Oppo’s Find X5 Pro pleased us last year, so we naturally have high hopes for its replacement. The upcoming Find X6 Pro, as previously announced, has all the essential components you’d expect from a 2023 flagship, including Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, Sony’s IMX989 “1-inch” sensor for the primary camera, a vivid 6.82-inch 3,168 x 1,440 AMOLED screen, a sizable 5,000mAh battery, an IP68 ruggedness rating, and up to 16GB of RAM plus 512GB of storage. In addition, Oppo included a periscopic telephoto camera, which had been absent since the Find X2 Pro from 2020, in order to take full advantage of its cooperation with Hasselblad for photography and its own MariSilicon X image neural processor.
The three back cameras on the Find X6 Pro are housed inside a sizable circular island, which is perhaps the largest outward change since the Find X3 Pro. All three cameras have a 50-megapixel resolution and optical stabilisation. The main camera (23mm equivalent), the ultra-wide camera (15mm equivalent), the LED flash, and the Hasselblad logo are all housed in the glass-covered upper half, while the periscopic camera with 3x optical zoom (65mm equivalent) or 6x “in-sensor” zoom—we’ll get to that later—is located in the lower part. Video recording is possible up to 4K at 60 frames per second, however the 32-megapixel punch-hole selfie camera (21mm equivalent) can only record in 1080p at 30 frames per second.
The Find X2 Pro’s 5x optical zoom may sound more thrilling than this new periscopic camera’s 3x optical zoom, but it also has a 6x “in-sensor” zoom. This is made possible by the relatively big (1.56-inch) Sony IMX890 sensor, which even when cropped natively provides a respectable number of pixels. Even at 6x, I was able to take remarkably clear and sharp pictures using a pre-release firmware. This hybrid approach would undoubtedly be outperformed by any other 10x optical zoom camera, but it is still an option, especially given how useful the 3x optical zoom is for food photography and the new Hasselblad Portrait Mode, which is said to mimic “the colours and depth of field of Hasselblad’s classic XCD30 and XCD80 lenses.”
The ultra-wide camera also makes use of an IMX890 sensor, which is reportedly the biggest one available right now in this category. Similar to before, this camera features a freeform surface lens to reduce distortion and a sizable f/2.2 aperture.
Of course, the Find X6 Pro also has a tonne of other features that are not related to photography. With the addition of a new 100W SuperVOOC fast charger, the 5,000mAh battery can now be fully charged from empty to 100 percent in just 28 minutes. Alternately, you might choose 50W AirVOOC wireless charging, which requires 52 minutes to fully charge. With its Battery Health Engine from the previous year, Oppo also asserts that the battery longevity would be doubled.
Oppo added “Active Privacy Protection for Voice Calls” technology to the earpiece in addition to the standard stereo speakers, which is allegedly “capable of improving sound insulation by up to a factor of 3.5 to reduce audio leakage.” In other words, people nearby are less likely to overhear your calls.
The Oppo Find X6 Pro has an infrared remote control, which some people may find useful for controlling appliances like TVs, air conditioners, and lights even though not all flagship phones have this function.
