(gentle upbeat music) (camera clicking) (gentle upbeat music) – Wow, that is insane. (gentle upbeat music) All right, so I’ve been asked many times what my dream phone is over the years and usually my answer is
actually something impossible ’cause I want, like, the
screen from this one phone, but then the cameras from this other phone and this huge battery over here and the high-end chip
from that other phone. And then I kind of wanna
Frankenstein them all together. But now there’s a phone that appears to be as good as a phone spec
sheet can possibly be at this very moment. Like if you were to make your
2025 dream phone spec sheet with unlimited budget, what would you do? Well, you’d probably start
with a Snapdragon 8 Elite and something like 16 gigs of
RAM and a terabyte of storage. And then, of course, an ultra bright higher fresh rate AMOLED. And don’t forget even super
thin bezels all the way around. Then you gotta throw in at least a 6,000
milliampere-hour of battery, but also make it one of those
silicon carbon batteries so the phone can still be thin. And then give it 100 watt charging and 50 watt wireless charging and reverse charging
too while you’re at it. Then give it a full on one inch
sensor for the main camera. And then a physics even allows it, you can also give it a huge
sensor for an ultra wide and a telephoto. Actually, I don’t know,
make it two telephotos. And all the trimmings,
it’s gotta have ’em all. Wi-Fi 7, NFC, dual sim, IP69, of course, even an infrared emitter. Can’t forget about that. And yeah, that is the exact spec
sheet of this phone. This is the Oppo Find X8 Ultra. It’s a new ultra flagship
that’s never coming to the US, which is a bummer for me. But my God, this phone,
this is basically the max of what humanity is capable of in 2025 if you don’t cut a single corner. Now the design is actually pretty tame considering this was the
last Oppo Find Ultra phone. But now it’s kind of blending in with the rest of the flat sided boxy lookalike slabs out there
with a big camera bump. The phone feels normal flagship size too. Yet somehow inside, they’ve fit a 6,100
milliampere-hour battery. Well, not somehow. We
know how they did it. It’s a silicon carbon battery, which is what I was telling you guys about at the beginning of 2025, we know these high-end flagship phones are gonna have silicon carbon batteries, which let them have a ton of capacity but still actually be pretty thin. And it’s not just a capacity,
it also charges at 100 watts. So it can go from dead to full
in something like 40 minutes, which is obviously incredibly convenient. But also anytime the phone’s
even a little bit low, you can just plug it in
for a few short minutes and it feels like it’s basically right up to nearly full again. It’s awesome. And then throw in 50
watt wireless charging and reverse wireless charging too. You just can’t really ask for
much more out of a battery. So then around the front, the
screen is also chart topping. 1440p resolution, super sharp, check. 120 hertz LTPO, also check. 1600 nits full screen brightness with 2500 nits peak HDR, check. 2160 hertz PWM dimming, also check. This display looks great
pretty much everywhere. And it also has that
really fast under display ultrasonic fingerprint reader. And then that tiny hole punch
selfie camera at the top and then just the super thin
bezels all the way around. So I feel like you also
can’t ask for much more out of a phone display. But I have a feeling
when they do the keynote for this phone, like
when they do announce it, they’re probably gonna
spend most of their time on the camera stuff because this is where it
starts to get ridiculous. And I know cameras are
not all just about specs, like, obviously there’s more to the story. There’s the tuning, the color science, and the processing and everything else. But the spec sheet for this
camera system is ridiculous. There are technically five cameras on the back of this phone. Okay, so the first one, the primary camera is a one-inch type sensor,
which is already huge. It’s crazy. I’ve talked about these
a little bit in the past, but in case you missed it,
that’s the same sensor size as point and shoot camera like the RX100. So these are massive sensors that just let in a ton of light. This one’s 50 megapixels. It has optical image stabilization. It has an f/1.8 aperture. And that is already gonna
take up a lot of space inside this phone. This sensor is 63% larger than the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s main sensor and 69% larger than the one
in the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Nice. But then the second camera, the 3X telephoto, is also enormous. That 50 megapixel sensor is 300% larger than the telephoto in
the Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s literally the same
size as the primary camera in their own Find X8
flagship and the ROG phone. But then there’s even more because there’s a second telephoto camera. Another 50 megapixel.
That is 6X this time. And this one is also 30% larger than the S25 ultra second telephoto and 36% larger than the iPhone 16 Pro
Max’s second telephoto. So another huge sensor. And then throw in another huge 50 megapixel ultra wide camera. Plus that little one on the
corner is a chroma sensor, specifically dedicated to collecting color temperature information
for white balance. And overall, I think this is
the most impressive collection of hardware I’ve ever
seen in a phone camera. So okay, how does that
translate to real life? Well, I’ve had the phone
for a couple days now. Almost exactly what you’d expect with bigger sensors gathering more light, shallower depth of field, textbook. I ended up focusing quite a
bit on the larger telephotos, which are, like I said,
grabbing more light so they can freeze action better
with faster shutter speeds. And you can get less grainy, better looking low light
shots with them as well. And they are awesome with
smooth, soft background blur. Looking like they’re
coming from a real camera. And then the same with the
primary sensor, but even better. The super shallow depth of
field is shallower than normal to the point where sometimes
it actually does misfocus and it’s even more obvious
because, well, physics. With the right software tuning though, the sky’s the limit for
this type of hardware. The chroma sensor is supposed
to help specifically dial in white balance in mixed lighting scenes. And the 3X camera also does the macros. So you don’t have to get
physically super up close to your subject like you would
with an ultra wide macro, which seems to be more common
in the past year of phones, which I think is smart. And then also the farthest of the zoom goes all the way up to 120X. And I found that with quite
a bit of AI processing, it can look kind of weird on
people and regular subjects. But if you wanna read text
through this phone camera, you can take a shot, give
it a second to process, and it does its best to interpret what the characters it’s seeing are and sometimes does a really good job. So shout out to the AI actually starting to get a little bit better. If anyone’s curious, the front
camera is also quite good. It’s 32 megapixels with autofocus. And then on the video front, I think the Snapdragon 8 Elite
is absolutely putting in work because this phone can do
4K 120fps Dolby Vision video for crying out loud from
both the 1X and the 3X. But anyway, the spec
maxing wouldn’t be complete without a few extras. So, of course, IP68
and IP69 for this phone because your phone might
encounter a hot jet of water. It might. There’s also great haptics. There’s the latest and
greatest Wi-Fi 7 chip onboard. There’s up to a terabyte
of UFS 4.1 storage and yes, 16 gigs of RAM. There’s also an infrared
blaster, which is a throwback that most phones do not include anymore, but it’s nice to know that
you can still turn on and off random TVs that aren’t even yours. But if all that wasn’t enough, there are also a couple
extra buttons on this phone. And this is also where you are reminded of how shameless Oppo can be sometimes. So top-left corner, they’ve replaced the alert
slider, which I really liked, with this single customizable action… I mean, shortcut button
here. It’s a shortcut button. You can drive into the
settings and have it do any one of these eight pre-programmed actions. Basically the exact
same ones that Apple did with their action button. There is no fully custom, like, launch-whatever-app-you-want option. I kind of wish you could do that. But a bunch of the common
functions are here. And then you see this
little flush cut out here on the side of the phone. This is called the quick button. And it’s touch sensitive
for sliding back and forth and can double tap to open the camera, and then you guessed
it, control the camera. It only took them a few
months to copy camera control. So yeah, you can slide back and forth from the left and right
to zoom in and out. Yeah, kinda shameless and honestly a little bit
annoying on the side of the phone. I accidentally do it more often than I wanna do it on purpose. But if you happen to be
a fan of camera control on the newest iPhones, they have built that piece of
hardware into their phone too. You can also long press
it for burst shooting. For those of you who have
used Oppo phones before, you know the shamelessness runs deep. Like ColorOS 15. It’s still good and it still
has a ton of its own features, but it is impossible to
ignore all of the iOS copying that they do from the settings app to
the split notifications and quick settings to the dynamic island, to the camera app layout, to
the lock screen customization. My favorite part is
where they tell everyone, you can even AirDrop straight
from an Oppo to an iPhone because they’ve got built in AirDrop, but you actually need to install a special app on the
iPhone to make it work. Which kind of defeats the
whole purpose, doesn’t it? It’s just funny to notice this every time. I honestly don’t mind a lot of the copying as long as they’re copying the good stuff. But yeah, to me it kind of
highlights mainly the difference between, you know, the US
market and other markets. Where in the US, they’re
competing often on ecosystem and iMessage lock in versus
just pure hardware competition. So in those markets where you can kind of just pick your favorite phone based on what hardware you like the most, why not build a phone that’s
got a bunch of the aesthetics and features from the iPhone, but then also all the
advantages to Android and all the other big numbers
and big specs to back it up. It’s kind of feels like what we wish the iPhone would be doing here, but it isn’t. Makes you think. So I haven’t been given a
price tag for this phone as of the time of this recording, but, you know, considering the
Find X8 Pro is an $800 phone, it’s fair to assume this will probably be a flagship priced $1,000 phone. But to borrow the line from the OnePlus 13
review earlier this year where the bar’s been set, I think now I can say
the bar has been raised to a really good spot. Thanks for watching. Catch you out to the next one. Peace.