Every so often Oppo outs a phone that beats Samsung and Apple at their own game.
Mired in the Apple-Samsung duopoly on US carriers, it’s easy to forget that there are other phone manufacturers out there that have them both beat at their own game. Oppo – the lead singer in the world’s largest phone-making conglomerate – just announced the Find X6 series, its 2023 flagships with refreshing design perspective, record bright display, and a unique camera trio where the periscope zoom focuses on quality not quantity.
The “all cameras are equal” mantra permeates the Oppo Find X6 Pro photography concept, but the even amount of attention paid to the main, ultrawide, and zoom cameras is not the phone’s only virtue, far from it.
With the Find X6 Pro, Oppo introduces a brand new design language for its flagship Find series of phones. The camera island is now centered, making the phone look much more symmetrical and bringing enhanced ergonomics as it does away with the possibility of your index finger waddling into the frame as so often happens with corner cameras.
The revamped camera placement is not the only eye-pleasing design decision, as the Oppo Find X6 Pro lands with a two-tone design version that resembles that classic cameras of yesteryear that not only splits the handset’s coloring at the middle of the island, but also its body materials.
The upper glass quarter is done in a metal-like finish, and then followed by a cool vegan leather section making for a unique piece of conceptual phone design that is so rare to see these days. The purely glass-clad models that come in black and green are given different designer love, with anti-glare glass and finish that shines yet isn’t prone to fingerprint smudges.
At the front, the big 6.82-inch 1440p display is protected by the latest, toughest Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The Find X6 Pro offers the whopping 93.5% screen-to-body ratio, making it one of the best in class in that regard, thanks to the slightly curved display sides, the punch-hole selfie camera, and the thin top and bottom bezels. Despite that Oppo shaved off the bottom bezel where the screen controller and cable assembly are housed for a symmetrical look, it still managed to tweak the latest LTPO 2.0 OLED display panel technology to arrive at the brightest display on a phone so far by a large margin.
While the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra stayed on last year’s 1750 nits of brightness, and Apple touts the top 2000 nits of the iPhone 14 Pro series, Oppo quietly one-upped them with a record 2500 nits display brightness, a boon for outdoor visibility. Being a flagship Oppo phone, the Find X6 Pro also comes with per-unit display calibration for perfect wide gamut coverage straight from the factory.
Oppo introduced the dynamic 1Hz-120Hz display refresh rate and factory-level color calibration before anyone else and never looked back, perfecting its phone displays with each passing edition. Besides the record-shattering screen brightness and Dolby Vision or HDR10+ support with the display shining at 2200 nits while watching HDR content, Oppo improved the dynamic refresh rate on the Find X6 Pro, too. Just like on the iPhone, it can now sense how fast you are sliding your finger when scrolling, and adjust the refresh rate accordingly, saving further on the battery draw in the process. In short, the screen of the Find X6 Pro is a little wonder in a long string of best-in-class phone displays from Oppo.
Moving to the back of the Find X6 Pro we discover the camera island nestled symmetrically in the middle of the phone’s back. Oppo calls the Find X6 Pro the phone with “three main cameras,” hinting at how it treated each camera all along the zoom range.
