OPPO Find X8 Ultra is a newly announced flagship phone with an impressive set of specs, focusing on the camera system. The phone sports a set of four 50MP cameras, the main wide with a 1-inch type sensor, a 3x and 6x telephoto cameras, and an ultra-wide. The 1x and 3x cameras can shoot 4K 120fps 10-bit video. The phone has 100W fast charging, Snapdragon 8 Elite, a large 6100mAh battery, up to 16GB RAM and up to 1TB storage, and a bright AMOLED display.
OPPO is one of the largest mobile phone brands in China. Their new Find X8 line of phones was announced in November 2024, but the top-of-the-line Ultra phone only came out recently. Its specs seem very impressive on paper. Let’s take a quick look.
Looking at its specs sheet, the Find X8 Ultra seems to include very few compromises, if any. I will focus on the camera system, but let’s first get the other specs out of the way.
The phone runs on the Qualcomm SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite (3nm) chipset and comes with up to 16GB RAM and up to 1TB of built-in UFS 4.1 storage. The screen is a bright, 6.82″ AMOLED display with 1440×3168 resolution, up to 120Hz refresh rate, and 1600 Nits maximum full screen brightness (up to 2500 Nits peak HDR brightness).
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There is a large 6100 mAh silicon carbon battery with 100W charging via USB-C and up to 50W wireless charging. The OPPO Find X8 Ultra runs on Android 15 (Oppo’s ColorOS 15 version). The phone has both IP68 and IP69 ratings – it is dust and water-resistant (high-pressure water jets; immersible up to 1.5m for 30 min).
Finally, the camera system includes four rear-facing cameras organized into a large circle camera bump, and one front-facing camera. The specs of these sound quite interesting:
- Main wide 1x camera – 50MP, f/1.8, 23mm equivalent focal length, 1-inch type sensor, 1.6µm, dual pixel PDAF, OIS
- Telephoto 3x camera – 50MP, f/2.1, 70mm equivalent focal length (periscope telephoto), 1/1.56″ sensor, 1.0µm, 3x optical zoom, multi-directional PDAF (10cm – ∞), OIS with macro capability
- Telephoto 6x camera – 50MP, f/3.1, 135mm equivalent focal length (periscope telephoto), 1/1.95″, 0.8µm, 6x optical zoom, dual pixel PDAF (35cm – ∞), OIS
- Ultrawide camera – 50MP, f/2.0, 15mm equivalent focal length, 120˚, 1/2.75″, 0.64µm, PDAF
There is also a fifth device with a small lens inside that camera bump – a color spectrum sensor for collecting color temperature data to help with correct AWB. What I also find interesting is how they solved the 6x telephoto lens with two 90° mirrors.
When it comes to video recording, both the 1x main camera and the 3x telephoto can record up to 4K 120fps 10-bit Dolby Vision video. The other cameras (including the front-facing) achieve up to 4K 60fps.
Talking about the front-facing “selfie” camera, it has a 32MP 1/2.74″ sensor (0.8µm pixels) and a f/2.4 21mm equivalent focal length lens. It also features PDAF.
As Marques Brownlee showed in his video review, the phone seems to do a good job with telephoto images, which do not seem to be so oversharpened. This is a good sign. Of course, if you go too far with the zoom (the phone lets you go up to 120x), the AI-enhancement processing gets too heavy. I think there is some kind of processing happening whenever a photo gets taken, but it’s more apparent the further you go with the zoom.
What I like about the physical camera bump of the phone is its shape. I think all smartphones with capable camera systems should go this way, as it makes mounting ND filters much easier. Now, the phone doesn’t have a filter thread built into the camera bump, but it should be easy enough to find a case that includes one. The filter would then also sit right in the middle of the phone and cover all cameras.
What I still miss from this phone (and any other Android phone) is a true log video recording like the Apple Log found on the latest iPhone Pro models.
In his video, Marques said the phone is, unfortunately, never officially coming to the USA. It seems like OPPO will come out in China and select countries. When I take a look online, the phone seems to be available in some European countries. The price seems to be around €900-€1,000 for the 256GB version. For a reference, the Oppo X8 Find Pro costs around $800.
Source: Oppo Find X8 Ultra Phone Announced – Interesting Specs with Four 50MP Cameras and 4K120 10-Bit Video
