The Oppo Find X8 Pro is a new flagship phone that aims to impress with its well-rounded feature set. This review examines the phone's design, camera system, and overall performance to determine if it lives up to its potential.
these days? One killer feature that steals the show, or a combination of many good aspects that are essentially larger than the sum of their parts?
While the design is mostly flat, both the frame and the front and back glass panels are ever-so-slightly curved, which definitely boosts the ergonomics. This phone doesn't cave into your palm like an iPhone would, which is why it feels so good to handle. At the same time, the mostly flat frame still gives you a sufficiently reassuring grip.
The Oppo Find X8 Pro is rated for both IP68 and IP69 water- and dust-resistance. The first one is a fairly standard one, allowing submersion in up to 1.5m of freshwater for up to 30 minutes. The second rating is a fairly new addition to some flagship phones, which assures that phones can withstand strong jet sprays of water at up to 80ºC.
According to our in-house benchmark tests, the Oppo Find X8 Pro fares fairly well. It boasts a nearly perfect default color temperature, with very accurate white balance across all levels. The minimum brightness is good, but the actual maximum brightness isn't that great.
A couple of words on the Quick Button: it's fairly feature-rich. Double-tapping it opens the camera app, while swiping it up and down zooms in and out, but this only works when the phone is in landscape mode. Pressing the capacitive button once snaps a still image, while holding it can either capture a photo burst or record a video. Have in mind that as soon as you let your finger go, the video recording will stop.
The latest iteration of ColorOS is full of nifty features and cool functionalities that really improve the user experience. You get a fresh interface, with neat new icons, an extremely customizable interface, and all the modern features we've come to expect, like Circle to Search. Animations are also vastly improved, not only redesigned and fresh, but also silky smooth thanks to Oppo's new rendering engine.
There are many AI features on board, mostly found in the stock gallery app. There's Clarity Enhance, which upscales your photos, AI Unblur for blurry-free photos, and AI Reflection Remover, which is pretty self-explanatory. AI studio, on the other hand, is a generative image app, which can transplant your face into various scenes, but it definitely gave off some gimmicky vibes.
The Oppo Find X8 Pro lasts me around a day and a half of use with all the bells and whistles enabled, but a more frugal usage as well as disabling some of the more power-hungry features can definitely improve the battery life.
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