Oppo’s Find X8 Ultra squeezes better specs into a slightly thinner phone

Oppo’s caller Find X8 Ultra is the latest entrant successful the ongoing contention betwixt Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo to nutrient the world’s champion camera phone. But dissimilar its rivals, Oppo has decided that bigger mightiness not beryllium better.

Let’s beryllium clear: the Find X8 Ultra isn’t a tiny telephone by immoderate means, with a 6.82-inch show and a full value of 7.97 oz. But astatine 8.78mm thick, it’s comfortably thinner than either of the phones Oppo sees arsenic its rivals: the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and Vivo X100 Ultra. There’s a caller X200 Ultra astir the country too, but aboriginal teases for that don’t suggest it’s gotten overmuch thinner.

These are among a caller people of Chinese camera phones that tally astir comically large, each packing large batteries and circular camera modules that compression successful arsenic galore lenses and sensors arsenic possible. Oppo, astatine least, seems to beryllium trying to gully a enactment successful the soil erstwhile it comes to size, with merchandise specializer Jeff Jiang describing the extremity arsenic to marque a “relatively mean phone” without compromising connected the camera.

With 4 50-megapixel rear lenses tuned by Hasselblad, including some 3x and 6x periscopes that person been upgraded with faster apertures, the X8 Ultra arrives with a credible assertion to rival Xiaomi and Vivo connected the photography front. It includes a dedicated haptic shutter fastener with interaction controls for zooming, on with a caller customizable shortcut fastener that replaces the fashionable alert slider.

Despite being somewhat svelte, the X8 Ultra includes an tremendous 6,100mAh artillery — larger than that of immoderate nonstop rival — with 100W wired and 50W wireless charging. The Snapdragon 8 Elite powers the phone, which ships with up to 16GB RAM and 1TB of storage. Like astir of this year’s Chinese flagships, it boasts some IP68 and IP69 ratings for extortion against particulate and water.

Oppo launched the Find X8 Ultra alongside the Find X8s and X8s Plus, refreshes of the Find X8 powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus, besides announced today. The X8s is simply a much compact phone, with a 6.3-inch display, portion the X8s Plus runs larger astatine 6.59 inches but boasts a bigger 6,000mAh battery. The atrocious quality is that Oppo has nary plans to motorboat immoderate of the caller Find X8 phones extracurricular China.