Oppo Find X8 Pro

With four high-resolution sensors and a Hasselblad partnership, Amy Davies asks is this Oppo worth its flagship asking price?

- Amy Davies

For the past few years, Oppo has been responsible for creating some of the best smartphones on the market. However, they haven’t always all been available around the globe. For example, the Oppo Find X6 Pro was easily one of the best smartphones of 2023, but only being available in China was a real shame for anyone anywhere else. Fortunately, this time around, the Find X8 Pro has been granted a wider release, including in the UK.

Features

Oppo has once again teamed up with Hasselblad for the Find X8 Pro, but there have been some changes to the camera set-up compared to the Find X6 Pro.

You now get four lenses, instead of three. However, the main sensor in the previous model was a large 1in type, whereas now, it’s a smaller 1/1.4in type.

All four of the sensors are 50MP resolution. Alongside the main 23mm equivalent lens, there’s also a 15mm ultra-wide and two telephoto lenses (73mm and 135mm). I’d have preferred to keep the larger sensor and lose the extra lens, but we’ll see how they perform later. The selfie camera is a high-resolution 32MP but unlike its predecessor, it no longer has AF, which again is a shame.

Both of the telephoto lenses are periscope type, making it the first ‘globally available’ smartphone to have dual periscopes. Oppo claims that using this design allows the firm to fit high-performing zoom lenses on top of excellent sensors. There’s also an ‘AI Telescope Zoom’, which uses AI to enhance digital zooming. It automatically kicks in when working at 10x or above and promises sharper images than its rivals.

Other useful photography specs here include ‘Lightning Snap’, where 7fps shooting is activated if you hold down the shutter button; Hasselblad portrait mode, which gives you the option to recreate the look of six different Hasselblad lenses; and 4K video recording.