camera system on any smartphone sold in the US, and it trades with the best available from domestic contestants such as Xiaomi and Vivo. He said, I really cannot advise anyone to go out of my way to buy it unless they are based in China. I personally found my NTT Docomo SIM card to work well in Japan, but I can’t talk to bands or coverage where you are reading it.

The China-centered version of Oppo’s color is very useful and comes with the underlying compatibility for Google mobile services through a setting tole, meaning that you can use Play Store and Google App with any third-party software depending on Google’s API. Nevertheless, a uninterrupted Western user can feel blind from Chinese blotware and a group of services they will never be able to use. The ESIM support of Find X8 Ultra is accessible only through the underlying Oroming app, for example, and you can only pay for data through WeChat or Alipay.

But the big picture here is that Find X8 Ultra shows how Chinese phone makers are just miles ahead of being available in America and Europe. Whether you are shopping for a galaxy, pixel or iPhone this year, you are getting a raw deal when you talk about pure hardware capacity and camera performance. The phone was launched in China at 6,499 yuan, which works up to $ 900.

Given the current political atmosphere, it is less likely than before that Chinese OEMs will find a way to sell their highest-end equipment in the US that is unfortunate for anyone interested in the best available hardware available. Oppo Find X8 Ultra My Go-Two Camera Phone will be until something better comes, and I think nothing will be available in America. It is not that this particular phone changes the necessary game – the five companies jump on Apple and Samsung over the years.

Among all, Find X8 Ultra is a terrible phone that is still capable with modern mobile technology, as an example as a good example. I think it is clearly selling Apple, Samsung, or Google in America today. Do you mean that you should import it? Probably not. But this means that the next time you try to sell you on new hardware, you should increase your standards.