OPPO announced their latest flagship phone, the OPPO Find X9 Pro, last month offering a camera system co-engineered with Hasselblad, extended battery life, and the smart, smooth ColorOS 16 on-board.
The flagship phone is joined by the more budget friendly OPPO Find X9, but OPPO have sent us the Find X9 Pro – as well as the Hasselblad Teleconverter, a “professional-grade optical accessory that can be added to the phone to let you take shots with a 10x optical sensor.
The OPPO Find X9 Pro carries a flagship price of $2,299 which includes a bright display, Hasselblad camera system, MediaTek processor with plenty of memory – but it’s the simply astonishingly large 7,500mAh battery that’s also a huge drawcard here with the phone still just 8.25mm thin.
There’s also an optional Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit which OPPO sent over to check out. This accessory is normally priced at $699, and is essentially a telephoto lens for your phone, adding a 10x optical super-zoom, enabling up to 200x digital zoom for photos and 50x for video.
It’s a stunning looking flagship that comes in two colour choices, Titanium Charcoal and Silk White, with OPPO sending over their Titanium Charcoal model for review.
OPPO’s Find X9 Pro feels like a very premium device from the moment you pick it up. The device is solid, yet not overly heavy.
OPPO has revamped the look over last years more curvy Find X8 Pro, with the Find X9 Pro sporting a more modern flat look including carefully contoured edges that make it comfortable and easy to grip.
The 6.78” display on the front takes up almost the entire front of the phone, with a barely noticeable 1.15mm bezel surrounding the AMOLED panel on all four sides.
The phone comes in two colour choices, Titanium Charcoal and Silk White, with OPPO sending over their Titanium Charcoal model andI appreciate the subtle almost purple hue of the phone.
The metal body is durable, with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 covering the display, and it’s able to get wet, and survive a dusty or sandy environment like the beach with an IP69 certification – letting it take submersion, as well as jets of water.
The phone has flat edges with a new physical Snap Key on the left hand side. This button lets you customise it to your liking to open the torch, switch sound profile or use it with the default settings to call the AI Mind Space, capture screenshots or add voice notes using a combination of short, long and double presses.
The usual volume rocker and power button are on the right hands side, with OPPO’s Quick Button – their multi-touch camera shutter and control button, located towards the bottom.
This new-generation Quick Button is faster, and detects swipes more effectively letting you use actions like double tap to open the camera, long pressing for continuous shots, or even zooming in and out when in landscape mode.
The only other inclusion of note is the IR blaster, embedded in the top of the phone. This alone is enough to send the OPPO Find X9 Pro to the top of the list when it comes to choosing a phone – it’s currently running my Samsung OLED TV after the remote died again, so big thanks to OPPO.
OPPO have used a similar display as last year’s model, not a bad decision considering the quality of the 6.78- inch AMOLED display.
The FHD+ resolution looks great with excellent 10-bit colour depth which you can tune through Standard, Natural or Colourful profiles to suit your tastes. It also supports 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut
The display works well indoors and out, with a fairly high 800nits brightness which blasts up to a super bright 3600 nits outside, so the display is easy to see in any lighting conditions.
It also has a neat feature for night owls viewing your phone in low-light, with the screen able to go down as low as 1 nit. This ultra-low brightness is very much designed for late night, or middle of the night use, with the screen barely perceptible – making it easy to use the phone, without disturbing anyone around you.
There’s a 3D ultrasonic fingerprint scanner built into the display which is disconcertingly fast, a simple touch of your thumb, or finger, and the phone unlocks – but if that’s too slow, then the facial recognition is just as fast – but isn’t compatible with biometric security for banking apps.
OPPO has used an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 9500 System on Chip with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage.
The MediaTek Dimensity platform is super fast, and very reliable. The 16GB of RAM – which also includes a RAM boost, using up to 12GB of unused on-board storage as temporary memory, is more than enough to ensure smooth loading of apps and games, switching and multitasking.
There’s a vapour chamber cooling system inside which is a third larger than the last generation with a newly redesigned stainless steel mesh offering faster heat dissipation. It’s a pretty cool phone to hold, though with the case on you don’t ever feel it getting warm even under load.
As usual, I ran it through GeekBench and 3DMark to see how it went
The phone has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 on-board,with 5G and a 360-Degree Antenna that’s tuned by their on-board AI for more stable and reliable connections and clearer voice quality. I had no issues with connectivity – network coverage not withstanding,
There’s a lot going on with the camera setup on the OPPO Find X9 Pro. For a start, there’s a pro-level Hasselblad Master Camera System.
The advantage of the Hasselblad Master Camera System is in the quality – with the phone set to capture ‘Ultra Clear Photos’ thanks to the way it takes photos. The Hasselblad system doesn’t bin your images like other camera systems, resulting in a 12MP image, the Hasselblad Master Camera System takes a 50/200 MP shot instead.
The Hasselblad system uses a 50MP Ultra-wide sensor with 120° Field of View (FoV), with a 50MP Wide angle sensor and 200MP Telephoto sensor with 3x optical zoom – and a monochrome 2MP ‘TrueColor’ (sic) camera which analyses colour depth including lifelike skin tones, even in challenging lighting conditions. .
There’s also a 2MP multi-spectral True Colour Camera dedicated to ensuring the right colour is captured in all lighting conditions.
The camera system overall is excellent. The main 50MP sensor is using a 1-inch Ultra XDR rated Sony LYT-828 sensor, which was co-developed with Sony. The Ultrawide and Telephoto sensors are made by Samsung, and offer fantastic colour reproduction as well.
Low-light shots are just as pleasing visually, even giving the vaunted Pixel ‘Night Sight’ a run for its money.
For real shutterbugs, OPPO has leveraged their partnership with Hasselblad to produce the OPPO Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit.
The lens itself is made of metal and glass, with a solid heft to it, and there’s lens caps on either end to protect the optics. On the optics side, the kit has a 3.28x telephoto zoom with 230mm focal length, which basically turns the 3x zoom on the phone into a 10x optical zoom
The kit consists of a Magnetic Case, Lens Mounting Ring, Teleconverter Lens and Lens Bracket. The case is brilliant, with a carbon fibre look and feel that has the lens mounting ring built-in, simply slide the lens bracket on and you’re in business – sort of.
To use the kit, you slide the Lens Bracket over the camera island – which does effectively block all the lenses. Attaching the lens to the bracket is a simple twist to lock exercise anyone who has used a DSLR before should be familiar with. You then simply feed the lens through the Mounting Ring attachment, which includes a ¼ 20 thread mount for your tripod.
With all the hardware attached, you’ll also need to fire up your camera app, swipe across to ‘More’ and choose ‘Hasselblad Teleconverter – otherwise the resultant image is upside down.
Sound a bit fiddly? It is, as is transporting it around. I ended up losing the Mounting Ring after taking shots around town – and will have to track down a replacement before sending this back to OPPO.
While fiddly, the results are very good. Simply using it on the 3x zoom on the phone gave images a better depth of field and clarity, and of course the zoom images are pretty darn impressive.
On the zoom front, the Hasselblad Teleconverter mode offers 10, 20 and 40x zoom options, though once you start you can blast it out to 200x which is a digital zoom and doesn’t look fantastic.
At 9 it’s a hard sell, but at 9 on-sale, it’s not a bad deal if you really want more zoom options and can carry it. If you aren’t though, the 3x Optical Zoom on the Find X9 Pro is very, very good.
The OPPO Find X9 Pro uses a Silicon-Carbon Battery, the same battery tech launched on the Find X8. The capacity has been significantly upgraded to 7500mAh offering battery life measured in days – with two days of use an easy goal.
The vaunted SUPERVOOC charging is also on-board, with the charger included in the box. Charging times are, as expected, lightning fast. You can also charge the phone using a standard PD compatible charger, with the phone supporting fast charging up to 55W.
The phone supports 50W AIRVOOC wireless charging if you use the compatible charger – sold separately for .95 – If you don’t have one of those (like me), the phone supports standard Qi charging though it seems to be limited to 15W max.
Running OPPO’s ColorOS 16 based on Android 16, the Find X9 Pro with Google’s Gemini on-board along with other features like Circle to Search
The phone comes out of the box with the October security update, and now has the November update. While it’s up to date now, OPPO is behind both Google and Samsung on software support, with the Find X9 Pro only set to receive five Android updates, and six years of Security Maintenance Releases (SMR) compared to seven years from their competitors.
ColorOS is different though, and while it’s incorporated many of the additions of Android 16, OPPO has worked to improve performance and introduce new innovative features.
On the performance front, OPPO has introduced the Luminous rendering engine and Trinity Engine, the result? It’s smooth. Very smooth. Animations even work smoothly, without seeming to put any strain on the system.
There’s great features baked into ColorOS. Until the recent announcement of Quick Share now working with AirDrop, OPPO’s Touch to Share was a great way to share files with iOS users – even if they had to install an app
OPPO are still pre-installing some bloatware like LinkedIn, TikTok etc. but these apps can be removed.
Their utilities though – like Sound Recorder with AI summaries, is brilliant and works almost as well as Google’s Recorder app for Pixel. They also include various utilities like File Explorer, basic Notes app, Document viewer, compass and even a phone clone tool. While I hate bloatware, these utilities are actually useful.
I am on the fence with the AI Studio. AI Studio offers all the options for generative AI ‘art’, as well as AI photo editing. I, like many people, rarely have cause to generate images – except for a one-off in a chat, so the utility is there if you want it.
The OPPO Find X9 Pro ticks pretty much every box. It has a great display, cameras and performance – and that battery life just keeps on going.
The flatter design is definitely more modern, and gives the handset a more premium look and feel overall.
I had reservations about the MediaTek processor, however the performance has been phenomenal at all times. Even the gaming performance was good across the board.
The only downside is the
The 6.78” display on the front takes up almost the entire front of the phone, with a barely noticeable 1.15mm bezel surrounding the AMOLED panel on all four sides.
The phone comes in two colour choices, Titanium Charcoal and Silk White, with OPPO sending over their Titanium Charcoal model andI appreciate the subtle almost purple hue of the phone.
The metal body is durable, with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 covering the display, and it’s able to get wet, and survive a dusty or sandy environment like the beach with an IP69 certification – letting it take submersion, as well as jets of water.
The phone has flat edges with a new physical Snap Key on the left hand side. This button lets you customise it to your liking to open the torch, switch sound profile or use it with the default settings to call the AI Mind Space, capture screenshots or add voice notes using a combination of short, long and double presses.
The usual volume rocker and power button are on the right hands side, with OPPO’s Quick Button – their multi-touch camera shutter and control button, located towards the bottom.
This new-generation Quick Button is faster, and detects swipes more effectively letting you use actions like double tap to open the camera, long pressing for continuous shots, or even zooming in and out when in landscape mode.
The only other inclusion of note is the IR blaster, embedded in the top of the phone. This alone is enough to send the OPPO Find X9 Pro to the top of the list when it comes to choosing a phone – it’s currently running my Samsung OLED TV after the remote died again, so big thanks to OPPO.
OPPO have used a similar display as last year’s model, not a bad decision considering the quality of the 6.78- inch AMOLED display.
The FHD+ resolution looks great with excellent 10-bit colour depth which you can tune through Standard, Natural or Colourful profiles to suit your tastes. It also supports 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut
The display works well indoors and out, with a fairly high 800nits brightness which blasts up to a super bright 3600 nits outside, so the display is easy to see in any lighting conditions.
It also has a neat feature for night owls viewing your phone in low-light, with the screen able to go down as low as 1 nit. This ultra-low brightness is very much designed for late night, or middle of the night use, with the screen barely perceptible – making it easy to use the phone, without disturbing anyone around you.
There’s a 3D ultrasonic fingerprint scanner built into the display which is disconcertingly fast, a simple touch of your thumb, or finger, and the phone unlocks – but if that’s too slow, then the facial recognition is just as fast – but isn’t compatible with biometric security for banking apps.
OPPO has used an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 9500 System on Chip with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage.
The MediaTek Dimensity platform is super fast, and very reliable. The 16GB of RAM – which also includes a RAM boost, using up to 12GB of unused on-board storage as temporary memory, is more than enough to ensure smooth loading of apps and games, switching and multitasking.
There’s a vapour chamber cooling system inside which is a third larger than the last generation with a newly redesigned stainless steel mesh offering faster heat dissipation. It’s a pretty cool phone to hold, though with the case on you don’t ever feel it getting warm even under load.
As usual, I ran it through GeekBench and 3DMark to see how it went
The phone has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 on-board,with 5G and a 360-Degree Antenna that’s tuned by their on-board AI for more stable and reliable connections and clearer voice quality. I had no issues with connectivity – network coverage not withstanding,
There’s a lot going on with the camera setup on the OPPO Find X9 Pro. For a start, there’s a pro-level Hasselblad Master Camera System.
The advantage of the Hasselblad Master Camera System is in the quality – with the phone set to capture ‘Ultra Clear Photos’ thanks to the way it takes photos. The Hasselblad system doesn’t bin your images like other camera systems, resulting in a 12MP image, the Hasselblad Master Camera System takes a 50/200 MP shot instead.
The Hasselblad system uses a 50MP Ultra-wide sensor with 120° Field of View (FoV), with a 50MP Wide angle sensor and 200MP Telephoto sensor with 3x optical zoom – and a monochrome 2MP ‘TrueColor’ (sic) camera which analyses colour depth including lifelike skin tones, even in challenging lighting conditions. .
There’s also a 2MP multi-spectral True Colour Camera dedicated to ensuring the right colour is captured in all lighting conditions.
The camera system overall is excellent. The main 50MP sensor is using a 1-inch Ultra XDR rated Sony LYT-828 sensor, which was co-developed with Sony. The Ultrawide and Telephoto sensors are made by Samsung, and offer fantastic colour reproduction as well.
Low-light shots are just as pleasing visually, even giving the vaunted Pixel ‘Night Sight’ a run for its money.
For real shutterbugs, OPPO has leveraged their partnership with Hasselblad to produce the OPPO Hasselblad Teleconverter Kit.
The lens itself is made of metal and glass, with a solid heft to it, and there’s lens caps on either end to protect the optics. On the optics side, the kit has a 3.28x telephoto zoom with 230mm focal length, which basically turns the 3x zoom on the phone into a 10x optical zoom
The kit consists of a Magnetic Case, Lens Mounting Ring, Teleconverter Lens and Lens Bracket. The case is brilliant, with a carbon fibre look and feel that has the lens mounting ring built-in, simply slide the lens bracket on and you’re in business – sort of.
To use the kit, you slide the Lens Bracket over the camera island – which does effectively block all the lenses. Attaching the lens to the bracket is a simple twist to lock exercise anyone who has used a DSLR before should be familiar with. You then simply feed the lens through the Mounting Ring attachment, which includes a ¼ 20 thread mount for your tripod.
With all the hardware attached, you’ll also need to fire up your camera app, swipe across to ‘More’ and choose ‘Hasselblad Teleconverter – otherwise the resultant image is upside down.
Sound a bit fiddly? It is, as is transporting it around. I ended up losing the Mounting Ring after taking shots around town – and will have to track down a replacement before sending this back to OPPO.
While fiddly, the results are very good. Simply using it on the 3x zoom on the phone gave images a better depth of field and clarity, and of course the zoom images are pretty darn impressive.
On the zoom front, the Hasselblad Teleconverter mode offers 10, 20 and 40x zoom options, though once you start you can blast it out to 200x which is a digital zoom and doesn’t look fantastic.
At $699 it’s a hard sell, but at $399 on-sale, it’s not a bad deal if you really want more zoom options and can carry it. If you aren’t though, the 3x Optical Zoom on the Find X9 Pro is very, very good.
The OPPO Find X9 Pro uses a Silicon-Carbon Battery, the same battery tech launched on the Find X8. The capacity has been significantly upgraded to 7500mAh offering battery life measured in days – with two days of use an easy goal.
The vaunted SUPERVOOC charging is also on-board, with the charger included in the box. Charging times are, as expected, lightning fast. You can also charge the phone using a standard PD compatible charger, with the phone supporting fast charging up to 55W.
The phone supports 50W AIRVOOC wireless charging if you use the compatible charger – sold separately for $79.95 – If you don’t have one of those (like me), the phone supports standard Qi charging though it seems to be limited to 15W max.
Running OPPO’s ColorOS 16 based on Android 16, the Find X9 Pro with Google’s Gemini on-board along with other features like Circle to Search
The phone comes out of the box with the October security update, and now has the November update. While it’s up to date now, OPPO is behind both Google and Samsung on software support, with the Find X9 Pro only set to receive five Android updates, and six years of Security Maintenance Releases (SMR) compared to seven years from their competitors.
ColorOS is different though, and while it’s incorporated many of the additions of Android 16, OPPO has worked to improve performance and introduce new innovative features.
On the performance front, OPPO has introduced the Luminous rendering engine and Trinity Engine, the result? It’s smooth. Very smooth. Animations even work smoothly, without seeming to put any strain on the system.
There’s great features baked into ColorOS. Until the recent announcement of Quick Share now working with AirDrop, OPPO’s Touch to Share was a great way to share files with iOS users – even if they had to install an app
OPPO are still pre-installing some bloatware like LinkedIn, TikTok etc. but these apps can be removed.
Their utilities though – like Sound Recorder with AI summaries, is brilliant and works almost as well as Google’s Recorder app for Pixel. They also include various utilities like File Explorer, basic Notes app, Document viewer, compass and even a phone clone tool. While I hate bloatware, these utilities are actually useful.
I am on the fence with the AI Studio. AI Studio offers all the options for generative AI ‘art’, as well as AI photo editing. I, like many people, rarely have cause to generate images – except for a one-off in a chat, so the utility is there if you want it.
The OPPO Find X9 Pro ticks pretty much every box. It has a great display, cameras and performance – and that battery life just keeps on going.
The flatter design is definitely more modern, and gives the handset a more premium look and feel overall.
I had reservations about the MediaTek processor, however the performance has been phenomenal at all times. Even the gaming performance was good across the board.
The only downside is the $2,299 price tag – a jump of $500 from last years Find X8 Pro, but if you really do want a fantastic flagship level phone, that’s the price you will pay.
The Hasselblad Teleconverter offers serious shutterbugs a great accessory for getting more out of their mobile phone camera, however at $699, it feels overpriced at its RRP, but on a discount it’s very much worth checking out.
You can check the OPPO Find X9 Pro out on the OPPO website.
Daniel has been talking about, learning about and using tech since he was able to toggle switches and push buttons. If it flashes, turns on or off or connects he wants to use it, talk about it and learn more about it. Like this article? Buy me a coffee!
The Hasselblad Teleconverter offers serious shutterbugs a great accessory for getting more out of their mobile phone camera, however at 9, it feels overpriced at its RRP, but on a discount it’s very much worth checking out.
You can check the OPPO Find X9 Pro out on the OPPO website.
Daniel has been talking about, learning about and using tech since he was able to toggle switches and push buttons. If it flashes, turns on or off or connects he wants to use it, talk about it and learn more about it. Like this article? Buy me a coffee!
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