Here’s what we want to see in the Oppo Find X3, the next top-end handset we hope the company is making.
If there was any question as to whether the Oppo Find X3 series was coming in 2021, the company itself has both name-dropped the thing and given us a launch window, so there’s no doubt it’s on its way. Oppo is one of the bigger Chinese phone companies, and it’s starting to pick up a lot of attention in the west too. Its Find X line is its top offering, and the Find X2 devices in 2020 were some of the best phones of the year. The Oppo Find X3 range is the next range from the brand we’re expecting to see, likely at the beginning of 2021, but perhaps more towards the middle (as we’ll get into later in this article). We could see as many as four devices launched. The latest phones from the company are the Oppo Reno 5 devices; they’re usually mid-rangers, but this newest line comes with a fairly premium ‚Oppo Reno 5 Pro Plus‘. So could the Find X3 family push that further with a super-fancy phone? Maybe. The Oppo Find X2 line, released in early 2020, started with two phones, the ’standard‘ and Find X2 Pro, but two more were released a little later, the Find X2 Lite and Find X2 Neo, bringing the total number up to four. Given there was only one device in the first generation of Find X, that’s a slightly different approach for each series, but it’s got us pondering what the next device, the Oppo Find X3, could be like. We don’t even know when the phone will show up for certain, as this isn’t a series that’s updated yearly. We’ve heard a tiny bit of information that could be about the phone, which we’ve detailed below, but until we get more, we’ve also got a wish-list of the features we’d like to see. Latest leak: We’ve heard there might be three phones in the series – the Oppo Find X3, Find X3 Neo, and Find X3 Pro – so no ‚vanilla‘ model. This clears up the hierarchy but could confuse some people too. We’ve also heard some leaks on the Pro model, including its design and camera specs. Most smartphone series get annual releases – that wasn’t the case for the first two generations of Oppo Find though, with the first out in mid-2018 and the second about two years after that. However Oppo has explicitly stated the Find X3 is launching in March 2021. There’s little room for ambiguity there. We don’t have much of an idea on price yet. The price of the Find X2 line ranges from £399 / AU$749 (roughly $530) for the Find X2 Lite to £1,099 / AU$1,599 (about $1,450) for the Find X2 Pro, so for different phones in the line-up we could see vastly different costs. When Oppo confirmed the existence of the Find X3, it did so when describing its Full-Path Color Management System. Basically, this supports a wider color gamut and better color accuracy for viewed images. Also it ensures visuals don’t get compressed or tweaks as a video, image or game goes on its digital journey through the systems only our phone, making sure it looks as good as possible. Oppo has also confirmed that its next Find X flagship will use the top-end Snapdragon 888 chipset. It didn’t mention the Find X3 by name, but that’s presumably what it’s talking about.
